The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith.

Smith, Henry, active 1982.

Date:: 1857

Credit: The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Ter resorted to except by ignorant empirics, who know not the consequences of their rashness, and care not, so long as Jwh°Upidlt^- gratlfied< No medical man of character, vhether practising generally, or confining himself, as we do, to the study of one order of diseases, will open the arcana of his surgery to his patients, or will propound a remedy on thl b6f UD*versall-f applicable. So correctly founded arpin fh ?! 18 tbl8 Practice> that professional men are in the habit of committing patients of their own families :rr.eofaneighb?urin^ Petitioner, so well ah they aware that in every individual case of illness there must be 7 ^Partial, and careful consideration of all the symp- w} • Vn *bf* ca^e—free from that trepidation and anxiety Twn f m-fht ead the fjodgment of a man attending his amiiy before proceeding to administer drugs. In the seases arising from self-pollution, the complications are so t“!!p end ^ S°- mUch affected age? constitution, 13 1’ occupation, marriage, and by other modifying conditions, that the nicest possible discrimination of the pe- cu iar circumstances which govern each case, is required to be exercised in the treatment, the varieties of remedy being as numerous and minute as the symptoms. A deli- W l1SCrTmati°n SUCh aS this can onl^ be aC(loired by T,rni - y and/reat experience in this one branch of the £ f • S810U L.aad w® must therefore once more impress upon patients suffering from nervous debility, the vast importance o themselves and to those who love them of at once sub- mg a full statement of their case to ourselves or to some other practitioner, equally well qualified by exclusive devotion to this malady to treat it with safety and success There is no doubt that many lives have been saciificed through ignorance or charlatanry, which might by judicious treatment have been preserved to their friends and to so¬ ciety , and, m not a few instances of talent and high genius to an admiring pulic and a grateful posterity. Even in treat°a\] b°®p 1 a s m England it has been the custom to treat all cases of seminal weakness alike—regarding it as a m.ere effect of general debility, instead of its sole cause in nine cases out of ten-and invariably to poison the Sente with deleterious preparations of irom LT the stomach nrirffd “d fh?.bl00d renoratrf * an indgeTbt f a metalic compound would show the mastur¬ bator his error, and correct it!-as if irm would “minister to a mind diseased 1“ No, Our own treatment h“e$

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