Chlorate of potassa.

Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chlorate of potassa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/80
    sions are a terrible scourge to them, and often overwhelm even those whose organs are absolutely senseless when they are awake. When these patients have had nocturnal emissions, they find themselves the next day in a state of depression, discouragement, debility, ennui misery, lassitude, with pain, especially in the loins, head, and eyes, rendering them truly miserable, and so changed as to be scarcely recognised. In the year 1836, Lallemand, a surgeon of great reputation, published an elaborate essay on involun- tary seminal discharges. He investigated the causes of this malady, pointed out its consequences, and discovered a mode of relief. By the application of the microscope, he showed how the presence of the disease might be detected in doubtful cases, how often it was present without the knowledge of the patient or medical attendant, and gave evidence that many affections of the nervous class, which are frequently misconstrued by the medical practitioner, depended solely on this cause. Since this great writer, many essays and re- searches have appeared on Spermatorrhoea, but in none can I find any other than the views held by Lallemand, and to these nothing has been added ; a proof of the culpable negligence manifested by the profession in the investigation of this malady, it being twenty-two years since Lallemand published his first work, from which period to the present no writer has advanced the subject further than done B 2