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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However natural the delicacy they feel in investigating such ailments , yet in this ,
perhaps above all other evils , prevention is better than cure . Irritation of the
glans penis arising from the collection of secretion under the prepuce is another ...
However natural the delicacy they feel in investigating such ailments , yet in this ,
perhaps above all other evils , prevention is better than cure . Irritation of the
glans penis arising from the collection of secretion under the prepuce is another ...
Page 71
Many of the diseases of the mind , in their premonitory stage admit , under certain
favorable conditions , of an easy cure , if the mind has in early life been
accustomed to habits of self - control , and the patient is happily gifted with strong
...
Many of the diseases of the mind , in their premonitory stage admit , under certain
favorable conditions , of an easy cure , if the mind has in early life been
accustomed to habits of self - control , and the patient is happily gifted with strong
...
Page 77
Once an examination is submitted to and the confidence of the patient gained ,
the cure progresses most rapidly . In many instances this morbid irritability is
confined to the skin , others only complain when the urethra is touched , or when
an ...
Once an examination is submitted to and the confidence of the patient gained ,
the cure progresses most rapidly . In many instances this morbid irritability is
confined to the skin , others only complain when the urethra is touched , or when
an ...
Page 106
... and I should advise all sufferers not to rely on themselves for a cure , but at
once to resort to their usual surgeon , who will give them sympathy and counsel .
Let them , above all things , avoid advertising quacks . If the struggle is severe for
a ...
... and I should advise all sufferers not to rely on themselves for a cure , but at
once to resort to their usual surgeon , who will give them sympathy and counsel .
Let them , above all things , avoid advertising quacks . If the struggle is severe for
a ...
Page 107
The probability is that in many who read these pages and who have at some time
or other practised this vice , but have early abandoned it , the symptoms will be of
the slightest kind , and a speedy cure may be promised . Quacks are eager , of ...
The probability is that in many who read these pages and who have at some time
or other practised this vice , but have early abandoned it , the symptoms will be of
the slightest kind , and a speedy cure may be promised . Quacks are eager , of ...
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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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