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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... better than cure . Irritation of the glans penis arising from the collection of secretion under the prepuce is another cause which should not be neglected . Since the time that my attention was first called to this subject I have had ...
... better than cure . Irritation of the glans penis arising from the collection of secretion under the prepuce is another cause which should not be neglected . Since the time that my attention was first called to this subject I have had ...
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... better of ; nervous symptoms set in , such as spasmodic contraction , or par- tial or entire convulsive movements , together with epilepsy , eclampsy , and a species of paralysis accompanied with contrac- tions of the limbs . " ( Vol ...
... better of ; nervous symptoms set in , such as spasmodic contraction , or par- tial or entire convulsive movements , together with epilepsy , eclampsy , and a species of paralysis accompanied with contrac- tions of the limbs . " ( Vol ...
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... intellectual superiority , and children are confined to the schoolroom for hours that , at an early age , had better be passed in the open air . If such parents would read the biographies of eminent charac- MASTURBATION . 29.
... intellectual superiority , and children are confined to the schoolroom for hours that , at an early age , had better be passed in the open air . If such parents would read the biographies of eminent charac- MASTURBATION . 29.
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... better not be ac- quainted with , shows a grievous ignorance of the infantile mind . But this mind may be regulated , and the dangerous consequences of the practices may be pointed out.1 1 As I was preparing a former edition for the ...
... better not be ac- quainted with , shows a grievous ignorance of the infantile mind . But this mind may be regulated , and the dangerous consequences of the practices may be pointed out.1 1 As I was preparing a former edition for the ...
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... better on my guard by those I considered my instructors ? Recently , however ( I am now near twenty - two ) , I happened to discover the disastrous results likely to ensue , and also that nocturnal emissions are symptoms of disease . I ...
... better on my guard by those I considered my instructors ? Recently , however ( I am now near twenty - two ) , I happened to discover the disastrous results likely to ensue , and also that nocturnal emissions are symptoms of disease . I ...
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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.