The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith.
- Smith, Henry, active 1982.
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![deterred^™ Uere’to cnJotrara«e «» reader not to be tZt^rst;LnierTd7 in time> from a — from ,lI.lustration »f evils of self-abuse, we quote demyM'«nT“’n^ffiyeu f, ^resident of *<> French Aca- consequences aris^n^fVom^the^hahtt^o/selfpollution<'rbut ctted Tn7hmej P£sen- themselves under forms so compli- cated and horrid, tha* it would appear as though the pros¬ tate gland were the seat of all the vital function I have ST mSftanCeS °f gonorrllcea’ and even symptomatic syphi! H ensue from excess of this practice; blindness t Wh an ncommon, is not an impossible result; paralysis, epifepsv rn-ni-°0ns):i,ml31]oo- are the invariable effects, after a gradual torhrtSSfhrOUg l the various sta£es of weakness of iiftellect torture of conscience, decay of the bodily energies raJS gadsatlrVoff'S- en/,ptionS’ ,and> last,y> tt^rnal elisor fween ti1P‘ -N [ ^hlsa!1: so close is the comiection be¬ tween the animal and spiritual essences, that I have known madness produced solely by this baneful practice which has ££ &t-he nerv0DS syste“> unTundee^£ed?fffi“ PVfidcgKt, Hoffman, thus sums from ?ho nent hea!JJS’the eviI resequences flowing trom the habit under consideration; and his conclusions en? t.rely comport with our own daily experience Fust—- All the intellectual faculties are weakened loss tL”s‘felfintoT' f bidBaSnare c,otl(|ed>the patients some- times tail into a slight madness; they have an incessant irksome.uneasiness, continued anguish, and so keen a remorse of conscience that they frequently shed tears. They are sub¬ ject to vertigoes; all their senses, but particularly their sight and hearing, are weakened; their sleep, if they can obtain any, is disturbed with frightful dreams.” * 3 bt Secondly The powers of their bodies decay; the growth hefnmV- abandon, twelves to these abominable practices, sleep at a?l .aCfCt°,mpllshed .“ greatly Prevented. Some cannot sleep at all, others are m a perpetual state of drowsiness. Ihey are affected with hypochondriac or hysterical com plaints, and are overcome with the accidents that accompany those grievous disorders—melancholy, sighing,tears oaluita^ tions, suffocations, and faintings. Some emit a calcareous saliva; coughs, slow fevers, and consumptions, are the chas* tisements winch others meet with in their own ct&rhes.’*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30473159_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
