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CONTROUL OF PASSIONS : a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Ccmplete Restoration. Addressed to these
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
termiwating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. GO, Newmax•
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c.
CIINTSNTO OF THI WeaK,

Chap. 1. —Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
Indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced ix the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
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Duties of Married Life, and on the anhiiPpiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt he practice
ofsolf-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Pr3state.
Chap. s.—Syphilis, mid its attendant maladies and treatment. Cease,
and concluding observations, Plates, Jac.
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