(Pa.) 540.—Nyme phomania. A form of mania characterized by a morbid, excessive, and uncontrollable cravin for sexual intercourse. This term is appli only to women, The term for a corresponding mania in men is “satyriasis.”"—Erotomania. A form of mania similar to nymphomania, except that the present term is applied to patients of both sexes, and that (according to some authorities) it is applicab'e to all cases of excessive sexual craving irrespective of origin; while nymphomania is restricted to cases where the disease is caused by a local disorder of the sexual organs reacting on the brain. And it is to be observed that the term ‘‘erotomania” is now often used, especially by French writers, to describe a morbid propensity for “falling in love” or an exaggerated and excited condition of amativeness or love-sickness, ‘which may af: fect the general physical health, but is not necessarily correlated with any sexual craving, and which, though it may. unnaturally color the imagination and distort the subject’s view of life and affairs, does not at all amount to insanity, and should not be so considered when it leads to crimes of violence, as in the too common case of a rejected lover who kills his mistress.-Necrophilism. <A form of affective insanity manifesting itself in an unnatural and revolting fondness for corpses, the patient desiring to be in their presence, to caress them, to exhume them, or sometimes to mutilate them, and even (in a form of sexual] perversion) to violate them.