More secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. (Secret remedies, 2nd series).

  • British Medical Association.
Date:
1912
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    Local Absorption, the scope of which is indicated by the follow- ing extracts: The object of this treatise is to describe, in as clear and simple a manner as possible, for the non-professional reader, the various diseases and affections resulting in the nervous and sexual systems from the indul- gence of early pernicious habits, excessive venery, faBt living, and other irregularities, the product of our modern civilisation. . . . In issuing this edition of our treatise on Nervous Diseases, we desire especially to point out that ours is not an empirical or secret treatment, nor do we use merely one single preparation and designate it a cnre-all and panacea for every variety of disease. On the contrary, the Remedies used are varied, and such as long experience in the treatment of Nervoue and Sexual ailments have proved to be the most valuable in their cure. Our object is to prescribe the course necessary to be taken to ensure the Tesult expected or hoped for; we claim no new or occult discoveries in the domain of Medicine or Pharmacy, but we do claim that our method of combining medicinal drugs, in the form of a suppository and applying them directly to the immediate locality of the diseases described in this treatise, is not only more successful in its results but is more effectual and rational than purely etomach drugging for nervous Diseases allied with sexual troubles. The book was accompanied by various other papers, and a letter from which the following extracts are taken: If for any reason after a perusal of our book you are unable to select the course of treatment necessary, you may give us a full and as clear a statement as possible of your symptoms, and we will submit it to the consulting physician, when such course as will meet the requirements of your case will be prescribed. The treatment can be sent to you by post, together with the necessary medical and hygienic advice suitable for your case. Should you still have any doubt as to the advantages of rectal treat- ment in your case, possibly owing to some complication that does not enter within the scope of our treatise, we shall be glad to hear from you, and any letterp will be treated in the fullest confidence. Consultation personally or by letter free of charge. In a subsequent letter the following occurs: We are well aware that there are firms in existence which treat ner- vous debility on similar lines to our own, but we again emphatically claim and challenge all rivals to contradict the fact, viz., that we are the oldest established advertising medical business, and that we were the first to originate the Rectal Method for the cure of Nervous and Sexual Diseases. From the papers sent it appears that five kinds of treatment are supplied, as follows: Graded Course for the cure of Seminal Losses, Spermatorrhoea, etc.