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“ By atonic impotence we mean a failure in satisfactory coitus, whether such failure manifests itself in precipitate emission, delayed emission, incomplete erection or absence of sexual desire. The disturbance with emission and erection are principal types of the disease for which we are most consulted, the last named condition, absence of sexual desire, being usually an advanced or later stage of complete exhaustion of this disease. ”

“ While sexual intercourse and sexual excitement were interdicted, as it should be in every case of sexual impotency, the patient persisted in ocasionally trying, only to result in partial or complete failure, emission always taking place. ”

“ The check to the return of the blood through the veins, which are much larger in calibre than the arteries, and which would otherwise empty themselves much faster than the arteries could possibly supply blood, is maintained by the action of the bulbo-cavernosi, the ischiocavernosi and the adductor prostate, upon the deep and superficial veins of the penis. That such a physiological process takes place and is the most probable explanation of the power of erection, has been satisfactorily confirmed by experiments upon the dog and derived from observations made upon man in disease. ”