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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![towards the public to neglect trying to extinguish the unclean and ungodly vampires around us, so as to protect youth especially fiom their vile and vulgar influence. The press can do much in the reform needed by refusing to insert abominable advertisements. We regret there are quacks in the press whose virtues are hypocrisies, and whose love for the public welfare is a transparent sham. The hollow morality of the press quacks is, to our infinite disgust, paraded before us ; the public are daily gulled by prints that pretend to care for their safety in slangy leaders denunciatory of all sorts of impositions, but that find it a too painful and profitless task to refuse publicity to quack advertisements. When the press- shall universally reject quacks' announcements, quackery will decline and the public be benefited. Our own columns have never been sullied and dirtied by indecent medical announcements ; and we rejoice that a man so clever and fearless as Detector has laid bare for the good of society all over England the workings of a band of bastard medical practitioners, whose undisguised existence in our midst is a deep stain on our honour, thoroughly inexcusable ; for the execrable knaves and villains we are describing, with their lewd and brazen manifestoes, corrupt and pollute alike the minds and morals of a large class of people who have not the courage to disbelieve their monstrous exaggerations, or the good sense to despise their revolting indecencies. [From the Anti-Teapot Keview, May, 1865.] It must not be supposed that the author of these startling Revelations is a Scotchman, who does not see much differ- ence between the Apocrypha and the Apocalypse, or a disciple of Dr. Gumming, a divine to whom the exiled Saint had been such a signal benefactor. Mr. Courtenay does not class Parr or Du Barry amongst the scoundrels who are held up, by name and address, to universal execration : and he is quite right. It would be very hard to disabuse the minds of a believing public (afflicted with toothache and neuralgia)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20389206_0173.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
