Sneezes when sexually stimulated

physiologic

• Dorothy Reed (as in Reed-Sternberg cell) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins in the 1890s. Fifty years later, she recorded her unhappy experiences at the lecture on which Mackenzie's paper (footnote 4, above) was based:

  We arrived before the crowd and took front seats in a lecture room on the ground floor under one of the public wards. It was a large room, but soon filled.... The speaker of the evening -- Dr. Mackenzie of the nose and throat department -- was introduced after some preliminary business. He talked an hour on some diseases of the nose. But from the start he dragged in the dirtiest stories I have ever heard, read, or imagined, and when he couldn't say it in English he quoted Latin from sources not usually open to the public.
     Unfortunately, I had majored in Latin at Smith, and 7 years study made most of his quotations understandable to me.... It seems impossible that on such a harmless subject a specialist could make it so pornographic. [He] spent most of his hour discussing the cavernous tissue present in the nasal passages and comparing it with the corpus spongiosa [sic] of the penis.... Roars of laughter filled the room behind us at every dragged-in joke of Dr. Mackenzie and at every allusion to the similarity of the nose to the male reproductive system.

  Good thing she never went to a Pithotomy Show. [101]
• Recounts some of Dorothy Reed's other bad times at Hopkins, like William Osler telling her to go home before she had even arrived there for her first day. [102]