DEBILITY AND IRRITABILITY

INDUCED BY

SPERMATORRHOEA;

THE SYMPTOMS, EFFECTS, AND RATIONAL

TREATMENT.

BY

T. H. YEOMAN, M.D.

GRADUATE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW; HONORARY MEMBER
OF THE LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY; AUTHOR ON
"CONSUMPTION;" ON "BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, AND COUGH;"
ON "INDIGESTION;" LATE EDITOR OF "THE PEOPLE'S
MEDICAL JOURNAL;" AND PHYSICIAN TO THE
GENERAL POST-OFFICE LETTER-CARRIERS'
PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.

"On commence à reconnoître au jour d'hui que la
médicine et la morale sont deux branches de la même
science, qui, réunies composent la science de l'homme

CABANIS

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, 11, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

1854.

151 C. 267.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

ADAMS AND GEE, PRINTERS, 23, Middle Street, Cloth Fair, London.

PREFACE.

the

My attention was first attracted to the peculiar infirmities treated of in this volume in year 1829. A valued friend and fellowstudent made me the confidant of his sorrow and its cause, and I became the medium of communication between him and one of our most esteemed teachers at the Medical School of the London Hospital. In the year 1844, I published a treatise on Spermatorrhoea, &c., which in six months ran through two editions of one thousand copies each: the book in question was introduced by the following notice: Despite the array of publications on the disease treated of in this little work, the author has ventured to print for the following reasons:-First, a practical knowledge of the subject, founded on observation since the year 1829; three years of which were passed at one of the largest metropolitan hospitals; at the Hotel Dieu, Paris; at the Lock Hospital, Glasgow; amongst the sol

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