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et seq.
[327] J.G. Kiernan, _American Journal of Insanity_, July, 1877.
[328] Maudsley dealt, in his vigorous, picturesque manner, with the more
extreme morbid mental conditions sometimes found associated with
masturbation, in "Illustrations of a Variety of Insanity," _Journal of
Mental Science_, July, 1868.
[329] See, e.g., Loewenfeld, _Sexualleben und Nervenleiden_, 2d. ed., Ch.
VIII.
[330] Marro, _La Puberta_, Turin, 1898, p. 174.
[331] E.C. Spitzka, "Cases of Masturbation," _Journal of Mental Science_,
July, 1888.
[332] Charles West, _Lancet_, November 17, 1866.
[333] Gowers, _Epilepsy_, 1881, p. 31. Loewenfeld believes that epileptic
attacks are certainly caused by masturbation. Fere thought that both
epilepsy and hysteria may be caused by masturbation.
[334] Ziemssen's _Handbuch_, Bd. XI.
[335] _Adolescence_, vol. i, p. 441.
[336] See a discussion of these points by Rohleder, _Die Masturbation_,
pp. 168-175.
[337] The surgeons, it may be remarked, have especially stated the
harmlessness of masturbation in too absolute a manner. Thus, John Hunter
(_Treatise on the Venereal Disease_, 1786, p. 200), after pointing out
that "the books on this subject have done more harm than good," adds, "I
think I may affirm that this act does less harm to the constitution in
general than the natural." And Sir James Paget, in his lecture on "Sexual
Hypochondriasis," said: "Masturbation does neither more nor less harm than
sexual intercourse practiced with the same frequency, in the same
conditions of general health and age and circumstances.
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