The Sexual Instinct and its Morbid Manifestations from the Double Standpoint of Jurisprudence and Psychiatry/list
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MR. CHARLES CARRINGTON'S Recent Publications.
Important new work in English from the original of
Dr. B. TARNOWSKY
(Of the Imperial Academy of Medecino, St. Petersburg.)
THE SEXUflli INSTINCT
and its Morbid Manifestations
FROM THE DOUBLE STANDPOINT
of Medical Jurisprudence and f sychiatry
DONE INTO ENGLISH NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME BY
Messrs. W. C. COSTELLO PH.D.
AND
ALFRED ALLINSON, M.A. (Oxon)
whh a short Preface written expressly by the eminent Author for this edition,
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Dr. CABANES' CABINET OP HISTORY.
The Medical Standard (Chicago}: "To the casual observer this book might seem to be worthy a place only in the Index Expurgatorius, but to the student of history and to the book-lover it is a rare prize. The bearing of things medical on the history of nations is, as a rule, carefully concealed from public view; but Dr. Cabanes has opened the secret cabinet and disclosed its interesting contents. The book is prefaced by a letter from M. Sardou, in which he courteously declines to write a preface.
u History, says Macaulay, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men .... Nine-tenths of the calamities which have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires. The Secret Cabinet of History is made up of descriptions of the extraordinary actions of great men and women.
" From these little glimpses behind the scenes, the reader will gain many ideas of the inherent divinity of kings which may be at wide variance with his preconceived opinions. The book-lover will be delighted with the appearance, paper and artistic make-up of the book. We shall await with interest the second series, which is soon to be published."
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Studies of Louis XIV; RICHELIEU; MLLE. BE LA VAL-
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The TRUE CHARLOTTE CORD AY ; A SAVAGE "HOUND"; IN THE
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A PHYSIOLOGICAL PROBLEM (MME. RCAMIER AND QUEEN
ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND), etc., followed by a fascinating study of
flagellation in Jrance
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With special FOREWORD by the Editor dealing with (he Reviewers of a previous work, and sundry other cognate matters good to be known ; particularly concerning the high-handed proceedings of BRITISH PHILISTINISM.
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This book appeals to all classes. The Scholar will find a mine of information mostly new; the Bibliophile will prize it for its " get-up " ; and the u general reader " will be struck with its quaint old-world charm and real curiousness.
Recent Opinions of the English Press on
CURIOUS BYPATHS OF HISTORY
BY DR. CABANES
(of the Medical Faculty of Paris)
Reynolds s Newspaper.
" This Is a companion volume to the work by the same author recently noticed in this column, 'Secret Cabinet of History'. It "is even more interesting than that remarkable book. It might be aptly entitled a 'Chronicle of Historical Scandals', though several of the sketches are aimed worthily to show that scandal was wrongly associated with certain names, such as thos-e of Robespierre and of Charlotte Corday. Others, however, do not come so well offGeorge Sand and her lovers Alfn-d <ic Musset and Dr. Pagello, Mile, de la Valliere, Madame de Maintenon and Madame de Montespan, mistresses to Louis XIV., Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV. Interesting contributions are 'The Superstitions of Napoleon I.,' and 'The Peregrinations of the Body of Richelieu 1 . Altogether we have here one of the most singular, quaint, out-of-the-way collections of odd facts and anecdotes, most of which have never appeared before, about persons who have loomed largely on the world's stage, ever put together. And the importance of this kind of knowledge is the revelation of the extent to which the domestic affairs of the great affect the policies of nations. The translation and curious notes are done into admirable English."
Pall Mall Gazette.
