y-seated arteries through a cutaneous tube,
and conducting the hook under the corporus cavernosum, seized this
crosswise, and by a to-and-fro movement succeeded in replacing the
organ.

Moldenhauer describes the case of a farmer of fifty-seven who was
injured in a runaway accident, a wheel passing over his body close to
the abdomen. The glans penis could not be recognized, since the penis
in toto had been torn from its sheath at the corona, and had slipped or
been driven into the inguinal region. This author quotes Stromeyer's
case, which was that of a boy of four and a half years who was kicked
by a horse in the external genital region. The sheath was found empty
of the penis, which had been driven into the perineum.

Raven mentions a case of spontaneous retraction of the penis in a man
of twenty-seven. While in bed he felt a sensation of coldness in the
penis, and on examination he found the organ (a normal-sized one)
rapidly retracting or shrinking. He hastily summoned a physician, who
found that the penis had, in fact, almost disappeared, the glans being
just perceptible under the pubic arch, and the skin alone visible. The
next day the normal condition was restored, but the patient was weak
and nervous for several days after his fright. In a similar case,
mentioned by Ivanhoff, the penis of a peasant of twenty-three, a
married man, bodily disappeared, and was only captured by repeated
effort. The patient was six days under treatment, and he finally became
so distrustful of his virile member that, to be assured of its
constancy, he tied a string about it above the glans.

Injuries of the penis and testicles self-inflicted are grouped together
and discussed in Chapter XIV.

As a rule, spontaneous gangrene of the penis has its origin in some
intense fever. Partridge describes a man of forty who had been the
victim of typhus fever, and whose penis mortified and dried up,
becoming black and like the empty finger of a cast-off glove; in a few
days it dropped off. Boyer cites a case of edema of the prepuce,
noticed on the fifteenth day of the fever, and which was followed by
gangrene of the penis. Rostan mentions gangrene of the penis from
small-pox. Intermittent fever has been cited as a cause. Koehler
reports a fatal instance of gangrene of the penis, caused by a
prostatic abscess following gonorrhea. In this case there was
thrombosis of the pelvic veins. Hutchinson mentions a man who, thirty
years before, after s