than I liked having connection with her; and this was especially so in the case of girls who had never had masturbation practised on them before; I loved to see the look of surprised pleasure appear on their faces as they felt the delightful and novel sensation.

“To gratify this desire I persuaded dozens of girls to allow me to take liberties with them, and it would surprise you to learn what a number of girls, many of them in good social position, permitted me the liberty I desired, though the supply was never equal to my demand.

“With a view to enlarging my opportunities I took up the study of medicine as a profession, and reveled in the chances it gave of being on intimate sexual terms with many who would have been, otherwise, out of my reach.

“At the age of 25 I married the daughter of an officer, a beautiful girl with a fully developed figure and an amorous disposition.  While engaged, we used to pass hours wrapped in each other’s arms, practising mutual masturbation, or I would kiss her passionately on the mouth, introducing my tongue into her mouth at intervals, with the invariable result that I had an emission and she went off into sighs and shivers.  After marriage we practised all sorts of fancy coitus, coitus reservatus, etc., and rarely passed twenty-four hours without two conjunctions, until she got far on in the family way, and our play had to cease for a while.

“During this interval I went to stay at the house of an old schoolfellow, who had been one of my lovers of days gone by.  It happened that on account of the number of guests staying in the house the bed accommodation was somewhat scanty, and I agreed to share my friend’s bedroom.  The sight of his naked body as he undressed gave rise to lustful feelings in me; and when he had turned out the light I stole across to his bed and got in beside him.  He made no objection, and we passed the night in mutual masturbation and embraces, coitus inter femora, etc.  I was surprised to find how much I preferred this state of affairs to coitus with my wife, and determined to enjoy the occasion to the full.  We passed a fortnight together in the above fashion, and, though I afterward went back and did my duty by my wife, I never took the same pleasure in her again, and when she died, five years later, I felt no inclination to contract another marriage, but devoted myself heart and soul to my old school-friend, with whom I continued tender relations until his death by accident last year.  Since then I have lost all interest in life.”

“The patient,” writes the well-known alienist to whom I am indebted for the above history, “consulted me lately.  I found him a fairly healthy man to look at, suffering from some neurasthenia and a tendency to melancholia.  Generative organs large, one testicle shows some wasting, pubic hair abundant, form of body distinctly