The secret companion, a medical work on onanism ... and on venereal and syphilitic diseases ... followed by observations on marriage.

  • R.J. Brodie & Co.
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[1845]
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Credit: The secret companion, a medical work on onanism ... and on venereal and syphilitic diseases ... followed by observations on marriage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    age, which is twenty-four. I enclose your fee for advice, and assure you that should I be restored again to health, through the aid of your medicines and advice, I shall consider myself the most fortunate of beings. “ Hoping to hear from you by return of post, I am, “ Yours, respectfully, C. J.” In about six months from the time this patient first wrote to us, we received the following letter:— “ College, Cambridge. “ Dear Sirs, “ You will, no doubt, recollect what a dreadful state of debility I was in, when, upon your reply to my first letter, I adopted your suggestion, and visited you personally, and am happy to add, that, from the advice you then gave me, and by taking your Co^-dial Balm of Zeylanica, I am quite recovered; every symptom of the complaint has vanished, and instead of having no taste for the enjoyments of life, I now enter into them with avidity, and what is more important to nae, can pursue my studies, which was not the case when I first consulted you, my mental faculties being at that time very much impaired. In conclusion, dear sirs, believe me, that my gratitude for the wonderful cure you have made, will only end with the life of “ Your’s, ever faithfully, C. J.” “ To Messrs. Brodie, &c.”