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† The case of acute loss of the knee-jerk is not classified herewith. The disappearance as well as the return of the jerk was noted to be marked by a stage in which it was excessive enough, but halting, as it were, in the “go-back.”Google Scholar

* This was first observed in the 15th year, and had slowly increased to the 35th, the period of the examination.Google Scholar

† I have been unable to find a reference to two cases described, either in 1860, 1870, or 1871, of young men who had been extreme onanists, and suffered from the same pain. A fibroid growth was found in the cerebellum of one of them, but whether it was regarded as an accidental coincidence or not I have forgotten.Google Scholar

‡ According to Dr. H. G. Lyttle, a genito-urinary specialist, stricture is developed in some onanists, so that we cannot be positive in our interpretation of their bladder-symptoms.Google Scholar

§ Schiele, A., “Arohiv für Augenheilkunde,” 16., p. 145, believes that asthenopia, as well as consequent limitation of the visual field, may be due to exhaustion of the gray matter in the occipital lobes as a result of functional as well as of organic disease. It is noteworthy that in Graves a symmetrical lesion should have been found in this very district.Google Scholar

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