Excerpt from The Male Generative Organs in Health and Disease, From Infancy to Old Age: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Male System; With a Description of the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, of All the Infirmities and Diseases to Which It Is Liable Had it not been for all these causes combined I should have published this book earlier. The delay, however, has been necessary in order to have.it complete, and I was determined it should not be issued till it was so. It may be advisable to state also, for the information of those not acquainted with me or my previous publications, that my course of study, and long practice, has been almost exclu sively devoted to the physiology and derangements Of the Reproductive System, in both sexes, respecting which I have had unusual Opportunities for Obtaining, information, both in this country and in Europe. Whenever any new discovery, or mode Of treatment, has been announced, I have immediately tested it thoroughly, and have further made every allowable experiment suggested to myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.