On spermatorrhoea and the professional fallacies and popular delusions which prevail in relation to its nature, consequences, and treatment.

  • Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886.
Date:
1869
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Credit: On spermatorrhoea and the professional fallacies and popular delusions which prevail in relation to its nature, consequences, and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Just Published, the Seventh Edition, price us., by Post, free, bs. 4d., OX TRUE AND FALSE SPERMATORRHEA; WITH A VIEW TO THE CORRECTION OF WIDE-SPREAD ERRORS IX RELATION TO ITS NATURE, CONSE- QUENCES, TREATMENT, AND CURE. Translated from the German of Dr. Pickfoed. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ESSAY ON GENERAL SEXUAL DEBILITY AND ITS TREATMENT. By the Editoe. OPINIONS OF THE MEDICAL PRESS. This work, written by an eminent German phy- sician, has a three-fold object. First to remove from the minds of patients the exaggerations and the cause- less alarms many of them entertain, in regard to the nature and consequences of their maladies. Secondly, to afford such correct and clear information in respect to the symptoms of the various forms of debilities treated of, as will enable them to distinguish between the imaginary and the real. And, thirdly, to withdraw their treatment from the domain of empirics and em- piricism, and place it on a basis of common sense and scientific medicine. The Author appears to have fully investigated these causes, and we have therefore much pleasure in recommending this work to the attention of that portion of the profession interested in the subjects on which it treats.—Medical Press, May 20th, 1868. Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical lite-