Disorders of the male sexual organs / By Eugene Fuller.

  • Eugene Fuller
Date:
1895
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Credit: Disorders of the male sexual organs / By Eugene Fuller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE. Considering the importance of a properly regulated sexual function to the happiness and well-being of man, it is remarkable that hitherto so little scientific study and attention should have been devoted to investiga- tions upon that subject. It has been and still is quite customary for the medical man, after listening to the re- cital of the complaints of one suffering from a sexual disorder, to tap him on the head, with the remark, Here, my man, here is the seat of your trouble. In a certain percentage of cases such a diagnosis may be correct; if it is, however, it is of the snap variety, and whether it be correct or at fault, it rarely serves to impress the patient, who goes away either feeling that his case has been slightingly considered, or that his adviser is pos- sessed of little knowledge. The rich harvest reaped by advertising mediums and quacks in this department is in great measure due to the unsatisfactory manner in which these cases are handled by the regular profession. One of the aims of this work is to show that pathologi- cal and physiological factors in connection with the apparatus actively employed in the sexual act are often- times the direct causes for sexual and other allied dis-
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