{"id":239290,"date":"2011-05-29T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/le-livre-sans-titre-an-illustrated-warning-of-the-deadly-perils-of-self-abuse-1830\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:42:07","slug":"le-livre-sans-titre-an-illustrated-warning-of-the-deadly-perils-of-self-abuse-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/le-livre-sans-titre-an-illustrated-warning-of-the-deadly-perils-of-self-abuse-1830.php","title":{"rendered":""Le Livre Sans Titre," An Illustrated Warning of the Deadly Perils of Self Abuse, 1830"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jim Edmonson of the Dittrick Museum has just written a wonderful post on his museum blog<\/a> about a rare book from the 1830s entitled Le Livre Sans Titre (The Book without a Title<\/span>). This beautifully illustrated tome is a graphic warning against the perils of self-abuse, or onanism, via the tale of a healthy and handsome young man's slow decline--symptom by terrifying symptom!--under the influence of the deadly vice.<\/p>

Mr. Edmonson has generously scanned the lovely hand-colored images and translated the captions from French to English, creating a kind of inadvertent 1830s graphic novel; I have republished the highlights here as a warning to young men, lest you trace this young and comely man's tragic fall and ultimate demise:<\/p>

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He was young, handsome; his mother's fond hope<\/p>

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He corrupted himself! ... soon he bore the grief of his error, old before his time... his back hunches...<\/p>

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See his eyes once so pure, so brilliant; they are extinguished! a fiery band envelops them<\/p>

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Hideous dreams disturb his slumber... he cannot sleep...<\/p>

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His chest burns... he spits up blood...<\/p>

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His hair, once so lovely, falls as if from old age; his scalp grows bald before his age....<\/p>

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He hungers; he wants to satiate his appetite; food won't stay down in his stomach...<\/p>

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His chest collapses... he vomits blood...<\/p>

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Pustules cover his entire body... He is terrible to behold!<\/p>

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A slow fever consumes him, he declines; all of his body burns up..<\/p>

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His entire body stiffens!... his limbs stop moving...<\/p>

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He is delirious; he stiffens against death; death gains strength.<\/p>

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At the age of 17, he expires, and in horrible torment!<\/p>

As mentioned above, this is an excerpt from a larger piece; you can read the entire story on The Dittrick Museum Blog by clicking here<\/a>. And click on images to see much larger, more detailed images.<\/p>

Thanks very much to Jim Edmonson f<\/a>or making this available for public consumption!<\/p>

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