y hanging. There is an instance recorded of an
Italian "castrate" who said he provoked sexual pleasure by partially
hanging himself. He accidentally ended his life in pursuance of this
peculiar habit. The facts were elicited by testimony at the inquest.

There are, however, in literature, records of long continued priapism
in which either the cause is due to excessive stimulation of the sexual
center or in which the cause is obscure or unknown. There may or may
not be accompanying voluptuous feelings. The older records contain
instances of continued infantile priapism caused by the constant
irritation of ascarides and also records of prolonged priapism
associated with intense agony and spasmodic cramps. Zacutus Lusitanus
speaks of a Viceroy of India who had a long attack of stubborn priapism
without any voluptuous feeling. Gross refers to prolonged priapism, and
remarks that the majority of cases seem to be due to excessive coitus.

Moore reports a case in a man of forty who had been married fifteen
years, and who suffered spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the
penis after an incomplete coitus. This pseudopriapism continued for
twenty-three days, during which time he had unsuccessfully resorted to
the application of cold, bleeding, and other treatment; but on the
twenty-sixth day, after the use of bladders filled with cold water,
there was a discharge from the urethra of a glairy mucus, similar in
nature to that in seminal debility. There was then complete relaxation
of the organ. During all this time the man slept very little, only
occasionally dozing. Donne describes an athletic laborer of twenty-five
who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating the cranial parietes
immediately in the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, and a
few lines from the lambdoid suture. The ball did not make egress, but
passed posteriorly downward. Reaction was established on the third
day, but the inflammatory symptoms influenced the genitalia. Priapism
began on the fifth day, at which time the patient became affected with
a salacious appetite, and was rational upon every subject except that
pertaining to venery. He grew worse on the sixth day, and his medical
adviser was obliged to prohibit a female attendant. Priapism
continued, but the man went into a soporose condition, with occasional
intervals of satyriasis. In this condition he survived nine days; there
was not the slightest abatement of the priapism until a f