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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    semen enfeebles the body more than the loss of twenty times the same quantity of blood,— more than violent cathartics and emetics:— and hence the frequent and excessive loss of it cannot fail to produce the most extreme de- bility, and disorder, and wretchedness, of both body and mind.” That the semen is a very important fluid, and that it, like all other secretions of the body, may, to some extent, be re-absorbed, will not be questioned by any correct physi- ologist ; and it is also very evident that there is a peculiar relation established between the development of the genital organs and the voice, beard, &c., and the general masculine aspect and bearing of the individual:—but the importance of semen to the system, and the evils resulting from the mere loss of it, have been exceedingly overrated by all who have treated on this subject. We know that, at or about the age of puberty, when the genital organs are, in all
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