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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ch has become wasted by mastur-bation and seminal weakness. I am almost daily called upon byyoung men who ask if it is not perfect-ly natural to have involuntary noctur-nal emissions occasionally—say once ina week or two. They have been soinformed by their physicians! Such young men are excusableperhaps as they have not had opportunities of knowing better;but it is disgraceful for any man laying claim to a knowledge ofphysiology to make such an assertion. It is too true that menwho are in the habit of cutting up dead bodies, know too little ofliving ones. Good anatomists are not always astute physiologists.Those who are reputed to be expert surgeons are apt to be thepoorest physicians, and really seem incapable of giving any common-sense advice ou subjects like the one under consideration. Onlyrecently one of our most eminent surgeons, in a lecture beforethe Young Mens Christian Association, stated that involuntaryemissions were inevitable occasionally, unless prevented by living in
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THE TESTES, IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. A represents one in health; B, onewasted by masturbation. SEMINAL WEAKNESS. 533 natural relations with the opposite sex. It would seem as thoughcommon sense would teach him better; and it would almost seem as ifyoung men themselves ought to know better without being told. Itis a rule, having few exceptions, that a person subject to involuntaryemissions feels the debilitating effect of them invariably the nextmorning after their occurrence, while every man of experienceknows that sexual connection, when the companion is responsive,leaves no depressing effect upon mind or body, but on the contrary abuoyancy of the former and elasticity of the latter. Throwing aside,however, all reference to effect, with which nearly every one troubledwith involuntary emissions is familiar, do we find nature so readyto cast off its vital substances and nervous forces ? Is it a fact thatDame Nature is a prodigal—following the profligate and dissipatedexample of her son

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