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Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
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THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical %Velork on
the infirmities and decay ot the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of,
mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
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Past I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-produetive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
Pion. 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul-
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and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity.
It is lllostrated by Three Explanatory Engravings,
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

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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 Conatitutienal
Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
kve 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. 60, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. Le,
CONTENTS or THE WORE,
Chap. 1.--Bodily and Mental Exhaustion indaced by inordinate
Indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneitil Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion. Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by lint-titled
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 by he practice
of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.--Gonorrhoea, its symptoms,
complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate.
Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, tic,
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