peculiar to itself, it aggravates and excites any other disease which
may co-exist with it.

The +features+ become +pale, emaciated and haggard+. The +eyes are dead,
sunken+ and lustreless, and in many cases hold in their depths +a look
of wild, unsettled fear that denotes rapidly approaching insanity+. The
+bowels+ become +sluggish+, the +appetite capricious+, the +muscles
weak+, the +urine pale+ and with +a heavy sediment of semen+ that
drains away in it almost constantly. +Emissions+ at night becoming more
frequent and copious--sometimes bloody--although the fluid secreted
by the wasted testicles is +scarcely stronger than water+. +Sexual
incapacity shows itself.+ +Ejaculation+ is either +too quick+ or else
very +long delayed+. The +skin+ becomes dry and sallow, the +liver
congested and sluggish+. +The heart beats irregularly+, and any sudden
sound, movement or fright sets it to beating violently. +Shortness of
breath+ is complained of. +The brain becomes weaker and more sluggish
day by day.+

{Illustration: Fig. 6.
DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE TESTICLES, DUCTS, &c.
Showing where the vital fluid is made and stored and how, and by
what means it passes from the +Testes+ (where it is made) to the
+Vesicles+ (where it is stored). The heavy black marks on either
side of the urine channel, show the relative position of the
ejaculatory muscles.}

He generally loses flesh, and feels uneasiness in his stomach which
suffers from many of the symptoms accompanying dyspepsia. He is easily
startled; the slamming of a door, the firing of a cracker, the falling
of a book, a sudden touch, or even speaking to him unexpectedly, will