"About six months ago it fell to my lot to discuss in these columns a volume entitled 'The Secret Cabinet of History' (Paris: CABRINGTON), and I find myself on the horns of a similar dilemma. The volume is undoubtedly interesting, and deserves, on its merits, to be treated with every consideration; at the same time, it is impossible to discuss it fully in a journal which is likely to fall into the hands of 'the young person'. In his Foreword the editor, quoting an Hibernian friend, complains with great bitterness of ' the shout of ominous silence ' with which tho former work was received by the English press, and of the narrow, puritanic spirit in which most of the journals which did notice it treated it. It seems to me that when a publisher insists on publishing works which, whether rightly or wrongly, give offence to our ideas of morality, he ought to grin and bear it without vituperation if the reviewers give it a reception which they think reflects the views of the majority of their readers .... Now although the pathology of history \vhich forms the subject-matter of Dr. Cabanes' essays is a very fascinating study, and, as being calculated to throw a new light on many obscure problems, more especially in modern history, one that the scientific historian is bound to take into account it is essentially strong meat, suitable for the student only and not fitted for the consumption of 'babes and sucklings'. For example, it is undoubtedly instructive to learn that Louis XIV. was suffering from raging toothache at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; but the doctor in history, frequently and of necessity, trenches on subjects which are not publicly discussed" in this country. At the same time, it is impossible not to recognize the value of Dr. Cabanes' researches, or to appreciate the accuracy, industry, and sincerity with which they have been conducted. The papers on Charlotte Corday and on the superstitions of Napoleon throw the light of medical science on pathological characteristics which it behoves the historian to take into account, and, moreover, to most of these essays the most prurient-minded critic can take no exception .... Nor is there any obvious reason for raking up, in another essay, the scandal of (ieorge Sand's amours. Apart from these blemishes, this volume is suggestive and in ten sting more especially as a contribution to a phase of a historical science which is still in, its infancy; but it is emphatically a work for the library and not for the boudoir or the school-room."
This work is strictly limited to 500 copies, all press- numbered; the type has been distributed and the book will not be reprinted.
Tastefully bood in black clotn, gilt top, untrimmed edges, gold lettering on DacK and sides,
The Mysteries of the Past laid open.
Medico-Historical Glimpses into the Private Lives of Kings, Queens, and other high Persons.
The Secret Cabinet of History,
PEEPED INTO BY A FRENCH DOCTOR. (DR. CABANES).
Englished by W. C. COSTELLO, and preceded by a letter from the pen of M. VICTORIEN SARDOU.
(DE L'ACADE'MIE FRANCHISE).
Medicine (HAROLD N. MOVER, M.D., Editor, DETROIT, Mich., U.S.A.) : tt Patho- logy in history is always of interest, especially since by affecting the leaders or rulers of a nation it tends to affect the nation a as whole. This volume contains thirteen separate essays on subjects involved in historical pathology. The first one relates to a youthful indiscretion of Louis XIV. whereby, as Dr. Cabanes proves, Louis XIV. very early contracted gonorrhea. While it was recognized by his courtly physicians, they concealed the origin of the disorder from interested motives, although describing its clinical features very clearly. The second discusses the fistula of the same king, and mentions all the surgical procedures adopted as well as the fees paid to surgeons. The disease became fashionable among the courtiers, and one lady of honor was disconsolate because her physician was unable to discover that she had any trace of the royal disorder. The phymosis from which Louis XVI. suffered played a large part in determining certain features of the French Revolution. For a while it rendered Louis XVI. impotent and this fomented intrigues by Louis XVIII., Charles X., and the Duke of Orleans, which seriously damaged the moral character of Marie-Antoinette. These intrigues undoubtedly aided the general revolutionary movement, since all three of the intriguants hoped to profit by this movement. Another item of special interest to physicians is the proof given that Marat suffered from both mental, dermic, and other somatic symptoms of diabetes, which doubtless underlay his suspicional and pitiless tendencies. The change recorded in Marat's attitude during the Revolution is readily explained by the tone given his thoughts through the irritability produced by this disease. The work of which this is the first volume merits purchase and perusal by any physician of literary and historical tastes. The second volume will prove equally interesting, to judge from the table of subjects given in the present volume."
The Maryland Medical Journal: "The inside history of great persons is always a matter of interest, and in these days, when the history of medicine is attracting so much attention, it is extremely instructive to note how the illness or indiscretion of crowned heads has affected so materially the history of the world. The therapeutics of the persons treated in this book are extremely crude, but the surgical procedures are in places very praiseworthy.
"The gonorrhea of Louis XIV. is well desciibed by his physicians with great accuracy, but the treatment was not very effective. Hence during the course of the disease the physicians and courtiers took great pains to conceal the nature of his trouble from the nation. This same king's fistula caused great consternation among his attendants, and the operative procedures, after all other means had been exhausted, were indeed exceedingly creditable. The remuneration of the surgeons was rather startling.
"The remaining chapters in this very interesting work are as follows: The Maladies of Louis XV.; The Semi-Impotence of Louis XVI.; The First Pregnancy of Marie- Antoinette; Louis XVI. in Private Life; One of the Judges of Marie-Antoinette, the Surgeon Souberbielle ; What was Marat's Disease; Talleyrand and the Doctors; The Accouchement of the Empress Marie-Louise ; The Ancestors of Marshal Mac-Mahon, and Gambetta's Eye.
