On spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptomatology, pathology, prognosis, diagnosis and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1866
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    torns, and the plethoric subject whose weekly noc- turnal loss is an expression of a necessity of his sexual nature. II.—CEREBRAL FORM. The most serious mental effects are produced by masturbation. This vice, commenced at the period of puberty, interferes seriously with the development of the brain and the evolution of the mental faculties. We have already seen that this sad habit is contracted by those in whom the ner- vous apparatus predominates in activity over the muscular and digestive, and in whom the imagi- native faculties are more highly cultivated than the reason and judgment. The mental effects of spermatorrhoea are, also, marked in those cases which we have denominated the cerebral. It is to be remarked that the mental phenome- na of spermatorrhoea are not always in proportion to the seminal losses. In the cerebral form, in addition to those lesions of the sexual spinal sys- tem, of the digestive apparatus, and of the circu- lation, described under the genital form, there are certain disorders of the mind. That sperma- torrhoea will produce in one class of cases mental