Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    views our laisser faire policy with disgust and contempt. It is to be hoped that this book will not be misunderstood by the public, or misinterpreted by those who are against all preventive measures ; as it is merely an effort to call attention to great evils that really exist, and which have been con- cealed too long, and to the detriment of the nation’s welfare. Modern science opens up a vista of great possibilities for the improvement of the present state of affairs, and it is only right that the public should be informed on the subject, so that it may be able to form an opinion as to what ought to be done, or whether nothing ought to be done. Our asylums and hospitals show conclusively that this is a sad and weary world for high ideals ; and it is more sensible to take the world as we find it, and to do the best we can under given conditions. To put the thing in a nutshell, the question is simply this, ought modern science to be invoked in order to check these social dis- eases ?