The Baneful Habit; or, Keep taking the Nervous Cordial

SERIOUS AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES

A certain disorder which both sexes are strongly addicted to, which rages at the present period with dreadful violence, and that which renders it more lamentable is, its being of so particular a nature, that it will not permit the unhappy sufferers to discover their disorder, and often precipitates them to a very early age silently to the grave, i. e. Onanism, Genesis, chap. xxxviii. verse 9 and 10. “The Lord smote Onan with instant death.”

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from The Courier and Evening Gazette, Saturday 1 August, 1795


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