A practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhoea / by M. Lallemand ; translated and edited by Henry J. McDougall.

  • Lallemand, F. (François), 1790-1853?
Date:
1853
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    AUTHOR'S PREFACE. During a period of fourteen years, I have collected more than one hundred and fifty cases in which involuntary seminal discharges were sufficiently serious to disorder the health of the patients con- siderably, and even sometimes to cause death. Most of these patients have been sent to me on account of sus- pected cerebral affections of more or less standing. Hence, by ;i singular chance, it has been in consequence of the publication of my Recherches Anatomico-Pathologiques, sur Vencephale et ses depen- dances, that I have obtained the most remarkable cases of diurnal pollutions; and I have correctly refused to acknowledge the presence of disease of the brain or its membranes in many cases where the existence of such disease had previously been considered indis- putable. Many other of these patients were supposed to suffer from chronic gastritis, or gastro-enteritis; from aneurisms near the heart, the early symptoms of phthisis, &c, &c.; and in other cases from ner- vous affections, and especially from hypochondriasis. These few words show how frequent, important, and difficult of detection, are involuntary seminal discharges, and to what deplorable errors of treatment they daily give rise: it may be foreseen, too, that \their causes must be very varied, and their treatment present con- siderable difficulties. ' The Brochure of Wickman and the commentaries on it by Sainte- Maria,1 are the only writings we possess, on a disease that degrades man, poisons the happiness of his best days, and ravages society! Of the researches of these conscientious observers, too, the profession are almost ignorant. They have, nevertheless, done all in their power to call the atten- Dissertation sur la pollution iliurne involontaire; par Wickmaim ; traduction de Sainte-Maria.—Lyons. 1817. I