On spermatorrhoea and certain functional derangements and debilities of the generative system : their nature, treatment, and cure / by F.B. Courtenay.

  • Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886.
Date:
1882
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On spermatorrhoea and certain functional derangements and debilities of the generative system : their nature, treatment, and cure / by F.B. Courtenay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE TWELFTH EDITION, Fifty-six years have elapsed since I commenced my professional career by being apprenticed (as the fashion then was) to Messrs. Banks and Jones, of Eyde, Isle of Wight, practising as Surgeon-Apothe- caries—the phrase used in those days to designate medical general practitioners. Subsequently, I re- sided as assistant with the late Mr. Welch, at Stanstead, in Essex. From thence I went to reside with Mr. Nedham, of Belgrave Gate, Leicester who was a gentleman of great eminen'ce in the profession, and who held the appointments of Senior Surgeon to the Leicester County Infirmary, Fever House, Lunatic Asylum, the County and Town Gaols, and was, at the same time, surgeon to several charities existing in that town. On leaving Leicester, and after spending some time as a student at Guy's, I went to reside with the late Mr, Stevena at Pewsey, Wilts. All of these