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(induced with Papaverine   Q: Please explain the above.
Ans: Before the availability of the 'PIPE' Test, it was very difficult to opine about the potency or impotency of a male. The PIPE test along with many other investigations became available/ known to the medical sciences in mid eighties for the 'evaluation of impotency. This test is a sure test to evaluate the impotency of a male. Normally, when an allegation of impotency is made, we resort to this test. After injecting 30 to 60 mgs. of Papaverine intracavernously, the erection occurs in about three to five minutes' time and it achieves its maximum rigidity, i.e., full erection, after about ten minutes and it sustains for a period of ten to thirty minutes. Normally, if the intracavernous pressure at the height of full erection should be caused up to 90 cms to 110 cms of water, it should be compatible with penetration and sexual inter-

10. The opinion of Dr. S.K. Sharma is based upon "PIPE Test" conducted on the husband. He is categoric that as up to date it is a conclusive proof of potency or impotency of a male. Facility of this test is available at the P.G.I. and not at any other station. The evidence of Dr. Sharma, conclusively proves that the husband was impotent at the time of marriage and there is no escape from the conclusion that the wife has succeeded in establishing that the marriage remained unconsummated owing to the impotence of the husband.