Note 15 — IMPUISSANCE, OR IMPOTENCE.

A patient was admitted into the ophthalmic wards of the Hotel Dieu, Paris, with great weakness of sight, amounting almost to amaurosis. He confessed that he was in the habit of polluting himself, and that he was immediately seized with complete blindness whenever he addicted himself to the practice. Cases very similar to the above have been noticed by Dr. Doane, of New York, who has paid great attention to diseases of this character.