A complete practical treatise on venereal diseases, and their immediate and remote consequences : including observations on certain affections of the uterus, attended with discharges / By William Acton.

  • Acton, William, 1813-1875.
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MDCCCXLI [1841]
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A complete practical treatise on venereal diseases, and their immediate and remote consequences : including observations on certain affections of the uterus, attended with discharges / By William Acton. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A work asserting a linkage between female prostitution, venereal disease. Acton includes statistics on the age and level of education of prostitutes in Paris.

Publication/Creation

London : Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand. Sold by Maclachlan, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh; and Fannin and Co., Dublin, MDCCCXLI [1841]

Physical description

xxxii, 410 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8vo (23 cm) + atlas (18 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 29 x 38 cm)

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Notes

Supplemented by an atlas of plates.
Final advertisement leaf.
Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Note: Lacks atlas of plates.
Copy 2. [Vol. 1] From the collection of the Birmingham Medical Institute, with their book-label on front pastedown (presented by Mr. Pemberton).
Copy 2. Atlas. Autograph of James Solomon, Aug. 1 1841. From the the collection of the Birmingham Medical Institute, with their book-label on front pastedown (presented by Mr. Solomon).

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Includes bibliographical references.

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  • Text vol. only
  • Complete set

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  • Copy 1

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    EPB/B/62008

  • Copy 2

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    Closed stores
    EPB/B/61183

  • Atlas

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    Closed stores
    EPB/D/61183

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