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POPULAR TREATISE ON

VENEREAL AND OTHER DISEASES

OF THE

MALE AND FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM;

WITH REMARKS ON

IMPOTENCE, ONANISM, STERILITY, PILES, AND GRAVEL,
AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THEIR TREATMENT.

BY R. J. CULVERWELL, M. D.,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Fellow of manyLearned Societies.

WITH ONE HUNDRED PLATES.

NEW YORK:
J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL.

1844.

Every medical man who will study to investigate as faras possible, in every case, the original channel throughwhich disease or constitutional disorder first found its entryinto the system, will be astonished at the mass of humansuffering which may be traced up to a venereal origin,although its primary symptoms may have been for yearsapparently eradicated from the frame. The malady generallycommences its attack in early life, before experiencehas overcome the short-sighted heedlessness of youth, andtaught it to look beyond the pains and pleasures of thepassing moment. Delicacy or shame will not allow him toseek assistance, until the poison has acquired strength andvirulence too alarming to be neglected; and the patientthen, instead of applying to his usual professional friends,flies to some empirical practitioner, who temporarily arreststhe external symptoms, and discharges him as cured. Thusmatters go on, until the malady becomes constitutional; andthe patient is at last compelled to place himself under thetreatment of those who, at an earlier period, might havepreserved his constitution untainted, and his body comparativelyuninjured by the ravages of this insidious disease.

Some years ago the idea first occurred to me that a populartreatise, divested as much as possible of technicalphraseology, explaining to the non-medical reader thestructure and anatomy of the parts primarily affected bythe venereal disease, and describing its first as well as itssubsequent and aggravated symptoms, and pointing out thesafest treatment of it in inexperienced hands, while in itssimple form, would be of much avail in counteracting theeffects of the complaint resulting from mal-treatment orneglect among the young and thoughtless. This work isintended to teach him where serious danger exists, or maybe apprehended; for the treatment in a great degree, andunder any circumstances, must fall upon the patient himself:and every medical man knows that, in very many instances,...