Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Orson S. Fowler
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    25 I-r ENGENDERS DEPRAVITY IN ALE ITS FORMS. BuSfjiiVdpin foIlo’if auto-biography of a patient, the mental an- guish and de angement tins practice engenders. After saying that he “SS2J2C V ^ ab°Uti f°Urteen ^ears of age, and hfd kept i up, at intervals tor many years, he writes * During the whole of this time, I have suffered the most intense and unmitigated misery. Although blessed by nature with an excellent dvsnptrtl°n’i and Wlt a a klndly’ cheerful disposition, I have become dyspeptic, gloomy, and unsociable. I am wretchedly timid and irreso lute, my mind very weak, and filled with imaginary terrors In fine T have suffered so much in body and mind and seeinJ \ being restored to health and usefulness, that I am sunkin despSr and « r“! *» **- ^ i IT ENGENDERS DEPRAVITY IN ALL ITS FORMS. ^ the ™'?‘- Amatirenes, tending necessarily to inflame it its infls Gr^l.s> and this indulgence diseases, and perverts them also’ +• m,.natl01^ °f course inflames, the morbid, 66 °f ‘L°Ve’ sWs tha‘ pravity; and this section shows tha* +v • 16 l’10IJ®nsities, constitute de- bellum and thebo?y?^thbS b°th the Cere- mtimately related, that whatever deranf Hi a?lmaI Propensities are so the latter, and thus causes depravity Or hl “T’ thereby Per^erts inflames the sexual organs the wS hS Excessive indulgence in the cerebellum, in Sicuk7 and tb7’ Amativeness> located whole animal group of organs and thlti ,nflames a!ld depraves the Corresponding with, and explained bv +r cr?atff sln in iis forms. world over, is the oiSSttf A™- tha\lo8t> the portions of our cities towns and hJi • other sins- Jn what edness ? Wherever are eorur,- d+ I f°es 1S P.erPetrated the most wick- groggeries be found the 221? ff7enu8* Where w I streets and lanes of^S£2?^^e m°St Mue»ted ? In the robbed? There also. And by whom? Ti - S™”108* liable to be prostitution could make woman y^mSl ” nt8‘ What hut and cheat, and drink, and carouse7 an? rf a™’ swear and lie, what part of Boston was that recent’ ws a? even murder ? In committed ? ]n Old Town the ‘ Pivfp .mufde^ ot Mrs. Bickford By whom? A libertine. On whonJA °f that &odly city- dens of prostitution are every where the r w?man- ln short, the m all its aggravations. H whatisin a11 its f°™s, those individuals which compose them wf th<?Se lnas,ses> is true of swincUers, our gamblers, S ' F^ucnte^of defaltcrs, our equal incentive to dishonestv and % • * ft W<? houses always. No yearly stolen by clerkfllC fe exis,ts‘ Fortunes are simply to obtain the mean! ofthiJT3 ■by ffSe “tries, the Judgment alone can reveal. Though Intern,passi0n- Id°w much, man down, and wring his last cent from httWiT111 S°°n run a Inch are consuming soul and body, yet it is r, those fatal fires tins giant robber It will drain the last cent ComPared with m difoind day till he becomes literallv rln ’ then pursue its victim nelled to lie, steal, forge, rob anyZJT*** ,and is al>uost corn- wages of this sin. Do as great a busing ,EUY tlutl£ to procure the affor stBut SeG h0W n!any fortunes it has squHfdemtf ’ N hecoine8 aftei strange women’ can be good, honest 2? ,No one wl‘o ‘goes wii commit almost any other form of sin w,,?10 ’ but he who does eei.s of depravity in the purest of souls • km/ Pa8S1°u will sow the “le - v -