'The London and Provincial Medical Directory' unmasked / [Richard Dawson].

  • Dawson, Richard, active 1845-1852.
Date:
1849
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Credit: 'The London and Provincial Medical Directory' unmasked / [Richard Dawson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    avowal of tlie truth, meet only the reproof of stern and obstinate incredulity. If the profession would give this but one half the attention bestowed upon other maladies, much good would result and a great amount of suffering would be relieved ; and the char¬ latans who prey upon the miseries and fears of the unfortunate victims, would find their trade neither so prosperous nor so profit¬ able. What is the unfortunate sufferer from spermatorrhoea to do ? Where is he to seek for either consolation or relief P The bulk of the profession treat him with either derision or irony, or perhaps both. What resource is then left him, but to seek, out of the pale of the profession, that consideration and expectation of relief which its legitimate members deny. If the regular practi¬ tioner would but become acquainted with the nature and symp¬ toms of spermatorrhoea,—if the principles of treatment laid down in these pages were more generally adopted, instead of invariably decrying its service or utility,—one of the most fertile and seduc¬ tive incentives to charlatanism would be most effectually para¬ lyzed—nay, even annihilated.”* * Pages 106, 107, 108, and 109. London: Hugh Hughes, Printer, 15, St. Martin’s-le-grancL
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