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third and fourth generations."
Alas, how true! how indisputable! The imperative Laws of Nature once
broken, the consequences are inevitable.
Of late years it has become the fashion amongst certain men to scoff at
this terrible vice of secret indulgence, and to claim that its evil effects
are overrated, are portrayed too vividly. Ask some poor unfortunate
whose confidence you may succeed in gaining, and listen to the pitiful
tale of lost health and vitality he will tell you. Mark well the wasted
hand, the putty-like skin, the black-ringed, lack-lustre eyes, the heavy
lip, the labored breath--read the consequences of his sin and crime in
his shame-faced way, his shambling gait, his nerveless hands, his
fluttering heart, his weakened muscles, and his tottering memory and
mind.
Must he needs lie dead at our feet before these skeptics can be
convinced? Is not such a state a living death? Must these men visit him
in the cell of the asylum, watch him as a raving maniac, gaze upon him
as a hopeless idiot or a driveling imbecile, before they will be
convinced? Such proof is at hand. Not an asylum in any country but has
its score of such; not an asylum record-book but chronicles the sad
histories of thousands of these poor, lost creatures--male and female;
not an asylum nurse or doctor but will sadly point out these creatures to

you, bereft of every trace of reason, all sense of shame, still practicing
the horrible vice that has driven every semblance of humanity from
their faces and the very light of reason from their eyes.
True, every boy or man who practices this vice does not come to this
end. But who shall discriminate? There are thousands such, and who
shall say which it shall be, or at what moment it shall occur? Ah! happy,
rosy-cheeked boy, so gay and thoughtless now, so free from misery,
disease and care, beware! It may be your turn next. A little thoughtless
indulgence, the imitation of friend or companion, though apparently
harmless now, may blanch your rosy cheek, destroy your peace and
happiness of mind, and make a life-long, hopeless, suffering invalid of
you--may shut the door of all earthly enjoyment in your face, blast your
hopes, disease or destroy your offspring, alienate you from friends and
family, and cut off from all communion with your race, make you an
object of shame and disgust to your fellow-men, sink you into an early
grave or entomb you for life in the cold stony walls of a lunatic asylum.
The day will come, erstwhile, when you will curse the parents who
reared you, the friends who surrounded you and the teachers and
ministers who taught you, for not warning you of the terrible nature of
this indulgence, so secretly common amongst boys and young men.
The day will come, when in the midst of your mental, moral and
physical agony, with weakened mind and exhausted body, physicians
will tell you that masturbation is practically harmless, that its
consequences are exaggerated, and that your sufferings are mostly
imaginary. Then will you pity their ignorance and bemoan the fact that
to such men must sufferers in your terrible extremity apply without any
feeling of being understood, appreciated or sympathized with, and, far
less, relieved or cured.
Happy will you be then, if you can (with your vice and misery staring
you in the face and threatening you with some or all of its dire
consequences) direct your steps to those who not only can and will
sympathize with you, but who are able to aid you with proper remedies
and restoratives and set you safely on the way to health and happiness
again. For there are proper aids and remedies; there are hope and

happiness to be obtained if the affections growing out of this vice be
skillfully taken in hand in time. None but the hopeless sufferers who
have been lifted from the misery, shame and weakness of their
self-inflicted suffering know how much this world owes to the high
medical skill, exhaustive study, and persistent search for truth and
proper remedies of those two great Frenchmen, +Professors Claude
Lallemand+ and +Jean Civiale+. The medical as well as civil honors
conferred upon them by their country and their medical brethren, great
as they were, could never half repay them for the good they rendered
thoughtless youth and suffering manhood by their special discoveries.
There can be no question but that the +Civiale Urethral Crayons+,
named thus after this great specialist, and endorsed by the most eminent
medical men of France (that country in which lust and passion are
peculiarly prevalent), are the most far-reaching and reliable specifics
for Generative, Sexual and Nervous diseases known.
CAUSES OF SPERMATORRHOEA AND IMPOTENCY.
SELF-ABUSE NOT THE ONLY CAUSE.
Many years' experience