"The phimosis and impotency of Louis XVI. and the intrigues of Louis XVIII., Charles X. and the Duke of Orleans undoubtedly had their effect on the French Revolution. In all these chapters it is shown that royalty may he honoured and revered by the people, but few men arc great in the eyes of their physician.
"This work is well translated and clearly printed, and will be followed by others of similar character, the prospectus of which may be obtained from the publisher. While such works are, as a rule, for physicians only, this work is written in a very nice style, and could in no way affect the delicate sense of a sensible person."
The Pall Mall Gazette (June Mh, 1897). DOCTORS IN LiTKRATURK:- tt The medicine man has of recent years been infected by the cacoethes scribendi. Heretofore, he was apparently inoculated with some lymph which rendered his verbiage intelligible to the layman and confined his writings to the medical journals. Since Dr. Conan Doyle escaped, a good many of his colleagues seem to have broken away inraccinated. Hence they make incursions into fiction, and generally with some success, for the doctor of to-days is, as a rule, a man of a liberal education. We now have the doctor as an historian in M. Cabanes's 'Secret Cabinet of History' (Paris: CARRINGTON), and very interesting he is. The side-lights the man of medicine throws on certain obscure points of French history arc of real, if somewhat scurrilous, value. After all, the personal factor more especially in the mediaeval history cannot be altogether eliminated. Professor Ihne was fond of saying that if Charle's V. at one critical period had not had such a bad attack of gout the history of the Reformation in Germany would probably have been very different. Very amusing is the account of the maladies of Louis XV., and, as the translator points out, the Well-Beloved must have had a wonderful constitution to have withstood all the remedies the tobacco pills, the two glasses of manna, and the 'spirits of crayfish' a doxen physicians poured into him from time to time. The horrors, too, of the deathbed scene in the CEil de Bceuf as painted by a doctor, surpass even Carlyk-'s lurid picture. Indeed all the essays in this little volume are of interest, full of quaint learning and deep research. The fate of the brain of Talleyrand, 'that brain', as Victor Hugo cried, 'which had inspired so many men, built up so many schemes, led two revolutions, deceived twenty monarch's, and had contained the world', and at the last was thrown into the drain of the Rue Richepanse, and the quest of the lost eye of Gambetta, are among the striking curiosities of history. At the same time it must be added that the volume is not written pucris virginibnsqur . Although the author is anxious not to outrage what the translator sweetly calls the ' pudicities', his resolve is at times swept away by the interest of his studies. Moreover, the original was written in French. Lest it fall into the hands of a maiden uncle the ' Secret Cabinet of History' should be kept under lock and key along with Balzac's 'Contes Drolatiques ' ; to which, by the way, it forms a sort of scientific commentary."
Reynolds's Newspaper (May 30th, 1897): "This is a very curious book, as the titles of some of the chapters will indicate. Thus: 'A Youthful Indiscretion of Louis XIV.', 'The Fistula of a Great King', 'The First Pregnancy of Marie-Antoinette', 'What was Marat's Disease'? 'Gambetta's Eye', 'The Semi-Impotency of Louis XVI.', 'The Accouchement of the Empress Marie-Louise'. The author treats of the excesses and sensualities of the Bourbon monarchs of the pro-Revolution days Louis XIV., diseased from his corrupt youth; the filth and immoralities of Louis XV.; the cruelty, sordidness, and stolidity of Louis XVI.
"'The Secret Cabinet of History' is a book full of the most singular and out-of- the-way knowledge about distinguished Frenchmen and women for a period of about a hundred years. The information given by this French physician is generally not accessible to the ordinary historian ; but it is valuable as showing how much of the changes in the government of peoples depends upon the vices, frailties, and diseases of rulers- dispositions to which they seem more largely to succumb than do ordinary citizens."
Jamaica Post (Thursday, July 6th, 1897): "So thorough has been its success in the original (French), that an edition in English has now been brought out by the enterprising publisher. And that equal success will attend it wherever it pene- trates throughout the British Empire and the United States, is a foregone conclusion. So far as our purview goes, there is nothing in literature with which it can be com- pared. Something (although not very much) in the nature of G. W. M. Reynolds's notorious 'Mysteries of the Court of London', there might be a parallel between the two works, save for the fact that whereas the 'Mysteries' is almost pure fiction, Dr. Cabanes's book is obviously pure, or rather impure (very impure!) history. The present volume is but the first of a series and the published contents of the forth- coming second volume give promise of equally entertaining matter."