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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... called for , I have again carefully revised , and here and there recast it . The materials that have accumulated since the last edition was published have been incorporated , and no time or labor has been spared in the endeavor to make ...
... called for , I have again carefully revised , and here and there recast it . The materials that have accumulated since the last edition was published have been incorporated , and no time or labor has been spared in the endeavor to make ...
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... called to this subject I have had abundant evidence that the influence of a long prepuce in producing sexual precocity has not been suffi- ciently noted . In the child the prepuce entirely covers the glans penis , keeping it in that ...
... called to this subject I have had abundant evidence that the influence of a long prepuce in producing sexual precocity has not been suffi- ciently noted . In the child the prepuce entirely covers the glans penis , keeping it in that ...
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... called into action in climbing are those , the excessive exertion of which tends to . excite sexual feelings . Boys have , as I know , sometimes dis- covered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at school , he had ...
... called into action in climbing are those , the excessive exertion of which tends to . excite sexual feelings . Boys have , as I know , sometimes dis- covered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at school , he had ...
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... called upon to bear . If he were , he says , to discover any boys practising or inciting others to practise the evil habit , they would of course be severely punished or even expelled ; but never having discovered such offenders , he ...
... called upon to bear . If he were , he says , to discover any boys practising or inciting others to practise the evil habit , they would of course be severely punished or even expelled ; but never having discovered such offenders , he ...
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... called on me to ask my opinion as to what he should do in the case of a boy of twelve years whom he suspected of evil practices . The boy had fallen away in his studies , had dark patches under his eyes , and was depressed in spirits ...
... called on me to ask my opinion as to what he should do in the case of a boy of twelve years whom he suspected of evil practices . The boy had fallen away in his studies , had dark patches under his eyes , and was depressed in spirits ...
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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.