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The Physiological and Pathological Relations between the Nose and the Sexual Apparatus of Man1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2007

John Noland Mackenzie
John Noland Mackenzie
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Clinical Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Laryngologist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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The Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , March 1898 , pp. 109 - 123
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1898

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Choking sensations in the throat and other hysterical manifestations have from time immemorial been regarded as signs of pregnancy. Shakespeare, in “King Lear” (Sc. ii., Act iv.), thus gives expression to this idea:

“O. how this mother swells up towards my heart! Hysterica passio! down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element's below.”

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See also Martial (lib. ix., Epig. 28): “Jam pædegogo liberatus et cujus Refibulavit turgidum faber penem.”

Also lib. xiv., Epig. 215: “Dic mihi, simplicitur, comœdis et cithædis Fibula quid præstet? Carius ut futuant.”

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It is interesting in this connection to recall the admonition of Celsus to abstain from warmth and women at the commencement of an ordinary catarrh. (Op. cit., lib. iv,, cap. 2, sect. 4, “ubi aliquid ejusmodi sentimus, protinus abstinere a sole, a (balneo, a venere debemus.”) Hippocrates, on the other hand, relates the following case: “Timochari hieme distillatione in nares præcipue vexato, post veneris usum cuncta ressicata sum, lassitudo, calor et capitis gravitas successit, sudor ex capite multus manabat.” Op. cit., “De morbis vulgaribus,” lib. v. (tom. iii., p. 574). The expression “bride's cold” would seem to indicate on the part of the laity the suspicion of a causal connection between repeated sexual excitement and coryza.

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