(a) The immense devitalizing effects of even small continued losses of
vital fluid, and,

(b) The fact that many apparently strong and healthy, as well as weak
and nerveless, men who find their sexual powers gradually or suddenly
failing them, can, in nine cases out of ten, trace it directly to
losses of vital fluid in the urine or otherwise, that have been going
on--perhaps wholly unknown to them--for months or years past.

(See also chapter on "Hidden Spermatorrhoea")


ANALYSIS OF URINE.

At the first symptom of Sexual Decay or Nervous Exhaustion, the person
thus affected should have his urine carefully and thoroughly analyzed by
some competent person. In saying "competent person," we speak advisedly,
for but few chemists and fewer physicians are competent to make such
an examination and draw correct deductions from what is to be found
there. Any person can, with the proper reagents, test his urine for
the presence or absence of semen, but he cannot make the thorough,
scientific, chemical and microscopical analysis that is sometimes needed
in order to arrive at a full and perfect diagnosis and successful
treatment.

{Illustration: Fig. 3.
URINE OF A YOUNG MAN SUFFERING WITH SPERMATORRHOEA.
1. Epithelial Scales from the Prostate Gland.
2. Scales from the Kidney Tubes.