A practical treatise on diseases of the urinary and generative organs in both sexes : Part I.- Non specific diseases. Part II.- Syphilis / by William Acton.

  • Acton, William, 1813-1875.
Date:
MDCCCLI. [1851]
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Credit: A practical treatise on diseases of the urinary and generative organs in both sexes : Part I.- Non specific diseases. Part II.- Syphilis / by William Acton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. In preparing for the press a second edition of this treatise, the author has found his materials accumulate to such an extent, as virtually to render the present volume a new work. The original scope of his investigations having likewise been considerably extended, and additional chapters on Spermator- rhoea, Impotence, Infiltration of Urine, Impermeable Stricture, &c., having been introduced, he has been compelled to alter the title, the previous one having ceased to be sufficiently comprehen- sive to include the various subjects here treated of. In carrying out his plan the author has not merely cited his own experience on the methods of treatment which have been found successful in British or Continental Hospitals, and employed in private practice during the last fifteen years; hut he has drawn largely from the treatises of Astruc and Hunter, as well as quoted freely the most novel doctrines and practical hints con- tained in the writings of Bicord, Brodie, Prout, and Lallemand. In the present edition the Atlas of Plates remains unaltered ; as the illustrations have been acknowledged to depict admirably the diseases they were intended to represent, having been chosen from among the thousands of cases witnessed at M. Bicord’s Clinique. Additional woodcuts have however been introduced in