Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
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This work by the eminent professor in the University of Vienna, better known on the Continent than here, was written to set forth the pathological manifestations of the sexual life, and to attempt to view them from an alienistic point of view, and thereby to find excuses for those strange perversions of that life which from time to time force themselves on public attention, but are well known in the experience of the medical
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