The Physician's answer

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Association Press, 1913 - 43 páginas

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Página 14 - In view of the individual and social dangers which spring from the widespread belief that continence may be detrimental to health, and of the fact that municipal toleration of prostitution is sometimes defended on the ground that sexual indulgence is necessary, we, the undersigned, members of the medical profession, testify to our belief that continence has not been shown to be detrimental to health or...
Página 5 - That the exercise of the sex function is necessary to the full development and preservation of "manly power,"—the power of procreation. 3. That the sexual impulse in man is so imperious that it is impossible to control it and, therefore, a sexually continent life cannot be expected of man. 4. That, therefore, the moral standard which we apply to woman cannot be applied to man. To correct these erroneous beliefs about the sex function, Dr. MJ. Exner brought together the testimony of the foremost...
Página 15 - Physician of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City.
Página 28 - The Relation of Social Diseases and Marriage. By PRINCE A. MORROW, AM, MD, Emeritus Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Surgeon to the City Hospital; Consulting Dermatologist to St. Vincent's Hospital, etc., New York.
Página 16 - The experience of specialists shows that it is not the strongly sexed and most virile men who are most given to licentiousness, but those whose sexual organs have been rendered weak and irritable by unnatural exercise, in whom the habit of sensual indulgence has been set up and in whom self-control has not been developed by exercise, or in whom the will power has been weakened. These sexual weaklings yield to sensual impulses which the normally strong feel but repress.
Página 15 - Vice-Chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Chairman of the Commission ; Prof.
Página 14 - ... sexually continent life cannot be expected of man. 4. That, therefore, the moral standard which we apply to woman cannot be applied to man. To correct these erroneous beliefs about the sex function, Dr. MJ. Exner brought together the testimony of the foremost medical authorities of the United States. He drew up a statement regarding sexual continence, and submitted it to leading physiologists for criticism so as to bring its phraseology wholly within the requirements of scientific precision....
Página 24 - This is an authorized translation from Die Deutsche Klinik and the third volume in Modern Clinical Medicine, the first volume, "Infectious Diseases...
Página 6 - It is freely quoted in this chapter. [Editor.] vicious habits than of real conviction. Both wholly misrepresent the teaching and attitude of the great majority of physicians who constitute the reputable body of the profession. Dr. William H. Howell, Professor of Physiology at Johns Hopkins University, says: " There is no evidence whatsoever that the sexual appetite or the act of reproduction has any physiological relationship to the preservation of the integrity of the individual. This appetite has...
Página 26 - Obstetrics, edited by Joseph B. DeLee, AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics Northwestern University Medical School, with the collaboration of Herbert M.

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