openly.
Bloch (_Op. cit._, pp. 277 and 282) remarks that this is not an
infrequent exhibition given by prostitutes in certain brothels.
Maschka has referred to such an exhibition between a woman and a
bull-dog, which was given to select circles in Paris. Rosse
refers to a case in which a young unmarried woman in Washington
was surprised during intercourse with a large English mastiff,
who in his efforts to get loose caused such severe injuries that
the woman died from haemorrhage in about an hour. Rosse also
mentions that some years ago a performance of this kind between a
prostitute and a Newfoundland dog could be witnessed in San
Francisco by paying a small sum; the woman declared that a woman
who had once copulated with a dog would ever afterwards prefer
this animal to a man. Rosse adds that he was acquainted with a
similar performance between a woman and a donkey, which used to
take place in Europe (Irving Rosse, "Sexual Hypochondriasis and
Perversion of the Genesic Instinct," _Virginia Medical Monthly_,
October, 1892, p. 379). Juvenal mentions such relations between
the donkey and woman (vi, 332). Krauss (quoted by Bloch,
_Beitraege zur AEtiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis_, Teil II, p.
276) states that in Bosnia women sometimes carry on these
practices with dogs and also--as he would not have believed had
he not on one occasion observed it--with cats. "It seems to me,"
writes Dr. Kiernan, of Chicago, (private letter) "that what Rosse
says of the animal exhibitions in San Francisco is true of all
great cities. The animal employed in such exhibitions here has
usually been a donkey, and in one instance death occurred from
the animal trampling the girl partner. The practice described
occurs in country regions quite frequently. Thus in a case
reported in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, a sixteen-year-old
boy engaged in rectal coitus with a large dog. In attempting to
extricate his swollen penis from the boy's rectum the dog tore
through the _sphincter ani_ an inch into the gluteus muscles.
(_Omaha Clinic_, March, 1893.) In a Missouri 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 thr