title: Painful sexual intercourse caused by a disproportionately long penis: an historical note on a remarkable treatment devised by Guilhelmius Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634).
abstract: Between 1598 and 1641, the famous surgeon Guilhelmius Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634) published 600 medical and surgical observations in his Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae I-VI. One of the case reports bears the title 'Pain and infertility caused by a too large penis.' The woman described in this case report most likely suffered from positional deep dyspareunia. Hildanus invented in 1593 a remarkable made-to-measure device. This device was a very well-considered and faultless curative for the woman's dyspareunia. It seemed that the dyspareunia had a simple cause: the disproportional large penis of the woman's husband. Four hundred years later, Hildanus' forgotten penis shortening device deserves a resurrection in today's medical practice. This remarkable and almost forgotten case report is described and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000, CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. e.j.o.kompanje@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Erwin J O
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kompanje
mesh_terms: D003075:Coitus; D004414:Dyspareunia / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011481:Protective Clothing / Q000266:history*