Note 102 — Chapter XXI · The Prepuce and Gangrene of the Penis.

This patient, on convalescing, suffered considerable from the action of numerous small carbuncles, resulting from the toxæmic condition induced by the partial suppression of urine that he at times suffered from, and, when nearly well, brought on a serious relapse by the mail-bag appendage at the penis working up the organ into a state of erection. While so situated he had intercourse, and from 99° his temperature immediately rose to 104½°, where it remained for several days, lengthening out his illness by several weeks, into a long-protracted convalescence. The man is not yet circumcised, and, from the knowledge that I have of his tendency to uræmia, I feel that, although in his prime, a fever or an accident may take him off at any moment.