ABSTRACT
Blumenbach speaks of reproductive instinct as "superior to all others in universality and violence." A part of the evil consequences to which this instinct is daily giving rise under the present state of things, it belongs more particularly to the moralist to point out; whilst of others it falls within the province of the physician to treat. This instinct is liable to be gratified at improper times, to an intemperate degree, and in a mischievous manner. Every young married woman ought to know that the male system is exhausted in a far greater degree than the female by gratification. It seems, indeed, to have but little effect, comparatively, upon some females. But with respect to the male, it has been estimated by Tissot that the loss of one ounce of semen is equal in its effects upon the system to the loss of 40 ounces of blood.
