Spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptoms, results and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Spermatorrhoea : its causes, symptoms, results and treatment / by Roberts Bartholow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dency in spermatorrhoea. To the influence of quack advertisements and popular works, which of course, greatly exaggerate the evils of this disease, is ascribed the melancholy, the hypo- chondriasis, and other mental disorders, which occur in the course of it. The statistics of any of our large insane asylums will illustrate the influence of masturbation in the production of mental alienation. We have already given the opinion of Romberg on this point. Mr. Holmes Coote, in a discussion which followed Dr. Drysdale's paper on the Medical Aspects of Prostitution, read before the Harveian Society of London, remarked that he still entertained the opinion that there were worse evils appertaining to human weakness than prostitution. He had opportunities of wit- nessing the fact that among the young there was no cause of insanity more common than in- dulging in habits which he would not further particularize, but which were known to result in the most complete bodily and mental pros- tration. * Dr. John P. Gray, the distinguished Superintendent of the State Asylum at Utiea,