STRICTURE THE RESULT OF MASTURBATION,
AND THE CAUSE OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE.

In brief it may be stated that +Masturbation+ in early life, and
sexual excesses at a later period, may, and do produce +congestion+,
+inflammation+, +spasm+, +ulceration+, +granulations+, +ulcers+,
and both +spasmodic and organic strictures+ of the urethra; that
+Spermatorrhoea+ and +Impotence+ are due to this condition, and that
the only really rational treatment is that which directly medicates and
heals these parts. This, +Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons+ do, better
and quicker than anything else. Prof. GROSS,{24} for instance, says:
"Exclusive of these cases, my notes show that 13 out of every 100 cases
of stricture are due to Onanism;" and OTIS{25} says: "9 per cent. of all
cases are traceable to that practice." REEVES, HENRY SMITH, GOULET,
PHYSIC and LEROY give masturbation as a cause of stricture. BLACK states
a like case leading to sexual incapacity, as a result of the stricture.
WADE says: "In several instances of the kind, +where there had been no
sexual intercourse+, the strictures, which were at the bulb, proved more
than usually refractory from the extreme morbid sensitiveness of the
whole urethral canal."

Gross goes on to say, that in at least eight out of every ten cases of
+Spermatorrhoea+ or +Impotence+, stricture of the urethra is the cause
of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhoea, gleet, etc.,
or to +masturbation or excesses+.

{Footnote 24 _Op cit., page 25._}

{Footnote 25: _Op cit._}