On spermatorrhoea and the professional fallacies and popular delusions which prevail in relation to its nature, consequences, and treatment.

  • Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886
Date:
1869
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    28 traps set by a cowardly class of miscreants to catch the young and credulous, suffering in reality or in imagina- tion. A regular system of intimidation and extortion is pursued towards their dupes by the quacks, hi order to obtain the means to meet their gigantic expenditure, the annual cost of advertisements alone being collec- tively 50,000/. per annum. Mr. Courtenay gives us a whole string of facts and details, and says that the cure for the ciying evil of quackery may be described in the words, ]mblicUy and non-publicity. On the one hand let us have a wide- spread publicity given to the evil practices of quacks ; on the other, let us insist on the non-publicity by the press of then- advertisements. We regret that our space is (still) too limited to enable us to do justice to Mr. Courtenay's book,—it ought to be read by all young men in England, and translations for the use of unsus- pecting foreigners would be invaluable ; the cost is only eighteenpence. Will no one venture to show up the most notorious London money-lenders, and some of the scholastic and other agents who accept fees for booking graduates and others to appointments which are never made ? )me Library : for the History and XJri ^rstatiding - x'GGWAX & BANKS, STEAM PRINTERS, CT. WINDMILL ST. HAVMARKET.