The Rev. John Wesley's Extractions from Dr Tissot: A Methodist Imprimatur

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Herbert Thomas Walter , John Wesley as editor and author (Princeton, 1940), 121.

According to a catalogue of Tissot's personal library, composed after his death, Médecine primitive was the only book by Wesley in his possession. See “Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de Mr. le Professeur Tissot commencé à Lausanne le 10 juin 1812” (Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, Lausanne, Fonds Tissot, IS 3784/I/71), 197. I thank Patrick Singy for this information.

Also see Stolberg Michael , “Self-pollution, moral reform, and the venereal trade: Notes on the sources and historical context of Onania (1716)”, Journal of the history of sexuality, ix/1–2 (Jan.–Apr. 2000), 37–61, p. 53.

Hare E. H. , “Masturbatory insanity: The history of an idea”, The journal of mental science, no. 108 (Jan. 1962), 1–25, p. 19, n. 3.

This footnote also appears in the Vorrede des Verfassers of the German translation of Tissot's Latin text, Versuch von denen Krankheiten, welche aus der Selbstbeflekung (Frankfurt, 1760).

King James Version, 1611.

Anonymous [“Philo-Castitatis”], Onania examined and detected, 2nd edn (London, 1724), 21–28.

Leviticus 20:13.

Anonymous , Onania; of the heinous crime of self-pollution, 8th edn (London, 1723), 22, 32.

Ibid., 33.

Tissot S. A. A. D. , A treatise on the crime of Onan; illustrated with a variety of cases, together with the method of cure. Translated from the third edition of the original (London, 1766), 87.

Ibid., 194.

Tissot S. A. A. D. , Advice to people in general, with regard to their health, selected and ed. by Kirkpatrick James (London, 1765), 16–22.

Ibid., 13.

See Lawrence Christopher J. , “William Buchan: Medicine laid open”, Medical history, xix (1975), 20–35.

Tissot , Advice, 13.

“Cures for the Itch: An unpublished Wesley letter”, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, xxxvi (1967), 30.

Hill Alfred Wesley , John Wesley among the physicians: A study of 18^th-century medicine (London, 1958), 65.

Hawes William , An examination of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Primitive Physick (London, 1776), 31.

Ibid., 65.

Also in Wesley John , The letters of Rev. John Wesley, a.m., ed. by Telford John (London, 1931), vi, 225–6.