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:
1858
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    the most Important part of it. Proceeding from the evident to the doubtful, and from the simple to the compound, I shall examine first the causes whose action is most direct and undoubted; and whilst studying the influence of each cause, I shall bring forward the cases in which its action has been energetic, isolated, and, when possible, proved by post-mortem inspection, and I shall afterwards cite cases in which several causes have acted successively or simultaneously. After having examined many cases in this manner, I shall make a general resume, in the course of which, I shall comment on what- ever relates to the symptoms of the treatment. I shall also pay attention to the analogous phenomena which may be observed in the female. I propose then to consider this affection of the genital organs in all its varied phases; I shall pass rapidly over what is already known; I shall, on the contrary, insist on the most remarkable errors, and comment fully on all that may seem doubtful or obscure. If I were to relate all the cases that have come under my notice, tiresome repetitions would result; I shall, therefore, choose only those which best show the characteristic features of the most important distinctions.1 1 I have thought it advisable, on account of the great number and length of these cases, to select a few of the most striking only. In answer to a communication from me on this subject, M. Lallemand has favoured me with the following observation. As regards the cases, their number may be reduced, now that facts are being daily multiplied in confirmation of those I have related; it will be sufficient for you to give the most characteristic. [H. I. M'D.]