A.B.C. LIFE SERIES see FLETCHER (#1193, S-400–S-403).

S-1. ABBEY, Emery C., 1832-1902.

Issued in a plain wrapper, a table of contents is pasted to the inside of the front wrapper, and testimonials to earlier editions of this book and his proprietary remedy Cutavaco to the inside back wrapper.

Abbey claims to have received his A.M. in 1859 from Genesee College (Lima, N.Y.) and his medical degree in 1863 from the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania, which became the Philadelphia University of Medicine & Surgery in March 1865 (extinct 1880). Between 1871 and 1898 Abbey is listed as a physician in the Buffalo city directories at seven different addresses. Later in his career Abbey was resident in suburban Tonawanda and was physician to the Buffalo Last Works. He is listed in Butler (1877) as an examiner for life insurance companies and as secretary of the Eclectic Medical Society of New York, although he does not appear as such in the Society's Transactions during the 1870s.

S-1.1. ABBEY, Emery C., 1832-1902.

This edition of Abbey's discussion of sexual disorders, sexual dysfunction and venereal disease is double the size of the book's first appearance under this title in 1875 (#1). We do not know how many editions of The sexual system and its derangements were published between 1875 and 1884. On page 2 Abbey claims “numerous editions” to be in circulation totaling half a million copies. In printed wrapper.

The order of topics in this edition is identical to the 1875 edition, although the discussion is enlarged throughout. In the sections entitled “Earnest Words” (p. 37-43) and “A Devilish Business” (p. 43-45), Abbey assails the integrity of those among whom he himself deserves to be classed, i.e., dispensers of dangerous advice and ineffective remedies in the treatment of sexual disease. Abbey takes particular aim at fellow Buffalonian Ray Vaughn Pierce (#2798-2846, S-1002–S-1004), whose World's Dispensary (#3874-3880, S-1526–S-1531), Invalids’ Hotel (#1896), widely marketed remedies, and eminently successful publications leave him much chagrined: “We have in this city,” Abbey writes, “a most arrogant impostor who advertises largely and palms off upon the public.