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self-abuse, which he has admitted practicing from an early age.
"AUGUST 28th.--Is now paralyzed in both lower limbs. Still violent.
"SEPT. 3d.--Died this morning about 1 A.M. Is so emaciated that he is
little more than skin and bones. Rigor mortis entirely absent. Shortly
after death the skin of the whole body changed to a dark chocolate
hue."
Truth is often stranger than fiction. What end more terrible than this!

CHAPTER IV.
SPERMATORRHOEA, OR LOST MANHOOD.

SYMPTOMS.
Spermatorrhoea may be conveniently divided into three stages.
FIRST STAGE--IRRITATION, CONGESTION.
In this stage the sexual organs of the brain and nervous system first
begin to feel the strain of early abuse, overwork, confinement, sexual
excess, or whatever the cause may be in this particular case.
The Prostate Gland (j, b, Fig. 5) the Seminal Vesicles (l, Fig. 5),
Cowper's Duct (n, Fig. 5), the Testicles and Spermatic Cord (h, f, k, Fig.
5), indeed all the sexual apparatus, including the bulbous sympathetic
nerves lying just inside the spine, from the small of the back down to
the end of the organ, become filled with dark, thick and stagnated blood.
The Prostate Gland swells and becomes enlarged, the Seminal Vesicles
become weak, baggy and filled with a thin, glairy fluid that oozes out
into the urine and urine canal on any little strain, exertion or excitement;
especially when, after being in the presence of the opposite sex, weak,
feeble erections follow. The testicles become flabby and stringy and no
longer make strong, healthy, fecund vital fluid. The constant calls upon
them has exhausted them as also the nerves that gave them life,
strength and vitality. A heavy dragging +weight+ is often felt in the
+groin+, especially after walking or long standing. There is a feeling of
+weakness+ and +exhaustion+ in the parts. Often +strange sensations+
shoot through the parts, and they are +cold+ and +clammy+ at one time,
while +weak+ and +sweating profusely+ at another.
{Illustration: Fig. 5. MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. [From
Acton's Celebrated Work on "The Reproductive Organs."] Side view of
Body cut in half lengthways showing the course taken by the +vital
fluid+ from the +Testicle+ (where it is made) to the Seminal Vesicles
(where it is stored). The penis is shown cut off at dotted line g.
As shown here the +vital fluid+ secreted in the minute tubules of the
healthy testicle is gathered into the vas deferens or conveying tube k,
which passing through the groin dips behind the bladder a and empties
into the Seminal Vesicles or Storehouse b. From here it is thrown

forcibly into the urethra (urine canal) e, when needed, and expelled
anteriorly by the ejaculatory muscles of the urethra. To reach the
urethra the Seminal Duct m passes directly through the body of the
Prostate Gland j-b. Upon the outside of the testicle, the tube or duct is
found twisted and forming a slight bunch, known as the epididymis, f, g,
h.
It is here that the pressure of a +Varicocele+ is first felt--here that it
succeeds in cutting off the free upward flow of vital fluid by pressure on
these soft branches of the duct, causing +emissions+ by varying and
irregular pressure and +Impotence+ by constant pressure. When the
+Varicocele+ becomes very large, it then destroys the delicate tubing
or the testicle itself.}
The general nervous system also feels the +strain+ and +drain+.
+Memory and application+, +good judgment+, +decision of character+,
and +clear-sightedness+ are not what they were. +Headaches+ are not
uncommon. +Bashfulness and trepidation+, especially in the presence
of females, is the rule. The person feels +clumsy+, +embarrassed+ and
+ill at ease+. +Sleep+ is sometimes poor, there are occasionally
+terrible dreams+, sometimes +lascivious ones+ accompanied by
+emissions+, +drowsiness+ and a tired, languid feeling in the morning,
and a +disinclination to rise+ and go to work are certain signs of
+impending+ nervous exhaustion. +The eyes are dull and heavy+, often
+black-ringed+ underneath. The pupils of the eyes are unequal--often
very large--sometimes one small and one large. The hands tremble and
perspire +easily+. The person is +absent-minded, melancholy, prone to
brood, and fears the jests+ or ridicule of his companions. The +skin+,
especially of the +face+, sometimes becomes +coarse and red,
sometimes is pale and pasty+ and covered with +blotches or pimples+.
There is sometimes +spasm at the neck of the bladder+, causing +some
delay before the urine will flow freely+. Often it is passed in a +forked
or twisted stream+, plainly showing the presence of either organic or
spasmodic stricture. +Twitching of the muscles of the eyelid, face and
limbs+ is often present, accompanied sometimes by +creeping
sensations up the spine+, +flushings of the face+, +chills+ (slight),
+dizziness and black spots before the eyes+ on stooping over and

occasionally by neuralgic pains in the +head+ and about the heart. If
unchecked, or if the