from what other women have told her, that her feelings are, if anything, stronger than the average.  The orgasm, however, was not fully developed until about five years after marriage.  Sexual feeling is most pronounced before, during, and after the menstrual period, more especially before and about the third day (the period usually lasts from five to seven days).  There is more sexual desire during pregnancy, especially toward the end, than at any other time.  She never refused normal intercourse to her husband, but any abnormal or perverted method of sexual gratification is repellent.  She was awakened one night about the third month of pregnancy by her husband inserting his penis in ore; the child was born with palate defect and she is herself inclined to believe that this incident was the cause of the defect.  Though she desires normal intercourse, she has seldom obtained complete gratification.  For a long time she disliked seeing or touching the penis, and the feel, and especially the smell, of the semen produced nausea and even vomiting. (She has a very delicate sense of smell as well as of taste; though fond of the scent of flowers, no sexual feelings are thus aroused.) Withdrawal and the use of condoms are unsatisfactory to her, and mutual masturbation gives no relief and produces headache.  Feelings of friendship for her husband have been most potent in arousing the sexual emotions, and she has had most pleasure in intercourse after a day spent in bicycling together.  She has been for many months at a time without sexual intercourse, and during such periods has suffered much from pain in the head; this, however, she has now completely surmounted.  She eventually discovered that her husband’s abstinence from marital intercourse was due to infidelity.  This led to a definite separation.  She still occasionally experiences sexual desire, but has no inclination to masturbate.  Her life is full and busy, affording ample scope for her energies and intelligence; moreover, she has her children to train and educate.  She herself believes that her sexual life is at an end.

HISTORY XIII.—­G.R., army officer.  “I am 35 years of age.  My parents married at the ages of 38 and 25, and my father is now 84 and my mother 71; both are particularly strong and healthy in body and mind.  I am of old lineage on both sides, and know of no disease, defect, or abnormality among any of my ancestors or relations, except that my mother’s family has a slight tendency to drink and excess, the present members of it all being considered eccentric.  I have one brother and one sister living (brother unmarried, sister with several children) and am the youngest of a family of five.  My brother is abnormal, but I don’t know exactly in what way or from what cause.  I have a strong suspicion that he masturbates to excess.  My father is artistic and my mother musical.  I have no aptitude for either, but appreciate both enormously, though not until about ten years ago.  My principal