TISSOT, S.A.A.D. — L'Onanisme, dissertation sur les maladies produites par la masturbation, par Tissot. Nouvelle e´dition revue, corrigée, entièrement refondue, augmente´e des travaux des me´decins modernes, et suivie du poe`me intitule´: Onan, ou le Tombeau du Mont-Cindre, par Marc-Antoine Petit, de Lyon.

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1856. Cloth-backed marbled boards. viii, 280 p. Attractive marbled flyleaves. Binding worn and slanted. Some foxing. Modernised edition of this epochal work that installed constant anxiety in generations of adolescents. The language has undergone significant modernisation, incorporating elements from 19th-century literature, including recent case studies and physician commentary on the prevalence of nightly pollution and masturbation among children and women. There is a section dedicated to identifying patients and the accidents that may follow from this heinous affliction. And last but not least, the lengthy poem 'Onan, ou le Tombeau du Mont-Cindre' by Marc-Antoine Petit has been reprinted (first published 1809) with the author's own comments.