isease; not knowing that a persistent evil is nestling in this
little canal, gnawing at their vitals, and slowly but surely undermining
and destroying their sexual vigor and manhood.

We know this to be so because we are daily being consulted by men of
different ages, who, until our physician, in the course of the
examination, showed it to them, _never suspected its existence_. Many
of these men had been "doctoring" for years for seminal weakness and the
like, with varying success, never being quite cured, or, if cured, soon
relapsing--all because a Varicocele of the Cord existed unsuspected and
therefore untreated.

{Illustration: Fig. 11.
COMPLETE INSTRUMENT.
Showing mobility at points so that it will fit any individual.}

{Illustration: Fig. 12.
SIDE VIEW.
Showing Bell Spring, Pad and Pubic Shield.}

CAUSES.--The causes of this condition of the veins of the bag are very
numerous. Some of the most important are Masturbation or excess, causing
weakening of all the parts, the veins included; Falls, Blows, Strains,
Excessive Horseback and Bicycle Riding, Running, Jumping, Mumps going
to the Testicles, Gonorrhoeal Inflammation settling there, Kick in the
Groin, Wearing of Improper Trusses, etc., etc. Masturbation is one of
the most common of all the causes. In many instances, even if it does
not _directly_ cause the complaint, it weakens the parts, so that blows,
strains, etc., that in others would not produce any particular trouble,
readily cause it in these persons.

SYMPTOMS.--The symptoms are not many unless it has caused seminal
weakness and lost vitality, in which case all the symptoms of these
complaints may really be attributed to the Varicocele. Pains in the
Groin, Limbs and Back; a sense of weight or dragging; Neuralgia of the
Testicles, Fetid Perspiration; Itching and peculiar sensations in the
Skin of the Bag; Chafing in warm weather; easy tiring under rapid
walking or running, are not uncommon. In some very bad cases, however,
none of these symptoms, or only a few, are present. Why, we cannot say.

PROGNOSIS.--In itself this disease is not dangerous. It is from the fact
that the veins may go on bulging until an enormous swelling is produced
(we have seen cases where the bag hung as low as the knee and was nearly
as large around as a man's arm); that the testicles may be entirely
wasted away, and that it may cause Spermatorrhoea, Lost Manhood, Total
Impotence, &c., &c., constitute its gre