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" (...) It is certain that to prostitution we must trace the origin and propagation of all infectious diseases of the genitals. In all ages, whether driven by necessity, impelled by ungovernable licentiousness, seduced by the arts of men, or betrayed by their own hearts, women have been found to barter their loveliness and their charms for lucre, or for love. Many of these women, to excite still further their admirers, have introduced into their disgusting orgies the most shameless refinements of debauchery, and thus multiplied the forms of venereal disease. Banished at first from a society whose morals were pure, they were tolerated as these morals became tainted ; and at last, established into a necessary evil, laws of hygiene and police were requisite for the preservation of the public health and the better regulation of these unfortunate beings themselves.
(...)
The origin of the world and that of prostitution are, as it were, coeval. The latter is closely associated with the earliest sacred rites, still forms an integral part of many religions in remote and savage nations, and is anterior to that of human sacri- fices. " Increase and multiply," were the first commands addressed by the Creator to two innocent creatures, formed in his own image, and sleeping on a bed of roses in one of the delicious retreats of the terrestrial paradise, lulled to rest by the warbling of the nightingale. They were soon to experience the tender feelings of father and mother, and beget a posterity destined to rule the earth. At a later period, that is, after the cataclysm, or universal deluge, and the miraculous salvation of Noah, the patriarch Abraham, after expecting in vain offspring from the companion of his bosom, left her, at her own request, for her handmaid Hagar, by whom he had a son named Ishmael. Led by the same hope of posterity, the two daughters of Lot intoxicated with wine."
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SYPHILITIC DISEASE, BY PHILIP RICORD, D.M.P.
WITH THE ADDITION OF A HISTORY OF SYPHILIS,
AND A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FORMULARY OF REMEDIES.
PHILADELPHIA
A. HART, late CAREY AND HART,
126 CHESTNUT STKEE I .
1851.
" (...) It is certain that to prostitution we must trace the origin and propagation of all infectious diseases of the genitals. In all ages, whether driven by necessity, impelled by ungovernable licentiousness, seduced by the arts of men, or betrayed by their own hearts, women have been found to barter their loveliness and their charms for lucre, or for love. Many of these women, to excite still further their admirers, have introduced into their disgusting orgies the most shameless refinements of debauchery, and thus multiplied the forms of venereal disease. Banished at first from a society whose morals were pure, they were tolerated as these morals became tainted ; and at last, established into a necessary evil, laws of hygiene and police were requisite for the preservation of the public health and the better regulation of these unfortunate beings themselves.
(...)
The origin of the world and that of prostitution are, as it were, coeval. The latter is closely associated with the earliest sacred rites, still forms an integral part of many religions in remote and savage nations, and is anterior to that of human sacri- fices. " Increase and multiply," were the first commands addressed by the Creator to two innocent creatures, formed in his own image, and sleeping on a bed of roses in one of the delicious retreats of the terrestrial paradise, lulled to rest by the warbling of the nightingale. They were soon to experience the tender feelings of father and mother, and beget a posterity destined to rule the earth. At a later period, that is, after the cataclysm, or universal deluge, and the miraculous salvation of Noah, the patriarch Abraham, after expecting in vain offspring from the companion of his bosom, left her, at her own request, for her handmaid Hagar, by whom he had a son named Ishmael. Led by the same hope of posterity, the two daughters of Lot intoxicated with wine."
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SYPHILITIC DISEASE, BY PHILIP RICORD, D.M.P.
WITH THE ADDITION OF A HISTORY OF SYPHILIS,
AND A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FORMULARY OF REMEDIES.
PHILADELPHIA
A. HART, late CAREY AND HART,
126 CHESTNUT STKEE I .
1851.