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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Frequently it may be noticed that a little child , on being taken out of bed in the morning , cannot make water at once . It would be as well if it were recognized by parents and nurses that this often depends upon a more or less ...
Frequently it may be noticed that a little child , on being taken out of bed in the morning , cannot make water at once . It would be as well if it were recognized by parents and nurses that this often depends upon a more or less ...
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There are , however , not a few directly exciting causes which can , and do frequently , not only foster this terrible proclivity to early sexual feeling when acquired by inheritance , but even of themselves alone beget it .
There are , however , not a few directly exciting causes which can , and do frequently , not only foster this terrible proclivity to early sexual feeling when acquired by inheritance , but even of themselves alone beget it .
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Quacks have frequently so wrought upon the fears of ignorant patients , especially those whose consciences were not clear , as to induce them to think they were labouring under some peculiar affection , whereas a little soap and water ...
Quacks have frequently so wrought upon the fears of ignorant patients , especially those whose consciences were not clear , as to induce them to think they were labouring under some peculiar affection , whereas a little soap and water ...
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... he does not believe the habit is indulged in at all , and declines to interfere . If recent testimony is to be believed , it is certain that these practices are still ( though perhaps less frequently than formerly indulged in ) .
... he does not believe the habit is indulged in at all , and declines to interfere . If recent testimony is to be believed , it is certain that these practices are still ( though perhaps less frequently than formerly indulged in ) .
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... and unable to administer the antidote with the poison . The warning often would not be so unintelligible to a child as is sometimes supposed . Parents are frequently disinclined to acknowledge 30 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
... and unable to administer the antidote with the poison . The warning often would not be so unintelligible to a child as is sometimes supposed . Parents are frequently disinclined to acknowledge 30 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
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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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