III. GENERAL PATHOLOGY.[1]
(NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL.)
Abnormality of the sexual functions proves to be especially frequent in civilized races. This fact is explained in part by the frequent abuse of the sexual organs, and in part by the circumstance that such functional anomalies are often the signs of an abnormal constitution of the central nervous system, which is, for the most part, hereditary (“functional signs of degeneration”).
Since the generative organs stand in important functional connection with the entire nervous system, and especially with its psychical and somatic functions, it is easy to understand the frequency of general neuroses and psychoses arising in sexual (functional or organic) disturbances.
Schema of the Sexual Neuroses.
| I. | Peripheral.[2] |  |
1. Sensory. | |
a. Anæsthesia. |
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b. Hyperæsthesia. | |||
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c. Neuralgia. | |||
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2. Secretory. |  |
a. Aspermia. | ||
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b. Polyspermia. | |||
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3. Motor. | |
a. Pollutions (spasm). | ||
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b. Spermatorrhœa (paralysis). | |||
| II. | Spinal. | |
1. Affections of the erection centre. | ||
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2. Affections of the ejaculation centre. | ||||
| III. | Cerebral. | |
1. Paradoxia. | ||
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2. Anæsthesia. | ||||
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3. Hyperæsthesia. | ||||
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4. Paræsthesia. | ||||
- ↑ Literature: Parent-Duchatelet, Prostitution dans la ville de Paris, 1837.—Rosenbaum, Entstehung der Syphilis, Halle, 1839; also, Die Lustseuche im Alterhum, Halle, 1839.—Descuret, La médecine des passions, Paris, 1860.—Casper, Klin. Novellen, 1863.—Bastian, Der Mensch in der Geschichte.—Friedländer, Sittengeschichte Roms.—Wiedemeister, Cäsarenwahnsinn.—Scherr, Deutsche Cultur- und Sittenge- schichte, Bd. i, Cap. 9.—Tardieu, Des attentats aux moeurs., 7 édit., 1878.—Emminghaus, Psychopathol., pp. 98, 225, 230, 232.—Schüle, Handbuch der Geisteskrankheiten, p. 114.—Marc, Die Geisteskrankheiten, übers v. Ideler, ii, p. 128.—v. Krafft, Lehrb. der Psychiatrie, 4 Aufl., i, p. 90; Lehrb. d. ger. Psychopathol., 2 Aufl., p. 234; Archiv f. Psychiatrie, vii, 2.—Moreau, Des aberrations du sens génésique, Paris, 1880.—Kirn, Allg. Zeitschr. f. Psychiatrie, xxxix, Heft 2 u. 3.—Lombroso, Geschlechtstrieb u. Verbrechen in ihren gegenseitigen Beziehungen (Goltdammer’s Archiv, Bd. xxx.).—Tarnowsky, Die krankhaften Erscheiungen des Geschlechtssins, Berlin, 1886.—Ball, La Folie érotique, Paris, 1888.—Serieux, Recherches cliniques sur les anomalies de l’instinct sexuel, Paris, 1888.—Hammond, Secual Impotence.
- ↑ Vide Ultzmann, Genito-Urinary Neuroses in the Male (published by The F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia), for discussion of peripheral neuroses.
