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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    succeeded by great exhaustion, relaxation, las- situde, and even prostration. These excesses, too frequently repeated, cannot fail to produce the most terrible effects. The nervous system, even to its most minute filamentary extremities, is tortured into a shocking state of debility, and excessive irrita- bility, and uncontrollable mobility, and aching lensibility ; and the vital contractility of the nuscular tissues throughout the whole svstem becomes exceedingly impaired, and the mus- cl-s, generally, become relaxed and flaccid ; anl consequently all the organs and vessels of he body, even to the smallest capillaries, beome extremely debilitated ; and their func- tionl powers exceedingly feeble. Sbh are the important relations constitu- tionay established, in the human system, betwi'n the organs and functions of Nu- tritin and Reproduction and Voluntary Motioi and the Mental and Moral Facul- ties : nd such are the reciprocal influences
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