These two diseases are probably less understood than almost any other
equally common. It is safe to say that at least one man out of every
ten has, has had, or will have one or both. Neglected gleet often causes
stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and
keeps up a gleet.

Another set of statements, equally sweeping and based upon the best of
medical evidence, may be made, _i.e._, more cases of gleet and stricture
are caused by Self-Abuse (masturbation, Onanism), and sexual excesses
than by gonorrhoea--formerly and ignorantly supposed to be about the
only cause.

Furthermore, the main cause of both Spermatorrhoea and Impotence is
Stricture (whether caused by self-abuse, gonorrhoea [clap], or any other
excess). It was this very important point that +Lallemand+ guessed at,
and that +Civiale+ definitely ascertained to be a fact--proved it by
examinations of both living and dead subjects, and demonstrated it
before the eyes of every member of the French Academy of Medicine,
the most learned body of medical men in the world. Upon this discovery
is based the now world-famed +Urethral Crayon Treatment+. It
cures--absolutely, thoroughly and +Permanently+ cures--because it is
based on truth; because the proper remedies are placed upon the very
seat and fountain-head of the disease; where quickly and thoroughly it
stamps out the fire (inflammation, from the Latin _in_, and _flamma_, to
burn, to be a-fire) and eradicates the cause, at the same time healing
the abrasions, releasing and invigorating the nerves, cleansing and
unclogging the ducts, strengthening the erectile muscles--in a word
restoring the whole Sexual Apparatus to its natural tone and strength;
not harshly or violently, but gently, kindly, soothingly. Indeed it is a