An essay on spermatorrhoea : being a microscopic investigation into its physiological and physical relations; with observations on the nature, causes, and treatment of the various disorders of the procreative system in men. Illustrated by cases / by R. Dawson.

  • Dawson, Richard, active 1845-1852.
Date:
1846
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Credit: An essay on spermatorrhoea : being a microscopic investigation into its physiological and physical relations; with observations on the nature, causes, and treatment of the various disorders of the procreative system in men. Illustrated by cases / by R. Dawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    apoplexy, epilepsy, &c., the types of certain cerebral derangements; in apathy and indolence, a disordered condition of the nervous system—will, of course, regard and treat such diseases as primary affections, nor ever once imagine that all the phenomena may spring from a very different source, and which, if investigated and controlled at first, might have laid the foundation of a good constitution and permanent restoration to health. But deplorable indeed is the condition of him, who in his maddened career, who in his ungovernable indul- gence, delivers himself up the victim of unrestrained sensuality, and surrenders himself to the enervating influence of unnatural gratification. It has frequently fallen to my lot to see persons at an age which may be considered the prime of life, the period of the fullest health and vigour—the feeble and decrepid types of a premature decay, embittered too by all the agonizing effects of the utmost bodily infirmity and mental imbecility. Surely the condition of him, whose mental inability, at thirty or five and thirty years of age, rescues him from those useless feelings of anxiety and remorse, which a survey of by-gone days would be so eminently calculated to excite, must be happy compared with that of him who, unfortunately for liimself, still retains a higher degree of mental energy. There is not, perhaps, in the whole category of pathology, a more