The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 830.—Circumcisiou in tlie Adult. Fig. —Sloughing of thePrepuce, and Protrusionof the Glaus. Paraphimosis—In para^okimoiiiii the prepuce has been forciblydrawn back beliind the glans, which becomes strangled by the pressureexercised by the preputial orifice, so tiiat the parts cannot l)e replacedin proper relation to one another. This accident principally occurs inboys, or in individuals who have naturally a tight prepuce, and who, onuncovering the glans, find it difficult to get this pa
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 830.—Circumcisiou in tlie Adult. Fig. —Sloughing of thePrepuce, and Protrusionof the Glaus. Paraphimosis—In para^okimoiiiii the prepuce has been forciblydrawn back beliind the glans, which becomes strangled by the pressureexercised by the preputial orifice, so tiiat the parts cannot l)e replacedin proper relation to one another. This accident principally occurs inboys, or in individuals who have naturally a tight prepuce, and who, onuncovering the glans, find it difficult to get this part of the organ difficulty is speedily and greatly increased by the swelling fromcongestion that is set up in the constricted glans. Treatment.—This is sufficiently simple. The Surgeon should first tryto reduce the swollen organ. He may often succeed in doing this by seizing the body of the i)enis betweenthe index and middle fingers of eachhand, and then endeavoring to drawthe prepuce forwards, at the sametime that he compresses the glans be-tween the tw^o thumbs and pushes i
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