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In another case, that of F.C., an Irish farmer, born in
Waterford, the data are still more meagre, though the periodicity
is stated to be very pronounced. He is chaste, steady, with
occasional lapses from strict sobriety, healthy and mentally
normal, living a regular open-air life, far from the artificial
stimuli of towns. The observations refer to a period when he was
from 20 to 27 years of age. During this period, nocturnal
emissions occurred at regular intervals of exactly a month. They
were ushered in by fits of irritability and depression, and
usually occurred in dreamless sleep. The discharges were abundant
and physically weakening, but they relieved the psychic symptoms,
though they occasioned mental distress, since F.C. is scrupulous
in a religious sense, and also apprehensive of bad constitutional
effects, the result of reading alarmist quack pamphlets.
In another case known to me, a young man leading a chaste life,
experienced crises of sexual excitement every ten to fourteen
days, the crisis lasting for several days.
Finally, an interesting contribution to this subject, suggested
by this _Study_, has been made and published (in the proceedings
of the Amsterdam International Congress of Psychology, in 1907)
by the well-known Amsterdam neurologist and psychologist, Dr.
L.S.A.M. Von Roemer under the title, "Ueber das Verhaeltniss
zwischen Mondalter und Sexualitaet.
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