The parts being extremely vascular, and in very intimate relation with the central nervous system; we very naturally find that congenital phimosis, interfering with the normal growth of the glans penis, is prone to develop various reflex neurotic disorders or diseases; of which some have been minutely described by Dr. Sayre.[10] Thus forms of _paralysis_ may ensue; either confined to a single group of muscles, and simulating club-foot, or of a more general character. _Epilepsy_, _reflex cough_, _convulsions_, _choreic movements of the limbs_, are extreme examples; but a milder instance of the same causes in operation shows itself in young infants, as _nocturnal restlessness with defective nutrition_. _Hip-joint disease_ and _spinal caries_ may be simulated, and the mal-assimilation of food may eventually produce such gross deformities as _bowing of the legs_. Chronic _priapism_ is a not uncommon occurrence. Obstruction to the free discharge of urine may produce symptoms of severe _vesical irritation_, occasionally supposed to indicate stone in the bladder. The straining efforts at micturition may cause _hernia_ or _prolapse of the rectum_; the _nocturnal incontinence_ of children is not unfrequently traceable to the same source. _Epistaxis_ has been described. Retention of urine in the folds of the elongated foreskin, together with the child's habit of pulling this, induce a condition of soreness which causes great smarting whenever micturition takes place, and induces the patient to defer that act as long as possible. Hence may in time result _dilatation of the bladder, cystic kidneys, and death_. Even _eczema_ of the abdominal wall has been thus produced; and has disappeared when the cause was removed, as in a case cited by Dr. Hayes Agnew (_Principles of Surgery_, 1881).