he possible cure of his condition. This individual was a finely
educated, very intelligent man, who was an excellent linguist,
had considerable musical ability, and was in the employ of a firm
whose business was such as to demand on the part of its employes
considerable legal acumen, clerical ability, and knowledge of
real-estate transactions. This man stated that at the age of
puberty, without any knowledge of perversity of sexual feeling,
he was thrown intimately in contact with males of more advanced
years, who took various means to excite his sexual passions, the
result being that perverted sexual practices were developed,
which were continued for a number of years. He thereafter noticed
an aversion to women. At the solicitations of his family he
finally married, without any very intelligent idea as to what, if
anything, might be expected of him in the marital relation.
Absolute impotence--indeed, repugnance for association with his
wife--was the lamentable sequence. A divorce was in contemplation
when, fortunately for all parties concerned, the wife suddenly
died. Being a man of more than ordinary intelligence, this
individual, prior to seeking my aid, had sought vainly for some
remedy for his unfortunate condition. He stated that he believed
there was an element of heredity in his case, his father having
been a dipsomaniac and one brother having died insane. He
nevertheless stated it to be his opinion that, notwithstanding
the hereditary taint, he would have been perfectly normal from a
sexual standpoint had it not been for acquired impressions at or
about the period of puberty. This man presented a typically
neurotic type of _physique_, complained of being intensely
nervous, was prematurely gray, of only fair stature, and had an
uncontrollable nystagmus, which, he said, had existed for some
fifteen years. As might be expected, treatment in this case was
of no avail. I began the use of hypnotic suggestion at the hands
of an expert professional hypnotist. The patient, being called
out of the State, finally gave up treatment, and I have no means
of knowing what his present condition is.

CASE II.--A lady patient of mine who happened to be an actress,
and consequently a woman of the world, brought to me for an
opinion some correspondence which had passed between her younger