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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    INTRODUCTION. The nature and treatment of Spermatorrhoea is a subject which has been almost entirely neglected by the medical profession of this country; and to the educated practitioner it is an uninviting one, more especially when we consider the fastidiousness of the English taste; and hence very few of our writers have deigned to notice this disease, or its alarming attendants. Indeed, in Dr. Bird's work on Urinary Deposits, although he admits sperma- tozoa to be frequently found in the urine, yet he considers Spermatorrhoea by no means deserving the importance attached to it, and adds— It certainly is not very consistent with our national character to dilate so freely on a subject that can be treated of only as the effects of the most degrading vice/' Hippocrates, in speaking of this disease, says— Dorsal consumption arises from the medulla. It affects chiefly newly married people and liber- tines. They are free from fever, and eat well;