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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    « its true meaning. nations of the earth undoubtedly practiced the rite of circumcision to meet Buch emei >r we have, as we have endeavored to prove in the chapter on Syphilis, not the slightest faith in the idea thai syphilis was of modern origin. When drawn back, the prepuce will be seen united with an exquisitely deli- membrane that is continued over the glans, and into the mwttut or opening of the urethra, or passage far the urine, and thence it is continued into the bladder, and through the tubes leading from the kidneys to thai organ. This is precisely analogous to the skin passing from the lace over the lips into the mouth, stomach, and lungs. The inner and outer skins of our bodies, if we may into each other; and we here take occasion to say, that this furnishes good reason for carefulness in avoiding chills, and all ex> i night-air, and damp feet, when the mucous membranes of either the respiratory or urinary organs arc diseased. The reader will remember tho desire for urination on going from a warm mom into the cold air, or the increased dng in catarrh. Standing on the marble hearth will produce a Budden de- sire to urinate. These instances are what Burgeons call the sympathy of the skin with the internal or mucous memhranes. hut we musl not amplify here: Buch Bubjects, however vitally important to the philosophical surgeon, properly belong t t! We DOW Wish to direct the reader's attention to an entirely new train of ht, and to show that a tar more extensive meaning was attached to this r circumcision, than our religious instructors, or our surgical professors, have accorded it ; aid that the person who has an elongated prepuce, ''an never -s a high degree of procreative virility, or moral force, in any of the prac- tical pursuits of life. Such men arc infirm of purpose. Our observation for thirty years has forced us to tin- conclusion, and convinced us of the sublime wisdom of the great Jewish law in making circumcision a religious rite, ami thus insuring its performance. \,, doubt remains in our mind that the compar- ative fnc] ; the Jewish people depends upon the In- 1 facilities f.r cleanliness; and that their freedom from morbid irritability, both locally, and, as a consequence, in the pruriency of their imaginati la upon this rite. We never saw a Jewish hoy who was an Onanist N e are so accustomed, as a commercial community, to repudiate till conclu- not culminate in the gratification of our senses, or in the acqui- sition of money, that it will, we fear, be impossible for the reader, nole-. 1„. will consent to follow us in an arhitrary process of scientific reasoning, to come to a correct conclusion on this sub If the foot he ,:|, iiie hand for prehension, the tongue t . tasl ■. the eye to see, and the car to hear, then the glans pen,, baa H equally distinctive, and possesses either a healthful or morbid degree of irrita- bility. Man's strongest pas-i ,n impels him to a knowledge of the uses of this struc- ture, and that it is in a high degree under the influ im Ithful physical