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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    t very ftriffl analogy, and that the lofs of the one, ct the other, produces the fame ills. INIr. Hoffman has fcen the moll fatal accidents flow from a diiîîpa- tion of the feed. * After frequent noflurnal pollu- * lions,^ fays be, ‘not only the powers are lofl, the ‘ body falls away, and the face turns pale ; but * moreover the memory fails, a cold fenfation feizes ‘ all the limbs, the fight is clouded, and the voice bc'* ‘ comes hoarfe*; all the body languiflies by de-* ‘ grees; diflurbing dreams prevent fleep adminifler* ‘ ing any relief, and fuch pains enfue, as are felt ‘ from the blows of a cudgel f.’ In a confultation which was held for a young man, who among other ills which he had drawn upon him- felf by mafturbation, w’as affliâed with a great weak-* nefs of fight ; he fays, ‘ That he had feen feveral * examples of people, even in an advanced age, that ‘ is to fay, after the body had attained its full vigour, ‘ who had not only brought on a rednefs, and acuto ‘ pains in the eyes, but alfo fuch a weaknefs of fight, * that they could neither read nor write any thing * whatever.’ I have alfo feen two gutta ferena’s produced by the fame caufe J. An account of tha difordcr which gave rife to this confultation will doubtlefs be agreeable to the reader. ‘ A young ‘ man at the age of fifteen, having given way to * mafturbation, and having frequently praiftifcd it, ‘ till he W'as three-and-twenty, was at that period ‘ feizèd with fuch a wcaknefs in his head and eyes, * that the latter were frequently afflidted with violent ‘ fpafms * Confult. Cent. 2 and 3. cafe 102, vol. iU..p. J4v •f Ibid, cafe too. X Ibid, cafe 103. /•