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Promoting the Boston Medical Institute, "Established 1869. Incorporated 1893. Capital Stock $100,000." (p. 1); E. R. Hibbard, treasurer, p. 32. MASTURBATION, pp. 3-6, followed by case histories (undated). Illustration on page 19 compares a "Testicle in a healthy condition" versus "A Testicle wasted by Masturbation." . . . in the majority of cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many times followed sooner or later by a raving maniac. . . . . . We are willing to help all who are in despair and if you are not beyond hope, we can cure you; if we cannot we will tell you so without delay. [p. 5] 82 PERRY, R. and L. (firm, London). THE SILENT FRIEND; A Medical Work on Human Frailty; with Observations on Disorders Produced by <strong>ONAN</strong>ISM, and its Dreadful Consequences Considered, including Nervous and Sexual Debility, Impotency &c. and on VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC DISEASES, with Plain Directions for the Removal of Secondary Symptoms, Gonorrhoea or Clap, Gleets, Strictures, Whites, and All Diseases of the Urinary Passages, Without the use of Mercury, Confinement, or Hinderance from Business; Followed by General Instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are incapacitated from entering into the holy state of MARRIAGE, by the Evil Consequences Arising from Early Abuse, or Syphilitic Infection; Illustrated by Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. Perry & Co., Consulting Surgeons, 19 Berners- Street, Oxford-Street, London. London: Published by the Authors, Sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row: Hannay & Co,, [sic] 63, Oxford-street; Purkiss, Comptonstreet, Soho; and by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. {entered at stationers' Hall.}. n.d. (ca. 1840s). 16½ cm. 136 pp. + 5 excellent HAND-COLORED PLATES (each with two figures), including one plate illustrating the effects of masturbation. ABOVE: "This Engraving represents the appearance of the features in the last stage of debility from self pollution" (detail from plate facing p. 27). Original light tan blinddecorated cloth, gilt-lettered on front board. Cover soiled, but not much wear; a very good copy. $750 86
NOT ON OCLC, which shows longer works of different subtitles by this same firm, ca. 1847-64, preceded by a Birmingham version of unspecified length, 1841 at the British Library. All appear to be rare, located in only one copy each (except for one of the 1847 versions, of 190 pp., found in two locations). Quoting from a bookseller from whom I obtained this item in 1999: The Drs. R. & L. Perry warn of the dangers of onanism which they claim may lead to madness and "diseases arising from the undue excitement of the generative system, together with those incidental forms of acute disorder, which, if neglected, terminate in the horribly wasting forms of constitutional disorganization." Fortunately, the doctors offer a remedy, prepared and bottled by themselves, "The Cordial Balm of Syriacum" for which there is a full-page advertisement [illustrated, p. (67, mis-numbered 76)], including authorized distributers [sic] and prices, and discounts if you buy in bulk. The second part, on venereal diseases is illustrated with graphic plates and is also accompanied by an advertisement for "Messrs. Perry's Concentrated Detersive Essence, an Anti- Syphilitic Remedy . . ." The work ends with testimonials from satisfied customers. MASTURBATION occupies half the book, pp. 10-71, and the language is both scholarly and elegant compared to most works of the period. (For a tawdry American take-off exploiting this work, its illustrations and medicines, see William Earl, The Illustrated Silent Friend; item 24). The back page announces that . . . MESSRS. PERRY & CO. MAY BE PERSONALLY CONSULTED AT THEIR ESTABLISHMENT, 19, BERNERS STREET OXFORD STREET, LONDON, PUNCTUALLY FROM ELEVEN TILL TWO AND FIVE TILL EIGHT, AND ON SUNDAYS FROM TEN TILL TWELVE, AND IT IS NECESSARY TO OBSERVE THAT ONLY ONE PERSONAL VISIT IS REQUIRED, FROM A COUNTRY PATIENT. 83 PIERCE, R[ay]. V[aughn]. THE PEOPLE'S COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER in Plain English; Or, MEDICINE SIMPLIFIED. By R. V. Pierce, M.D., Founder of the Invalids' Hotel, and President of the World's Dispensary Medical Association. Twelfth Revised Edition. 240th Thousand. Buffalo, N.Y.: Published at the World's Dispensary Printing-office and Bindery, 1883 [c. 1883]. 87
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how the author was addressed before
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Printed on pale blue paper. Origina
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Copy 1056 of 3000. Colophon at base
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15½ cm. 252 pp. Brown ribbed grain
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are normal, but "it's up to you to
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This ignoble production is a tawdry
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1874 and later eds., not noting the
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