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... London Lancet . " The only way by which some of the most important functional ailments and aberrant physiologic states affecting humanity can be rescued from the grasp of the most disgusting and villanous quackery , and treated with ...
... London Lancet . " The only way by which some of the most important functional ailments and aberrant physiologic states affecting humanity can be rescued from the grasp of the most disgusting and villanous quackery , and treated with ...
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... HOSPITALS , PARIS , FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MED . AND CHIR . SOCIETY , ETC. , ETC. THIRD AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION . PHILADELPHIA : LINDSAY & BLAKISTON . 1871 . HENRY B. ASHMEAD , PRINTER , 1102 and 1104 Sansom.
... HOSPITALS , PARIS , FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MED . AND CHIR . SOCIETY , ETC. , ETC. THIRD AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION . PHILADELPHIA : LINDSAY & BLAKISTON . 1871 . HENRY B. ASHMEAD , PRINTER , 1102 and 1104 Sansom.
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... London and on the Continent - made by men who were no way bound to be celibate , men whom nothing prevented from marriage except the lack of sufficient income . And in every case , as it seemed to me , their statement was a confession ...
... London and on the Continent - made by men who were no way bound to be celibate , men whom nothing prevented from marriage except the lack of sufficient income . And in every case , as it seemed to me , their statement was a confession ...
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... London , and have rescued them from what has been considered a very dangerous condition . The ordinary remedies for phthisis are of no avail unless we at once check the cause of the complaint , namely , sexual excesses . When this has ...
... London , and have rescued them from what has been considered a very dangerous condition . The ordinary remedies for phthisis are of no avail unless we at once check the cause of the complaint , namely , sexual excesses . When this has ...
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... London , and we have come to the conclusion that these patients are suffering from functional diseases of the heart , and consequently the prognosis becomes much less serious , provided , as I stated in the preceding chapter , the ...
... London , and we have come to the conclusion that these patients are suffering from functional diseases of the heart , and consequently the prognosis becomes much less serious , provided , as I stated in the preceding chapter , the ...
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Page 50 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions ; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 47 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 328 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered, — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Page 164 - As a general rule, a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself. She submits to her husband, but only to please him; and, but for the desire of maternity, would far rather be relieved from his attentions.
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| Title | The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations |
| Author | William Acton |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Lindsay & Blakiston, 1871 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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