The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick.

  • Frederick Hollick
Date:
1853
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Credit: The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    PREFACE. In the course of my practice, and more especially at the termination of my Lectures to Gentlemen, I have been repeatedly asked whether I could not refer them to some book, that would give a plain and practical explanation of the Male System, and its various derangements, adapted for every man's own v. e and instruction ? In short a book was wanted that should serve the same purposes for Gentlemen that my Diseases of Woman did for Ladies; explaining fully all those affections peculiar to their own systems, and none others. No such worlji how- ever, was extant, and I saw that the only way to supply what seemed a general want was to write one. It is true there were works professing to treat on the Male System, for popular use, but they were all, without exception, principally devoted to Venereal diseases, and those who made the enquiry of me were not persons at all liable to such affections, nor feeling any particular interest in them. My audience would frequently say, We are not subjects of syphilis, and probably never shall be, but still we are liable to many other diseases, most of which could doubt- less be prevented if we knew their nature and causes ; but unfortunately for us, with the exception of your Lectures, there is no source of information on such matters open to us. We want a Book that will treat on these things in the same style that your Lectures do, and it will be a public service if you will write such a one. For a long time ]