A supplement to the Onania, or, The heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences, in both sexes consider'd, &c. Containing, some further remarks of the mischiefs, by this practice ... refuting the malicious charges in a late scurrilous libel, intitled, Onania examin'd and detected ... : to which is added, a curious piece ... translated out of the Latin from L. Sckmeider ... as also, Dr. Quincy's translation of Dr. Carr's remarkable answer to a letter sent him by a divine, concerning two nuns at Rome, reported to have chang'd their sex likewise, Dr. Drake's, and several other physicians opinions of hermaphrodites, and women brought to a resemblance of them, by the practice of self-pollution.
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Publication/Creation
London : Printed (now only) for J. Isted, Bookseller ... (Mr. Crouch, Bookseller, who us'd also to sell it, being dead), [1729?]
Physical description
vii, 171 pages ; (12mo)
Contributors
Edition
The fifth edition.
References note
Sex and sexuality, 1640-1940 : literary, medical and sociological perspectives
ESTC N69804
Notes
Advertisement on p. [172] for the 13th ed. of Onania; probable date of publication for the Supplement inferred from publication date, 1728?, for the 12th ed. and the date of the 15th ed., 1730; also, the bookseller, Thomas Crouch, died before Jan. 6, 1728, when he was succeeded by J. Isted. Cf. Dict. of the printers and booksellers who were at work in Eng., Scotland and Ireland from 1726-1775, p. 67
Onania examin'd and detected was written under the pseudonym, Philo-Castitatis and published in London, 1723. Cf. British Library, RLIN/ESTC T153675
Signatures: A4 B-P6 Q2.
Supplement to an anonymous work on masturbation, Onania, or, The heinous sin of self-pollution; both Onania and the Supplement were published in numerous editions throughout most of the eighteenth century, beginning with the first ed. of Onania around 1710
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