accordingly subjected to all manner of
operations, general and local treatment, even to being sent to watering
places and sanatoria where red-headed male attendants are employed, to
say nothing of the prayers, intercessions, pilgrimages, and novenas to
the holy shrines, as mentioned in the chapter on the holy prepuce.
Ultzmann observes that a man may be perfectly able to go through the
procreative or, rather, the copulative act, even to the great
satisfaction of all parties concerned, and yet be perfectly impotent; he
even goes further, by observing that there are cases in which copulation
may take place without any fluid whatever being ejaculated. He mentions
two such cases at pages 87 and 116 of his book. In the first instance
the ejaculated fluid is precisely as that observed in such cases as
those of the eunuchs and of Velutti, mentioned by Mondat, and consisted
of an azooespermic discharge, made up mainly from the secretion of the
seminal vesicles, the accessory glands of the urethra, the prostate, and
Cowper's glands, as well as the discharge from the secretory glands
distributed along the course of the urethral mucous membrane. Some of
the cases of this form of impotence have exhibited wonderful copulating
desire and power of endurance, and, even if unfecundating, they must be
said to be better off than the victims of that other form of male
impotence, the _potentia coeundi_ of Ultzmann, where, with a normal
semen, either the power of erection or that of ejaculation may be
entirely absent.

CHAPTER IX.

PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO EUNUCHISM AND MEDICINE.

Eunuchism does not always subdue the animal passions; this is the view
that the church took in connection with the emasculation of Origenes and
his monks; the church here held that not only was it possible for them
to still sin in heart or imagination, but that, even were the complete
eradication of the sexual idea possible, they had by their act lost the
main glory of a Christian,--that of successfully striving against
temptation, and by a force born of triumphant virtue overcome all the
wiles of the devil. It is related that among the eunuchs at Rome there
were some who, having been made so late in life, still retained the
power of copulation, although the final act of the performance was
absent. Montfalcon relates that Cabral reported dissecting a soldier who
was hanged for committing a rape, but who on dissection showed not the
least