The elements of social science, or, Physical, sexual, and natural religion : an exposition of the true cause and only cure of the three primary social evils: poverty, prostitution and celibacy / by a doctor of medicine.

  • Drysdale, George R., 1825-1904.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The elements of social science, or, Physical, sexual, and natural religion : an exposition of the true cause and only cure of the three primary social evils: poverty, prostitution and celibacy / by a doctor of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    llJiFKODUCTlC'N Afit Oli V bLOl'Eil i-JlJ'. 74 great cause operating widely throughout our society, ami unless thoy are braced to this, and means be taken to remove it, they cannot possibly be remedied or prevented. There is not a better instance of this thau tha sexual diseases. These are inseparably bouud up. as will appear here- after, with other great social miseries ; and thus the researches of medi- cine are so thoroughly interwoven with those of political econoruy, that neither science can lead to any good result without the other. It is from the want of perception of the dependence of these, and many other diseases, on deeply rooted social difficulties and errors, that so little has yet been done to prevent them. It is from studying disease as a se- parate entity, and not tracing its causes far enough back, by which its dependence on the great social embarrassments, and its inseparable cou- uection with other fields of inquiry would be seen, that the eflforts oi medicine are so frequently frustrated. It is not by endeavouring to cure individuals merely that human health can be advanced; if the main- spring of the disease remain hidden and unattended to, individuals may indeed be cured, but an endless loccession of new diseases will constantly arise so that tLu health of the race on Uis irlicle will make aaraace.