Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall.

  • Hall, Winfield Scott, 1861-1942.
Date:
[1912]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before the sex development begins, tends to develop female characteristics. Conversely, the castrated female tends to develop male characteristics. This general law of nature is true for man and all the higher animals. At the beginning of what is called “ adoles- cence,’^ the rapidly developing sex glands be- gin the preparation of a substance which is absorbed into the blood and distributed to muscles, brain and glands, causing them to de- velop those qualities peculiar to the sex. The muscles of the boy become large and firm and strong. The brain of the boy assumes those qualities distinctive of manhood and there is a new fire kindled in his eyes. The substance prepared by the testicles for this great work of building manhood is called an internal secretion. This internal secretion must not be confused with the semen. The testicle makes two secretions. The internal secretion, so called because it is absorbed into the blood, makes a man out of a boy. The external secretion (the semen) is the fertiliz- ing fluid by means of which the man begets a boy (or girl). [17]