Male Sex Anatomy, Venereal Diseases, Onanism, etc. 1905 Drs. Kahn and Jordan

Description: Male Sex Anatomy, Venereal Diseases, Onanism, etc. 1905 Drs. Kahn and Jordan Man's Mission On Earth A Series of Lectures on Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs and Accompanying Nervous Diseases As Delivered at Dr. Kahan’s Museum of Anatomy and Medical Science by Drs. Kahn and Jordan Isaac Goldmann, Printers, New York, 1905. Soft covers, 12mo, 151 pages, b&w illustrations. The present work is devoted to the consideration of diseases of the male Genito-Urinary organs, their causes, prevention, and treatment, and gives a brief description of those organs. This book is illustrated with numerous in-text and full page illustrations. A popular exposition of the male genital and urinary anatomy and physiology as well as of the veneral diseases that may affect them. An early frank discussion of male sexual behavior (masturbation etc.). The pseudonymous author’s name and his Bowery museum are probably derived from the English mid victorian Dr. Kahn whose Museum of Anatomy and Medical Science in London was forced to be closed several decades earlier because of opposition from self-appointed representatives of the medical profession and anti-vice campaigners. “Dr Joseph Kahn's Anatomical and Pathological Museum was the 19th century's best-known and most visited public museum of anatomy. Established in England in 1851, at the height of popular interest in anatomy, Kahn's museum was intended to show the ‘wondrous’ structure of the body and to warn of the harmful consequences to health of abuses that ‘distort or defile’ its ‘beautiful structure’. Its subsequent decline into a front for the sale of quack remedies for venereal disease damaged the reputation of anatomy museums. After 22 years, and several bizarre legal cases, opposition from self-appointed representatives of the medical profession and anti-vice campaigners forced it to close. The successful prosecution of Kahn's museum under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 branded all public display of anatomical specimens as potentially obscene. Thereafter, anatomical education was restricted to medical professionals and public anatomy survived only in sideshows. The public anatomical museum has remained, for increasingly outdated reasons, a lost opportunity. CONDITION: Fair Covers / Good+ Contents. (Covers have torn corners and much of the spine cover is missing. The Contents are complete and intact with some pages with curled corners. Lower fore-corner of Title Page and frontis illustration are soiled and the Contents are otherwise clean.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items. Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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