The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-15 00:00:00

L 0 V E is the leading feeling of the human
breast. More exalted than mere passion, it soars high above
every other impulse of nature, and is not only stronger than avarice,
but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt from
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with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright-
ened, all things upon earth. How is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life-
time spent in the fulfilment of every engagement, snap the very con-
tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable ind '›
It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of important
ends. The wretched condition of such a b.ing mast subsequently be
beyond measure deplorable 1 Loving and beloved, he entails the
most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon
himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of
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Illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
ity oath and `
maturity, , resulting from
tions on the secret infirmities of y
and diseases of the reproductive organs ; with practical observe-
solitary habits, excesses, o: infection.
By SAMUEL LA'MEET, M.D.,
University of
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the
Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical gociety, &C.
the author
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ing ob-
This treatise is the result of a long course oat study in a peculiar and
much neglected branch of medical practice, ap on
al
experience, which has reference almost solely to the treat-
menttained the highest medical honours, is a guarad
for
of these diseases.
REVIEW OF THE WORE.
La'Mert on the Infirmities of Touth and Maturity.—" There are
scenes in the drama if life which are acted with no spectator but
Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrous. Happy the
mortal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf
into which such scenes must plunge him I In the book before us
such a monitor is to be found, calculated to warn and instruct the
erring, without impairing one idea that can vitiate a mired not al-
ready tutored by the vices of which it treats. It is written in a style
of masterly precision and lucidity, blending the profoundest truths of
philosophy and physics with the loftiest precepts of morality. It is a
production calculated to confer a vital benefit, physically and morally,
upon all who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and
propriety. A father may trust it in the hands of his boy. By un-
taught innocence the book is not, of course, needed ; but wherever
laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing in these
pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of
a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine."
—United Kingdom Magazine.
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