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Title: The Sexual Question
A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study

Author: August Forel

Translator: C. F. Marshall

Release Date: September 4, 2009 [EBook #29903]

Language: English

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THE
SEXUAL QUESTION

A SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HYGIENIC
AND SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

BY
AUGUST FOREL, M.D., PH.D., LL.D.
Formerly Professor of Psychiatry at and Director of the
Insane Asylum in Zurich (Switzerland)

_ENGLISH ADAPTATION FROM THE SECOND GERMAN
EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED_

BY
C.F. MARSHALL, M.D., F.R.C.S.
Late Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for
Diseases of the Skin, London

ILLUSTRATED

_REVISED EDITION_

[Illustration]

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS BOOK COMPANY
HENRY AND PACIFIC STREETS
1931

Copyright, 1906
Copyright, 1922

OWNED BY
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS BOOK CO.

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

This book is the fruit of long experience and reflection. It has two
fundamental ideas--the stud