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PREFACE ΤΟ THE FIFTH EDITION . A FIFTH edition of this book being 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 ...
PREFACE ΤΟ THE FIFTH EDITION . A FIFTH edition of this book being 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 ...
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Since the time that my attention was first called to this subject I have had
abundant evidence that the influence of a ' long prepuce in producing sexual
precocity has not been sufficiently noted . In the child the prepuce entirely covers
the glans ...
Since the time that my attention was first called to this subject I have had
abundant evidence that the influence of a ' long prepuce in producing sexual
precocity has not been sufficiently noted . In the child the prepuce entirely covers
the glans ...
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The muscles chiefly called into action in climbing are those , the excessive
exertion of which tends to . excite sexual feelings . Boys have , as I know ,
sometimes discovered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at
school , he ...
The muscles chiefly called into action in climbing are those , the excessive
exertion of which tends to . excite sexual feelings . Boys have , as I know ,
sometimes discovered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at
school , he ...
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... evil propensities , the responsibility of warning them against habits which he
hopes they have never heard of , and which might be put into their heads if he
were to broach the subject at all , is greater than he ought to be called upon to
bear .
... evil propensities , the responsibility of warning them against habits which he
hopes they have never heard of , and which might be put into their heads if he
were to broach the subject at all , is greater than he ought to be called upon to
bear .
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1 As I was preparing a former edition for the press , a stranger 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 ...
1 As I was preparing a former edition for the press , a stranger 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 ...
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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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