A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses.
by L. Deslandes
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- A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES PRODUCED BY ONANISM, MASTURBATION, SELF-POLLUTION, AND OTHER EXCESSES. BY L. DESLANDES, M. D., MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE AT PARIS, AND OTHER LEARNED SOCIETIES. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, WITH MANY ADDITIONS. Second Edition. BOSTON: OTIS, BROADERS, AND COMPANY. 1839.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- OF ONANISM AND OTHER ABUSES. PART FIRST. EFFECTS OF EXCESS IN VENERY.
- CHAPTER I. OF THE DANGERS WHICH MAY FOLLOW VENEREAL EXCESS.
- § 1. INFLUENCE OF THE GENITAL ORGANS CONSIDERED IN A STATE OF REST.
- § 2. POWER OF THE GENITAL ORGANS CONSIDERED IN A STATE OF EXCITEMENT.
- § 3. POWER OF THE GENITAL ORGANS CONSIDERED IN A STATE OF ACTION.
- CHAPTER II. CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH RENDER THE ACT OF VENERY MORE OR LESS INJURIOUS TO THE CONSTITUTION AND TO THE HEALTH.
- § 1. CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH THE ACT OF VENERY WHICH RENDER IT MORE OR LESS INJURIOUS.
- § 2. CIRCUMSTANCES INDEPENDENT OF THE ACT OF VENERY, WHICH RENDER IT MORE OR LESS INJURIOUS.
- § 3. INFLUENCE WHICH THE GENERAL STATE OF THE FUNCTIONS HAS AT DIFFERENT AGES, AND WHICH THE PECULIAR STATE OF SOME OF THEM AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE MAY HAVE ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACT OF VENERY.
- CHAPTER III. SYMPTOMS AND DISEASES CAUSED BY VENEREAL EXCESSES.
- § 1. SPECIAL SYMPTOMS OF VENEREAL EXCESSES.
- § 2. DISEASES ARISING FROM VENEREAL EXCESSES.
- PART SECOND. RULES OF PRESERVATION AND TREATMENT RELATIVE TO VENEREAL EXCESSES.
- CHAPTER I. PRESERVATIVE MEANS RELATIVE TO VENEREAL EXCESSES.
- § 1. FIRST INDICATION. TO PREVENT THE OCCURRENCE OF THE DESIRE TO MASTURBATE, TO PREVENT ITS RETURN, AND TO ABRIDGE ITS POWER.
- § 2. SECOND INDICATION. TO RESIST THE DESIRE OF ONANISM.
- § 3. THIRD INDICATION. REMOVE FROM THOSE WHO HAVE THE WISH TO MASTURBATE THE POWER OF DOING SO.
- CHAPTER II. OF THE MODE OF REPAIRING THE INJURIES ARISING FROM VENEREAL EXCESSES.
- APPENDIX.
- FOOTNOTES:
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