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Prostitution Suppressible and Resistance to the Contagious Diseases, Women's, Acts a Duty
Prostitution Suppressible and Resistance to the Contagious Diseases Women's Acts a Duty Author:Robert Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: What exquisite sophistry have we here! Dr. Lane, when you and other surgeons turn out women cured, who are the butchers that give them disease, so that they have to come back to you again, and again, and again for a cure ? Why do you not plead that these butchers that give you so much unnecessary work should be apprehended and imprisoned ? Surely you like the work, or you would advocate effectual means to prevent butchers of a certain class from injuring your patients. Sir, are your considerations so pseudo-philanthropic (to use your own sweet phrase), that you will allow personally diseased butchers, the most dangerous of all within the Commonweath, to spoil your work, by giving disease to the very women you have cured 1 Still, further, since you pretend to know nothing about law, let me inform you that when a common butcher, a harmless butcher, who never dreams of hurting morals or destroying souls, is placed in durance vile, the Prohibitory Law thus addresses him: -- " Now that I have punished you, see that you come back here no more;" whereas your Vice-Permissive Law says: -- " Come back again, when men have given you disease; for the silly ratepayers have provided a cure for you, as often as you will." The Prohibitory Law punishes a butcher, male or female, who sells meat diseased, and most frequently the males; whereas, Dr. Lane, your non-artificial and most truly philanthropic Acts suppose that diseased matter given by a man is not disease at all, and therefore he goes free! "Educated opinion!" -- Can it descend to unimaginable perversion of the truth ? If Dr. Lane were not the Goliath of the C...« less