A treatise on the diseases produced by onanism / by Tissot ; translated from a new edition of the French, with notes and an appendix by a physician.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases produced by onanism / by Tissot ; translated from a new edition of the French, with notes and an appendix by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vain perhaps of this kind of resemblance, some of these im- perfect females have attempted to perform the functions of the male* The danger in this is no less, than in other excesses; the consequences are frightful. All these abuses produce exhaus- tion, languor, pains and death. This last kind deserves more particular attention as it is common in our times, and it would be easy to find more than one Laufella and Medullina, who like these Romans, esteem the gifts of nature so much as to think to banish the arbitrary differences she has imposed. Some fe- males have been known to love others of their sex with as much ardor as the most passionate men, and even to be jealous of those who seem to entertain for them sentiments of affec- tion. It is time to finish such sad details; I am weary of describ- ing the turpitude and misery of humanity. We shall give no more cases here; those which remain will be found in their pro- per places ; and we pass to the examination of causes, after re- marking generally, that those young persons who are born with feeble constitutions have much more to fear, than those who are more vigorous. No one escapes chastisement, but it is not equally severe upon all. Those especially who are affected with hereditary diseases, as gout, calculus, phthisis, hsemopti- sis, epilepsy and tabes dorsalis ; all these unfortunate persons should be intimately persuaded that every act of this kind affects their constitutions very much, suddenly hastens the ills they dread, renders their attacks much more serious and will bring upon them in the bloom of life all the infirmities of old age. Tartareas vivum constat inire vias. * Illas dixitGrceciaTRiBADES,GallisdicunterRiBA0DES: monstrum quo- tidie nascens et cui eo confidentius sese tradunt puellee quod abest foecun- dita8 et ut dixit Juvenalis : Quod abortivo non est opus.