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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    mile flowers, which he continued taking for fix weeks, and which reflored him to a better ftate of heath than he had enjoyed for feveral years. It would be need- lefs to cite a great number of examples, upon every thing foreign to the prcfent fubje£l, in order to evince the ftrengthening virtue of the remedies, which has been for a long while fo clearly proved, the ufe of which is evidently pointed out by every fymptom of this diforder, and its utility is confirmed by the moû. happy fuccefs. When I ufe the quinquina in a liquid form, T order a decoflion of half an ounce with two ounces of water, or, according to the indication, red wine, boil* ed for about two hours in a clofe veffel, three ounces of which are to be taken three time a day. The cold bath is to be ufed at night, vrhen the digeftion of the dinner is entirely finiflied, as it contributes to promote found fleep. 1 have feen a young mafhirbator who pafled his nights reftiefs and uneafy, and who in the morning was bathed in colliquative fweats ; the night after he had bathed fix times he flept five hours, and rofe in the morning without fvveating, and much better. Steel is a third remedy, -that is fo much ufed in all weak cafes, as to render it unnecelTary.to infift upon its efficacy as a fortifier ; as it is no way irritating, it is very proper for our patients. It may be either given in fubflance or by infufion ; but the beft'prepa- ration is the martial water, as nature makes it, and particularly that of Spa,, which is one of the molt powerful ftrengtheners known,, and a: flrengthener,- that fo far from irritating,, foftens all the fuperfluous- acrimony of the humours. Gums, myrrh, bitters,.