The philosophy of marriage, in its social, moral, and physical relations : with an account of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs, which impair or destroy the reproductive function and induce a variety of complaints : with the physiology of generation in the vegetable and animal kingdoms : being part of a course of obstetric lectures delivered at the North London School of Medicine, Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, Bedford Square / by Michael Ryan.

  • Ryan, Michael, 1800-1840.
Date:
1848
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Credit: The philosophy of marriage, in its social, moral, and physical relations : with an account of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs, which impair or destroy the reproductive function and induce a variety of complaints : with the physiology of generation in the vegetable and animal kingdoms : being part of a course of obstetric lectures delivered at the North London School of Medicine, Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, Bedford Square / by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Monogamy; marriage; betrothings and nuptials) the causes of coldnesses and separations, of love and friend- ship ; iterated marriages; polygamy; jealousy; conjugal love, with love of infants; the various degrees of adultery, fornication, and concubinage; the lusts of fornication, con- cubinage, defloration: varieties, violation, seducing inno- cencies; the state of married persons in this life, and after death; truly conjugal love; the chaste and non-chaste prin- ciple ; the union of souls and minds in marriage;;; the state of the change of life which takes place in men and women by marriage ; the universals concerning marriage.—religious, moral, social, and physical; the opposition of scortotary (or adulterine) and conjugal love. Checks against increasing a family; increase and decrease of population ; the increasing licentiousness of men; the seduction, prostitution, and ruin of women; the shockingly dreadful deaths of abandoned women ; the thousands of these in existence; the defects of our laws relating to them, and their opposition to the laws of God, which command whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder. It must be evident to every sensible individual that the foregoing subjects deserve the most mature reflection and consideration of the faculties of law, medicine, and divinity, as well as of all enlightened persons, as they are of univer- sal interest to every class of society. One of the leading editors of the public press has thus addressed me on my de- scription of a part of the preceding subjects :— The bold- ness with which you have torn away the veil from vice is calculated to confound that large class of sentimentalists, who regard ignorance under the name of innocence as the best security of virtue. Your work is a useful, a moral, a benevolent and religious book. (Prostitution in London, fyc.) u It must do good, and great good to society. No man can read it who feels for man, without wishing to con- tribute something towards reducing that mass of crime, which you have well connected with human suffering and misery. There are prejudices in the world that for some time to come will present obstacles to your righteous under- taking. There is a false delicacy and a false refinement in the present age, which rather seeks to gloss over immorality, than to combat and subdue it. You have taken the bolder and nobler course ; but no man can stand in advance of his a-e without having something to suffer from the crowd he