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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We recommend it accordingly , as meeting a necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards the consideration of the topics in question as beyond the duties of the medical practitioner .
We recommend it accordingly , as meeting a necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards the consideration of the topics in question as beyond the duties of the medical practitioner .
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The only objection which can be suggested to recommend thorough cleanliness in early childhood is the supposed risk of directing the boy's attention to manipulations , which may excite sexual desires . This vague alarm that we must not ...
The only objection which can be suggested to recommend thorough cleanliness in early childhood is the supposed risk of directing the boy's attention to manipulations , which may excite sexual desires . This vague alarm that we must not ...
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The apparatus I recommend is a shallow painted zinc bath , such as can be purchased for about eleven shillings . A larger size would be proper for adults . It should be round , and not of the high - backed description termed the " hip ...
The apparatus I recommend is a shallow painted zinc bath , such as can be purchased for about eleven shillings . A larger size would be proper for adults . It should be round , and not of the high - backed description termed the " hip ...
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... looking as debilitated afterwards as possible , instead of presenting that ruddy glow of health which the rapid application of cold water to the surface ought to produce . I would also strongly recommend decency , even among boys .
... looking as debilitated afterwards as possible , instead of presenting that ruddy glow of health which the rapid application of cold water to the surface ought to produce . I would also strongly recommend decency , even among boys .
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Among other preventive measures I should recommend the precaution which is , I believe , now almost universal in schools , that every boy should have a separate bed . This is , as regards the subject we are now treating of ...
Among other preventive measures I should recommend the precaution which is , I believe , now almost universal in schools , that every boy should have a separate bed . This is , as regards the subject we are now treating of ...
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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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