Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
The frequent exercise actionis conjungendi leads directly to anaemia,
malnutrition, asthenia of the muscles and nerves, and mental
exhaustion. Immoderate persons are pale and have long, flabby and
sometimes tense features. They are melancholic and not fit for any
difficult and continued bodily or mental work. They possess very little
power of resistance. The patients suffer from aboulia or inability
to concentrate their minds upon any subject. There is a certain
dysaesthesia or hyperaesthesia of the senses, especially against noise
and light. Insomnia is very frequently complained of. Cephalalgia
and vertigo is a frequent occurrence. The patients have a feeling
of anxiety in stomach and in heart-regions. Anorexia, or loss of
appetite, is often met with. Besides, the patient suffers from nervous
dyspepsia and constipation which not seldom alternates with diarrhoea.
There is often found tachycardia and an arythmic or intermittent
pulse. Sometimes asthma and coughing are complained of. The patients
feel fatigued at the least exertion. The most annoying symptom
is pollakiuria and cystic tenesmus. In men pains in the back are
radiating to the legs and to the inguinal and spermatic-cord regions;
in women coccygodynia is often encountered. These effects frequentis
commixtionis are often seen in men and women after a certain period of
married life has elapsed.
Apart from the bad effects upon the general health of the man and
woman, excesses in venere cause various local disturbances. Too
frequent sexual excitement retards the orgasm or makes it impossible.
The detumescence that normally occurs after ejaculation does not take
place. The genital organs remain thus in a certain state of congestion
which causes chronic inflammations, such as prostatitis, vesiculitis,
orchitis or urethritis in men, and vulvitis, vaginitis, endometritis,
metritis, salpingitis, ovaritis or peri- and parametritis in women.
The habitual congestion of the uterus causes the tissues to become
succulent, and the vessels enlarged. It shows, then, all the symptoms
of subinvolution, such as menorrhagia, exhaustion and sexual apathy.
Sexual excess, as everything else abused, produces satiety and finally
indifference. Emptiness in life is then the individual’s lot, and
it falls into a state of moral apathy which is characterized by the
suspension or complete loss of every sentiment.[CT]
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