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The active co-operation of the female organs in detumescence is
probably indicated by the difficulty which is experienced in
achieving conception by the artificial injection of semen. Marion
Sims stated in 1866, in _Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery_, that
in 55 injections in six women he had only once been successful;
he believed that that was the only case at that time on record.
Jacobi had, however, practiced artificial fecundation in animals
(in 1700) and John Hunter in man. See Gould and Pyle, _Anomalies
and Curiosities of Medicine_, p. 43; also Janke (_Die
Willkuerliche Hervorbringen des Geschlechts_, pp. 230 et seq.) who
discusses the question of artificial fecundation and brings
together a mass of data.
The facial expression when tumescence is completed is marked by a high
degree of energy in men and of loveliness in women. At this moment, when
the culminating act of life is about to be accomplished, the individual
thus reaches his supreme state of radiant beauty. The color is heightened,
the eyes are larger and brighter, the facial muscles are more tense, so
that in mature individuals any wrinkles disappear and youthfulness
returns.
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