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3N THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON 'MR
lIEALTII AND SUORTENS lIIE DURATION OF HUMAN

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CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminating 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, Newman-
• street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, ike. &c,
. CONTENTS OF TIM WORE,
Chap. L.—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Tice on this Mind and Body,
evidenced in' the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and ether
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness ceased by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal vital
Functions, the nature aid treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused bit he practice
of self-indulgenee..— Chap.4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate.
Chap. (.—Syphilis.. and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.

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the playsioal and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the Natural
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Observations en the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
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Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
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Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases if the Reproductive OXgals,
explaining their strictures, uses, aid ftmctions, and the various
injuries that ars prodnood in them by solitary habits, tisanes, and
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BY SAMUEL LkitERT, M.D.,
9, BUDTORD-STRUT, EUDEORD•II QUAIL
LONDON.
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