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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![rid the country of the evil. We can^, to borrow the language of the quacks, truly recommend parents, guardians, and patients to peruse the valuable remarks that are contained in these ' Revelations,' touching the ignorance, imposition, and credulity of which they treat. [From Public Opinion, June 10, 1865.] These revelations are made in a series of letters, written by F. B. Oourtenay, Member of the Royal College of Sur- geons of England, to the Medical Circular. While the revelations were appearing they excited considerable atten- tion, and now they are issued in a pamphlet they ought to be read all over the land. Detector has exposed with merciless severity the doings of the quack firms in London ; he has shown how they entrap their credulous victims and basely plunder them, Among the parties named by Detector as quacks are Hammond, Perry & Co. Watson, Bright & Go.,. Curtis, alias La'Mert, Walter de Roos, Harvey & Co., W.- Hill, Esq., H. James, Esq., Dr. Kahn, alias Sexton, D'Lalor, Marston, Smith, and Thomas. A pretty good phalanx, to be sure of them, like professionals on whom the police have an eye, enjoying the privileges and advan- tages of aliases. Some of the apostles of medicine, feeling that their letters and pamphlets are not sufficiently potent to rouse the suffering public to a sense of the seriousness of the physical maladies, having opened museums, where models serve to illustrate the ravages of various ailments. This is philan- thropic and considerate, and very likely has the effect of increasing the consulting fees, or, in other words, facilitating secret robberies. Our surprise is that a set of unskilled char- latans, unskilled in medicine but adepts in thieving, should be permitted by the law to flourish so rankly and so glaringly. When burglars, pickpockets, and garotters are detected and convicted, they undergo some salutary correction and punish- ment ; why should not the quacks who are viler and more ignominious miscreants than garotters and other dangerous](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20389206_0171.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
