Treatise on the Venereal Disease

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original: "ich geſucht..." The sentence likely began on the previous page, explaining that the author attempted to make the dry or technical nature of the subject matter more engaging. I have sought to make this less noticeable through interspersed remarks, experiences, observations, anecdotes, and through the sometimes detailed life storieslebensgeſchichte of earlier authorsſchriftſteller. In this regard, I have also, where the subject seemed to require it, occasionally interspersed remarks about other related subjects. Moreover, it is the general fate of scholarly workslitteraturwerke not to be cited by those who use and copy from them the most. In such a case, however, I would never believe that I was being wronged. If only harmful errorsirthümer are corrected, long-standing prejudicesvorurtheile rooted out, and new and correct concepts generally disseminated: it matters little how, where, or by whom it happens. Girtanner expresses a classic Enlightenment sentiment here: the progress of science and the eradication of medical "superstition" are more important than personal credit or intellectual property.