Sexual-Neurasthenia
The state of sexual neurasthenia is in many respects
analogous to that of Graves' disease. In the sexual reflexes,
summation leads to a hyperexcitability by psychic and mechanical
stimuli of a specific type which is analogous to the
hyperexcitability in Graves' disease under trauma and fear;
the explanation of both conditions is based on the laws of the
discharge of energy by phylogenetic association and summation.
It would be interesting to observe the effect of
interrupting the nerve impulses from the field of the sexual
receptors by injections of alcohol, or by other agencies, so
as to exclude the associational stimuli until the nervous
mechanism has again become restored to its normal condition.
