Man's mission on earth : being a series of lectures delivered at Dr. Jourdain's Parisian Gallery of Anatomy, addressed to those laboring under the baneful effects of self-abuse, excesses, or infection : also, a familiar explanation of the venereal disease showing the danger arising from neglect or improper treatment in disorders of the generative system / by R.J. Jourdain.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
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1872, ©1867
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Credit: Man's mission on earth : being a series of lectures delivered at Dr. Jourdain's Parisian Gallery of Anatomy, addressed to those laboring under the baneful effects of self-abuse, excesses, or infection : also, a familiar explanation of the venereal disease showing the danger arising from neglect or improper treatment in disorders of the generative system / by R.J. Jourdain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of masturbation. In fact, they are combined in an inseparable degree; thus showing the close connection existing between the functions of the organs of generation and those of nutrition, and proving how the wasting of that matter which is prepared by the ageney of the stomach, reacts upon the nutritious process and functions. In like manner, the early symptoms of insanity resemble many of those of dyspepsia, and most of those of masturbation; again proving how impossible it is for one part of the frame to suffer without causing debility and decay, more or less, upon all other organs from natural sympathy. Now, in treating dyspepsia, as in all other dis- eases, it is very requisite that the medical man should find out the origin of the complaint. Thus, one man may have all the dyspeptic signs which have arisen from sedentary habits, impure air, and perhaps unwholesome diet. Here, then, the derangement arises from a want of supply of necessary constituents to carry on the great work of digestion. The gastric juice does not receive its share of assistance, and becomes tor- pid. Again, the man who has lived high and had recourse to immoderate stimulants, has irritated and inflamed those internal agents un- til they are unable to bear the strain upon them. But the unfortunate Onanist has done more than either; he has drawn upon these creating