Chlorate of potassa.

Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chlorate of potassa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those works are freely and boldly discussed all the ills that flesh is heir to, and among them that upon which I propose to enter, and I believe it will not, it dare not, with a shadow of truth be said, that impurity as a result has ever found its way to the domestic hearth. Having now said so much for the faith that is in me, and my title to a hearing under the re- straints and conditions to which I have adverted, it is time I should give a prefatory remark or passing glance at the mode in which I mean to treat the subject of Spermatorrhoea. I mean to treat it. as a disease of the blood, which, apart from the general interest with which the subject is invested, will, at all events, command the merit of novelty. Hitherto, for the reasons already adduced, it has not met with favour from the medical world; but it is a bitter reflection, that the penalty of such wilful apathy, such false and spurious delicacy, recoils with fearfully retributive vengeance, and eloquently points to the cancer that is eating into and corroding the very heart of society. Let it be my humble task, then, to enter on a full, free, and becoming consideration of this malady, in a tone and language suitable to the occasion, to throw aside the veil which has so long shrouded this vital subject in obscurity, or consigned it to the ignominious keeping of the charlatan ; and if I but succeed in paving the way