Hints for the young in relation to the health of body and mind / by S.B. Woodward.

  • Woodward, Samuel B. (Samuel Bayard), 1787-1850.
Date:
1856
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    and the most deplorable and hopeless idiocy, in which it frequently results. This is perhaps peculiar to this cause of idiocy. I know of no other which does not pro- duce the ravings and illusions of insanity, or the gloomy musings, agitations and alarms of melancholy, before the mind is lost in idiotism. But the victim of masturbation passes from one degree of imbecility to another, till all the pow- ers of the system, mental, physical and moral, are blotted out forever. This is not, however, always the case. In some individuals there is all the ravings of the most furious mania, or the deep and cruel tor- ture of hapless melancholy, before the mind is obliterated, and the energies of the system for- ever prostrated. False hearing is often one of the first symp- toms of insanity from this cause. The jealousy which had marked the character and conduct previously, now becomes greatly increased, and the suspicion of being the subject of remark and ridicule, is confirmed by hearing voices, opprobrious accusations and censure, which confirm all former belief, and establish the truth of what was before only suspicion. With the jealousy and apprehension which had previously