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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... consulted will show that some have , however , mentioned the subject . The Church of Rome , with that practical wisdom which so often characterizes her , and which no Protestant prejudices should lead us to deny , has , in many of her ...
... consulted will show that some have , however , mentioned the subject . The Church of Rome , with that practical wisdom which so often characterizes her , and which no Protestant prejudices should lead us to deny , has , in many of her ...
Page 100
... consulted did not attribute his maladies to the real cause . Modern experience , however , and the confessions of recent pa- tients who have sinned and suffered as Rousseau did - give only too clear an explanation of his ailments . The ...
... consulted did not attribute his maladies to the real cause . Modern experience , however , and the confessions of recent pa- tients who have sinned and suffered as Rousseau did - give only too clear an explanation of his ailments . The ...
Page 106
... consulted me , suffering from some of the worst effects of masturbation . He has lately come to ask my opinion on the advisability of marriage . I find that , intellectually and physically , my patient has to a great extent recovered ...
... consulted me , suffering from some of the worst effects of masturbation . He has lately come to ask my opinion on the advisability of marriage . I find that , intellectually and physically , my patient has to a great extent recovered ...
Page 107
... consulted him ; but , in his opinion , they exaggerated their suf- ferings , and writers on the subject had magnified the ill - effects of self - abuse . This gentleman and those professional men who agree in this view have probably ...
... consulted him ; but , in his opinion , they exaggerated their suf- ferings , and writers on the subject had magnified the ill - effects of self - abuse . This gentleman and those professional men who agree in this view have probably ...
Page 109
... consulted sufficiently early to recommend this treatment ; they see the effects when too often the mischief is irremediable ; and it may be from the impression thus produced that sufficient weight has not been as yet given to surgical ...
... consulted sufficiently early to recommend this treatment ; they see the effects when too often the mischief is irremediable ; and it may be from the impression thus produced that sufficient weight has not been as yet given to surgical ...
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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.