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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Of the existence of this latter cause another symptom often appears , viz . , the constant wetting of the bed at night . There is , besides , in many persons , as will be mentioned hereafter ( p . 77 ) , a morbid sensibility of the ...
Of the existence of this latter cause another symptom often appears , viz . , the constant wetting of the bed at night . There is , besides , in many persons , as will be mentioned hereafter ( p . 77 ) , a morbid sensibility of the ...
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... would come to the same medical friend and state the consequences , in the full assurance that he would retion round the glans penis ; but it should be remembered that this white secretion is natural , and not a symptom of disease .
... would come to the same medical friend and state the consequences , in the full assurance that he would retion round the glans penis ; but it should be remembered that this white secretion is natural , and not a symptom of disease .
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The irritation is only too likely to determine blood to the part , and the unpleasant symptoms , moreover , show a nervous susceptible temperament , which always requires careful attention . The cases in which an operation may be ...
The irritation is only too likely to determine blood to the part , and the unpleasant symptoms , moreover , show a nervous susceptible temperament , which always requires careful attention . The cases in which an operation may be ...
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THE SYMPTOMS which mark the commencement of the practice are too clear for an experienced eye to be deceived . As Lallemand remarks : " However young the children may be , they get thin , pale , and irritable , and their features become ...
THE SYMPTOMS which mark the commencement of the practice are too clear for an experienced eye to be deceived . As Lallemand remarks : " However young the children may be , they get thin , pale , and irritable , and their features become ...
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1 Lallemand admits that in children it is not the loss of semen which can produce the usual effects of spermatorrhoea , but that the symptoms must depend upon the influence exercised on the nervous system , or what he terms the ...
1 Lallemand admits that in children it is not the loss of semen which can produce the usual effects of spermatorrhoea , but that the symptoms must depend upon the influence exercised on the nervous system , or what he terms the ...
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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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