The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system ... / by Frederick Hollick.
- Frederick Hollick
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system ... / by Frederick Hollick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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![A Gold Medal to Doctor Hollick.—The Ladies of Dr. Hollick's class have presented him with a beautiful Gold Medal, enclosed in a handsome morocco case. The front of the Medal hears the following inscription : Presented to Frederick Hollick, M. D.. by the Ladies who attended his Lectures on Pysiological Science, delivered at Philadelphia, March, 1S46, as an expression of their approbation of the knowledge therein conveyed, and as a testimonial of personal regard. On the reverse is the Sun, and reflected by the rays of the luminary, a scroll containing the words To give light to them that sit in darkness. Phila. Spirit of the Times, March 28, 1846. LETTERS FROM NEW YORK, NO. 11. ****** There have been several courses of Lectures on Anatomy, this winter, adapted to popular comprehension. I rejoice at this ; for it has long been a cherished wish with me that a general knowledge of the structure of our bodies, and the laws which govern it, should extend from the scientific few into the common education of the people. I know of nothing so well calculated to diminish vice and vulgarity as universal and rational information on these subjects. But the impure state of society has so perverted nature, and blinded common sense, that intelligent women, though eagerly studying the structure of the Earth, the attraction of the Planets, and the repro- duction of Plants, seem ashamed to know anything of the structure of the human Body, and of those Physiological facts most intimately con- nected with their deepest and purest emotions, and the holiest experience of their lives. 1 am often tempted to say, as Sir C. Grandi- son did to the Prude—' Wottest thou not how much t'n-delicacy there is in thy delicacy ?' The only Lectures I happened to attend were those of Dr. Hollick, which interested and edified me much. They were plain, familiar conversations, uttered and listened to with great modesty of language, and propriety of demeanor. The Manikin, or Artificial Anatomy, by which he illustrated his subject, is a most wonderful machine invented by a French Physician. Jt is made of papier mache. and represents the human body with admirable perfection, in the shape, coloring, and arrangement even to the minutest fibres. By the removal of wires it can be dissected completely, so as to show the locality and functions of the various Organs, the interior of the Heart, Lungs, &c. Until I examined this curious piece of mechanism, I had very faint and imperfect ideas of the miraculous machinery of the house we live in. I found it highly suggestive of many things to my mind. * * * L. M. C. (Extract from a Letter in the Boston Courier of Monday, June 3d, 1844, by Mrs. L. M. Child.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21197490_0430.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
