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    A Self Guide for All Men
    A Self Guide for All Men
    A Self Guide for All Men
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    A Self Guide for All Men

    By L. W. DeLaurence

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    “A Self Guide for All Men” is a vintage self-help book written specifically for men by L. W. DeLaurence. Self-help books aim to help the reader with problems, offering them clear and effective guidance on how obstacles can be passed and solutions found, especially with regard to common issues and day-to-day life. Such books take their name from the 1859 best-selling “Self-Help” by Samuel Smiles, and are often also referred to as "self-improvement" books. This particular self-help book concentrates on problems related to men and men's health, and will be of utility to men trying to deal with certain problems. Contents include: “Insanity and Suicide”, “Facts of this Case”, “Spermatorrhoea”, “Unnatural Indulgence”, “Symptoms of this Terrible Disease”, “Other Symptoms of Self-defilement”, “Sterility and Impotence”, “Impotence and Nervous Debility are Manifested as Follows”, “Sin of Self-defilement”, “Record of Suicide or Self-murder in the United States for the Year 1905”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473351783
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      A Self Guide for All Men - L. W. DeLaurence

      A Self Guide For All Men

      In the Books of Holy Scripture we find, in Genesis, Chapter 30, verses 14, 15, 16, 17, the Testicles spoken of and directly referred to as Mandrakes. The testes (Testicles from testicule, Accus. Of testiculus, dimin. from testes, a testicle). "Anat. One of the two glands which Secretes the Seminal fluid in males." The testicles proper, as stated above, are the glands which secrete the Seminal fluid in males. They are protected by the Scrotum, which is the bag or external tegumentary covering enclosing the Testes in the higher mammals. In man it is subject to a distinct disease known as chimney-sweep’s cancer, from the liability of that class to suffer from it. Other diseases are hypertrophy, erysipelas, inflammatory edema, and tumors of the scrotum. Testes miliebres is an ancient name for the ovaries; from the old notion that semen was secreted by females as well as by males. The Testes generate and secrete the Semen and are kept in a vigorous, strong and healthy state when properly supplied with healthy blood from the abdominal aorta.

      INSANITY AND SUICIDE

      Insanity and also Suicide (that great unpardonable and desperate deed of despair) have their source and origin in an imperfect and weakened state of the Testicles and Sexual forces; therefore, from this is to be gained an idea of the vital importance which men in every age have attached to the proper performance of these functions, and when, by self-abuse or excess, they have been weakened, the terrible consequence will surely fall and descend onto him who is to blame. There are cases on record where the Testicles are more than two in number. However, sometimes only one is found. This is caused by the one of the Testes being withheld or retained in the abdominal canal. In Calcutta, India, there is a young man of great strength and fine physique who has four well-developed Testicles. Another case which is known to the physicians of a certain hospital is where a man of middle age upon examination was thought to have only one Testes, but upon a closer examination the other one was found to be retained in the abdomen, as stated above. The Spermatic cord is connected at the upper end of the Testicles. The glands or vessels proper for the semen are located on the lower outside surface of the bladder. These glands also contain a transparent fluid in which the Semen proper is floated and projected during the act of ejaculation. The Prostate gland is a delicate and highly sensitive organ, consequently very susceptible to inflammation and certain diseases. It is somewhat larger than an ordinary hickory nut, passes in front of the bladder and also a portion of the urethra. The Prostate gland generates a transparent mucilaginous substance which moistens the Urethra, through which the Semen is ejaculated during intercourse. Whenever the Prostate gland is even slightly diseased, or any inflammation whatsoever has been started therein, normal copulation is greatly interfered with and causes annoyance, dissatisfaction, and even very severe pain. Where there is any sexual weakness the Seminal fluid is very often wasted with little effort of lewd imagination, especially at night when the patient is asleep. This, of course, as is well known, will bring about impotence and greatly diminishes man’s vitality. Medical men have been known to treat cases of this nature, where a permanent wasting of seminal fluid is present, as venereal diseases. Their ignorance, of course, has been very disastrous to their patient.

      The male organ of generation is composed of a root, body, and extremity, forming with the Testes and their appendages. The gland resembles a figure of a true cone; the interior is composed of a very delicate and highly sensitive set of nerves peculiar unto themselves. When these nerves and the whole male organ of generation of man are in a normal condition he generally enjoys good physical and mental health. However, it is to be regretted that many young men, as well as those during middle age, are so weak that they are unable to properly perform the function for which their organs were created. This, of course, is due to a general deficiency of Sexual force and vitality. This condition has been brought about and superinduced by that terrible state of mind and mental attitude which results from abuse and excesses, and unless this abnormal state is properly understood from a mental as well as a physical standpoint the chances of its cure are very small.

      The glans-penis is covered by a foreskin, which during ancient times and even to this day is removed by an operation which is known as Circumcision, which means to cut off the prepuce foreskin of males; also to perform an analogous operation on females. Circumcision is spoken of in the Scriptures and refers to rendering Spiritual and Holy by, as it were, cutting away the sins. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed.— Deut. xxx. Circumcision, strictly speaking, is the act or Rite of cutting off the foreskin in males, also an analogous operation on females; a Rite practiced not only by the Jews in ancient times, but by the Egyptians, Idumeans, Ammonites, Moabites, and Ishmaelites of the desert. The Jews practice circumcision only on males; the Arabs, Egyptians, and Persians circumcise both sexes.

      Erection of the organ may be caused or superinduced by an unusual amount of urine in the bladder, which causes it to distend and is often present upon first awakening in the morning. The male organ proper being composed of a very delicate and sensitive system of nerves, is directly under the control of the mental or vital forces of man, and where there is any diminution of physical force, the organs are quick to manifest it by impotence and a weakened state. During normal health and proper sexual vitality the erectile nerves and muscles of the male organ during the act of coition become extended, and the seed, which is under the direct control of the mental forces of the mind, is ejaculated at this time. If man is in a proper state of sexual health, this act will in no sense of the word diminish his strength or mental force, but if ejaculation is caused by Morbid Imagination or night emissions take place during sleep, as a result of an evil dream, the whole physical body and the mental forces of man become weakened.

      Semen, a word taken from Latin (seed, from the same root as sere—to sow).

      Semen, properly speaking, is the seed or prolific fluid of the male, or sperm; the secretion of a testicle; also

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