A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.

  • Sylvester Graham
Date:
1843
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Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    woman with a cancer in her breast, and with a body otherwise in health and vigour, may keep up the general vigour of her body by means which, at the same time, will increase the action of the disease, that, in the form of a cancer, will soon destroy her life : and, on the other hand, she may reduce the general vigour and apparent health of her body, by means which, while they exceedingly debilitate the muscular powers, will, at the same time, enable the system to throw off the diseased action and affection of the breast, and rise again to universal health. But I say again, these natural operations of the vital eco- nomy are extremely slow,—especially in cases where the system has been excessively injured by venereal abuses. Nevertheless, they are in- comparably the safest and most sure. If, therefore, you are very much reduced, and afflicted with involuntary nocturnal emissions, and distressed with pains, and impaired senses, and enfeebled mind, and cheerless melancholy, tending to despair and madness—remember the general and special sympathies and reciprocities which I have pointed out, and ])articularly those which -exist between the genital organs and the alimentary canal and the brain ; and remember, loo, that in this morbid and exceedingly excitable and irritable condition of your system, things which may seem too trifling to deserve your no- tice may, nevertheless, be sufficient to keep up the disorders of your body: and therefore it is hardly possible for you to be too cautious, while in this condition, in regard to everything which concerns your regimen and conduct. Every irri- tation, every undue excitement of the brain, stomach, and intestines, is calculated to continue