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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Page 105
... allowed to fall on a piece of glass , and exposed to the microscope , may furnish sper- matozoa in greater or less numbers . The vicious habit having impaired the growth , health , and intellect of the patient , ceases often to be ...
... allowed to fall on a piece of glass , and exposed to the microscope , may furnish sper- matozoa in greater or less numbers . The vicious habit having impaired the growth , health , and intellect of the patient , ceases often to be ...
Page 138
... allowed the time requisite for their full de- velopment , that the female becomes impregnated . I This part of my subject will , however , occupy further atten- tion when I come to speak ( page 148 ) of marital excesses . may , however ...
... allowed the time requisite for their full de- velopment , that the female becomes impregnated . I This part of my subject will , however , occupy further atten- tion when I come to speak ( page 148 ) of marital excesses . may , however ...
Page 145
... allowed one or two weeks ' leave of absence on the score of a religi- ous vow of abstinence . Law students were exempt . A weekly debt was forced upon artificers , but a daily one upon vigorous young husbands having no occupation ...
... allowed one or two weeks ' leave of absence on the score of a religi- ous vow of abstinence . Law students were exempt . A weekly debt was forced upon artificers , but a daily one upon vigorous young husbands having no occupation ...
Page 151
... allowed a night to pass without having had connection , and it was only lately , on reading my book , that he had attributed his present ailments to marital excesses . The contrast between such a case as this , where an individual for ...
... allowed a night to pass without having had connection , and it was only lately , on reading my book , that he had attributed his present ailments to marital excesses . The contrast between such a case as this , where an individual for ...
Page 156
... allowed to regain their normal condition . There is another phase of this affection . A young man has been continent all his life . When his studies are completed , and his university career is drawing to a close , he forms an attach ...
... allowed to regain their normal condition . There is another phase of this affection . A young man has been continent all his life . When his studies are completed , and his university career is drawing to a close , he forms an attach ...
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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.