before any distinct symptoms of insanity appeared. They attribute it all
to self-abuse, which he has admitted practicing from an early age.

"AUGUST 28th.--Is now paralyzed in both lower limbs. Still violent.

"SEPT. 3d.--Died this morning about 1 A.M. Is so emaciated that he is
little more than skin and bones. _Rigor mortis_ entirely absent. Shortly
after death the skin of the whole body changed to a dark chocolate hue."

Truth is often stranger than fiction. What end more terrible than this!




_CHAPTER IV._

SPERMATORRHOEA, OR LOST MANHOOD.


SYMPTOMS.

Spermatorrhoea may be conveniently divided into three stages.

FIRST STAGE--IRRITATION, CONGESTION.

In this stage the sexual organs of the brain and nervous system first
begin to feel the strain of early abuse, overwork, confinement, sexual
excess, or whatever the cause may be in this particular case.

The Prostate Gland (_j_, _b_, _Fig. 5_) the Seminal Vesicles (_l_,