Home-treatment for sexual abuses : a practical treatise on the nature and causes of excessive and unnatural sexual indulgence, the diseases and injuries resulting therefrom, with their symptoms and hydropathic management / by R.T. Trall.

  • Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), 1812-1877.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Home-treatment for sexual abuses : a practical treatise on the nature and causes of excessive and unnatural sexual indulgence, the diseases and injuries resulting therefrom, with their symptoms and hydropathic management / by R.T. Trall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contntis. KntrotJurtton. Evils Resulting from Sexual Abuse—Physiological Marks—Pathological Indica- tions—Suspicious Symptoms—Sexual Abase in the Married Relation, Attrib- utable to mere Elabtl Premature Decay—Important Advici—Prevalence of Masturbation—Children Addicted to the Secret Vice—Premature Development of Sexuality—lis Effed on Body and Mind—Impositions of Quacks—Self-pol- lution,a Misfortune rattier than Vice—Tin- Rising Generation must be Instruct- ed—The True Method of Removing the Evil- -Instructive Communications., iii (■Eljajuter © u e. E X C E S 81V E S E X 0 A L E X CIT E M E N T. General Causes—Improper Nursing—Dosing—Dructirini;—Their Effects in Infan- cy Illustrated—Animal Food specially conducive to Morbid Amativeness— Flesh—Fish—Fowl—Mixed Dishes—Alimentary Abominations—Mothers at Fault—Medical Men in Error—Salle.1 Meats especially Obnoxious—Ruinous Advice of Physicians—Concentrated Food—Error in regard to Fish as com- pared with Butcher's Meat—Salt Injurious—Erroneous Opinions of the Nutri- tive Value of Flesh—Constipation—Hardened Fceces—Piles—Hemorrhoidal Tumors—Affects Girls more than Boys—Improper Drinks—Obstructed Skin— Improper Clothing—Sedentary Habits—Mental Culture, how Abused—Self- abuse in Schools—Testimony of S. Graham—of E. M. P. Wells—Obscene Books—Lewd Conversation—Gross Eating and Vulgar Thinking Naturally Associated—Testimony of Dr. Paley 28 (Eijapter ffitoo. GENERAL CONSEQUENCES. Pathological Phenomena—Vital Exhaustion, usually mistaken for Specific Dis- eases—Symptoms as described by Graham—Symptoms mentioned by Dr. Hill— External Indications described by O. S. Fowler—Signs of Self-abuse by the same Author—Signs of Excessive Indulgence in Married Life—Cases Illus- trative—Symptoms of Masturbation described by Deslandes—Ordinary Course of symptoms 49