Volume 2

Vita vitalis : a medical work, explanatory of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhœa and other urino-genital diseases, resulting in debility and premature decay in youth, maturity, and old age, and consequent impedimens to health, marriage, and longevity / by a physician, &c. &c [R.J. Jordan?].

Date:: 1860

Credit: Vita vitalis : a medical work, explanatory of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhœa and other urino-genital diseases, resulting in debility and premature decay in youth, maturity, and old age, and consequent impedimens to health, marriage, and longevity / by a physician, &c. &c [R.J. Jordan?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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in need” may swell with inexpressible satis- faction at the victory gained, when art has conquered, and nature once more resumes her interrupted course; when restored vigour of mind and body returns the prerogatives vice had usurped; when that duty, ordained and allowed (by the Scriptures), becomes a plea- sure; and the joy of a second self gives sub- limity to a passion shared with the animal cre- ation ; when the future is Jit up by the bright- ness of the present, and the pure spirit of love hovers in mercy, and protects with its wings, man, the favoured being for whom all was created. When the hope ofa family has been restored, when the young regain their original vigour, and the aged are allowed to taste the joys na-. ture (ever bountiful) grants; when eye meets eye, and the pressure of the hand speaks a mute language words could not express; it is then that the medical man feels proud and happy at the task performed; it is then he reaps the richest harvest the mind of man can crave in this nether world; it is then the hour is blessed when a determination was formed and executed

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