Samuel-Auguste Tissot

Simon (also Samuel ) Auguste André David Tissot ( born March 20, 1728 in Grancy, † June 13, 1797 in Lausanne) was a Swiss physician who became famous through his writings against masturbation.

Tissot mainly worked as a doctor in Lausanne. 1780 to 1783 he took over the management of the University Hospital of Pavia.

His writing was published in 1760 L' Onanisme in which he claimed that masturbation producing diseases, underwent numerous editions and translations.

As an example of his adventurous -looking statements today following quote from this document may be:

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Work

• Instructions for the low man in cities and in the countryside intent on his health. Attached works: ... accompanied by two foreign treatises. One: From the imperfection of most German practical manuals, and the advantages of Tissotischen. The zweyte: from the true means to achieve / old age from the Swed. of Dr. Schulz. Typogr Ges, Hamburg 1767 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Instructions for the rural population in intention on his health. Zurich 1767th Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Multiplications, additions and improvements to its guidance for the rural population in intention on his health: the good use of those who Augsburg, with gracious Roman imperial. Freedom in the year 1766 have published edition. Wolff, Augsburg 1768 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf