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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    any remedies for him, he having already taken great quantities, many of which had done hiin no good ; all thofe that were hot had been pernicious. Quin- quina infufed in wine, which INIr. Albinus prcfcrlbcd for him, gave him eale ; and the authority of this great phyliclan is a frefli tedimony of much weight in favour of this remedy. In the confultation of M. Hoftinan, we meet with a cafe nearly limilar ; the venereal cacoëthcs was almolT: continual, and the foul and body were equally enervated. SECTION XÎL Of a SIMPLE GONORRHOEA. A Gonorrhœa, fays Galen, which is only fimple, is a running of the feed, without ercdlion Many authors of every age, and Mofes, the m'ft ancient of all, mentions it. We find in the obferva- tions of Hippocrates, an inftance of a mountaineer, whole dilorder leemed to be a marafmus, and who had an involuntary running of urine and feed-f. M. Q_3 ‘ Boer- Confult. cent. 2. and 3. oper. t. 3. p. 214. f Bptd» 1. b. f. 3.. n. 13* l^ocf. ir6y.