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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The cases in which an operation may be required on the prepuce are for the
surgeon's decision , and are not within the scope of our present remarks . It has
been , indeed , suggested by persons fully competent to form an opinion that the
...
The cases in which an operation may be required on the prepuce are for the
surgeon's decision , and are not within the scope of our present remarks . It has
been , indeed , suggested by persons fully competent to form an opinion that the
...
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As Lallemand remarks : “ However young the children may be , they get thin ,
pale , and irritable , and their features become haggard . We notice the sunken
eye , the long , cadaverous - looking countenance , the downcast look which
seems ...
As Lallemand remarks : “ However young the children may be , they get thin ,
pale , and irritable , and their features become haggard . We notice the sunken
eye , the long , cadaverous - looking countenance , the downcast look which
seems ...
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It seems to be included clearly within the scope of these remarks . I think a
schoolmaster should be alive to the excessive danger of the platonic attachments
that sometimes become fashionable in a school especially between boys of very
...
It seems to be included clearly within the scope of these remarks . I think a
schoolmaster should be alive to the excessive danger of the platonic attachments
that sometimes become fashionable in a school especially between boys of very
...
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My ideas on this subject are strongly corroborated by some remarks published by
the late Rev. Mr. Robertson , of Brighton , and as they have a practical bearing on
the question , I reproduce them here : - “ I would far rather that there was much ...
My ideas on this subject are strongly corroborated by some remarks published by
the late Rev. Mr. Robertson , of Brighton , and as they have a practical bearing on
the question , I reproduce them here : - “ I would far rather that there was much ...
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Although , as I shall have occasion to remark , I entirely disagree with him on
many of the principles advanced in other parts of his book , I think he has done
good service in making the following observations , which I generally coincide in ,
and ...
Although , as I shall have occasion to remark , I entirely disagree with him on
many of the principles advanced in other parts of his book , I think he has done
good service in making the following observations , which I generally coincide in ,
and ...
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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.
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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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