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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    boiled in much water communicate all that is ntitrî» tious in them to the broth, and are no longer nou- rilhing ; they frequently become nothing more than flefliy fibres, devoid of juice, and filled with water, infipid to the tafte, and hard to be digefted by the fto- iiiach. It it common to find weak people imagine high diflies will not hurt them, though they cannot -eat of them without finding that their ftomachs fuf- fer. The more tender meat is, the lefs capable it is of undergoing this preparation, which fliould be re- ferved with regard to the patients, in order to extradt from hard meats all that is nutritious in them. Notwithftanding the greatefl care is taken in the- preparations of meats, there are perfons who can- not digeft them ; fo that the juice only can be given them, and this Ihould be extrafted after the meat is half drelfed ; but as it would eafily corrupt, a little bread and fome lemon juice (hould be added, or elfe a little wine ; fuch a mixture is the moft nutritious aliment that can be given. Boiled lobllers dilîblved in broth heightens the tafle, and renders it, perhaps, ftill more ilrengthening ; but this ingredient is at- tended with two inconvcnicncics ; the firft is, that it is' fomewhat heating, and the fécond is, that it may render the broth more liable to fpeedy corruption ; fo that it is neceflary to be cautious in thefe icfpefts. Bread and vegetables have not the advantage of unit- ing much nutriment in a I'mall quantity ; but their ufe, particularly bread, is abfolutely neceflary to pre- vent not only the diflafte which a continual regimen of animal diet only mull create, but alfo the putrefadbon which mull cnfuc. If not mixt with vegetables. , Without