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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    Ti’lth fjîirits, it animates as much as wine, and is {1111 more uouriflting, and may ferve both for liquors and aliment. Chocolate may be reckoned among the ufeful •drinks, though it may more properly be clalfed with aliments. In cocoa there is a very nutritive fub- flance, and by mixing with it fugar and aromatic*, •its oily or noxious qualities are correéled. ^ Choco- ■* late made with milk (fays Mr. Lewis) in fuck * quantity as to pafs eafy off the flomach, is an ex- * collent breakfafl for a tabid conftitution. I knew a * child, twelve years old, in the laft ftage of a con- ■* fumption, when given over by a phyfician, recover- * ed by her mother’s giving her chocolate only, in '* fmall quantities often repeated. Indeed, it is an * aliment that for weak conflitutions cannot be too * much recommended*.’ There are fome to whom at would be very prejudicial. There is one general precaution, which is, to're- frain from all liquors in great quantities; they tveakeii digelKon by relaxing the llomach, drowning the digeflive juices, and by precipitating the aliments before the}’- are digefted : they relax all the parts, diflTolve the humours, excite making water, or drairt*-- ing fweats. I have feen diforders occafioned by weaknefs confiderably diminillicd without any remedy but the mere retrenching of the quantity of liquor the patient ufually drank. SLEEP.