_British Medical Journal_, April 9, 1910,
p. 892), as against Ribbert and others who would unduly narrow
the conception of pathos. Aschoff points out that, not merely for
the sake of precision and uniformity of terminology but of clear
thinking, it is desirable that we should retain a distinction in
regard to which Galen and the ancient physicians were very
definite. They used pathos as the wider term involving affection
(_affectio_) in general, not necessarily impairment of vital
tissue; when that was involved there was nosos, disease. We have
to recognize the distinction even if we reject the terminology.
A word may be said as to the connection between sexual inversion and
degeneration. In France especially, since the days of Morel, the stigmata
of degeneration are much spoken of. Sexual inversion is frequently
regarded as one of them: i.e., as an episodic syndrome of a hereditary
disease, taking its place beside other psychic stigmata, such as
kleptomania and pyromania. Krafft-Ebing long so regarded inversion; it is
the view of Magnan, one of the earliest investigators of
homosexuality;[239] and it was adopted by Moebius.
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