Part 156

Footnote 34:

It seems expedient to point out that whilst in this work the German word Geschlechtstrieb has in the great majority of cases been rendered in English by the term sexual impulse, on two or three occasions, as here, the author speaks of the Geschlechtstrieb as composed of sensation, perception, and impulse (Drang), when for obvious reasons the rendering sexual instinct becomes necessary. Though the term sexual impulse is, I think, in more general use than the term sexual instinct, it must not be forgotten that the inclination towards sexual congress is composite in nature, and that an impulse in the strict sense of the term is only one element in its composition.—TR.

Footnote 35:

This word urning, used to denote individuals exhibiting this particular type of homosexuality, belongs to the terminology now generally adopted by writers on sexual pathology, and has been used by English writers on the subject—Havelock Ellis, for instance.

Footnote 36:

The German word Angst, here translated anxiety, is used in various senses, ranging from anxiety to anguish, according as the mental element or the element of pure feeling predominates in the conception. In the case of the angst-neurosis, however, a condition of mental uneasiness would appear to be connoted, and therefore anxiety is the best rendering.—TR.

Footnote 37:

German, Lendenmarksymptome.

Footnote 38:

German, saures Aufstossen und Sodbrennen; for the latter noun heartburn would appear to be the most precise English equivalent, since the term pyrosis is sometimes employed to denote the acid eructation (or water-brash) and sometimes the accompanying sensation at the pit of the stomach—heartburn or cardialgia. Etymologically, of course, the latter sense of pyrosis is correct (Greek, πῦρ, fire).—TR.

Footnote 39:

By consideration of the results of treatment.

Footnote 40:

Ger. in den Parametrien. The reasons for preferring the phrase parametric connective tissue to the noun parametrium will be found in the English edition of Toldt’s Atlas of Human Anatomy, Part IV, App. note 84.

Footnote 41:

It is usual of the Continent of Europe to divide the course of pregnancy into ten “months” of four weeks each. This fact must never be forgotten when comparisons are made between English and Continental tables, respectively, of the events of pregnancy.

Footnote 42:

Ger. Lufthunger.

Footnote 43:

See note 36 on p. 225.

Footnote 44:

The statement is so often made that conception occurring when one or both parents are intoxicated is likely to be harmful to the offspring, that it seems expedient to point out that neither the author of this work, nor any other author known to me, has ever brought forward any rigorous scientific evidence in proof of the alleged fact. It is one of those crude generalizations whose superficial verisimilitude leads to their continued though unsupported reassertion. The fact that the notion of procreation by inebriated progenitors is repugnant to our æsthetic sensibilities has, of course, nothing whatever to do with the logical proof of the assertion that such an act is harmful to the fruit of conception.—TR.

Footnote 45:

Respect kisses the hand, Affection kisses the cheek, Spiritual love kisses the mouth. Desire the neck; Amatory frenzy kisses the whole body.

Footnote 46:

The author omits special reference to the metastatic orchitis that so frequently complicates epidemic parotitis (mumps) when that disease occurs after puberty. Though usually benign in character, the inflammation very often results in atrophy of the testicle. Fortunately, bilateral atrophy from this cause is very rare; and even when it does occur, both testicles being extremely small, potentia coeundi and potentia gestandi may nevertheless remain. But when double atrophy from this cause takes place before puberty (happily an occurrence of the utmost rarity), sexual development is usually arrested, the sufferer being in effect a eunuch.—TR.

Footnote 47:

It is recorded of John Hunter that in a case of hypospadias, he advised the patient to draw his semen into a syringe and inject it into his wife’s vagina, with fruitful result.—TR.