Medical essays / by T.R. Allinson.

  • Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
Date:
1915
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Credit: Medical essays / by T.R. Allinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THREE PAMPHLETS TO YOUNG MEN. You cannot take up a newspaper without finding in its columns an advertisement-head like one of these: “‘A WORD WITH YOU,”’ mio YOU; SIR, A “WARNING WORD; “TO ALL. WHO SUPPER,” “NERVOUS EXHAUSTION,” or “A BOON” TO WEAK MEN.” Even as you go along the street, pamphlets are thrust into your hands with some such heading. Early decay, wasting, weakness, pains in the back, want of energy, specks before the sight, disinclination for work, flushing, blushing, desire to be alone, want of confidence, &c., are put down as signs of serious complaints, and you are led to believe that if you suffer from any of these symptoms you are suffering from the results of YOUTHFUL ERRQRS. The authors of the pamphlets also inform you that they have given a lifelong study to these complaints, and no matter how bad you are they will set you right if you will undergo a course of their treatment. They ask a guinea for a month’s treatment. Their pamphlets are meant to frighten the young and inexperienced. If you put yourself under their care you have some useless medicine sent you that you are told to take three times a day. Then they try to get you to use some so-called “ strengthening lotion’’ at 4s. 6d. a bottle. If you buy this, then they will ask you to have a so-called “‘ Electric Appliance’ which can be worn — free from observation,”’ and they tell you that it sends a current specially to the affected parts and braces them up. If you are timid these men will fleece you monthly for a guinea so long as you can pay it. When you once begin dealing with those gentry you never know when you are done with them. If you stop paying to one you get a circular from another recommending his “‘ Never Fail Treatment.’ These men often trade under different names and from different addresses. If you write to some they send you a case of medicine, and soon afterwards a bill, even if you did not order the stuff, and threaten legal proceedings if you do not pay at once. My advice is, REFUSE TO PAY, they have no legal right to demand a penny. Most of these men lead you to believe they are benefactors to humanity. Some tell you how bad they were until they got this remedy, and now their life is spent in making it known and filing their pockets. Others send you a prescription which cannot be made up by any herbalist or chemist, and you send them a guinea for the herbs, &c., and get in return a few worthless things which would not cost more than sixpence retail. Others pose as clergymen, and tell you how they were restored to health by some herbs used by the monks in a far-off country. All these are swindles. To instruct young men a little about themselves, tell them what is useful and what is not so, | wrote some pamphlets a few years ago. They have had a large sale and been the means of doing much good. Every male over fifteen years of age should read them; they supply information it is impossible to get elsewhere. A parent cannot do better than send for them, read them, and then pass them on to his sons. They treat on Self-Abuse, Onanism, Self-Polution. or whatever name you like to call Self-Gratification, of Nocturnal Losses, Wet Dreams or Emissions, and of Varicocele. They are sent in an en- velope, post free, for Is. Id. Send direct for them to Dr l.R. ALLINSON, Ex.-LR:C.P. Edin.,ete.,
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