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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    plaint immediately, conildcring’ the dangers that are likely to enfiie, orders nothing but ftrengtheners, abdinence front amorous pleafurcs, and the cold bath *. Celfus, of whofe works every one has availed himfelf, prefcribes.frictions and bathing in extreme cold water (nationefque quant frigldiilimæ) ; he is of opinion, that every thing eat or drank fttould be taken cold; that all aliments which may engender crudities and wind, and increafe the acrimonv of the femcn, fltould be avoided. Fernel preferibes fuccu- lent aliments that are eafily digefted, and refforative electuaries i'. If what Langife promifes ( ‘ w'ho takes upon him ‘ to fwear, that purgatives and a proper regimen ‘ will cure this dlforder)’ be true, this can only be in fuch cafes as are produced by bad diet, w'hich mar have occalioned obftruétions in the abdomen, and made all the humours degenerate, without the folids being in any conhderable degree affeâed ; and he had no other cafe in view'; for if the folids had re- ceived any particular injury, purgatives mull necef- farily have been affilled by aftringents. Such was the gonorrhcea that fell under the obfcrvaiion of Regis, and which Craanen has preferved an account of. ‘ A man,’fays he, ‘ of a phlegmatic conditution, ‘ W'ho for a long time had ufed humid aliments, was ‘ afflided with the running of a watery humour, ‘ raw * P. 131. f Oper. omn. p. ^4^,