Practical essays and remarks on that species of consumption incident to youth, and the different stages of life, commonly called tabes dorsalis : with an account of the nature, causes, and cure of that distemper, and the diseases arising therefrom, especially the nrevous atrophia, and the phthisis, or consumption in general : to which are added, extracts from the works of the most distinguished practitioners of the present and former ages, coinciding with the author's own practice and experience, demonstrating the baneful effects of unnatural venery on the finest functions in the animal oeconomy / by Henry St. John Neale.

  • Neale, Henry St. John.
Date:
1800
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical essays and remarks on that species of consumption incident to youth, and the different stages of life, commonly called tabes dorsalis : with an account of the nature, causes, and cure of that distemper, and the diseases arising therefrom, especially the nrevous atrophia, and the phthisis, or consumption in general : to which are added, extracts from the works of the most distinguished practitioners of the present and former ages, coinciding with the author's own practice and experience, demonstrating the baneful effects of unnatural venery on the finest functions in the animal oeconomy / by Henry St. John Neale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    15/248
    ther appearance, becaufe the mufcles acquire a tlnckneis and firmncfs, which make a fenfible difference between the body of an adult perfon, and that of a youth not yet arrived at the age of puberty. But thefe changes are fomctimes prevented by deltroy- ing the organ, which ierves to feparate the liquor that produces them, hence an ampu- tation, or a decay of the tefticles, even, at the age of virility, has been known to make the beard fall, and a puerile voice return.* We may therefore conclude, that the power of its operation upon our bodies cannot be queftioned; or can any one doubt of the various ills that mull: necefiarily follow, from a profufe evacuation of a humour that is fo precious ? Its deftination determines the only proper method of its being evacuated. Certain diftempers caufe it iometimes to run off. It may be involuntarily loll in dreams. The Author ot Genefis has given us the hiftory of the crime qf pollution in the perfon of Onan, in order doubtlefs to tranfmit to us that of his chaftifement: we * Vide Boerhaave, Prele£t. ad Inftitut. 3 are