The confessions of an invalid : detailing the experience of a victim of youthful indiscretion, and of medical imposition and quackery : designed as a warning and a caution to those who suffer from nervous debility, as a consequence of youthful imprudence, or the baneful habit of self-abuse : at the same time pointing out the means of self-cure, with the necessary moral and dietetic treatment to be observed during the process / by one who has suffered from the above cause.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayfair, Nathaniel, author.

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masturbation.

Patent medicines.

Quacks and quackery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (11 pages, 1 unnumbered page).

Place of Publication:

[New York?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1841 and 1899?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Cover title.

Signed (page 11): "Nathaniel Mayfair, Esq., Bedford, East Brooklyn, Kings County, New-York."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Local Notes:

Scanned copy inscribed (page 2): "Gift Warfield Family Papers, 20 March 2002."

OCLC:

937017407

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.