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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I am fully convinced from the acknowledgments of patients that the effects of
advice to young men has had no such tendency . Even if the dreaded evil should
arise , the same boy who had received such recommendation , supposing the ...
I am fully convinced from the acknowledgments of patients that the effects of
advice to young men has had no such tendency . Even if the dreaded evil should
arise , the same boy who had received such recommendation , supposing the ...
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Circumcision is never likely to be introduced amongst us , and there is no doubt
that cleanliness will suffice in most cases to remove all ill effects arising from the
existence of the prepuce . 1 Several confessions that have been made to me , ...
Circumcision is never likely to be introduced amongst us , and there is no doubt
that cleanliness will suffice in most cases to remove all ill effects arising from the
existence of the prepuce . 1 Several confessions that have been made to me , ...
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I shall not be suspected of undervaluing athletic exercises , but if this particular
one has the effect I have described , I should certainly advise its discontinuance .
Those who have the care of children cannot bear this fact too constantly in mind ...
I shall not be suspected of undervaluing athletic exercises , but if this particular
one has the effect I have described , I should certainly advise its discontinuance .
Those who have the care of children cannot bear this fact too constantly in mind ...
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trol of that healthy public opinion that , even among boys , has so salutary an
effect , there is too much reason to fear that this scourge of our youth prevails to
an alarming extent . I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me
of ...
trol of that healthy public opinion that , even among boys , has so salutary an
effect , there is too much reason to fear that this scourge of our youth prevails to
an alarming extent . I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me
of ...
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Evil as the effects are , even in early childhood , the prognosis of the ailment ,
looking on it as an ailment , is not , in ... to the effect produced on the brain by
repeated convulsive shocks similar to those which susceptible subjects receive
when ...
Evil as the effects are , even in early childhood , the prognosis of the ailment ,
looking on it as an ailment , is not , in ... to the effect produced on the brain by
repeated convulsive shocks similar to those which susceptible subjects receive
when ...
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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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