On spermatorrhoea and certain functional derangements and debilities of the generative system : their nature, treatment, and cure / by F.B. Courtenay.
- Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On spermatorrhoea and certain functional derangements and debilities of the generative system : their nature, treatment, and cure / by F.B. Courtenay. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![exercised than by the dissemination of thousands and thou- sands of copies over the length and breadth of the land? I hear of these quacks printing a hundred thousand copies of their filthy pamphlets at a time; why should not Detector be helped to do the same ? Let the reprint be published at as low a price as the paper and print will admit of, and let me hope that he will find a Howard, or a Bond Cabbel, or other philanthropist, who will give it a circulation at least equal to the filthy books it so well exposes. Every young man in the kingdom, from the age of sixteen and upwards,, should read this reprint, and every father and every guardian of youth should take care they do, and then the obscene- quacks may close their establishments, for their occupation* would be gone. QUACKS AND THEIR CRIMES. [From the Weekly Dispatch, Jpril 9, 1865.] Good service has been done to society by the Medicaf Circular, in publishing a series of letters entitled Revela- tions of Quacks and Quackery, which is republished in the form of a pamphlet. Among the Notices to Correspon- dents in the Dispatch, the reader will occasionally have noticed, in answer to inquiries touching certain pretenders to the character of medical practitioners, a caution, warning the querist to avoid them, and designating them as quacks. This is the most valuable information concerning those rascals that the readers of the Dispatch will meet with in any department of this journal. The exposure of individual impostors, where the evidence of their dealings was un- doubted, everyone knows to have been constant and unspar- ing. But the advertising columns of many of our contempo- raries, especially the country newspapers, are defiled, in a measure as large as it is disgusting, with the advertisements which the proprietors of those journals allow the quacks to insert in them ; to set there, as traps to catch prey under the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20389206_0162.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
