The generative system and its functions in health and disease / by James George Beaney.

  • Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The generative system and its functions in health and disease / by James George Beaney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    an illustration of the disease in its secondary and tertiary forms ; The Generative System : its Functions in Health and Disease ; and Children : their Treatment in Health and Disease. The first of these treats of syphilis as handed from generation to generation, until it becomes an hereditary disease, having been transmitted into the system in the first instance by vaccination or otherwise. It is a voluminous volume, of some 470 pages, beautifully illustrated by twenty coloured lithographs, and thoroughly exhausts the subject, showing that the author—who is a pupil of Ricord and other great European syphilographers—has made the subject his special study for years. The author very sensibly opens up the question of the general practitioner shunning (or very often being erroneously supposed to shun) cases of this description, and by so doing thrusting as it were the unfortunate patient into the hands of the unprincipled quack and charlatan. Altogether it is a book well worth perusing by all phil- anthropists and thinking men. The Generative System is essen- tially a book of information to be read by all whose education in respect to anatomy and natural laws has been neglected ; were this a more common study, humankind would have less cause to complain of its neighbour, and many family troubles would never arise. The third work, that on Children, and their Ailments, is a volume to place in every woman's hands, especially in those of mothers and of newly-married women, particularly where medical aid is distant; it is full of good, wholesome, understandable advice both to mother and nurse; and conveys information as to treatment of both mother and infant that would be profitable to many a married man and many a nurse, as well as directing a mother the right way to preserve and succour her offspring without that constantly occurring annoyance of having to take advice as to what she shall do when her children are suffering from what appears to be some dangerous illness, while in reality they are simply suffering from a want of common knowledge (on the part of their parents) of nature's laws. The books are well printed, very readable, and creditable alike to author and publisher. Wag-ga Wagga Advertiser, Dec. 7, 1872. A Medical Work.—We received, by last post, copy of a new medical work by Dr. J. G. Beaney, of Melbourne, which in point of printing and general get-up equals anything of the kind that issues from the English press. The subject is one to which we cannot specially refer, or at least comment on. The work treats of that terrible disease which is the recognised Nemesis of vice and indiscre-