[1] MONTESQUIEU, _Persian Lett._ 49. [2] The title of the Original French is ONANISME, which is changed in this translation, to avoid the mistake of the one work for the other. [3] BOERHAAVE _Prælectiones ad Inst._ §. 658. 1. 5. p. 444. Edit. Goett. [4] _De Morbis_, Lib. ii. cap. 49. Foes. 479. [5] _De glandulis._ Foes. p. 273. [6] _De re medica_, Lib. i. cap. 9 & 11. [7] _De signis et causis dict. morb._ Lib. ii. cap. 5. [8] L. i. c. 7. p. 34. Edit. BOERHAAVE. [9] Comm. tert. in Lib. iii. Hipp. _De morb. vulg._ Oper. Omn. tom. iii. p. 583. [10] _Historia mundi_, Lib. vii. cap. 53. p. 124. [11] _Tetrab._ Serm. iii. cap. 34. [12] _Medic. Static._ Sect. 6. Aphor. 15. 19. 21. 23 & 24. [13] _Commentar. de sanitate tuenda_, p. m. 37. [14] _Obs. Medic._ L. iii. c. 24. [15] ZIPÆUS, _Fundam. Med._ Part. ii. Art. 6. [16] _Instit. Medic._ Part. ii. cap. 28. [17] _Praxis Chirurgic._ Decur. i. Obs. 4. [18] Decur. ii. Ann. 5. Append. Obs. 88. p. 56. [19] SCHELAMMER _Ars medendi univers._ Lib. ii. Sect. ii. Cap. iv. §. 23. [20] _Consult. Cent._ 2 & 3. Cas. 102. T. iii. p. 293. [21] Same place, Cas. 103. [22] Same place. [23] _De morbis ex nimia venere_, § 18. Oper. Omn. Suppl. sec. Pars prim. p. 496. [24] _Institut._ § 77. Translated into French by M. D. L. M. [25] _Comment._ on the foregoing quotation, T. vii. p. 214. [26] _Institut. physiol._ § 870. 872. [27] _De insensib. perspir._ cap. ult. [28] APHOR. 586. T. ii. p. 46. [29] _De morb. anim. ab infirm. medull. cer._ p. 37. [30] Opera Omnia, fol. T. iii. p. 295. [31] Lewis’s _Tab. Dorf._ p. 12. [32] Lewis’s _Tab. Dors._ p. 16. [33] _Immoderata seminis profusio, non solum utilissimi humoris jactura, sed ipso etiam motu convulsivo, quo emittitur, frequentius repetito, imprimis lædit. Etenim summam voluptatem universalis excipit virium resolutio, quæ crebro ferri nequit, quin enervet. Colatoria autem corporis quo magis emulgentur, eo plus humorum aliunde ad se trahunt, succisque sic ad genitalia derivatis reliquæ partes depauperantur. Inde ex nimia venere, lassitudo, debilitas, immobilitas, incessus delumbis, encephali dolores, convulsiones sensuum omnium, maxime visus, hebetatio, cæcitas, fatuitas, circulatio febrilis, exsiccatio, macies, tabes & pulmonica & dorsalis, effeminatio. Augentur hæc mala, atque insanabilia fiunt, ob perpetuum in venerem pruritum, quem mens non minus quam corpus tandem contrahit, quoque efficitur ut & dormientes obscæna phantasmata exerceant, & in tentiginem pronæ partes quavis occasione impetum concipiant, onerique & stimulo sit quamlibet exigua reparati spermatis copia, levissimo conatu, & vel sine hoc, de relaxatis loculis relapsura. Quo circa liquet quare adolescentiæ florem adeo pessundet iste excessus._ INSTITUTIONES PATHOLOGIÆ Medicin. Auctore H.D. GAUBIO, Leyden, 1758. [34] _Consult. Med._ T. ii. p. 16. [35] Dated the 15th September, 1755. [36] Decur. ii. ann. 4. Obs. 166. p. 327. [37] SCHENCKIUS, L. i. Obs. 2. 36.