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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    ■ regard to the conneilîon that fubfifts between dreams and Inch ideas as the foul has been occupied with in the day-time, ferves to e:tplain why mafturbators are fo fubjeft to nodturnal pollutions ; their foul being all the day poffelled with venereal ideas, reprefents to itfelf the fame objects during the night, and the lafci- vious dream is followed by an evacuation, which is- alwas ready to be made when the organs have acquir- ed a confiderable degree of irritability. It is neceflary to prevent in time the progrefs of the, habit ; and, whatever rrray be the firft caufe of pollu- tions, not to let them arrive at a degree of inveteracy. ' When they are of long duration they are cured with great difficulty. ‘ There is no diforder,* fays Mr.- ‘ Hoffman, ‘ which torments more the patients, and * gives more trouble to the phyfician, than noélurnal ‘ pollutions of long continuance, and which are be- *■ come habitual, particularly if they have diurnal re- ‘ turns. The beft remedies are almoft always in vain ‘ admlniffered, and they often do more harm than ■ ‘ good All phyficians that have written upon this diforder have pronounced the cure to be very difficult ; and all phyficians who have had occafion to treat it, have experienced it themfelves: nor need we be furprlzed, Unlefs w'e can either reftore the powers of the organs, and diminilh their irritability for the intermediate time, between two pollutions, which is impofiible, or at once prevent the return of lafeivious dreams, which is equally difficult, we may be fure that the pollution will return, and that it will deftroy almoft all * Conf, loz,