The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick.

  • Hollick, Frederick, 1818-1900.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    age, drawn tightly round the organ when flaccid, will often prevent the erection, but a better plan is to use two grooved pieces of wood, one of which must be placed above the penis and the other below, so that they can be drawn together by a band, or screw. The organ can be compressed so tightly by this machine, while in its ordinary state, tha erection cannot possibly take place. Several of my patients were unable to sleep till provided with an instrument of this kind. The longest period I ever knew an attack of pria- pism to last was six loeeks, and that was in a mar- ried man. It first began during a short absence from home, and was kept up by the impossibility which he experienced, on his return, of discharging the semen, owing to the swollen and inflamed state of the parts. He suffered from spermatocele, and slightly from orchitis, and was further troubled by violent desire, which he was unable to gratify. Connexion was possible, but without emission, and consequently without gratification. I was much afraid, from the violence of the attack, and from the symptoms, that permanent impotence would follow, but by careful treatment, perseveringly attended to, be completely recovered. I knew one instance in which priapism followed a blow on the head, from which the person died, and it remained after his death, the parts being so firmly congested, and so rigid, that nothing had any effect upon them.—In several instances I have known priapism follow the application of blisters to the neck and back, even in young children, a fact that should not be lost sight of, either by physicians or parents. 16*