A practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhoea / by M. Lallemand ; translated and edited by Henry J. McDougall.
- Claude François Lallemand
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhoea / by M. Lallemand ; translated and edited by Henry J. McDougall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![attached to it. He adds, “ it certainly is not very consistent with our national character, to dilate so freely on a subject which, in tlie great majority of eases, can be treated of only as the effeets of a most degrading vice.” That any physician should relieve himself from the investigation of a most afflicting disease, because the subject treated of is an un- pleasant one, appears to me unworthy the general character of our profession. Had similiar opinions been held respecting syphilis—a subject quite as ré- pugnant to English'’ feelings as spermatorrhœa,— vphat misery would hâve been entailed on the human race ! Lecturers on surgery, while entering fully on other diseases of the urethra, appear either not to hâve been aware of, or by common consent to hâve omitted, spermatorrhœa from their oral lectures and text-books of surgery. Professor Miller of Edinburgh having given a short notice of spermatorrhœa in his “ Prac- tical Surgery ” published in ] 846, is, as far as I am aware, the only exception to this rule. At an early part of my professional life my attention was much engaged by two cases, which to me pre- sented peculiar features of interest. One, the case of a near relative, since dead, proved particularly unfor- tunate. The other the case of a friend of about my own âge—also studying medicine,—recovered after several relapses ; and the patient is at présent practising his profession in her Majesty’s service. In both cases the best advice the West of England afforded was obtained without success, or indeed, even slight improvement^ and in neither case was the cause of the disorder, which particularly affeeted the brain and digestive organs, recognised.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2130192x_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
