grave or entomb you for life in the cold stony walls of a lunatic
asylum.

The day will come, erstwhile, when you will curse the parents who reared
you, the friends who surrounded you and the teachers and ministers who
taught you, for not warning you of the terrible nature of this
indulgence, so secretly common amongst boys and young men.

The day will come, when in the midst of your mental, moral and physical
agony, with weakened mind and exhausted body, physicians will tell you
that masturbation is practically harmless, that its consequences are
exaggerated, and that your sufferings are mostly imaginary. Then will
you pity their ignorance and bemoan the fact that to such men must
sufferers in your terrible extremity apply without any feeling of being
understood, appreciated or sympathized with, and, far less, relieved or
cured.

Happy will you be then, if you can (with your vice and misery staring
you in the face and threatening you with some or all of its dire
consequences) direct your steps to those who not only can and will
sympathize with you, but who are able to aid you with proper remedies
and restoratives and set you safely on the way to health and happiness
again. For there _are_ proper aids and remedies; there are hope and
happiness to be obtained if the affections growing out of this vice
be skillfully taken in hand in time. None but the hopeless sufferers
who have been lifted from the misery, shame and weakness of their
self-inflicted suffering know how much this world owes to the high
medical skill, exhaustive study, and persistent search for truth and
proper remedies of those two great Frenchmen, +Professors Claude
Lallemand+ and +Jean Civiale+. The medical as well as civil honors