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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... present remarks . It has been , indeed , suggested by per- sons fully competent to form an opinion that the universal per- formance of circumcision would be of no small benefit . This , however , can be only a speculation . Circumcision ...
... present remarks . It has been , indeed , suggested by per- sons fully competent to form an opinion that the universal per- formance of circumcision would be of no small benefit . This , however , can be only a speculation . Circumcision ...
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... present among children , or even boys at school , I have been unable to obtain any very trustworthy information . Patients from whom in the confes- sional of the consulting room , the truth on such subjects is mostly learnt , speak ...
... present among children , or even boys at school , I have been unable to obtain any very trustworthy information . Patients from whom in the confes- sional of the consulting room , the truth on such subjects is mostly learnt , speak ...
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... present edition , to trace out a few notes which might aid parents desirous of following my advice . This has , however , become unnecessary since I read the follow- ing advice in a pamphlet lately printed by a clergyman : — Advantage ...
... present edition , to trace out a few notes which might aid parents desirous of following my advice . This has , however , become unnecessary since I read the follow- ing advice in a pamphlet lately printed by a clergyman : — Advantage ...
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... present to be exercised , a new want to be satisfied . It is , I take it , of vital importance that boys and young men should know , not only the guilt of an illicit indulgence of their dawning passions , but also the danger of ...
... present to be exercised , a new want to be satisfied . It is , I take it , of vital importance that boys and young men should know , not only the guilt of an illicit indulgence of their dawning passions , but also the danger of ...
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... we may believe that many a hermit shut himself out of the world in order to escape the effect of female society . In the present day I am ac- ing and purgatives , undertaken sometimes with a view of 72 NORMAL FUNCTIONS IN YOUTH .
... we may believe that many a hermit shut himself out of the world in order to escape the effect of female society . In the present day I am ac- ing and purgatives , undertaken sometimes with a view of 72 NORMAL FUNCTIONS IN YOUTH .
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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.