The beacon, or, A warning to young and old : in which is shown, in the medical practice of the author, how body and mind are destroyed by evil habits, resulting in epilepsy, consumption, idiocy, and insanity / by William M. Cornell.

  • Cornell, William Mason, 1802-1895.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The beacon, or, A warning to young and old : in which is shown, in the medical practice of the author, how body and mind are destroyed by evil habits, resulting in epilepsy, consumption, idiocy, and insanity / by William M. Cornell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS ON THE ABOVE CASES. If such cases do not develop a parent's duty to teach his child the evil results of such a practice, it is difficult to say what would. I would say to every parent who fears that the ears of his child, son or daughter, may be contaminated by hearing such things, While you are afraid they will hear of such conduct, they may be in the practice of that which will one day result in epilepsy, idiocy, or insanity; and, if you are wise, or prudent, you will clear your own skirts, by telling them the result of such and such a course. I have now given five cases in which epilepsy was induced by self-abuse—three males and two females. I could swell the list to a hundred, but that is not necessary. If the above are not enough to convince pa- rents and youth of the evils of such habits, the hundred, or a thousand cases would not do it. The horrors of epilepsy, I shall scarcely attempt to describe. A clergyman, of the Baptist denomination, from Charleston, South Carolina, who had it, and who re- covered under my treatment, has described