degree.  It was often associated with leather bags, but not with boots, though on rubbing the leather of shoes she found that this odor was given out.  She cannot account for its origin, and does not connect any association with it.  It never affected her conduct or led to fetichistic habits.

Some other odors affect her in the same way, though not to the same degree as leather.  This is more especially the case with some flowers, especially white flowers with heavy odors, like gardenias.  Many flowers, on the other hand, like primroses, seem rather opposed to sex effect, too fresh, though stimulating to the mind.  Some artificial scents tend to produce sexual effects also.  Personal odors have no influence of this kind. (At a later period the sexual influence of personal odors was occasionally experienced, but the present history deals only with the period before marriage.)

She believes that most beautiful things, however unconnected with sex, have a tendency to produce distinctively sexual feelings in a faint degree, although sometimes more marked, with secretion.  She has, however, never experienced homosexual feeling, and, on first consideration, was inclined to believe that the sight of a beautiful woman had no sexual effect on her, though she could quite understand such an effect.  Subsequently, on recalling as well as observing her experiences more carefully, she found that a lovely woman’s face and figure (especially on one occasion the very graceful figure of a beautiful fairy in a ballet) produced distinct sexual sensations (with mucous emission).  Music, however, has strongly emotional effects upon her, and she cannot recall that she ever felt any equally powerful influence of this kind in the absence of music.

Looking back on the development of her feelings she finds that, though in some respects they may have been slow, they were simple, natural, spontaneous, and correspond to “the dawning and progress which go on in the development of every girl.  While it is going on in actual fact, the girl does not know or bother herself about trying to understand it.  Afterward it seems quite clear and simple.  Full occupation of the brain, and hands too, while it does not do away with desire, is a great help and safeguard to a growing girl, when combined with proper information about herself and her relation to man the animal, so that she may realize where she is and how to choose the right man—­though under the best conditions failure may occur.”

HISTORY IX.—­The subject belongs to a large family having some neurotic members; she spent her early life on a large farm.  She is vigorous and energetic, has intellectual tastes, and is accustomed to think for herself, from unconventional standpoints, on many subjects.  Her parents were very religious, and not, she thinks, of sensual temperament.  Her own early life was free from associations of a sexual character, and she can