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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    A 4-^ Before I proceed farther,, permit me to intreat* fiithers and mothers to reflct'T: upon the fource from whence this laft patient^derlvcd his misfortunes, as there arc more examples of the kind than this one.. If they may be deceived in* the choice of thofc’ ta whom they intruft the in7portant charge of- forirMiig’ the mind and heart of their pupils ; what is there not' to fear from thofe who, being only appomted to dif- play their corporeal talents, arc examined kfs criti-- cally with'rcfpcdf to their moraisj- and from fervants,. who are frequently hired without its being known whether they biiVC any morals at all ? The child whom Lfpoke of, from M, Rail, was inflrutffed in this evil, as we have feen, by a fervant rrraid ; the Englifli colIc<ifion is replete with fuch examples ; and; rcould produce buf too great a number of young plants who have been loft by the very gardener wbo« was intrufted with their rearing. There are in this* kind of culture, gardeners of both fexes. But I ftialh be aftced where is the remedy to this evil ? The an-r- fwer is. within my fj-'hcre, and I fliall give it in a concife manner. Be particularly careful in the' choice of a.preceptor, watch over: him and his pupiR with that vigilance which an attentive and an cn-- lightened father of a family exerts to know what is done in the darkeft rcceffcs of his houfe : ufc that vb gilance which difeovers the coppice where the deer has taken, flicker,. when it has cfcapcd all other eyes ;; this is always poflible when it is earneftly purfued.. Docuit enim fahula domhmm I'idere flurimum in re- ius fuis», Bhæd., Kcvcri