The generative organs are wasted and inactive, or so weakened as to
secrete but a ropy, thin and glairy fluid, having few or none of the
characteristics of Vital Fluid. Should the individual suffering this
way--and either careless or unfortunate enough to go uncured--have
offspring, they will assuredly be puny in body and weakly in mind, and
will lead a miserable existence through the neglect and indiscretion of
their parent.


THIRD STAGE.--STAGNATION AND WASTING.

This stage is an aggravation of the two preceding stages combined.

The emissions are accompanied and followed by a disagreeable and
disgusting sensation of shame and misery. The mind is absorbed as much
as can be by the one idea of its wretched situation, and the sufferer is
haunted by the thought that his condition and its cause are known to the
whole world, and that he is pitied or scorned by every person he meets.
He is hypochondriacal, and fearful suggestions of self-destruction ever
and anon present themselves.

The power of mental concentration is entirely gone and the memory is
so feeble that the patient continually forgets what he begins to say.
The dimness of vision is continual and so great as to be a material
annoyance; the eyes are wandering or fixed upon the ground, seldom
venturing to meet the gaze of another. The +ringing in the ears+, +pains
in the head and over the eyes+ are almost perpetual and frequently
accompanied by partial deafness. +The heart is the seat of pain+,
+fluttering+ and +throbbing+ with +violent and long-continued
palpitation+, his hands shake, his limbs tremble, his knees are weak, so