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This article is a confused mass of observations in which all perspective and proper insight is lacking. The author's divisions of impotence are arbitrary and misleading, the causes of the various types of impotence he describes show insufficient
knowledge and at times real ignorance of the subject, and his remarks on the treatment of impotence exhibit a self-complacency which experience teaches is ill-founded.
The author divides general impotence into four main divisions as follows:
1Impotentia voluptatis, or true frigidity. There is lack of desire for the association or union with an individual of the opposite sex.
2Impotentia libidinis, or the impossibility of experiencing copulative satisfaction.
3Impotentia generandi, or the inability to impregnate and fertilize.
4Impotentia coeundi, or the inability to effect the procreative union through the impossibility of the phallic intromission in the yonic recipient canal.
Impotence of copulation he subdivides as follows: