[218] The case has been recorded of a Russian who had the spontaneous impulse to self-flagellation on the nates with a rod, for the sake of sexual excitement, from the age of 6. (Rivista Mensile di Psichiatria April, 1900, p. 102.)

[219] Kryptadia, vol. v, p. 358.  As regards the use of nettles, see Duehren, Geschlechtsleben in England, Bd.  II, p. 392.

[220] Debreyne, Moechialogie, p. 177.

[221] R.W.  Taylor, A Practical Treatise on Sexual Disorders, 3rd ed., Ch.  XXX.

[222] Hammond, Sexual Impotence, pp. 70 et seq.

[223] Niceforo, Il Gergo, p. 98.

[224] Functional Disorders of the Nervous System in Women, p. 114.

[225] Schrenck-Notzing, Suggestions-therapie, p. 13.  A. Kind (Jahrbuch fuer Sexuelle Zwischenstufen, Jahrgang ix, 1908, p. 58) gives the case of a young homosexual woman, a trick cyclist at the music halls, who often, when excited by the sight of her colleague in tights, would experience the orgasm while cycling before the public.

[226] Janet has, however, used day-dreaming—­which he calls “reveries subconscients”—­to explain a remarkable case of demon-possession, which he investigated and cured. (Nevroses et Idees fixes, vol. i, pp. 390 et seq.)

[227] “Minor Studies from the Psychological Laboratory of Wellesley College,” American Journal of Psychology, vol. vii, No. 1.  G.E.  Partridge ("Reverie,” Pedagogical Seminary, April, 1898) well describes the physical accompaniments of day-dreaming, especially in Normal School girls between sixteen and twenty-two.  Pick ("Clinical Studies in Pathological Dreaming,” Journal of Mental Sciences, July, 1901) records three more or less morbid cases of day-dreaming, usually with an erotic basis, all in apparently hysterical men.  An important study of day-dreaming, based on the experiences of nearly 1,500 young people (more than two-thirds girls and women), has been published by Theodate L. Smith ("The Psychology of Day Dreams,” American Journal Psychology, October, 1904).  Continued stories were found to be rare—­only one per cent.  Healthy boys, before fifteen, had day-dreams in which sports, athletics, and adventure had a large part; girls put themselves in the place of their favorite heroines in novels.  After seventeen, and earlier in the case of girls, day-dreams of love and marriage were found to be frequent.  A typical confession is that of a girl of nineteen:  “I seldom have time to build castles in Spain, but when I do, I am not different from most Southern girls; i.e., my dreams are usually about a pretty fair specimen of a six-foot three-inch biped.”

[228] The case has been recorded of a married woman, in love with her doctor, who kept a day-dream diary, at last filling three bulky volumes, when it was discovered by her husband, and led to an action for divorce; it was shown that the doctor knew nothing of the romance in which he played the part of hero.  Kiernan, in referring to this case (as recorded in John Paget’s Judicial Puzzles), mentions a similar case in Chicago.