Man's mission on earth : being a series of lectures delivered at Dr. Jourdain's Parisian Gallery of Anatomy, addressed to those laboring under the baneful effects of self-abuse, excesses, or infection : also, a familiar explanation of the venereal disease showing the danger arising from neglect or improper treatment in disorders of the generative system / by R.J. Jourdain.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
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1872, ©1867
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Credit: Man's mission on earth : being a series of lectures delivered at Dr. Jourdain's Parisian Gallery of Anatomy, addressed to those laboring under the baneful effects of self-abuse, excesses, or infection : also, a familiar explanation of the venereal disease showing the danger arising from neglect or improper treatment in disorders of the generative system / by R.J. Jourdain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yince me that my first diagnosis was a correct one. Upon examining the generative organs I found that, though in a critical state, they were yet capable of cure. It would he unnecessary for me to go through all the details of my pro- fessional attendance; sufficient to state that •after a constraint of three or four months, and a course of medicine for about the same time, I restored the patient to perfect sanity, and to a physical state of health which, unless again abused, would in time restore him to all those advantages which he had forfeited. The other case was a more peculiar one, and I cite it as a warning to all young men who have ever committed the crime of Onanism, never mind how long they may have left it off, not to go into the state of matrimony without first get- ting medical advice. Many men, seeing the error of their way, have honorably abandoned the habit, and have fancied that time would bring everything right; but too often their organs have been injured, and while they think they are gaining strength, the seed is flowing from them in every water they pass,—this is called spermatorrhoea,—or by nocturnal emis- sions. In either case it is essentially necessary that a radical and complete cure be effected be- fore marriage, else shame and misery will assuredly follow. The case I am about to men- tion was a man of about thirty-five years of age. 0