Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
The young modest woman who belonged to a very prominent family was
shown that if the affair became public it would raise a public scandal
and would expose her to the jokes and witticisms of the profanum
vulgus, and that her husband in his rage may commit some rash act
which would bring him in collision with the criminal courts. She then
consented to keep the affair secret and forget it.
Another case known to the author is that of a man of forty with an
hereditary taint, who was always nervous since his childhood. He
suffered from enuresis nocturna until after puberty. He began to
practise stuprum manu when he was only eleven years of age. At present
he shows all the signs and symptoms of hystero-neurasthenia. The
pupillary reaction is retarded, there is a fibrillary tremor of his
tongue, and when standing with closed eyes there is a considerable
tottering. The knee-reflex on the left side is more pronounced than
on the right. Very often there is a profuse outbreak of perspiration
on the left side of the entire body, while the right side remains
perfectly dry. At certain periods the patient suffers also from
attacks of anxiety and fear.
One evening, while in a public park, the patient let his trousers fall
down, lifted his shirt and exposed his flaccid genitals to several
women and girls. The women seem to have considered the affair a big
joke and nothing happened to him. But another time se stupravit manu
in the presence of two girls in the hall of a fashionable apartment.
The frightened girls began to scream, the patient was apprehended and
arrested. Through the influence of political friends, the case was
quashed.
Another case known to the author is that of a married man of a highly
tainted family. His father was potator, his mother hysteric, one
sister is epileptic and the other committed suicide. The patient’s
two children seem to be healthy. The patient often suffers from
congestions to his head, headaches and exophthalmus. The knee-reflexes
are greatly exaggerated.
On repeated occasions, the patient exposed virilia in parks and other
public places before women and girls, calling their attention by
whistling. At one occasion he showed virilia to women on the street
through the window of his room. At another occasion se stupravit manu
under the electric arc-light at night where the women passing on the
street could not help seeing him.
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