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Samuel-Auguste Tissot

Born

in Grancy, Switzerland

March 20, 1728

Died

June 13, 1797

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Samuel Auguste André David Tissot was an 18th century Swiss physician. A well-reputed Calvinist Protestant neurologist, physician, professor and Vatican adviser, he wrote on the diseases of the poor, on the diseases of the men of letters and of rich people, and nervous diseases.

In 1760, he published L'Onanisme, a comprehensive medical treatise on the purported ill-effects of masturbation. The authority with which the work was subsequently treated — Tissot's arguments were even acknowledged and echoed by luminaries such as Kant and Voltaire — arguably turned the perception of masturbation in Western medicine over the next two centuries into that of a debilitating illness.

Tissot's most famous work in his lifetime was Avis au peuple sur sa sa ...more

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	Diseases Caused by Masturbation by Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Alphonse Gottfried (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1758 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Avis au peuple sur sa santé. English by Samuel-Auguste Tissot, J. Kirkpatrick (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Essay On Diseases Incident to Literary and Sedentary Persons by Samuel-Auguste Tissot, James Kirkpatrick really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1766 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A treatise on the crime of Onan; illustrated with a variety of cases, together with the method of cure 1766 [Leather Bound] it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Herrn S.A.D. Tissot Anleitung fuer das Landvolk in Absicht auf seine Gesundheit by Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Johann Thomas Trattner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1761 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dissertatio de febribus biliosis, seu, Historia epidemiae biliosae lausannensis, an. MDCCLV. Accedit Tentamen de morbis ex manustupratione 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1755 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts on the Sin of Onan: Chiefly Extracted from a Late Writer. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sermo Inauguralis De Valetudine Litteratorum 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Advice to the People in General, With Regard to Their Health: But More Particularly Calculated for Those, Who, by Their Distance From Regular ... to Be Seasonably Provided With the Bes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“These observations explain how the young woman, with whom David slept, gave him strength; how this same thing has succeeded with other old men to whom it has been advised; and why this weakens the young person who looses it without receiving any thing in exchange, or rather who receives the weak, corrupted and putrid exhalations which are so injurious. A person perspires more during coition than at any other time, because the power of the circulation is quickened. This perspiration is perhaps more active and more volatile than at any other time: it is a real loss, and occurs whenever emissions of semen take place, from whatever cause, since it depends on the agitation attending it. In coition it is reciprocal, and the one inspires, what the other expires.”
― Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Diseases Caused by Masturbation

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“I will mention an instance where masturbation was fatal, and which has been mentioned by Fabricius of Hilden. Cosmers Sotan had amputated a young man's hand, which had been injured by a gun; as he knew him to be very ardent, he prohibited his indulgence with his wife, when also he warned him of the danger. But when all the symptoms were relieved, and the cure was progressing, the patient feeling desires to which his wife not respond, he had an emission of semen without coition, which was immediately followed with fever, delirium, convulsions, and other violent symptoms, which caused death in four hours.”
― Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Diseases Caused by Masturbation

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“It is on this principle that Venette, in a work where we find a well written chapter on the dangers of an excessive indulgence in the pleasures of sexual intercourse, states that connection with a beautiful female exhausts less, than with an ugly one.”
― Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Diseases Caused by Masturbation

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