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in the treatment of these debilitating diseases
has proven very surely that there are many causes besides Self-Abuse
(Self-Pollution, Secret Vice or Masturbation) for Spermatorrhoea,
Impotency and Debility or Lost Manhood. Self-Abuse is the most
common cause, and we therefore give it the most prominence. The
others we will name briefly in about the order of their frequency.
1. MARRIAGE EXCESSES.--A very common cause, more often
producing Impotency (loss of Sexual Desire or Power) and Sterility
(inability to beget offspring), than Spermatorrhoea (loss of vital fluid,
daily and nightly losses, losses in the urine, nervous prostration,
debility, insanity, paralysis, &c. For full description of symptoms, see
pages 12-16). Sexual desire was given to mankind, like any other
power or appetite--to be enjoyed in reasonable moderation _and for the
purpose of insuring a continuance of our species by the birth of
offspring_. Many men abuse this power--abuse it inordinately,
shamefully--and suffer the consequences. This is especially true of the
newly married, and men advanced in years, who push their failing

powers too far. As a just retribution for the abuse of so important a
function, the Almighty deprives some of desire, some of power, some
of both.
2. ONANISM.--By many this is confused with Masturbation or
Self-Abuse. While like it in some respects and in many of its
consequences, it is still different. It is as hurtful to an adult as abuse is
to a young person. God punished Onan for this sin, hence its name. Yet,
despite this terrible example so plainly set forth in the Old Testament,
probably one-half of the married men of the present day are pursuing it,
and hence so many Impotent and Powerless persons, seeking vainly
amongst the many cheap, quack remedies for something to
re-invigorate and re-vitalize them.
This is a terrible vice, terrible in its consequences, and however hardy
and robust the man, sooner or later his sexual powers must and will
succumb to the strain. Many men write us, saying that they never
masturbated, and yet are totally impotent and cannot understand why it
is. And yet they have been thus injuring themselves for years!
Sexual power and desire were given us for one purpose--the
perpetuation of our species, and whoso endeavors to avoid this, must
suffer. Many married couples do not want more children, from care,
poverty or other causes, and hence the extent to which this terrible
practice is indulged. It must be from ignorance, for were it commonly
known how injurious this practice is, but few would dare take the
terrible risk.
And yet the resulting weakness can be speedily cured if properly
treated. In no class of cases have the Civiale Remedies achieved greater
success than in these.
3. ANYTHING DEBILITATING--such as Overwork, Confinement,
Sedentary Occupations, Worry, Care, Excitement, &c., &c.--These are
much more common causes of Sexual and Generative Diseases than is
generally supposed, and usually very obstinate and difficult to treat,
because the system is so run down that there is very little stamina or
vitality to rely upon. Clerks, business men, lawyers, bankers, ministers

and students are very subject to this form of impaired vital and sexual
power. Theological students are very prone to it. Many do not have any
idea as to what their real trouble is, and lose much valuable time in
doctoring for Dyspepsia, Consumption, Neurasthenia and the like,
when really their very life and vitality are oozing away from them in
their urine or otherwise.
4. WOMEN'S (OR VENEREAL) DISEASES.--Gonorrhoea (clap),
Gleet, Stricture, Injury to the Urine Canal from the rough use of sounds,
bougies, catheters, &c., &c. Any one or all of these, by extending the
inflammation backward to the seminal ducts and neck of the bladder,
may cause either Spermatorrhoea or Impotency. Indeed, Stricture (often
caused by Self-Abuse) is one of the most common causes of these
complaints. It was here that +Lallemand+ and +Civiale+ found the
key-note of the true treatment of these diseases.
5. VARICOCELE, or a wormy, swollen or twisted state of the veins in
the bag, and of those that run down to the testicles, is a very common
cause of both Spermatorrhoea, Impotency and Debility. (For full
description of this very common and often unexpected disease, send for
our illustrated pamphlet on the subject, or see Chapter XI, page 44 of
this book.) No man or boy with Varicocele, no matter how it was
produced, can be perfectly sound and strong in his Sexual Organs.
6. UNDEVELOPED, WASTED OR MISSHAPEN PARTS.--A failure
to have perfectly developed organs sometimes dates from birth, but in
most cases it is caused by self-abuse at a time when the person is
growing. In any case, Seminal weakness and Wasted or Misshapen
Parts go together as both cause and effect, and the one, when found,
will usually very soon lead to