Another more or less neurotic trait which acts as a cause of disharmony in the marital relationship is the sexual anæsthesia which is not at all uncommon in modern women.
Many cases which have been regarded as instances of sexual anæsthesia would appear in quite another light if the woman concerned were to have intercourse with a sexually sympathetic man.
The following case, the leading features of which are the early age at which seminal ejaculation occurred, and the marked hyperæsthesia of the sexual impulse, may also be regarded as an example of sexual paradoxy.
And there are yet other cases which it is desirable to distinguish from this class, especially those cases in which a marked hyperæsthesia was the determining cause of the sexual act.
Moreover, this view is confirmed by the common experience regarding the relative sexual anæsthesia of women; it is an admitted fact that complete sexuality is in women far less readily awakened than it is in men.
In my own view, the persons who may suffer from this cause are those affected with hyperæsthesia of the sexual impulse, and in whom the impulse is dominant to such a degree that it interferes with all their alternative activities.
When the anæsthesia returned he was overcome by the worst instincts, which, it was observed, even included the wish to murder.
As Janet[22] maintains, the foundation of hysterical anæsthesia is the loss of attention.
As soon as the anæsthesia disappeared he was manageable and friendly.
Probably she tried to drive the snake away with her paralysed right hand, and thereby the anæsthesia and paralysis became associated with the snake-hallucination.
I deal with the question of sexual anæsthesia in women in the third volume of these Studies: "The Sexual Impulse in Women.
Thus, while during chloroform anæsthesia the arterial pressure markedly falls, such is not the case during anæsthesia produced by ether or a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen.
Further, it may be noted that the condition of anæsthesia is not in all cases associated with cerebral anæmia.
In recent cases it may be possible under anæsthesia forcibly to adduct the limb and rotate it inwards, and to retain it in this position with a plaster bandage.
The painful areas are anæsthetic, but the anæsthesia does not always reach to the level of the lesion.
Just above the lesion there is irritation of spinal nerves, and hyperæsthesia and pain referred to their distribution.
There is complete anæsthesia as high as the level of the second interspace, and along the distribution of the ulnar nerve (Fig.
The sensory fibres usually escape, although in some cases there is partial anæsthesia and perversion of sensation.
The immediate correction of deformed attitudes under anæsthesia has largely replaced the more gradual method by extension with weight and pulley; and in hospital practice it is usually followed by the application of a plaster case.
Fractures of the facial portion are frequently complicated by hæmorrhage from the infra-orbital vessels, and anæsthesia of the area supplied by the infra-orbital nerve.
There is never absolute anæsthesia, but there is relative anæsthesia for all forms of sensation, which extends as a rule as far as the sixth or eighth thoracic root.
When the blood extravasated in the cord causes disintegration of its substance, there is complete paralysis with atrophy, and anæsthesia in the area supplied by the segments of the cord directly implicated.
Typically there is some anæsthesia in the structures supplied from the damaged section of the cord--incomplete owing to the overlapping by other sensory nerves.
It happens also during anæsthesia for the extraction of teeth or if the patient vomits solid substances.
There were two or three different forms of anæsthesia used during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
In discussing amputations he has described in general certain methods of anæsthesia in use in his time, and especially the method by means of inhalation.
The physician is usually content to consider his duty to his patient in relationship to sexual abstinence as sufficiently fulfilled when he attempts to allay sexual hyperæsthesia by medical or hygienic treatment.
This should probably, however, be regarded rather as a case of morbid hyperæsthesia than of sexual athleticism.
Schrenck-Notzing regards sexual abstinence as a cause of extreme sexual hyperæsthesia and of various perversions (in a chapter on sexual abstinence in his Kriminalpsychologische und Psychopathologische Studien, 1902, pp.
Her life was strenuous with many duties, but no occupation could be pursued without this undercurrent of sexual hyperæsthesia involving perpetual self-control.
Cutaneous anæsthesia and alcoholic anaphrodisia make the sufferers fancy they have lost the generative organs, nose, legs, etc.
