Science Discovers the Physiological Value of Continence

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Mentions "lecithin" 134×. Lecithin deficiency, such as via excessive seminal loss, correlates with neurasthenia.

"An ounce of semen is considered to be equal in value to sixty ounces of blood, of which it constitutes an extract of some of its most valuable of constituents, as far as its vitalizing power is concerned."

cf. St. Albert the Great's commentary on Aristotle's Animals:

"sperm is derived […] especially from the brain, because the brain is white and soft and moist, and in this respect it agrees with the substance of the sperm […] intercourse particularly evacuates the brain". (Semen, like the brain, is full of lecithin, which is a neuro-nutrient.)

"a certain master, Clement of Bohemia, told me there was a certain hoary old monk who approached a certain beautiful mistress and just like a starving man he demanded her sixty-six times before the striking of matins; the next day he fell down and, on the very same day, was dead. And because he was a noble, his body was opened up and his brain was found to be entirely evacuated, so much so that nothing more of it remained than the size of a pomegranate, and similarly his eyes were destroyed. Nature marvels at this, although it seems to be consonant with reason. This, then, is an indication that intercourse particularly evacuates the brain"

description from Health Research Books: "1957 Bernard attempts to show you how the internal secretions of the sex glands stand at the basis of the individual's physical and mental vitality. Some physicians and psychoanalysts believed continence was a main cause of nervous and mental diseases. In this unique book Bernard proves these theories incorrect. Find out what he has to say!"

Semen, spermatazoa, and brain/nervous system have roughly the same chemical composition!

ref:2.3 "The physiological chemist, [John] Simon, describes the semen, as a thick, whitish, glutious mass containing cholesterin, which he calls 'brain fats', and lecithin, a phosphorus-containing fatty constituent of brain substances."

ref:3.1 "Miescher in his studies of the spermatozoon"

ref:4.1 "1910 when Thudichum published 'Die Chemische Konstitution des Gehirns des Menschen und der Thiere' (Chemical Composition of Human and Animal Brains)" [published at the German Catholic university Tübingen, Germany: F. Pietzcker, 1901.]