Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . 22 A POPULAR TREATISE. prepuce from inflammation assumes a dropsical appear-ance, that is to say, the edges or point swell, and appearlike a bladder filled with water; thus, the size which thepenis then arrives at is enormous, and to the patient veryalarming; it usually, however, subsides in a day or two,if rest and proper measures be employed. The glanswith some people, is always b
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . 22 A POPULAR TREATISE. prepuce from inflammation assumes a dropsical appear-ance, that is to say, the edges or point swell, and appearlike a bladder filled with water; thus, the size which thepenis then arrives at is enormous, and to the patient veryalarming; it usually, however, subsides in a day or two,if rest and proper measures be employed. The glanswith some people, is always bare, and the foreskin drawnup around it. Such a state may beinduced also by disease: in eithercase, it may become so inflamed asto resist ay efforts to draw it overthe glans and, from the swellingand consequent pressure on the pe-nis, a kind of ligature is created;and instances have been knownwhere the most disastrous resultshave ensued. The circulation of theblood in the glans is checked; thenut puts on a black appearance, andif the ligature be not removed or di-vided, mortification takes place, andhe tip or more of the penis sloughs off or dies state of the prepuce is called j/araphymosis: it some-•.iiaes happens to
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