causes is considerably augmented by maltreatment and the employment of
injudicious remedies. We should therefore suggest to all prudent persons
the wisdom and importance of consulting _competent authority_ only.
Self-enervation in the first instance brings about that irritability
which evinces itself in +nocturnal discharges+, afterwards in
inappreciable but exhaustive +diurnal discharges+, and subsequently in
complete debility of the whole generative system. This seminal fluid,
such indeed as it is--weak, effete and devoid of all generative
power--is undoubtedly the fluid which the organs suffer to escape; and
to prevent further its flow, as well as to give a healthy tone to the
secretory and retentive vessels ought to form our first care.


COUGH, CONSUMPTION AND GENERAL DEBILITY AND PROSTRATION.

It is a curious pathological fact, that during the progress of
Spermatorrhoea, difficulty of breathing, cough, and tightness of the
chest, arising in many constitutions from the seminal disorder, have
sometimes been actually mistaken for pulmonary consumption. The cough
is often distressing, occasionally attended by an expectoration of an
offensive kind. There is no doubt that many have been maltreated for
consumption when Spermatorrhoea was the real malady. That the latter
leads to the former is certain enough, but the stages and connections of
the respective diseases have been grossly misunderstood by practitioners
who have not had sufficient personal acquaintance with the indications
of Spermatorrhoea.

Remember that these continued seminal discharges of an involuntary
character disorder every function of the animal economy, and it may
be added that while Spermatorrhoea produces so many ruinous effects