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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BY WILLIAM ACTON , M.R.C.S. , LATE SURGEON TO THE ISLINGTON DISPENSARY , AND FORMERLY EXTERNE TO THE VENEREAL HOSPITALS , PARIS , FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MED . AND CHIR . SOCIETY , ETC. , ETC. THIRD AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION .
BY WILLIAM ACTON , M.R.C.S. , LATE SURGEON TO THE ISLINGTON DISPENSARY , AND FORMERLY EXTERNE TO THE VENEREAL HOSPITALS , PARIS , FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MED . AND CHIR . SOCIETY , ETC. , ETC. THIRD AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION .
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And it is often only when too late , that the adult finds out that the idle and ignorant trick of the child has resulted in seriously impaired health , if not in calamities that embitter ...
And it is often only when too late , that the adult finds out that the idle and ignorant trick of the child has resulted in seriously impaired health , if not in calamities that embitter ...
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No one can have read the life of the late Dr. Arnold without seeing that it was one of the chief objects of his life to establish some such feeling as this among his boys . That he was to a great extent successful those ...
No one can have read the life of the late Dr. Arnold without seeing that it was one of the chief objects of his life to establish some such feeling as this among his boys . That he was to a great extent successful those ...
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My ideas on this subject are strongly corroborated by some remarks published by the late Rev. Mr. Robertson , of Brighton , and as they have a practical bearing on the question , I reproduce them here : - " I would far rather that there ...
My ideas on this subject are strongly corroborated by some remarks published by the late Rev. Mr. Robertson , of Brighton , and as they have a practical bearing on the question , I reproduce them here : - " I would far rather that there ...
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The advantages of vegetarian food I have learned only late in life . I now know that I might have been wiser in my diet . With better knowledge I should have done far better as to the quality of food ; but I do not easily believe that a ...
The advantages of vegetarian food I have learned only late in life . I now know that I might have been wiser in my diet . With better knowledge I should have done far better as to the quality of food ; but I do not easily believe that a ...
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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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