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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    t6 llill warm with exercife ; this fliould be taken before a meal, and Ibme intermediate time precede eating. EVACUATION. Evacuations are diflurbed with the other funcf^lons, and their irregularity incrcafes the diforders of the whole body : it is necelTary to attend to this com- plaint, in order to remove it in time. The 'evacua- tions which require our principal care, are ftools, per- fpiration, and fpittle. Th&bcd method of fupporting them, or of reftoring them to their proper llatc, is to obferve the precepts which I have laid down upon the other objedts of regimen ; thefe things being punflually followed, evacuations (the irregularity of which form the barometer of the bell or word Hate of digellion) will be pretty regularly performed. That which is the moH important to affill is perfpiratlon, which is ealily dlfturbed in weak people. It is fa- voured by rubbing the Ikin very regularly with a flan- nel or flelh brufh ; when perfpiratlon is become very languid, the mofl certain method of relloring it is to cover the whole body immediately with flannel. Too many deaths lliould be avoided, left the patient fliould fweat, which is always prejudicial to perfplration the ftrainers being forced, are more enfeebled, and afterwards perform their funélions woi fe ; too little cloathlng is as much to be avoided, as all cutaneous evacuation is thereby prevented. The parts which every one, and particularly weak people, Ihould keep M 3 the