Fallacies In Dysparennus Summary

In Erwin J. O. Kompanje’s journal article, Painful Sexual Intercourse Caused by a Disproportionately Long Penis: An Historical Note on a Remarkable Treatment Devised by Guilhelmius Fabricius Hildanus (1560–1634), he describes a case study where Guilhelmius Fabricius Hildanus attempts to solve a patients dyspareunia due to her husband’s abnormally large genitalia. Kompanje first includes an introduction where he informs the reader about the case history of ‘Pain and infertility caused by a too large penis.’ Then, he provides the reader with a briefs biography of Hildanus. Then he goes more in depth in regards to the case study. Then ends with a discussion with point out the fallacies in Hildanus’s case study and add his recommendations to solve the women’s dyspareunia and infertility. In his introduction he states the origins of the case study. Kompanje then provide a brief biography of Hildanus. He was born on June, 25th 1560 in Hilden, Germany as Wilhelms Fabry. He started training in surgery when he was 15. He married Marie Colinet, a female surgeon, who assisted many of his surgeries. Hildanus traveled a lot but was still able to publish ten books on a numerous of subjects. He also made the ‘Centuriae’ which was a record of six hundred medical surgical observations and contraptions made for the
They determined that this was due to the daughter’s husband who had a large penis. So Hildanus suggests that the women should take a league of absence from sexual activities and gets some rest. Then he creates a devices, which is shown in the article, which limits the penetration of the husbands abnormally sized penis. This fixes the daughters issues and they were able to conceive and stop the