97

" indulgence during, 241

Premature development, 78

" decay, 419

Prevention of conception, 250

Priapism, 350

Prostate gland, 72

" " enlargement of the, 349

Prostitution, 400

" in Greece, 287

Pruritis, 374

Puberty, 74

" premature, 75

" influence of diet on, 76

" changes at, 79

" influence of climate on, 75

Pudenda, the, 73

Purifying apparatus, 425

Quacks, 362, 412

Race degeneration, cause of, 436

Religion, help of, 213

Religious novels, 297

" insanity, 371

Reproduction, 31, 424, 476

" elements of, 45

" in polyps, 58

" anatomy of, 71

" curious modes of, 57

" in the honey bee, 58

" in lower animals, 218

Reproductive organs, 71

" functions, 217

" apparatus, 426

" elements, union of, 57

Reptiles, fecundation in, 56

" development in, 60

Respiration in woman, 44

" of the fetus, 67

Results of abortion, 280

Roman emperors, licentiousness of, 288

Satyriasis, 124

Scrotum, the, 71

Secret vice, 428

" " evidences of, 481

" " prevalence of, 480

" " terrible effects of, 480

Self-abuse, 315, 428

" causes of, 321, 487

" effects of, 437

" the signs of, 331

" results of, 347

" treatment of, 378

" not a modern vice, 319

" physical causes of, 329

" how to cure the habit of, 382

Self-control, 311

Self-pollution, 428

Self-murder, 431

Seminal fluid, the, 51, 72

Senility, 420

Senile children, 134

" sexuality, 123

Sentimental books, 485

" young women, 190

" literature, influence of, 296

Sex, 35

" in plants, 37

" in animals, 38

" law of, 101

" of fetus, 102

Sexual differences, 38

" organs of plants, 46

" " of animals, 48

" relations, the, 116

" precocity, 117

" " causes of, 122

" activity, the limit of, 124

Shaker views, 258

Sitz-baths, 404

Sleeping, 393

Social lepers, 146

" evil, the, 284

" " causes of the, 290

" " cure of the, 308

Solitary vice, 315

" " alarming prevalence of, 316

" " unsuspected