Category: Health & Medicine

A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses.

§ 3. Influence which the general state of the functions at different AGES and the particular state of some of them at different periods of life, may have on the consequences of the act of venery.

Chapters

8. CHAPTER III.

The genital organs when they are abused are precisely in the same state as if they were diseased. In this case in fact, they are not in their normal state for they are in action...

9. CHAPTER I.

The preservative rules which relate to venereal excesses present fundamental differences, as to the success and facility of their application, according as reference is made to...

7. CHAPTER II.

These circumstances are of two kinds: some depend on the act itself: others are independent of it and depend most frequently upon the disposition in which the economy is at the...

6. CHAPTER I.

To abuse oneself by onanism, by coition, is to abuse the organs which serve for the execution of these acts. The genital organs in the female are, the vulva, clitoris, vagina, u...

10. CHAPTER II.

In therapeutics we proceed in two ways; sometimes tracing the symptoms to their cause, we attempt to destroy this cause in the organ in which it is situated, and sometimes we at...

5. CHAPTER 2. MODE OF REPAIRING THE INJURY ARISING

Can the power possessed by man of indulging in the act of venery be abused? or, in other words, can any injury arise to the health or constitution, by indulgence in this act. It...

2. CHAPTER 2. CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH RENDER THE ACT

§ 3. Influence which the general state of the functions at different AGES and the particular state of some of them at different periods of life, may have on the consequences of...

4. CHAPTER 1. MEANS OF PRESERVATION WITH REFERENCE

1. CHAPTER 1. DANGER ATTENDING VENEREAL EXCESSES.

3. CHAPTER 3. SYMPTOMS AND DISEASES RESULTING FROM