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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In many species of moths no sooner is the perfect insect produced than it proceeds at once to the exercise of the function of procreation , which completed , its own existence ceases . Very different should be the case with the human ...
In many species of moths no sooner is the perfect insect produced than it proceeds at once to the exercise of the function of procreation , which completed , its own existence ceases . Very different should be the case with the human ...
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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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An enervated sickly refinement , tells directly on the children that are at once its offspring and its victims , begetting precocious desires , too often gratified , and giving rise to the meanest and most debasing of all vices .
An enervated sickly refinement , tells directly on the children that are at once its offspring and its victims , begetting precocious desires , too often gratified , and giving rise to the meanest and most debasing of all vices .
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Besides the physical symptoms , there are many signs which should warn a parent at once to use all precautionary measures . Lallemand truly remarks- " When a child , who has once shown signs of a good memory and of considerable ...
Besides the physical symptoms , there are many signs which should warn a parent at once to use all precautionary measures . Lallemand truly remarks- " When a child , who has once shown signs of a good memory and of considerable ...
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... a parent should at least hint to his son that he may very possibly have to witness unclean practices , and conjure him at once manfully to resist and oppose them , pointing out at the same time the consequences to which they tend .
... a parent should at least hint to his son that he may very possibly have to witness unclean practices , and conjure him at once manfully to resist and oppose them , pointing out at the same time the consequences to which they tend .
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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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