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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... of appropriate moral and therapeutical means , the morbid terrors of the imagination may be dispelled , and a healthy and hopeful tone of mind restored . " THE BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY FUNCTIONFRANCIS A. COUNTWAY ISORDERS LIBRARY OF.
... of appropriate moral and therapeutical means , the morbid terrors of the imagination may be dispelled , and a healthy and hopeful tone of mind restored . " THE BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY FUNCTIONFRANCIS A. COUNTWAY ISORDERS LIBRARY OF.
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I should specify hereditary predisposition as by no means the least common . It cannot be denied that as children soon after birth inherit a peculiar conformation of features or frame from the parent , so they frequently evince ...
I should specify hereditary predisposition as by no means the least common . It cannot be denied that as children soon after birth inherit a peculiar conformation of features or frame from the parent , so they frequently evince ...
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It is now employed to express ejaculation or emission attained by almost any other means than that of the natural excitement arising from sexual intercourse , and in children too young to emit semen , it is liable to produce that ...
It is now employed to express ejaculation or emission attained by almost any other means than that of the natural excitement arising from sexual intercourse , and in children too young to emit semen , it is liable to produce that ...
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... the downcast look which seems to arise from a consciousness in the boy that his habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ascertained fact that his virility is lost . I wish by no means to assert that every boy ...
... the downcast look which seems to arise from a consciousness in the boy that his habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ascertained fact that his virility is lost . I wish by no means to assert that every boy ...
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There is a case , related by Chopart , of ashepherd boy who was in the habit of passing a piece of twig down the urethra , in order to produce ejaculation , when all other means had failed . PROGNOSIS .
There is a case , related by Chopart , of ashepherd boy who was in the habit of passing a piece of twig down the urethra , in order to produce ejaculation , when all other means had failed . PROGNOSIS .
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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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