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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    PART IL I'hc Caufcu SECTION VI. Yhe Importance rf the femlnal liquor^ IN what manner does too great an emiihon of femen produce thofe diforders which I have been deferibing ? This is what I am now going to exa- mine. Thefe caiiles may be reduced to two : a pri- vation of this liquor, and the circum(lances which accompany emilfion. To enter into anatomical dif- •quifitions of the organs which feparate it ; to frame conje<5fures more or lefs probable of the manner in which this fecretion is made, or to make obfervations Tipon its fcnfible qualities, would be introducing fub- jeéts into this ,work no way proper. It is only neceflary to prove its utility, by the teflimony of the moft eminent phyficians, fome of which I have al- ready given, and to determine what are its effedfs upon the body. The following fedtion is dcfigned to cxa~