ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

– All this, in order to induce "a vigorous reaction of circulation, a profuse
perspiration of the parts, and the sexual organs should be hot." Then leave that
cold compress on all night. Why? "The object to keep in view is the reaction or
quickened circulation, which calls a large volume of healthy blood to the
weakened parts, sweating out the diseased matter and local inflammation and
restoring health vigor." (p. 83). Have fun!
64 KRAFFT-EBING, R[ichard]., [Baron] von. PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS, WITH
ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONTRARY SEXUAL INSTINCT: A Medico-Legal
Study. By Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University
of Vienna. Authorized Translation of the Seventh Enlarged and Revised German
Edition, by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M.D. Philadelphia and London: F. A. Davis
Co., 1893 [c. 1892].
23½ cm. xiv, 1-436, 32 (April, 1893. Catalogue of the Medical Publications of the F. A.
Davis Co.) pp. Orig. olive green cloth quite worn and very shaken; text generally
very good. $150
An early English edition of this classic work (first published in German at
Stuttgart, 1886). The first English edition was 1892 (same publisher as the 1893
edition offered here; not at URMC, nor 1893 at URMC); followed by many
editions through the present day, with a 2011 edition already planned. – OCLC
I find but one early copy for sale online (November 6, 2010), an 1892 ex-library
copy offered by Faster Books in Blaine, Washington for $450, and noting,
"Garrison-Morton, 4944, for the First edition of 1886. : Waller, 5404 Heirs Of
Hippocrates, 2032, for the 1893 printing."
Masturbation is discussed throughout, but not listed in the contents separately.
The subject occurs rather as an adjunct to the author's endless variety of sexual
aberrations and crimes. This work is filled with enough sexual novelty
(presented clinically without much overtone of moral judgment – but clearly
classed here as pathology) actually to make one tire of the excitement and want
to catalogue a nice Congregationalist ordination sermon. But one sampling
nonetheless:
Three years after the death of her second husband, the patient discovered the
fact that her nine-year-old daughter, by her first husband, was given to
masturbation, and that she was failing in physical health. The patient read of
this vice, and could not overcome the impulse to indulge in the practice,
becoming, in consequence, an onanist. She is unable to bring herself to give the
details of this period of her life. She says that she was frightfully excited
sexually, and had to send her daughters from home to save them from terrible
consequences; but the two boys she was able to keep at home. [p. 233]
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