results, and led to the immediate disappearance of a
severe pain in the back of the neck, from which she often
suffered. Clouston (_Mental Diseases_, 1887, p. 496) quotes as
follows from a letter written by a youth of 22: "I am sure I
cannot explain myself, nor give account of such conduct.
Sometimes I felt so uneasy at my work that I would go to the
water-closet to do it, and it seemed to give me ease, and then I
would work like a hatter for a whole week, till the sensation
overpowered me again. I have been the most filthy scoundrel in
existence," etc. Garnier presents the case of a monk, aged 33,
living a chaste life, who wrote the following account of his
experiences: "For the past three years, at least, I have felt,
every two or three weeks, a kind of fatigue in the penis, or,
rather, slight shooting pains, increasing during several days,
and then I feel a strong desire to expel the semen. When no
nocturnal pollution follows, the retention of the semen causes
general disturbance, headache, and sleeplessness. I must confess
that, occasionally, to free myself from the general and local
oppression, I lie on my stomach and obtain ejaculation. I am at
once relieved; a weight seems to be lifted from my chest, and
sleep returns." This patient consulted Gamier as to whether this
artificial relief was not more dangerous than the sufferings it
relieved. Gamier advised that if the ordinary _regime_ of a
well-ordered monastry, together with anaphrodisiac sedatives,
proved inefficacious, the manoeuvre might be continued when
necessary (P. Garnier, _Celibat et Celibataires_, 1887, p. 320).
H.C. Coe (_American Journal of Obstetrics_, p. 766, July, 1889)
gives the case of a married lady who was deeply sensitive of the
wrong nature of masturbation, but found in it the only means of
relieving the severe ovarian pain, associated with intense sexual
excitement, which attended menstruation. During the
intermenstrual period the temptation was absent. Turnbull knew a
youth who found that masturbation gave great relief to feelings
of heaviness and confusion which came on him periodically; and
Wigglesworth has frequently seen masturbation after epileptic
fits in patients who never masturbated at other times. Moll
(_Libido Sexualis_, Bd. I, p. 13) refers to a woman of 28, an
artist of nervous an