_Satyriasis._――Not the female _only_, suffers from an ungovernable venereal desire, but the male also is, at times, the subject of a disease, analogous to nymphomania of the female. Such is the disease termed satyriasis. A young married man says to me, in the following forcible language, “My penis is stiff all night. I can’t let my wife rest, and she is nearly dead, and I am tired out myself; but as soon as I see a woman, my penis rears up like the proud standard of Wellington. What shall I do?” His penis became erect while I was examining it. I could not see anything unnatural, only it was enormously large. He had not been a debauché, neither had he masturbated to any degree of injury. There was no spermatorrhœa. He said that it required a more than ordinarily long time to bring about venereal orgasm, after which erection would remain in situ until he went to the hydrant and drenched his penis in cold water; but as soon as he went back to bed with his wife his penis would become erect immediately. He had suffered a month in this manner. He had not been a very amorous man before this, but confessed having obtained and enjoyed a usually temperate allowance previous to marriage. This patient had always been of a robust appearance, but when he consulted me was beginning to look worn and anxious, with sunken eyes from want of sleep and mental unrest. He suffered from pain in his back, head and through his lumbar spine. Deep pressure revealed tenderness over sacrum and last lumbar vertebra. His general symptoms were those of spinal hyperæmia. _Treatment._――Bromide potassium, grs. xx, 3 times a day, with general Faradisation and central galvanization (after the method of Beard & Rockwell), soon gave him relief, and after ten applications no more difficulty was experienced; but a number of months was required before his general health was restored. The symptoms of spinal hyperæmia were very prominent in this case, viz., pain in the cord, not affected by digital pressure, increased by lying down and diminished by sitting. His erections were not troublesome, only when he was in bed lying on his back: this point it will be well to remember. Many of the symptoms so commonly existing in spinal hyperæmia are absent.