Seminalia, or an enquiry into the symptoms, consequences, causes, signs, nature and treatment of seminal diseases, whether arising from abuse, excess or irregularity in either sex : including spermatorrhoea, stricture, impotence, seminal gleet, and intended to be a faithful and practical guide to all who in any way may be interested / by Joseph E. Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
Date:
1865
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Credit: Seminalia, or an enquiry into the symptoms, consequences, causes, signs, nature and treatment of seminal diseases, whether arising from abuse, excess or irregularity in either sex : including spermatorrhoea, stricture, impotence, seminal gleet, and intended to be a faithful and practical guide to all who in any way may be interested / by Joseph E. Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The character of this work—Abuse defined—The importance of this subject and its alarming prevalence—Duty of understanding it The Symptoms—Symptoms described and explained in their natural groups—Symptoms in the female, described in the same way May be confounded with Green-sickness.—Symptoms of Chlorosis. Opposed to the way in which this subject is usually treated in works intended for unprofessional reading, I shall not infringe upon the province of the moralist, but shall rather, in my proper character as physician, consider it simply as a disease, the causes, symptoms, nature and consequences of which are to be discovered and the remedy pointed out. I therefore propose to give the plain and simple truth, leaving all the rest to the good sense of the reader; and especially to such as are, unfortunately, most interested ; and this I believe will be both most acceptable and most useful. • Masturbation, then, may be defined to be the stimu- lation or excitement of the genital organs by friction with the hand or other unnatural means and with or without a seminal discharge; in the male applied to 2