case, which I verified, a smart, pretty, well-educated country girl was found with a profuse offensive vaginal discharge which had been present for about a week, coming on suddenly.  After washing the external genitals and opening the labia three rents were discovered, one through the fourchette and two through the left nymphae.  The vagina was excessively congested and covered with points bleeding on the slightest irritation.  The patient confessed that one day while playing with the genitals of a large dog she became excited and thought she would have slight coitus.  After the dog had made an entrance she was unable to free herself from him, as he clasped her so firmly with his fore legs.  The penis became so swollen that the dog could not free himself, although for more than an hour she made persistent efforts to do so. (Medical Standard, June, 1903, p. 184).  In an Indiana case, concerning which I was consulted, the girl was a hebephreniac who had resorted to this procedure with a Newfoundland dog at the instance of another girl, seemingly normal as regards mentality, and had been badly injured; a discharge resulted which resembled gonorrhoea, but contained no gonococci.  These cases are probably more frequent than is usually assumed.”

Women are known to have had intercourse with various other animals, occasionally or habitually, in various parts of the world.  Monkeys have been mentioned in this connection.  Moll remarks that it seems to be an indication of an abnormal interest in monkeys that some women are observed by the attendants in the monkey-house of zooelogical gardens to be very frequent visitors.  Near the Amazon the traveler Castelnau saw an enormous Coati monkey belonging to an Indian woman and tried to purchase it; though he offered a large sum, the woman only laughed.  “Your efforts are useless,” remarked an Indian in the same cabin, “he is her husband.” (So far as the early literature of this subject is concerned, a number of facts and fables regarding the congress of women with dogs, goats and other animals was brought together at the beginning of the eighteenth century by Schurig in his Gynaecologia, Section II, cap.  VII; I have not drawn on this collection.)

In some cases women, and also men, find gratification in the sexual manipulation of animals without any kind of congress.  This may be illustrated by an observation communicated to me by a correspondent, a clergyman.  “In Ireland, my father’s house adjoined the residence of an archdeacon of the established church.  I was then about 20 and was still kept in religious awe of evil ways.  The archdeacon had two daughters, both of whom he brought up in great strictness, resolved that they should grow up examples of virtue and piety.  Our stables adjoined, and were separated only by a thin wall in which was a doorway closed up by some boards, as the two stables had formerly been one.  One night I had occasion to go to our stable to search for a garden