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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    of organic life, as well as of the cephalo-spinal nerves, or those of animal life ;—particularly affecting the stomach, brain and heart, and, to a greater or less extent, all the other organs of the body; and when it kindles into a passion, its influence is so extensive and powerful, that it disturbs and disorders all the functions of the system. Digestion is retarded, or wholly interrupted ;—circulation is accelerated, and an increased quantity of blood is injected into the brain, stomach, lungs, and other impor- tant organs ; respiration is obstructed and oppressed, and imperfectly performed,—and insensible perspiration is considerably dimin- ished. These irritations and disturbances cannot long be continued, nor frequently re- peated, without serious injury to the whole system. A general debility and increased irritability of the nerves of organic life are necessarily produced ; the nervous energy and muscular contractibility of all the organs is diminished, and their functional power is con-
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