Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce / by Lewis A. Sayre.

  • Sayre, Lewis A. (Lewis Albert), 1820-1900.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce / by Lewis A. Sayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    glans, and could be readily glided over it without any irritation whatever. From the very day of the operation, the child began to improve in his general health; slept quietly at night, improved in his appe- tite, and, although confined to the house all the time, yet at the end of three weeks he had recovered quite a rosy color in his cheeks, and was able to extend his limbs perfectly straight while lying upon his back. From this time on he improved most rapidly, and in less than a fortnight was able to walk alone with his limbs quite straight. He left for his home in the west about the first of April, entirely recovered; having used no remedy, either iron, electricity, or other means to restore his want of power, but simply quieting his nerv- ous system by relieving his imprisoned glans penis as above de- scribed. Case II.—Mr. T. IST , one of the first lawyers in our city, called on me at the very time the little fellow above described was making his farewell visit, to speak to me in reference to his son, a lad of fourteen years, that I had attended some months before for paralysis of his legs. He stated that he was not improving, and that he looked so badly in the morning that he feared he was guilty of masturbation, and was very anxious that I should talk to him seriously upon the subject, and point out to him its dangers. As the little fellow then running around the ofiice had just recovered from a paralysis that was evidently due to genital irritation, it occurred to me that the paralysis in the son of Mr. N., for which I formerly had been con- sulted, might possibly be due to the same cause. He was sent to me on the following day, and after questioning him very closely, I found him unusually intelligent on the subject, strictly truthful and honest in all his statements, and perfectly free from the vice of masturbation. Upon examining his penis, I found it unusually large at the root and body, but very short, and the prepuce terminating in an opening scarcely large enough to admit a small probe. He stated that it always took him a long time to make his water, and he could never do it without great straining. Uis penis would become erected several times in the night and always with great pain, and this difficulty was increasing as he grew older.