On a peculiar ringed affection the prepuce and glans / by R.W. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Robert W. (Robert William), 1842-1908.
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[1884]
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Credit: On a peculiar ringed affection the prepuce and glans / by R.W. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON A PECULIAR RINGED AFFECTION OF THE PREPUCE AND GLANS * By R. W. TAYLOR, M.D., SURGEON TO CHARITY HOSPITAL, N. Y. HE three gases which follow illustrate a peculiar and I interesting affection which has not heretofore been described. Case i.—In January, 1S74, an eminent practitioner of New York consulted me regarding an affection of the penis which caused him much uneasiness of mind. He was a large, portly man, thirty-eight years of age, having enjoyed perfect health, with the exception of occasional attacks of migraine. His family medical history was excellent, and he himself had led a prudent life. Some few weeks before he consulted me he felt slight pricking and even painful sensations in the penis toward the glans. As he walked, the movement of the organ or the pressure of the clothes caused slight uneasiness. Very soon he noticed certain peculiar scaling rings on the prepuce and glans, near the insertion of the fraenum. When he came to me, the following appearances were noted : On retraction of the prepuce, chiefly on the left but also on the right side, there were in all about six scaling rings. These efflorescences were of a diameter of from one quarter to one third of an inch, and were very slightly red¬ dened, covered with a thin, quite adherent layer of epidermis, and in width were about one third of one line. The redness, slight as it was, was sharply limited to the morbid circle, and the enclosed mucous membrane- was apparently normal. If any of these rings were pinched between the fingers, no thickening was appreciable, nor did they in any way seem to cause any * Read before the American Dermatological Association, Aug. 29, 1884.