“Please don't, I shall never do it again.” Occasionally, also, he said: “Albert has not done that.” Later he avoided undressing, because, as he said, the fire attacked him only when he was undressed. From amid these evil dreams, which menaced his health, he was sent into the country, where he recovered within a year and a half, but at the age of fifteen he once confessed: “Je n'osais pas l'avouer, mais j'�prouvais continuellement des picotements et des surexcitations aux parties; � la fin, cela m'�nervait tant que plusieurs fois, j'ai pens� me jeter par la fen�tre au dortoir.”

It is certainly not difficult to suspect: 1, that the boy had practiced masturbation in former years, that he probably denied it, and was threatened with severe punishment for his wrongdoing (his confession: Je