Category: Health & Medicine
_While I was composing in Latin the Original of this small Production, I was sensible of its defects, and, in the Preface to it, made my apology for them. But, after the Performance appeared in print, they struck me much more forcibly; and when I came to examine the French tra...
such, I say, will easily be sensible of the importance it is of to the sick, their breathing one air preferable to another. Such as may have once entered into a room inhabited w...
3. Part 3Not all those who give themselves up to this odious and criminal habit, are, it is true, so severely punished; but there are none that do not suffer for it in a less or greater...
4. Part 4The preceding observations appear, all of them (except that from Mr. STEHELIN, which concludes the second Section,) to concern principally the men: but it would be an essential...
6. Part 6It has been precedently observed, that self-pollution is more pernicious than excesses with women. Those who, on every occasion, bring a particular Providence into play, will as...
10. Part 10I shall follow the same order as in the preceding article. I shall point out the pretended remedies, which are to be avoided, before I enter on the mention of those which are th...
2. Part 2“A young man having, from the age of fifteen, abandoned himself to the practice of self-pollution, had, by the frequency of that act till the age of twenty-three, brought upon h...
7. Part 7M. VAN SWIETEN had, for three years, a patient whom he mentions for it, under his hands, without success. I have seen some perish miserably of this disorder. There were even oth...
5. Part 5“The seed is kept in the seminal vesicules till the man makes use of it, or that nocturnal pollutions deprive him of it. During all that time, the quantity there is of it excite...
11. Part 11The patient of whom I particularised the case in the fifth Section, where I promised an account of my method of management of his disorder, lived for three months upon nothing b...
13. Part 13“The _Gonorrhœa_ (says GALEN, who knew none but the simple one) is a running of the seed without erection.” Many authors, in all ages, make mention of it, and MOSES, the most an...
1. Part 1_While I was composing in Latin the Original of this small Production, I was sensible of its defects, and, in the Preface to it, made my apology for them. But, after the Perform...
9. Part 9Besides, these sacrifices are much less than it is commonly imagined they are. I could quote many witnesses, to whom, after just the first days, it no longer cost them any pain...
12. Part 12M. ZINDEL published at Basle, about fifteen years ago, a dissertation, in which he has collected together, scattered observations on the diseases produced by too rigid a chastit...
14. Part 14[86] Translated from the French. There may also be seen an excellent passage on the force and dangers of voluptuous habits, in a new Treatise of M. PUJATTI, Professor at Padua,...