The generative system and its functions in health and disease / by James George Beaney.

  • Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The generative system and its functions in health and disease / by James George Beaney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The Hampden Guardian, May 27. 1870. Dr. James George Beaney, of Melbourne, has recently issued from the press a treatise on what the author describes as the protean forms of syphilis. The work in question appears, however, to be of a more pretentious character than the author describes it, and contains matter interesting to the professional mind, and at the same time not unintelligible to the layman. The subject-matter of the book is hardly of a kind to afford free scope for criticism, except in the pages of a journal exclusively devoted to medical science. Nevertheless, the startling theory advanced by Dr. Beaney in the twelfth chapter of his book is worthy of a careful perusal, and more than a passing thought in the community. In this chapter the author asserts hi3 firm belief that syphilis is in many instances communicated by means of child's vaccine lymph. Such an astounding assertion ought not to remain unrefuted if false, or prompt legislative measures should be taken to remedy the evil if it is proved to be true. The book contains some few illustrations, which, no doubt, are valuable to the professional readers, but can hardly do more than point a moral to the non-medical eye. Pleasant Creek Chronicle, May 27, 1870. Dr. Beaney, of Collins-street, Melbourne, has lately published a medical book on syphilis, containing the results of a professional experience gathered during many years' practice in various parts of the world, and among a variety of patients in all positions of the social scale. The book is valuable in many respects, and all the more so from the practical manner in which the subject is treated, narrative of individual cases, comment, and practical suggestions being intelligently intermingled. Australian School Review, Sept., 1873. Of Dr. Beaney's work, The Generative System, it may be honestly said that were it a subject-matter more generally known, many moral and social benefits would be the result to the human race. Physiology is a branch of science tabooed by mock modesty. But the neglect is terribly avenged by the slighted study. The spretce injuria forma has [in this instance of physiology] reared a brood of ills which it is fearful to contemplate. A sound knowledge of the leading tenets of physiology is indispensable to the principal of a boarding-school. We