On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary, and reproductive organs : with a general review of urinary pathology / by D. Campbell Black.

  • Black, D. Campbell (Donald Campbell), 1841-1898.
Date:
1872
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Credit: On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary, and reproductive organs : with a general review of urinary pathology / by D. Campbell Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extent, a false and highly mischievous delicacy, to me inexplicable, prevented their discussion in any beneficial way. Absolutely there is, or there is not, such a disease as spermatic incontinence, or sper- matorrhoea, as it is generally called. If there is, it is ours to treat it; if not, it is ours to expose the fallacy. Worse still, this subject has been long made the basis of a heartless system of indiscriminate swindling as well, on the part—mirabile dictu—of some within the pale, as of others, confessedly the greater number, beyond the pale of either legal or academical recogni- tion. That subject I have treated according to the best of my ability, on its merits, like any other medical question; though, possibly, under the restraint of a sensitive consideration for the dehcate susceptibilities of that numerous class of nice people with nasty ideas. We have all been young—Hved in Arcadia—and not a few of us, I venture to assert, must be personally cognisant of the extent to which the foulest and most diabolical conceivable literature is circulated among youth, envenoming and corrupting as it does the natural joys, alas ! of too quickly fleeting years. That admitted, as it must be—the unbridled riot of an or- ganised imposture, which, under the cloak of medical science, has spread its cancerous ramifications concomi- tant with our language, our missionaries, and our