Satyriasis is a phase of insanity in man of which the characteristic is ungovernable sensuality. The term has also sometimes been applied to Leprosy (q.v.), on account of the disfigurement of the face to which it leads. See SATYRS.
Satyriasis
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 171
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