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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... necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards the consideration of the topics in question as beyond the duties of the medical practitioner . " From the London Medical Times . Mr. Acton has devoted ...
... necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards the consideration of the topics in question as beyond the duties of the medical practitioner . " From the London Medical Times . Mr. Acton has devoted ...
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... them to think they were labouring under some peculiar affection , whereas a little soap and water would have acted as a sufficient remedy . ceive sympathy and any further advice that might be necessary 22 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
... them to think they were labouring under some peculiar affection , whereas a little soap and water would have acted as a sufficient remedy . ceive sympathy and any further advice that might be necessary 22 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
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... necessary . I am convinced of the fact that when any such irritation or derangement exists , if the proper steps ( of which cleanliness is the most effectual ) are not taken to check it , the child will in ignorance handle the organs ...
... necessary . I am convinced of the fact that when any such irritation or derangement exists , if the proper steps ( of which cleanliness is the most effectual ) are not taken to check it , the child will in ignorance handle the organs ...
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... necessary means of success in life is a strong constitution . If on this be engrafted superior intellectual endowments , accompanied by that energy of character which usually attends the strong , success in after life may be nearly ...
... necessary means of success in life is a strong constitution . If on this be engrafted superior intellectual endowments , accompanied by that energy of character which usually attends the strong , success in after life may be nearly ...
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... necessary , or very advisable , to go much more deeply into the matter . At any rate , it is very important , as I said at first , that parents and tutors should be fortified with a knowledge far greater than they generally possess on ...
... necessary , or very advisable , to go much more deeply into the matter . At any rate , it is very important , as I said at first , that parents and tutors should be fortified with a knowledge far greater than they generally possess on ...
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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.