A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham].

  • Sylvester Graham
Date:
1838
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Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —disordering and deranging: the functions, and often causing excessive morbid irritability, and sensibility, and inflammation, and even disorganization or change of structure in the viscera—such as the brain, stomach, lungs, kidneys, heart, &c. Thus the passions, such as anger, fear, grief, &c., when violent and frequent or continued, irritate and debilitate the nerves of organic life, and induce in them a state of morbid irritability, and thereby disorder all the or- ganic functions of the system, and lead to the most painful and often the most fatal diseases. The nerves of the genital organs partake, in common with those of the other organs, of this general debility and diseased excitability, and become exceedingly susceptible of irrita- tion ;—sympathizing powerfully with all the disturbances of the system, and especially of the brain and alimentary canal. Their pecu- liar sensibilities are augmented to a morbid or preternatural state, of a chronic character;
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