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all of ice. The common use of iced water in America, 
where it can be obtained in every railway carriage and 
in every village, has done more I believe to reduce intem- 
perance than anything else ; 
4th. In better and more wholesome modes of preparing food, 
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other forms of ner ffection, proj 
Lascertained that there was sexual intemperance. In some cases of 
insanity admitted into the Hospital, and especially in elderly men 
with young wives, I have with good reason attributed recovery to 
the temporary and enforced continence. 
Lallemand was the first to point out the influence of seminal 
discharges on certain forms of vesania, and though like almost all 
iali gerated their influence, he did good 
service in showing that hypochondria, moral prostration, and true 
melancholy were sometimes due to this cause. The effects of 
cent. in the English tables, and these rates will doubtless seem 
small to all who have read a certain kind of sensational literature, 
ic cause insanity than the 
practices which it denounces. There is little doubt but that 
Masturbation has been too frequently cited as a cause of insanity 
by. bservers who are without the breadth of view which can only 
re gathered by a complete scientific and medical education. It is 
it to exist in th i 
tamed that it wes not only discarded but regarded with due 
_ Shor after recovery. 
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