A Treatise on the Crime of Onan: Illustrated with a Variety of Cases, Together with the Method of CureTissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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A Treatise on the Crime of Onan: Illustrated with a Variety of Cases, Together with the Method of Cure
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Masturbation -- Early works to 1800; Sexual ethics -- Early works to 1800
The patient of whom I particularised the case in the fifth Section,
where I promised an account of my method of management of his disorder,
lived for three months upon nothing but milk, upon bread well-baked,
upon one or two quite new laid eggs, a day, and fair water, just drawn
from the fountain. His milk he took four times a day, twice warm from
the cow without bread, twice warmed on the fire with some bread. The
remedies were an electuary composed of bark, of conserve of orange-peel,
and syrup of mint. His breast was covered with an aromatic strengthening
plaister. His whole body was every morning rubbed down with flannel. He
took as much exercise as he could bear, both on horseback and foot, and
especially he kept much in the open air. His weakness, and his complaints
of his breast, hindered me from advising him the cold bath at that
epoch. The success, however, of the remedies was such, that his strength
returned to him, and his stomach was restored. In a month’s time he was
able to walk a league on foot. His vomitings ceased intirely; the pains
of his breast were considerably diminished, and for these three years
last past he continues in a very tolerable state of health. Little by
little he returned to his usual aliments, having taken a distaste to milk.
The parts of generation are always those that recover their vigor the
slowest. Often too they never regain it, even though the rest of the body
appear to have recovered its natural strength. In this case, it may be
literally prophesied, that the part which has sinned, will be the part
that shall die.
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