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but as it is simple and harmless, it can be left to laymen to 
apply it. 
Those of our friends that will try turpinol will kindly favor 
us with the results that they may obtain. 
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Paralysis of the Penis. —We do not know with cer¬ 
tainty what is the opinion of the majority of our friends in the 
United States in relation to this subject, but the experience 
that we had with the cases that we met has made us believe 
that paralysis of the penis was in the majority of cases, if not in 
all, of infectious nature. We remember how they were fre¬ 
quent during the epizootics of spinal and cerebro-spinal menin¬ 
gitis that prevailed some years ago in New York. How 
troublesome they were ! Plow we were looking for them and 
guarding against their appearance. In fact, it is upon some of 
these that we had first the opportunity to perform amputation 
with suture to the prepuce of the everted incised urethra. 
We found that to a great extent the same opinion prevailed 
amongst the majority of practitioners on this side of the Atlan¬ 
tic, and that for many paralysis of the penis is often the sequel 
of serious infectious diseases, tedious lung affections, infectious 
pneumonia, etc. 
Prof. Barrier, at the Societe Centrale, presented, a while 
ago, a paper on this subject, in which he gave it as his opinion 
that paralysis of the penis was in general the result of trauma¬ 
tism—and of a peculiar traumatism—a violent kick on the peri¬ 
neum, applied when to help a horse that is lying down, to get 
up, his tail is pulled upward. A tail pulled, and a kick on the 
perineum ! To support his theory, the learned professor related 
minutely the result of observations and of very careful dissec¬ 
tion he has made on cases suffering from paralysis of the penis,, 
from the causes above named, and in which he has found 
marked lesion of the perinean nerves. 
While other interesting remarks might be made on the 
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necessary conditions that might exist on the possibility of the 
u application of the specified cause, the kick,” it is certain that 
