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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    an 1 mora] education. Now,thatirritabOil • rva- tion, to axial in a far greater degree, and too cur far earlier in our artindal condition of Life, in thoae who have Phymosis, than There can be no doubt thai pruriency of the imagination and t elf-abuse, mmon with those who an thus deformed, Not onrj conatanl uncleanUneaa and irritation from the n i tions of the mi glands surrounding this structure, b ig the part, and producing this morbid irritability. Tb i: with that in i dom '1' i 5m '1 b) nature ; tl I; and it> n rv( and irritable. All partially developed and hal are irril i1 la , large and tall men are ; ral growth and expan km of tb 0 palpably checked In inch people by I ol the contracted prepuce, that they often seek the a'nl of 1 only from sexual Irritability evidenl t>> themai In - from morbid emu siona, i>ut from mortified pride. Nothing can be more pitiful than the infirm- it \ of purpose apparent in tile general deportment, and want of attenti a to what la said to them, and Incapacity to reason on the subject, tb people. The jactitation of the limbs, and general re tl land phj rical Btupor, Is painful to behold Many a youth baa his 1 I r lifo and his constitution destroyed by this wretched condition of his nervous tern, depending solely upon thi information. It 1- 10 palpable in its upon the manner and physique, thai we an 0f K before any investigation has been made. Winn persons thus afflicted have been addicted to self-abuse, to which tin \ have a greal proclivity from their morbid irritability, and have had recourse to liquor or tobacco as a stupefler of their troubl rucl with little hope of inducing conviction, indeed, thii pared to aid Buch an attempt, bj reflection; to tryand produce the conviction that 11 is only bj foUowing oul Boientiflcallj cure, with as bistorj and Bcience afford us, thai they can hope lor amendment l3 Becondaryin its action, if al all necessary; and marriage, in he tails lasting miserj on two persons, in place of one. If.of&pring follow, f neas of constitution and early death atteal the supremacy of Natui It iatrulj sad tothinkwhal rasultafoUowawantof physiol and more 'than doubtful if any plan of education which d B representation of the healthful structure and functions of the sexual 1 1 can ever resull in the happiness of the ra It only remains thai we Bhould answerone of the questions usually pro- ,1 ffas nol the prepuce designed as a protector to this organ, and » it noTalwayssoin animals? This is the answer: the Jewish n I hn> der the action of the membrane as a protector in infancy; il pleto i„ it. effect, by the growth of the organ at puberty, ks - emotionof aexualp^ion burins, the natural growth of I oompleteal ratractionof the prepuce, and the irritahUitj of the partmnotre*