The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations |
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... become excited at a very early age , and this is always attended with in- jurious , often with the most deplorable consequences . Slight signs are sufficient to indicate when a boy has this unfortunate tendency . He shows marked ...
... become excited at a very early age , and this is always attended with in- jurious , often with the most deplorable consequences . Slight signs are sufficient to indicate when a boy has this unfortunate tendency . He shows marked ...
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... become common . In private schools , however , which are to a great extent free from the con- 1I have heard of a vile habit which some foreign nurses have ( I hope it is confined to the continent ) of quieting children when they cry by ...
... become common . In private schools , however , which are to a great extent free from the con- 1I have heard of a vile habit which some foreign nurses have ( I hope it is confined to the continent ) of quieting children when they cry by ...
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... become haggard . We notice the sunken eye , the long , cadaverous - looking countenance , the downcast look which seems to arise from a consciousness in the boy that his habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ...
... become haggard . We notice the sunken eye , the long , cadaverous - looking countenance , the downcast look which seems to arise from a consciousness in the boy that his habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ...
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... becoming confirmed . The boy's health fails , he is troubled with indigestion , his intellectual powers are dimmed , he ... become re - established ; not so , however , when masturbation occurs after puberty . " ( Vol . i , p . 468. ) 1 ...
... becoming confirmed . The boy's health fails , he is troubled with indigestion , his intellectual powers are dimmed , he ... become re - established ; not so , however , when masturbation occurs after puberty . " ( Vol . i , p . 468. ) 1 ...
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... become unnecessary since I read the follow- ing advice in a pamphlet lately printed by a clergyman : — Advantage could , and ought to be taken of the opportunity when a boy says his catechism to explain to him the meaning of some of the ...
... become unnecessary since I read the follow- ing advice in a pamphlet lately printed by a clergyman : — Advantage could , and ought to be taken of the opportunity when a boy says his catechism to explain to him the meaning of some of 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.