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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    1-7 ÿ ot ail venereal inclination and credion, and con- fequcntly of all ejaftation, though the tefticlcs did not fecm unable to perform their funftions. It ap- peared evident to me, that in thefe laft cafes the real tefticular femen infenfibly oozed. And when the flrudfurcof the genital parts is known, it is eafy to conceive that the firft diforder nuift be much more frequent than the latter. Authors who write with precilion have iHled that the real gonori'hoea, in which they thoug'ht the matter that oozed was the real femen, and the other the baflard or catarrhal gonorrhoea. The dangerous effedls of this gonorrhoea are very confiderable: I deferibed tvhat Areteus has given us upon this head. He fays in the fame place, ‘ How * can a perfon avoid being weak, when what gives ‘ force to life is continually diminifliins: : femen alone ‘ is what forms the flrcngth of man.’ Cclfus, who lived before Areteus, pofitively fays, that the incelTant oozing of the femen, without venereal fenfation, brings on a confumption *. John, the fon of Zach- arius, but better known under the name of Acharius, is of the fame opinion as the author I have quoted^ in the work which he compofed for the ambaffador of the emperor of Conftantinople, who was fent into the North : his words are, ‘ If the oozing of the * femen, without eredlion or fenfation, continues ‘ any time, the neceffary confequences are a con- * fumption and death ; becaufe the molt balfamic Cb.3 ‘ pare