[112] Vaschide and Vurpas, “Du Coefficient Sexuel de l’Impulsion Musicale,” Archives de Neurologie, May, 1904.

[113] In the Priapeia is an inscription which has thus been translated:—­

    “You see this organ, after which I’m called
    And which is my certificate, is humid;
    This moisture is not dew nor drops of rain,
    It is the outcome of sweet memory,
    Recalling thoughts of a complacent maid.”

The translator supposes that semen is referred to, but without doubt the allusion is to the theologians’ distillatio.

[114] A woman of 30, normal and intelligent, after conversing on love and passion, and then listening to the music of Grieg and Schumann, felt real and strong sexual excitement, increased by memories recalled by the presence of a sympathetic person.  When then tested by the dynamometer the average of ten efforts with the right hand was found to be 28.2 (her normal average being 31.1) and with the left hand 28.0 (the normal being 30.0).  There was, however, great variability in the individual pressures which sometimes equaled and even exceeded the subject’s normal efforts.  The voluntary muscles are thus in harmony with the approaching general sexual avalanche. (Vaschide and Vurpas, “Quelques Donnees Experimentales sur l’Influence de l’Excitation Sexuelle,” Archivio di Psichiatria, 1903, fasc. v-vi.)

[115] Cf.  MacGillicuddy, Functional Disorders of the Nervous System in Women, p. 110; Fere, L’Instinct Sexuel, second edition, p. 238; id., “Note sur une Anomalie de l’instinct Sexuel,” Belgique Medicale, 1905; also “Analysis of the Sexual Impulse,” in an earlier volume of these Studies.

[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.