Elephantiasis of the Penis
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Present state.?The penis is seven and lialt inches long with a circumference of eight and half inches. The tissues surrounding it are much hypertrophied but not painful to the touch ? the skin is discoloured here and there with white patches, the result of native treatment. Health bad and unfit for surgical operation. He was carefully nursed and fed up till his generaMiealth had sufficiently improved to enable him to stand the necessary operation which was done on the 19th September 1899. Two photographs are enclosed, one showing the elephantoid tumour before and after its removal.
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