Word: testicular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ulcer operation only to discover that he has no ulcer, that in fact there isn't a doctor in Italy who can explain his symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety-colitis, exhaustion, "testicular commotion" and finally even the delusion of facing an "attack by crooked lines"-that in time the wretched man is persuaded to consult a psychoanalyst, an experience almost as painful for the hero as it is for the reader, who may or may not be persuaded to hang...
...other cases, where there is no detectable cause such as infection, the prostate may become gradually enlarged-from a little more than an inch long by i% in. broad to double or triple its normal size. A year may elapse before painful or difficult urination, backache, testicular pain or sexual impotence sends the victim to his doctor. At this stage, the already enlarged prostate is especially vulnerable to secondary infection. Once this infection has been cleared, surgery is the usual answer-and mandatory in the 10% to 15% of cases where cancer has developed...