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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    ît will bc alked, arc there no cafes in which emetics and purgatives may be allowed to the patients 1 am fpeaking of? Doubtlefs theie are fome, but they arc •very fcarcc, and great care fltould be taken left thufe fymptoms, which feem to require cvacuents, do not ■arife from a caufe which Ihould be treated in a very different manner. I fliall not enumerate thofe dif- tinCtions, it would be improper here ; I fliall con- tent myfelf w'ith giving warning, that evacuents fliould be very feldom tiled in this diforder. Mr. Lewis is of opinion that a gentle emetic may be an ufeful preparative for the firil: pafl'ages to receive the other remedies; but he would not have it carried farther; 1 have found by feveral cafes that it might, -îind fliould be difpenfed with ; and I have quoted two obfervations above of M. Hoffman, who proves all the danger of this remedy. Common fenfe alone w'iihout experience, tells us, that a remedy which caufes convulfions, can be but of little fervice in dif- orders which are the eftedt of repeated convulfions. The caufe mufl: be removed to eradicate the dif- order; if it be daily diminiflied, the effedl w'i 11 cer- tainly fubfide, without a relapfc. If the eft'ecl- only is attacked, the labour of each day is not only ufe- lefs on the following, but almofl; conllantly preju- dicial. After having pointed out w'hat fliould bc avoided —what is to be done ? I have already deferibed the qualities of the remedies—they fliould fortify wfith- out irritating. There are fome which may fulfil both thefe indications ; the catalogue is however not very numerous, and the two mort cflicacious are •doubtlefs bark (quinquina) and the cold bath. The N firfl