One of the main causes of painful scrotal swelling is testicular torsion. This is an injury or an event that causes a testicle in the scrotal sac to twist and cut off blood circulation. This very painful injury could cause tissue death to the scrotum in a matter of hours. Medical conditions and diseases can also cause the scrotum to swell.
As said, credit and debit cards (cartes bancaires or cartes bleus) are widely used in France. This is also practical as automatic payments are common in France for things like train/metro tickets, parking, motorway tolls, etc.
The guillotine, and capital punishment, are not used anymore in  France.   The last execution took place in the 1970s, and the death penalty  was abolished in 1981.3 people found this useful. Edit.everal devices like it already existed, though they were often not as efficient as the guillotine. Louis XVI banned the use of the Breaking wheel, which was first the method â¦ to publicly kill criminals, but this was considered too cruel (...).