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Without giving any reason , they may be desired to keep their hands away , which
will in most cases be sufficient , if there is no physical exciting cause . The
smallest sign , however , of the existence of any such cause should never be ...
Without giving any reason , they may be desired to keep their hands away , which
will in most cases be sufficient , if there is no physical exciting cause . The
smallest sign , however , of the existence of any such cause should never be ...
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trol of that healthy public opinion that , even among boys , has so salutary an
effect , there is too much reason to fear that this scourge of our youth prevails to
an alarming extent . I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me
of ...
trol of that healthy public opinion that , even among boys , has so salutary an
effect , there is too much reason to fear that this scourge of our youth prevails to
an alarming extent . I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me
of ...
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... of mind , much dimness of sight , much loss of manly bearing , to which we
must add many cases of the loss of reason and an imbecile and drivelling old
age , are the inevitable result of the expenditure of the vital forces in sinful
gratification .
... of mind , much dimness of sight , much loss of manly bearing , to which we
must add many cases of the loss of reason and an imbecile and drivelling old
age , are the inevitable result of the expenditure of the vital forces in sinful
gratification .
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If we have reason. 1 Some such advice as this will , I am sure , be gratefully
acknowledged by many parents , and I have introduced it here in the language of
the author ; at the same time I have taken the liberty of altering its phraseology a
little ...
If we have reason. 1 Some such advice as this will , I am sure , be gratefully
acknowledged by many parents , and I have introduced it here in the language of
the author ; at the same time I have taken the liberty of altering its phraseology a
little ...
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If we have reason to suspect any of the other local causes of irritation , such as
worms , stricture , hæmorrhoids , or fissure of the anus , these complaints must at
once be attended to . An account of the proper treatment of these diseases ...
If we have reason to suspect any of the other local causes of irritation , such as
worms , stricture , hæmorrhoids , or fissure of the anus , these complaints must at
once be attended to . An account of the proper treatment of these diseases ...
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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
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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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