Word: scrotum
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...moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were level; his arms, hands and even his fingertips were distended with air, and were tympanitic on percussion. His abdomen, legs and particularly his scrotum were greatly enlarged. The scrotum was about the size of a football and was tense and tympanitic. The patient's condition was obviously precarious. He became cyanotic, respirations became irregular and pulse weak...
Treatment proved simple. "A large-bore needle was inserted into the scrotum and air under pressure whistled out. The size of the scrotum did not change for some time, but it was noted that the swelling of the abdomen had somewhat decreased. It was found that the air under the skin of the legs, abdomen and chest could be gently massaged into the scrotum and thence out the needle. It was felt that the patient had a valve-like laceration of the lung. Therefore, a large bore needle was inserted into the right pleural space and a rubber tube connected...
...glands is deflected from the manufacture of spermatozoa then there remains energy to produce hormones in magnificent quantity. In the male the gland can be blocked off and the escape of the spermatozoa prevented very easily-a slight incision, scarcely more than a scratch, into the conveniently accessible scrotum, a tying off of the two-foot long vas deferens of one or both of the testes, and the job is done. Thus reproduction potentiality is mechanically stopped in half or in full. Sexual continence, of course, gives approximately the same beneficial results...