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In this manner a simple elongation of the prepuce will produce an inflammation of the surface of the glans (balanitis), or that of the prepuce itself (posthitis), or the two conjoined (balano-posthitis), complicated possibly with phimosis.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
Among the local causes lie mentions phimosis, paraphimosis, and balano-posthitis Bell quotes the case reported by Mr. Partridge, in the sixteenth volume of the "Transactions of the Pathological Society of London," wherein a sober man, aged forty, lost the whole of his penis up to the root, during the course of a typhus fever.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
In these, the distension of the prepuce and the resulting balano-posthitis is at times a source of great distress, and at times the resulting engorgement produces a retention of urine.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
The only preventive or remedy for this condition is circumcision Acquired phimosis has been mentioned as a result of inflammatory lotion, such as is connected with balano-posthitis; it sometimes happens that, the act of coitus being done forcibly, especially with public women, who are apt to use very astringent and constricting washes, the prepuce becomes injured, with the result of producing a phimosis.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
The views set forth by Hutchinson in the beginning of this chapter are precisely those that are held by the writer, who would even go further, by advising all such as have, in their youth or since, suffered with balano-posthitis in any degree or form, or whose prepuce shows a tendency to elongation with age, to have the same removed at once; where the prepuce is not redundant, but only tight, a slight operation, such as slitting, will at once remove the possibility of any future danger, without keeping a man from his business a single day.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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