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... patient , is by the scientific and conscientious practitioner openly taking them under his own charge . " Now , however , that legitimate and able practitioners permit themselves to be known as willing to bestow as much consideration on ...
... patient , is by the scientific and conscientious practitioner openly taking them under his own charge . " Now , however , that legitimate and able practitioners permit themselves to be known as willing to bestow as much consideration on ...
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... patient on this duty of parents to their children . " I fear you may think me somewhat presuming if I say how entirely I agree with you as to the desirableness , not to say absolute duty , of parents and others duly to caution youths as ...
... patient on this duty of parents to their children . " I fear you may think me somewhat presuming if I say how entirely I agree with you as to the desirableness , not to say absolute duty , of parents and others duly to caution youths as ...
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... patient's thoughts . When this complaint is made , there is little doubt what confession is coming next - a confession that at once explains the symptoms . Of course in such cases the self - prescribed remedy has been most effective ...
... patient's thoughts . When this complaint is made , there is little doubt what confession is coming next - a confession that at once explains the symptoms . Of course in such cases the self - prescribed remedy has been most effective ...
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... patient is happily gifted with strong volitionary power , and brings it to bear upon the scarcely formed filaments of mental disease . We should have fewer disorders of the mind if we could acquire more power of volition , and endeavor ...
... patient is happily gifted with strong volitionary power , and brings it to bear upon the scarcely formed filaments of mental disease . We should have fewer disorders of the mind if we could acquire more power of volition , and endeavor ...
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... patient will not submit . The medical man in his first essays must be satisfied with moderate progress . In a day or two the patient will often ask him to proceed faster than he is disposed to do , so satisfied is the sufferer of the ...
... patient will not submit . The medical man in his first essays must be satisfied with moderate progress . In a day or two the patient will often ask him to proceed faster than he is disposed to do , so satisfied is the sufferer of the ...
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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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