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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... affecting humanity can be rescued from the grasp of the most disgusting and villanous quackery , and treated with benefit to the patient , is by the scientific and conscientious practitioner openly taking them under his own charge .
... affecting humanity can be rescued from the grasp of the most disgusting and villanous quackery , and treated with benefit to the patient , is by the scientific and conscientious practitioner openly taking them under his own charge .
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Although I would not give too much weight to the opinions of sufferers , yet I cannot refrain from introducing the following unsolicited letter from a patient on this duty of parents to their children .
Although I would not give too much weight to the opinions of sufferers , yet I cannot refrain from introducing the following unsolicited letter from a patient on this duty of parents to their children .
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It is a matter of everyday experience to hear patients complain that a state of continence after a certain time produces a most ... sedentary occupations are unbearable , and sexual ideas intrude erpetually on the patient's thoughts .
It is a matter of everyday experience to hear patients complain that a state of continence after a certain time produces a most ... sedentary occupations are unbearable , and sexual ideas intrude erpetually on the patient's thoughts .
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Many of the diseases of the mind , in their premonitory stage admit , under certain favorable conditions , of an easy cure , if the mind has in early life been accustomed to habits of self - control , and the patient is happily gifted ...
Many of the diseases of the mind , in their premonitory stage admit , under certain favorable conditions , of an easy cure , if the mind has in early life been accustomed to habits of self - control , and the patient is happily gifted ...
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There are patients who can hardly allow the air to blow upon , or the clothes to touch their sexual organs . ... Once an examination is submitted to and the confidence of the patient gained , the cure progresses most rapidly .
There are patients who can hardly allow the air to blow upon , or the clothes to touch their sexual organs . ... Once an examination is submitted to and the confidence of the patient gained , the cure progresses most rapidly .
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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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