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Spermatic Economy A 19th Century View of Male Impotence

Authors: JOHN S. HALLER JR.

Abstract

It has always appeared strange to me that this affection should remain abandoned by the profession to a new solitary specialists, and for the benefit of the vile harpies who prey on this class of victims. Surgery, which has wrested so much from empiricism and ignorance, seems disposed to yield up this, as if it were debatable land, to chance, philosophy, utter neglect, or quackery.

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