There is unfortunately no record of the acceptance of this test, which, in comparison with the hypnotic anæsthesia of surgical operations then performed, would have been easily met.
This emotional anæsthesia may be found even in philanthropists, who possess the genius of sentiment, and have made goodness and pity for the poor the pivot of their actions.
Anæsthesia was found in Lazzaretti, Mangione, and De Tommasi; delusions of short duration in Cordigliani.
Socrates presented a photo-paræsthesia which enabled him to gaze at the sun for a considerable time without experiencing any discomfort.
An examination of sensation reveals a hyperæsthesia of the right half of the body, with points douleureux over the left ovary and the left mamma, as well as over the larynx.
Modifications of general sensibility such as anæsthesia or hyperæsthesia are unknown; the special senses are intact; in particular, contraction of the visual fields is never met with.
Light anæsthesia is continued while they are immobilised in duly padded splints and covered closely with bandages.
Anæsthesia ensues in from six to twenty minutes, and if the cause of the lameness is below the point of injection the animal moves sound.
Cocaine being an irritant, it must be remembered that after the anæsthesia the lameness is somewhat more marked than before.
By some practitioners the operation is performed with the animal standing, local anæsthesia having been first obtained by the use of cocaine, or an ethyl chloride spray.
Complete anæsthesia of the two transparent corneæ existed in this case.
The precocious development of sensibility brings about a kind of diffused hyperæsthesia which may lead to trouble.
The insomnia of neurasthenia, which Claparède brings forward as another objection, can readily be explained as due to hyperæsthesia of the nervous tissues which lose part of their sensitiveness to poisons.
We have now a humble little animal that first produces complete anæsthesia in its patient.
As we see, sudden and profound anæsthesia is an excellent means of enabling the Lampyris to attain his object, which is to consume his prey in perfect quiet.
The greatest risk of the old operation for rupture was the danger of general anæsthesia with chloroform or ether, or some similar agent.
Our specialists were among the first surgeons in this country to employ local anæsthesia successfully.
The bladder control may be so enfeebled as to require daily catheterization, and the bowels move only with enemas or purgatives, and often without the patient's knowledge, owing to the anæsthesia which affects the rectum and its vicinity.
Anæsthesia of both lower extremities existed, complete in every respect in the right leg, almost so in the left.
There were almost complete anæsthesia and great paresis of the bladder.
In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom.
Defn: Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.
Frequent emissions, masturbation, sexual hyperæsthesia and impotence may often be improved or even cured by suggestion.
A normally built man, of high culture and moral sense, was affected with complete sexual anæsthesia since birth.
Eroticism is no more a vice than sexual anæsthesia is a virtue.
In sexual anæsthesia marriage is an error based on a grave misconception.
The consequences of sexual anæsthesia are much more innocent in woman than in man, because this anæsthesia neither prevents coitus nor fecundation.
It has its object of existence, for those affected with anæsthesia may feel the want of affection and of home, as well as sentimental communion.
In women it is during or after menstruation that the sexual appetite and consequently sexual hyperæsthesia are generally strongest, but there are many individual variations in this respect, and sometimes the opposite occurs.
These types of sexual hyperæsthesia are certainly less frequent and more abnormal in women than in men, but the intensity is as great or greater.
The effect of sexual hyperæsthesia is to direct the appetite toward any object capable of satisfying it.
A further degree of sexual hyperæsthesia is called Satyriasis in man, and nymphomania in woman.
Again, states of anæsthesia lead to odd illusions among the insane.
The patient who has hyperæsthesia fears to touch a perfectly smooth surface, or he takes a knock at the door to be a clap of thunder.
She remained conscious; the blood still continued to flow; the anæsthesia had ceased, her pulse rose to 120, and at the end of half an hour she was herself.
And in the fourth place we must remember that it is mainly in the form of dream or vision that the most striking instances of telæsthesia which I have as yet recorded have come.
Yet in view of the amount of telæsthesia which Miss A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sthesia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
