Some abnormal conditions of the sexual and pelvic organs, which impair virility / by Edward H. Dixon.

  • Dixon, Edward H., 1808-1880.
Date:
[1861?]
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Credit: Some abnormal conditions of the sexual and pelvic organs, which impair virility / by Edward H. Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nor 'I i I think thai the • t drunki Id turn tin-scale in their favor, against this awful causa of the early 11 -ay of manhood; it certainly ranks ahead of self-abuse, becauie that i in the very morning of existence, whilst natui the anxieties of life comm devastati us system. As I luxe only space in this appi i not enter into an explana r its sad consequent i I Know from ext< rvation, and the most painful narratives of my patients; together with numerous letters of inquiry. Bui why should it excite surprise I think for a momenl on the consequences ich a check continually given to thai act by which man demonstrates the ft, CREATIVE POWER! What an insull to > Bummon up a cold, csJculatinj ition, tench the fire on that altar where man was commanded bj God to pi omortalitj ' S the be i proof of the immortality ot- to practice the deba >m alluded to, without man's whole moral nature being crippled long before the bodily ]i iwers Buccumb. til the Burgeon for the consequences of this vice, arc usually I unlikely to investigate the validity of any a lurance a man who has much physical or moral *°«la n- • kctice it, without making the discovery for him he would rarely proceed so long with the practic , b to require medical or tore his lost power. Unfortunately for the prevention of il men sufficiently well educated in I any consideration adequate to its imporl •mmercial Bpiril of our] pie is hut ill adapted to self-ob r of married ,,„■„, by the time they have mad- the im • amount of wealth that will entitle them to rear a family and y . with all the contemptible requisitions of fashionable life, will lind .u1.,rf,;;)ll:! PPled, that nothing but sickly and scrofulous b« ' ' ''' oi expiring man I: and fortunately for the i P y in the head, or the summer diarrh. many of them '\! '.' 'further propagation of such a miserable race u hen he victim .,1 this nee present i himself to the Burgeon, ii is either for :i debihty apparent when at e for a constant nightly drain '»' of, or with very littles .,, ' i, U ,,,„■,,'. 'amplify theisymptons, in this appendix; most of those appertaining f-abusemaybefoundon inquiry, ami a still greater amounl of deroah? . ' Part,*, married rictim bas^gone through that orLd thai usually incapacitates hS .h-e manly resolve, and that decision of character which, had he pos. ■ re ;, nln fee°dered BUch wrM1 ;' cal^ting conchj Ma,J ut his offspring, unnecessary and repulsive to his feelL »»PPj*nces calculated 1 nefil are, elecSuy and S'i'V I'1::,1 ^J * rive b. nefit from irritants applied time \l [fijlHJ ;:::'h *V7 • '' :'ml ««««»^ repeated; at the same ^^ |^«Sce?e^ ess* ttsassau ^zr<*