No suggestions of the environment
could suffice to overcome this fundamental fact of internal
constitution. (Hirschfeld and Burchard, "Spermasekretion aus
einer weiblichen Harnroehre," _Deutsche medizinische
Wochenschrift_, No. 52, 1911.)
I may here quote three American cases (not previously published), for
which I am indebted to Prof. G. Frank Lydston, of Chicago. They seem to me
to illustrate the only kind of suggestions which play much part in the
evolution of inversion. I give them in Dr. Lydston's words:--
CASE I.--A man, 45 years of age, attracted by the allusion to my
essay on "Social Perversion" contained in the English translation
of Krafft-Ebing's _Psychopathia Sexualis_, consulted me regarding
the possible cure of his condition. This individual was a finely
educated, very intelligent man, who was an excellent linguist,
had considerable musical ability, and was in the employ of a firm
whose business was such as to demand on the part of its employes
considerable legal acumen, clerical ability, and knowledge of
real-estate transactions.
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