Identifier: bookofnaturecont00asht (find matches)
Title: The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married : on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Ashton, James History of Medicine Collections (Duke University) NcD
Subjects: Contraception Sex Manuals
Publisher: New York : Wallis & Ashton
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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FCETUS AT SIX MONTHS. AND WHAT IT LEADS TO. 45 erally prostrated. Excess of venery is likewise the firstexciting cause of many painful diseases, such as rheuma-tism, neuralgia, epilepsy, convulsions, &c. Young marriedpeople are apt to indulge too much in sexual intercourse,and many a man lives a life of misery from ill health ori-ginated in this manner. Women are not affected so muchby over indulgence as by Masturbation. Delicacy not al-lowing an ardent woman to tell her husband of her needs,she is apt to relieve herself hy this unnatural practice.There are, however, but few women who crave sexual in-tercourse. The excess is generally on the part of the man.Moderation in sexual pleasures is the key to health in agreat many cases where the patient is hopelessly lamentinghis sad fate. Sometimes a man will indulge to excess with-out experiencing much inconvenience, when suddenly a fitof palsy or epilepsy prostrates him, and leaves him a hope-less invalid for life. I remember an inter

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