If we have ascertained such
a pathological event, we are further led to investigate what
_pathos_ was the special cause of it.... This cause may be, for
example, an external force, or a chemical substance, or a
physical agent, producing in the normal condition of the body a
change, an anomaly pathos. This can become hereditary under some
circumstances, and then become the foundation for certain small
hereditary characters which are propagated in a family; in
themselves they belong to pathology, even although they produce
no injury. For I must remark that pathological does not mean
harmful; it does not indicate disease; disease in Greek is nosos,
and it is nosology that is concerned with disease. The
pathological under some circumstances can be advantageous"
(_Correspondenz-blatt Deutsch Gesellschaft fuer Anthropologie_,
1894). These remarks are of interest when we are attempting to
find the wider bearings of such an anomaly as sexual inversion.
This same distinction has more recently been emphasized by
Professor Aschoff (_Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift_,
February 3, 1910; of.
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