in my opinion, a pathological manifestation even in very
early childhood. The comparatively slight capacity for erection
possessed by children, as compared with adults, is, for example,
shown by the fact to which Jullien draws attention, in his work
_Seltenere und weniger bekannte Tripperformen_ (_Rare and Little
Known Forms of Gonorrhoea_), Vienna and Leipzig, 1907, that the
painful erections (chordee) which so commonly accompany
gonorrhoea in adults, are very rare indeed in the case of
gonorrhoea in children, and even in the case of older children
are hardly ever observed.

[26] _Op. cit._, p. 8.

[27] _The Hygiene of Love._

[28] _Lehrbuch der Gerichtlichen Medizin_ (_Text-book of Forensic
Medicine_), p. 58, 7th ed., Vienna, 1895.

[29] Pauli Zacchiae, _Quaestiones Medico-Legales_, lib. i, p. 26,
Lipsiae, 1630.

[30] _Lehrbuch der Gerichtlichen Medizin_ (_Text-book of Forensic
Medicine_), p. 64, Stuttgart, 1895.

[31] In the next chapter I shall describe certain analogous
pathological processes.

[32] _Handbuch der Eingeweidelehre_ (_Handbook of
Splanchnology_), 2nd ed., Brunswick, 1873.

[33] German, _Kitzelgefuehl_. In German, the word _Kitzel_
signifies both _itching_ and _tickling_ and is likewise used to
denote both _sexual desire_ and _sexual gratification_. Consult
my note "Itching, Ticking, and Sexual Sensibility," in the
English edition of Bloch's _The Sexual Life of Our Time_, pp. 43,
44.--TRANSLATOR.

[34] "Zur Psychologie der Vita Sexualis" ("Contributions to the
Psychology of the Sexual Life"), _Zeitschrift fuer Psychiatrie_,
vol. 1.

[35] Compare Mrs. Browning's graceful treatment of a young girl's
imaginings, in her well-known poem, "The Romance of a Swan's
Nest."

"Little Ellie sits alone
. . . . .
While she thinks what shall be done,
And the sweetest pleasure chooses
For her future within reach.

Little Ellie in her smile
Chooses, 'I will have a lover
Riding on a steed of steeds:
He shall love me without guile,
. . . . .
And the steed shall be red-roan,
And the lover shall be noble,
With an eye that takes the breath:
And the lute he plays upon
Shall strike ladies into trouble,
As his sword strikes men to death.'
. . . . .

And later, little Ellie imagines her lover kneeling at her knee
to tell her--

'I am a duke's eldest son,
Thousand serfs do call me master,
But, O love, I lov