[766] C. Reissig, “Medical Science and Quackery,” p. 114 et seq. (Leipzig, 1900).
[767] C. Alexander, “The True and the False Healing Art,” pp. 46-49 (Berlin, 1899).
[768] Cf. C. Alexander, “Venereal Diseases and Quackery,” published in the “Reports of the German Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases,” 1902-1903, vol. i., Nos. 6 and 7; Hennig, “Venereal Diseases and Quackery,” op. cit., No. 7; “Petition of the German Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases to the German Imperial Chancellor, regarding the Injury done to Venereal Patients by Quacks,” op. cit., No. 7.
[769] Cf. the work of H. Beta, which is still of value in relation to present conditions, “The Trade in Sexual Nostrums and Other Articles of Immoral Use, as advertised in the Daily Press” (Berlin, 1872), at which early date we find mention of the “hygienologist,” Jakobi, the Nestor of the Berlin quacks.
[770] Cf. W. Ebstein, op. cit., p. 46.
[771] Cf. the complete history of matrimonial advertisements which is given in my “Sexual Life in England,” vol. i., pp. 140-159 (Charlottenburg, 1901).
[772] “Proputty, proputty, proputty—that’s what I ’ears ’em saäy.”—Translator.
[773] Cf. Paul Näcke, “Newspaper Advertisements by Female Homosexuals,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, edited by Hans Gross, 1902, vol. x., pp. 225-229 (taken from Munich newspapers).
[774] Cf. Paul Näcke, “Supply of and Demand for Homosexuals in the Newspapers,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, 1902, vol. viii., pp. 319-350.
[775] Cf. also the account of these detectives given in the essay “The Love-Market,” published in “Roland von Berlin,” No. 45, of November 8, 1906. In this case, a jealous young woman offered 1,500 marks (£75) in order to have her husband “watched” by such a detective.