Excerpt from The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral RelationsIN the preface to the Second Edition of this book I expressed a hope that I might at some future time be able, not only to incorporate much new matter in the text, and make many needful improvements and alterations, but entirely to remodel the work. The ¿attering reception by the profession of two large impressions, warns me that the time has arrived for carrying out my intention. The mass of new material which has accumulated during the four years that have elapsed since I published the first edition, and, perhaps, the more matured Views on some points which longer experience and thought have furnished, render me still more desirous of moulding my book into something of the shape in which I should wish permanently to leave it. I have accordingly spared neither labour nor time in my endeavour to render this edition more worthy of the favour which has been so liberally extended to its predecessors.I may, perhaps, be permitted to add that the largest part of the time and pains the book has cost me, has been bestowed on the minute weighing of every sentence, in the hope that in my treatment of a subject so novel and difficult, and in many respects painful, nothing may remain to. Which fastidiousness itself can fairly object.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.