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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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 , and no time or labor has ...
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 , and no time or labor has ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... of the practices may be pointed out.1 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 .
... of the practices may be pointed out.1 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 .
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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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