Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their TreatmentCulverwell, Robert James
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Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment
Culverwell, Robert James
Genitourinary organs -- Diseases; Sexual health; Sexually transmitted diseases
Now, as the consequences of all criminalities continue to ensue so
long as the provocative be kept up, it is very evident that, as a
first step toward the restoration of order and health, the cause
must be removed or withheld. The mere will or resolution is seldom
sufficient: virtue, like vice, has its allurements, and those belonging
to the former must be called into requisition as antagonists to the
snares of the latter. Physic can not check bad principles, or bad
indulgences. No method is or can be superior to that full employment
of the mental faculties on noble and intellectual subjects, on objects
worthy the high ends for which Nature has adapted them. And though
the difficulty will be great in inducing new and good habits, to the
exclusion of such as are unworthy and degrading, yet the effectual
accomplishment of such a resolution is not of uncommon occurrence; and
the sufferer may be placed under circumstances where good habits may
be more frequently called into action naturally, to the exclusion of
vicious propensities. The time should be well filled, so as to leave
no room for flying to the various usual sources of amusement that fill
up the life of the thoughtless and gay. Every hour and every minute
should be provided for, so as to exclude the admission of idleness and
sloth, the forerunners of mental and bodily disease. Studies connected
with education should be encouraged. Modern languages have a great
claim on the consideration of all who are engaged in business to any
extent, and are of incalculable use after they have fulfilled the
immediate end for which their culture is here recommended. The various
sciences bearing more or less on the pursuits and employments of
every man, are earnestly recommended to the choice of the unfortunate
victim of sensuality. Geology and botany would call him into the
healthful fields, or fill up his time by his fireside, in studying the
many excellent works on those subjects: the still higher utility of
chemistry, as being made of practical use in almost every business,
and demonstrating the else unintelligible phenomena of a multitude of
natural processes and changes, may be held up as another inducement to
call forth his best energies.
Travelling, to those who can afford the expense or the time, is one of
the best means of conquering this baneful habit. The numerous objects
thereby presented to the eye of the invalid in the manners, government,
and productions of art and nature, of the countries he visits, are an
incessant source of pleasing and useful excitement, and can not fail,
especially if the traveller be accompanied by an intelligent and moral
friend, to weaken and eradicate the bad impressions of the past.
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