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DISEASES OF THE GENITAL ORGANS. 



C. In male animals. Satyriasis is shown by frequent erections, 

 which are nearly permanent in certain subjects (priapism, corda 

 venerea), also by restlessness and excitement, by neighing or con- 

 tinual bellowings, by unusual movements at the sight of females, 

 and by the violent exertions made by the animals to perform the 

 act of copulation. Sometimes, when this genesic ardor is not satis- 

 fied, the excitement is increased and may become rabiform ; the 

 bull and the horse may even pursue man, and especially women 

 (Spinola). Later the animals become downcast, refuse their food, 

 grow more and more emaciated ; some observers have noticed acci- 

 dents of medullar origin, which were characterized by uncertainty 

 of movements and staggering. The trouble may end in a fatal 

 cachexia. In the entire horse we have recognized a state similar to 

 immobility, and desiguated it under the name of " testicular tic." 

 According to Roll, this condition is especially observed in old 

 stallions retired from the stud. (The expression '^testicular tic" 

 has served to designate a great many different morbid conditions ; 

 certain authors have applied it to the rabiform symptoms which 

 appear at times in the course of satyriasis ; others, to a permanent 

 cerebral depression which must be likened, from a comprehensive 

 point of view, to immobility ; finally, some seem to have used it to 

 express viciousness accompanying satyriasis.) 



Satyriasis produces also attempts at masturbation : the horse and 

 donkey strike the erected penis against the abdominal wall ; the 

 bull, the dog, and the ram rub the organ against the abdomen or 

 between the front legs when gathered ; often the dog tries to ejacu- 

 late by mounting other animals or taking hold of a man's leg 

 with his forelegs. 



Independently of satyriasis, onanism in male animals is not very 

 rare; it is observed to a certain extent as vitium animi — the same 

 title as in man. That which well demonstrates that it has no rela- 

 tion with the morbid exaltation of the genesic instinct is the fact 

 that many stallions and bulls upon which it has been seen did not 

 undergo any excitement when near females (Prangé, Spinola). The 

 dog and the ram are the animals masturbating most frequently ; 

 but this aberration is also observed in the horse and the bull. Its 

 consequences vary considerably according to the degree of the vice. 

 Sometimes we see troubles which are hardly perceptible ; in other 

 cases the animals become more and more lazy; they lose flesh, 

 perspire easily and become tired on the least exertion ; the general 



