Onanism, or, A treatise upon the disorders produced by masturbation, or, the dangerous effects of secret and excessive venery / By M. Tissot ; translated from the last Paris edition, by A. Hume.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1781
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    they fliould yield whatever is nutritious in thefflV The Itomach is unable to digeft what is difficultly di- gefted : its extrcnie languid aflion would be totally dcflroyed. by aliments citlver too hard, or liable to di- roiniffi its llrength. Upon thefe two- principles a catalogue may be formed of thofe which are proper in this cafe, and of luch as Ihould be excluded,. In the hiil clafs arc all thofe meats which are hard, and difficult, to be digelled, as all kinds of pork, that of old bealls, thofe hardened with art, cither by being faked or fmoaked ; a preparation which renders them acrid r all meat that is too fat ; all other greafy ineats what- ever, which relax the fibres of the fiomach, dimi- nifli the atlion already too feeble of the digcfiive moifiure, remifin undigefied, promote ohftrudlions, and by their fiay acquire an acrid quality, which, by continual irritation, occafions uneafinefs, pains, want of reft, anguifti, and fevers. In a word, there is nothing which perfons troubled with indi- geftion fliould abftain fo much from as every thing greafy. Parte that has not been fermented, efpeci- ally when hardened with greafe, is another kind of aliment much too ftrong for a bad ftomach. Pet herbs inflate and diftend, and thereby confine the cir- culation in the adjacent parts ; they are therefore e- qnally obnoxious, as are in general all kjuds of cabbages, bulky vegetables, and thofe which have an acrid taftc and fmcll, which laft quality renders them pernicious, independent of their windy ten- dency. Thofe fruits which are the moft falutary in in- flammatoty fever» and obftrudions, particularly thofe af %