conferred upon them by their country and their medical brethren, great
as they were, could never half repay them for the good they rendered
thoughtless youth and suffering manhood by their special discoveries.
There can be no question but that the +Civiale Urethral Crayons+, named
thus after this great specialist, and endorsed by the most eminent
medical men of France (that country in which lust and passion are
peculiarly prevalent), are the most far-reaching and reliable specifics
for Generative, Sexual and Nervous diseases known.


CAUSES OF SPERMATORRHOEA AND IMPOTENCY.
SELF-ABUSE NOT THE ONLY CAUSE.

Many years' experience in the treatment of these debilitating diseases
has proven very surely that there are many causes besides Self-Abuse
(Self-Pollution, Secret Vice or Masturbation) for Spermatorrhoea,
Impotency and Debility or Lost Manhood. Self-Abuse is the most common
cause, and we therefore give it the most prominence. The others we will
name briefly in about the order of their frequency.

1. MARRIAGE EXCESSES.--A very common cause, more often producing
Impotency (loss of Sexual Desire or Power) and Sterility (inability to
beget offspring), than Spermatorrhoea (loss of vital fluid, daily and
nightly losses, losses in the urine, nervous prostration, debility,
insanity, paralysis, &c. For full description of symptoms, see pages
12-16). Sexual desire was given to mankind, like any other power or
appetite--to be enjoyed in reasonable moderation _and for the purpose of
insuring a continuance of our species by the birth of offspring_. Many
men abuse this power--abuse it inordinately, shamefully--and suffer the
consequences. This is especially true of the newly married, and men