Manhood: the causes of its premature decline

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Página 64 - ... vagina, &c. ; and thus commencing at the preputial end of the penis, in the fossa navicularis, it not unfrequently creeps slowly on to the posterior parts of the urethra, to the bladder, or to the testicles, while it decreases or ceases entirely in the parts first affected."* It may be confined to the mucous membrane itself, or extend to the tissues beneath it ; in the latter instance the irritation constantly determines a flow of blood into the cells of the erectile tissue of the corpora cavernosa...
Página 40 - After frequent nocturnal pollutions," says he, " not only the powers are lost, the body falls away, and the face turns pale, but, moreover, the memory fails, a cold sensation seizes all the limbs, the sight is clouded, and the voice becomes hoarse; all the body languishes by degrees, disturbing dreams prevent sleep administering any relief, and pains ensue of the keenest description.
Página 63 - Gonorrhoeal inflammation may be diffused over a wide surface, and " may involve at the same time the whole of the urethra, the bladder, the testicles, the glans and prepuce in the male; and in the female the nymphae, clitoris, labise, vagina, &c. ; and thus commencing at the preputial end of the penis, in the fossa navicularis, it not unfrequently creeps slowly on to the posterior parts of the urethra, to the bladder, or to the testicles, while it decreases or ceases entirely in the parts first affected."1...
Página 2 - The crime in itself," says he, "is monstrous and unnatural — in its practice filthy and odious to extremity — its guilt is crying and its consequences ruinous — it destroys conjugal affection — prevents naturul inclination — and tends to extinguish the hopes of posterity.
Página 4 - It it chiefly on the youth of both sexes that selfpollution commits most ravages. This is so much the more mischievous, and so much more to be deplored, as it thus strikes at the very root of society, and has a direct and immediate tendency to destroy it, by enervating and debilitating, almost from their very cradle, those individuals whom nature and nature's God intended as best adapted to preserve and adorn it. How many of these debilitated and emaciated objects do...
Página 61 - ... account of the painful chordee to which excitement gives rise. I have generally, on questioning these patients, found that such discharges were connected more or less with, deficiency of generative power. In the case I have above alluded to, impotence was almost complete ; and in another similar case occurring in the person of a married surgeon, the powers had greatly declined. Both these patients were in the prime of life, and both had, in their youth, led very irregular lives. The irritation...
Página 23 - Marriage was instituted by the divine Creator in the time of man's primitive innocence, as the means of his happiness, and the perpetuation of his race. The wisdom of its institution has been felt and acknowledged in every age.

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