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Page 56 - The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such inestimable value to instruments that have belonged to great masters.
Page 45 - ... should make large public provision in dispensaries and hospitals for the treatment of the venereal diseases. They should be treated with a view to prevent their further distribution through the community. In the third place, the practice of the medical profession needs to be completely changed in regard to their sense of responsibility towards innocent people who may be infected by persons whom the physicians know to have venereal disease. That is a very important point, and it is going to be...
Page 45 - Elliots' remarks (The Crusade for Sex Hygiene) seem pertinent : It is absolutely inconsistent with :ill other public health measures that venereal patients, patients with syphilis or gonorrhoea, should be allowed to keep these diseases secret, should be walking about the streets, working in the shops and factories, sitting in the street cars, and frequenting the hotels. We do not allow such conduct nowadays with regard to any other contagious diseases. It is high time, gentlemen, that this practice...
Page 20 - There is therefore no physical reason, and there never has been any moral reason, for maintaining two standards as regards chastity, one for men and the other for women. The same virtue is needed in both sexes for the happy development of that family life on which the security of the race and the progress of civilization depend.
Page 46 - ... who may be infected by persons whom the physicians know to have venereal disease. That is a very important point, and it is going to be a very difficult point in the prosecution of this crusade. It is the practice of many physicians to conceal the fact that the young man who is under treatment for venereal disease is so affected, even when the physician knows that the young man is about to marry an innocent girl. Many physicians justify that concealment, and say it is the only mode of action...
Page 23 - University, expressing his regret that he could not be present at the meeting on account of serious illness.
Page 47 - Is it best to try to diminish prostitution by closing the brothels, or is it best to allow the massing of it in assigned quarters, there regulating and controlling it?
Page 19 - ... which VD would prevent them from fulfilling their paternal obligations. Many of the pamphlets for men cautioned them of the disastrous consequences that syphilis and gonorrhoea could harbour for the well-being of their children, their family, and the nation more generally. As Charles Eliot professed: 'It is clearly understood that the consequences to offspring of lack of chastity in the father may be just as grave as those of lack of chastity in the mother; and that the happiness and security...
Page 19 - ... to abstain from extramarital sexual relations and to save themselves for marriage. As one medical practitioner explained, absolute continence was as necessary in men as in women: The advantage of preventative medicine, and the far better understanding of the conditions of health and bodily vigour which obtains to-day, have put the whole subject of masculine chastity in a new light. It is now absolutely known that complete continence is consistent with perfect health, and, indeed, that continence...
Page 53 - The children of to-day are destined to be the units of a society whose point of view is to make it unique in the world's history. It will be characterized by a single standard of morality for both sexes.