ARTICLE IV.
Accessory, or Relative Diseases.
SECTION XI.
Nocturnal Pollutions.
I have shown the dangers of an over-abundant evacuation of the seminal liquid, by excesses of venery, and by self-pollution: I have also observed, in the beginning of this work, that it was to be lost both by nocturnal pollutions through libidinous dreams, and by that running called the simple gonorrhœa. I shall briefly examine these two disorders.
Such are the laws that unite the soul to the body, that even when the senses are locked up by sleep, the soul is taken up with ideas transmitted to it in the day.
Res, quæ in vita usurpant homines, cogitant, curant, vident,
Quæque aiunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt
Minus mirum est.
Acc.