Without doubt his explanations of the priapism can be applied to the whole experience; whatever symptoms there were, they were unquestionably psychic.
Nascher himself unwittingly admits when he tells that the result of his first experiment on himself with amorphous phosphorus was a priapism that he acknowledges was “probably psychic, as I was looking for such a result.
Priapism continued, but the man went into a soporose condition, with occasional intervals of satyriasis.
Priapism is sometimes seen as a curious symptom of lesion of the spinal cord.
Pressure on the cerebellum is supposed to account for cases of priapism observed in executions and suicides by hanging.
Booth mentions a case of priapism in a married seaman of fifty-five, due to local inflammation about the muscles, constricting the bulb of the penis.
Priapism may also develop spontaneously at a later period, and is then due to central irritation from extravasation into the substance of the cord, or to some reflex cause.
There are, however, in literature, records of long continued priapism in which either the cause is due to excessive stimulation of the sexual center or in which the cause is obscure or unknown.
Zacutus Lusitanus speaks of a Viceroy of India who had a long attack of stubbornpriapism without any voluptuous feeling.
The older records contain instances of continued infantile priapism caused by the constant irritation of ascarides and also records of prolonged priapism associated with intense agony and spasmodic cramps.
Priapism began on the fifth day, at which time the patient became affected with a salacious appetite, and was rational upon every subject except that pertaining to venery.
There was a similar case of priapism which lasted for three weeks, and was associated with hydrocele in a man of forty-eight.
Kremine believes that continued priapism is produced by effusion of blood into the corpora cavernosa, which is impeded on its return.
He sought aid at the London Hospital, but the priapism was persistent, and when he left, on May 10th, the penis formed an acute angle with the pubes, and he again had free intercourse with the same female.
In this condition he survived nine days; there was not the slightest abatement of the priapism until a few moments before his death.
My priapism continued so violent, and prick was so enormously distended that when at last it came out there was a flop like the drawing of a very tight cork.
