Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1867. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... period iii. the functions and disorders of the reproductive organs in the adult. The following pages will, for the purpose of greater clearness and conciseness, be divided into two parts. In the first I propose to describe the adult sexual condition is a whole, and, in the second, to examine rather more minutely the constituent parts and necessary requisites of the sexual act, viz., erection, ejaculation, and emitted semen. first division. adult sexual condition as A whole. The commencement of adult life is a period in human existence less marked, perhaps, but not less real, and hardly less critical, than that of puberty. The general growth of the body is complete. The immature limbs of childhood are hardened into the firm and elastic frame of man. The mental powers should be at their highest. The will and judgment should command, and yet be enlivened by the remains of youthful energy and enthusiasm. And, which is more to our present purpose, the virile powers, whose existence commenced at puberty, now at last matured, should be fit and ready to be exercised in obedience to the Creatoris command to be fruitful and multiply. At a period differing in every manis life--but occurring generally somewhere between twenty-five and thirty--he is conscious, if he had lived on the whole a chaste life, of a great change in those sexual tendencies of which he has been frequently conscious before. They are no longer the fitful fancies of a boy, but are capable, he feel...
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