The philosophy of marriage : being four important lectures, on the function and disorders of the nervous system, and reproductive organs / by Jordan and Beck.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
[1863?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The philosophy of marriage : being four important lectures, on the function and disorders of the nervous system, and reproductive organs / by Jordan and Beck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    13/202
    task of relieving the afflicted, is bound to de- liver his sentiments with that manliness and independence which ought to characterize those connected with a profession which should have for its very basis the purest sentiments of liberality. Nor should he, if his wish is to im- prove medical science, be intimidated or de- terred, because men of repute give their sanc- tion to opposite opinions ; it ought, on the con- trary to be remembered, as expressed by a cer- tain philosopher, that the influence of names is in exact proportion to the want of knowl- edge. An examination into the nature of, and prac- tical considerations connected with, diseases of the generative system, have ever been in- volved in unnecessary obscurity ; and instead of tending to develope these matters, and there- by render them easily understood, it rather seems to have been the wish of those engaged in such discussions to make them, for their own purposes, appear complicated and obscure. Our aim has been, and is, the exact reverse of this. So far from wishing to obscure, we have endeavored to elucidate ; instead of com-