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The act of swelling.

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  • A physical fooling of turgescence and congestion in that region, such as swimmers often feel, probably increased the impression.
  • It is during this state withdrawn forcibly backwards over the glans, and in this situation, while being itself the first cause of constriction, it induces another -- namely, an...
  • Considering all these facts, we must regard the fall of arterial pressure, the depression of the fontanelle, and the turgescence of the vessels of the limbs as phenomena...
  • The erectile tissue whose turgescence is indispensable, no longer admits into its vascular
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