570 The American Naturalist. [July, 
The authoress labors under several physiological errors, which should 
be pointed out. She thinks in common with the ignorant classes gen- 
erally, that the orgasm is concerned in impregnation, which is well 
known not to be the case. She also asserts that the secretion of the 
testis is produced at the time it is needed for use, an idea promulgated 
several years ago in a silly book called Diana. This is also untrue; 
its elaboration requires some days, and when the gland is full the secre- 
tion makes its presence known and demands expulsion. The present 
book should have stated also, that the practice she recommends, which 
she calls “ Karezza,’ is a most potent stimulant of the secretion in 
question, and does in some men produce enlargement of the prostate 
gland and orchitis, so that every man must be in this matter his own 
doctor. But one will not find logic in this book. In view of what 
precedes one wonders where the authoress got her degree of M. D., and 
who is responsible for her education. We must, however, once more 
commend the spirit of the book, and hope that she will be instrumental 
in teaching some men and women ordinary temperance. But it must 
be borne in mind that medical writers chiefly deal with pathological 
conditions, and that the persons she writes about are mostly abnormal 
through excess or deficiency. 
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