[116] J.P. West, "Masturbation in Early Childhood," _Medical Standard_,
November, 1895.
[117] Cf. the discussion of hysteria in "Auto-Erotism," vol. i of these
_Studies_.
[118] Hirst, _Text-Book of Obstetrics_, 1899, p. 67.
[119] The earliest story of the kind with which I am acquainted, that of a
widow who was thus impregnated by a married friend, is quoted in Schurig's
_Spermatologia_ (p. 224) from Amatus Lusitanus, _Curationum Centuriae
Septum_, 1629.
[120] Janke, _Die Willkuerliche Hervorbringen des Geschlechts_, p. 238.
[121] Cf. Adler, _Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes_, pp.
29-38.
[122] Fere, _Pathologie des Emotions_, p. 51.
[123] This is an instinctive impulse under all strong emotion in primitive
persons. "The Australian Dieri," says A.W. Howitt (_Journal
Anthropological Institute_, August, 1890), "when in pain or grief cry out
for their father or mother."
[124] Vaschide and Vurpas, _Archives de Neurologie_, May, 1904.
[125] F.B. Robinson, _New York Medical Journal_, March 11, 1893.
[126] Fere deals fully with the various morbid results which may follow
coitus, _L' Instinct Sexuel_, Chapter X; id., _Pathologie des Emotions_,
p. 99.
[127] With regard to the relationship of detumescence to the
blood-pressure Haig remarks: "I think that as the sexual act produces low
and falling blood-pressure, it will of necessity relieve conditions which
are due to high and rising blood-pressure, such, for instance, as mental
depression and bad temper; and, unless my observation deceives me, we have
here a connection between conditions of high blood-pressure, with mental
and bodily depression, and the act of masturbation, for this act will
relieve those conditions, and will tend to be practiced for this purpose.
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