Practical essays and remarks on that species of consumption incident to youth, from puberty to twenty-five years and upwards, commonly called tables dorsalis : With an account of the nature, cause, and cure of that distemper; in which are demonstrated, the beneful effects of secret and excessive venery on particular functions of the animal œconomy. With histories of singular cases, occurring in the authors practice during the last ten years, and the mode of treatment found succesful in their cures. By St. John Neale, fellow of the Royal academy of surgery in Paris, of the University of Leyden, and surgeon in London; formerly surgeon to the Duke of Northumberland's regiment, of fifth battalion of infantry, and the Royal Hospital at Chatham.