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 their functional powers :—and we know, too, that in the functional exercise of th6 genital organs, something very analogous to electricity or galvanism, diffuses a peculiar and powerful excitement and sensation throughout the whole nervous system. Now whether these vital effects are pro- duced by means of nervous fluid or spirit, or something still more subtile and intangible, or by some other means, human research and investigation have not ascertained, and perhaps never will. But we are perfectly certain, that the peculiar excitement of venereal indulgence, is more diffusive, universal and powerful, than any other to which the system is ever subject; and that it more rapidly exhausts the vital properties of the tissues, and impairs the func- tional powers of the organs ; and consequently that it, in a greater degree than any other cause, deteriorates all the vital processes of nutrition, from beginning to end ; and there- fore, more injuriously affects the character and
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