nated at the base of the frenum who had four
sons with the same deformity. Picardat mentions a father and son, both
of whom had double urethral orifices, one above the other, from one of
which issued urine and from the other semen--a fact that shows the
possibility of inheritance of this malformation. Patients in whom the
urethra opens at the root of the penis, the meatus being imperforate,
are not necessarily impotent; as, for instance, Fournier knew of a man
whose urethra opened posteriorly who was the father of four children.
Fournier supposed that the semen ejaculated vigorously and followed the
fissure on the back of the penis to the uterus, the membrane of the
vagina supplanting the deficient wall of the urethra. The penis was
short, but about as thick as ordinary.

Gray mentions a curious case in a man afflicted with hypospadias who,
suffering with delusions, was confined in the insane asylum at Utica.
When he determined to get married, fully appreciating his physical
defect, he resolved to imitate nature, and being of a very ingenious
turn of mind, he busied himself with the construction of an artificial
penis. While so engaged he had seized every opportunity to study the
conformation of this organ, and finally prepared a body formed of
cotton, six inches in length, and shaped like a penis, minus a prepuce.
He sheathed it in pig's gut and gave it a slight vermilion hue. To the
touch it felt elastic, and its shape was maintained by a piece of
gutta-percha tubing, around which the cotton was firmly wound. It was
fastened to the waist-band by means of straps, a central and an upper
one being so arranged that the penis could be thrown into an erect
position and so maintained. He had constructed a flesh-colored covering
which completely concealed the straps. With this artificial member he
was enabled to deceive his wife for fifteen months, and was only
discovered when; she undressed him while he was in a state of
intoxication. To further the deception he had told his wife immediately
after their marriage that it was quite indecent for a husband to
undress in the presence of his wife, and therefore she had always
retired first and turned out the light. Partly from fear that his
virile power would be questioned and partly from ignorance, the
duration of actual coitus would approach an hour. When the discovery
was made, his wife hid the instrument with which he had perpetrated a
most successful fraud upon her, and the