Observations on cancer : connected with histories of the disease / by Everard Home.

  • Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on cancer : connected with histories of the disease / by Everard Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V ; i backwards and forwards. It was necessary to cut away the upper piece, and Wallace was sent aloft for that purpose. He had on i a pair of loose trousers at the time. The rolling of the ship was very great, which increased the motion of the mast, and while he was clinging to the standing part, his glans penis was caught between it and the loose piece; he immediately fainted away, and fell into the round top, from whence he was carried to the deck. On recovering, he was informed by his companions, that when they first took him up, his glans penis was as flat as a half-crown. The body of the penis, and both testicles, as well as the glans, began to inflame and swell, and were extremely painful. He kept his bed for three weeks, at the end of which time, the glans had recovered its natural size and figure, having only a small pimple on that part to which the frasnum is attached : this was con¬ sidered of no consequence, and was not at -all troublesome, until, his arrival in England