Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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to consist of loose elastictissue intimately interwoven with nerves, and divided into multi-tudinous cells, into which, under excitement, blood is forced, fillingor congesting them to their utmost capacity. The penis and glans-penis of the male, and the clitoris, nymphse or internal labia, and aportion of the vagina of the female, are largely composed of thistissue, and the nerves in these parts being numerous, and in a healthystate sensitive, a little titillation will give them prominence and tur-gidity. Or, if the organ of amativeness becomes aroused withoutany such local titillation, it precipitates such a supply of electricalstimuli upon the nerves of the organs under its control, that theysuddenly become erected. The nervous forces so sent not only con-tract the muscles of the arteries adjacent to the erectile tissue, bywhich their blood is forced into the latter, but the heat which thepresence of the nervous stimuli creates^ also invites the pressure of IMPOTENOY. 545 Fig. 142.
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blood. Every person who has ever immersed his feet in hot water,has undoubtedly noticed how distended the veins of them become.This is not in consequence of the contact of the water itself with thefeet, but because the waterimparts its heat to them,while the blood is everready to congest any partof the system which is un-duly heated. Now, wheth-er or not the externaltemperature of the erectiletissue is heightened, so asto be perceptible, whenthe organ of amativenesswarms it up with its mag-netic influence, certain itis, an unusual degree ofheat is present therein, andthat there is every incen-tive given for the blood tooccupy and distend it, aswell by invitation as bycoercion. But it is not by congestion of the erectile tissue alone that thepenis of the male and the clitoris, nymphae, etc., of the female be-come erected under amative excitement. All of these organs are alsoprovided with erectile muscles, which, when free from the presenceof the electrical excitation, are flabby and sh

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