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(Left) Representing Gonnorrheal Ophthalmia & eruptions on the face. (Right) Representing Veneral eruptions & ulcerations on the face & throat

Hand-coloured engraving: il se debat contre la morte.

(Left) Representing the leg swollen and ulcerated from the effects of Secondary symptoms. (Right) Representing the face covered with Tubercles & veneral excrescences

Full length engraving representing the effects of Lues Venerea or secondary symptoms on the face, throat, arms and hands also a node on the skin bone. Drawn from a recent case which he succesfully treated.

Toothed Urethral ring for the treatment of masturbation

(Left) Representing the face of a child where it has inherited consitutional disease from the mother. (Right) Representing ulcerations of the body during the earlier stage of syphilis

Appliances for treatment of masturbation

Woman wearing appliance for treatment against masturbation.

Male displaying the effects of onanism

Hand-coloured engraving: il etait jeune...

Hand-coloured engraving: son corps est couvert de pustules.

Diagram of a corset for the treatment of masturbation. Suspensoir a poche elastique. (Suspending rod has pocket elastic) Fig. 1. Elevation de face, et tel qu'il doit etre place et vu sur le sujet. (Elevation in face, and such as it must be placed and seen on the subject) Fig. 2. Elevation lateralr, ou profil (Elevation lateral, or profile)

Page of advertisments from 'The Popular Herbal..'

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Onanism

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Images about Onanism

Works from the collections

Page of advertisments from 'The Popular Herbal..'

Hand-coloured engraving: il etait jeune...

Hand-coloured engraving: il se debat contre la morte.

(Left) Representing the face of a child where it has inherited consitutional disease from the mother. (Right) Representing ulcerations of the body during the earlier stage of syphilis

Woman wearing appliance for treatment against masturbation.

Onanism

Images from the collections

Images about Onanism

Works from the collections

Page of advertisments from 'The Popular Herbal..'

Hand-coloured engraving: il etait jeune...

Hand-coloured engraving: il se debat contre la morte.

(Left) Representing the face of a child where it has inherited consitutional disease from the mother. (Right) Representing ulcerations of the body during the earlier stage of syphilis

Woman wearing appliance for treatment against masturbation.

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