A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections. With practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men ... / by Homer Bostwick, surgeon.

  • Bostwick, Homer
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of seminal diseases, impotency, and other kindred affections. With practical directions for the management and removal of the cause producing them, together with hints to young men ... / by Homer Bostwick, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of recovery, and dying the most miserable of all deaths by my own hands. I cannot live long. VVhat shall I do ] I have been troubled with emissions for over four years. I am sad, lonely, and hopeless. I have so far continued to attend to my business, ’tis true, but oh ! that I could adequately describe to you my feelings. You would pity me. My emissions take place as often as three times a week, and for the sake of humanitv, if nothing else, will you do something for me 1 In addi- tion to the emissions, I am troubled, in urinating, with a burning sensation in the urethra; and on going to stool, I observe a dribbling of semen. My appetite is tolerably good except when it is destroyed by sadness. I am troubled with pain over the eyes, in the back part of my head, in my joints, and a weakness in my limbs. You cannot conceive the misery and deplorable state of my mind and body. Perhaps I should say that the emissions sometimes occur with an erection, and some- times without; sometimes during lascivious dreams, and sometimes I have no recollection of any dream. I have seen many days and weeks that I did not wish to live. The emissions aflect me more and more. I feel prostrated and greatly debilitated, and have al- most a constant and deep-seated pain in that space be- tween the anus and scrotum, and shooting through to the loins. I have been paying attention to a lady that I love, and what am I to do ? Would it not be insulting for me to propose maiTiage in my present condition h Would she not feel imposed upon % Oh ! sir, if I could but banish these feelings, and once more be re- stored to health, what is there that I would not give ] 11#