he had any venereal
appetite.

Johnson mentions a boy of seven with severe gonorrhea complicated with
buboes which he had contracted from a servant girl with whom he slept.
At the Hopital des Enfans Malades children at the breast have been
observed to masturbate. Fournier and others assert having seen
infantile masturbators, and cite a case of a girl of four who was
habitually addicted to masturbation from her infancy but was not
detected until her fourth year; she died shortly afterward in a
frightful state of marasmus. Vogel alludes to a girl of three in whom
repeated attacks of epilepsy occurred after six months' onanism. Van
Bambeke mentions three children from ten to twenty months old, two of
them females, who masturbated.

Bidwell describes a boy of five years and two months who during the
year previous had erections and seminal emissions. His voice had
changed and he had a downy moustache on his upper lip and hair on the
pubes; his height was 4 feet 3 1/2 inches and his weight was 82 1/2
pounds. His penis and testicles were as well developed as those of a
boy of seventeen or eighteen, but from his facial aspect one would take
him to be thirteen. He avoided the company of women and would not let
his sisters nurse him when he was sick.

Pryor speaks of a boy of three and a half who masturbated and who at
five and a half had a penis of adult size, hair on the pubes, and was
known to have had seminal emissions. Woods describes a boy of six years
and seven months who had the appearance of a youth of eighteen. He was
4 feet 9 inches tall and was quite muscular. He first exhibited signs
of precocious growth at the beginning of his second year and when three
years old he had hair on the pubes. There is an instance in which a boy
of thirteen had intercourse with a young woman at least a dozen times
and succeeded in impregnating her. The same journal mentions an
instance in which a boy of fourteen succeeded in impregnating a girl of
the same age. Chevers speaks of a young boy in India who was sentenced
to one year's imprisonment for raping a girl of three.

Douglass describes a boy of four years and three months who was 3 feet
10 1/2 inches tall and weighed 54 pounds; his features were large and
coarse, and his penis and testes were of the size of those of an adult.
He was unusually dull, mentally, quite obstinate, and self-willed. It
is said that he masturbated on all opportunities and had vigorous
erections, althou