truthful and honest statement of facts.

We wish it distinctly understood that +this treatise is intended solely
for persons suffering from Genito-Urinary Diseases+, and that it is
+never mailed to any person who has not voluntarily requested us to send
it+, and then +not to boys+ or to members of the +opposite sex+. (Our
application books show a large number of such refusals.)

We look upon our special mission in the field of medicine as +distinct+,
+laudable+ and +holy+. There are those who look down upon this special
branch of medicine, and some ignoramuses who assert that such diseases
only exist in the imaginations of such patients as a result of reading
the pamphlets of quacks who paint frightful pictures of insanity,
idiocy, etc. To such men as these we have only this to say: Consult the
works of Hammond, Black, Acton, Wilson, Lallemand, Civiale, Courtenay,
Lee etc., etc., the authors of which have world-wide reputations, not
only as physicians, but as truthful, honest and moral men. They will
then see how really grave are such affections and how needful of aid.

God knows that the misery, despondency and actual organic disease,
as a result of early vices, are prevalent enough even to-day to make a
lover of his fellow men sincerely pity and desire to help them. And we
claim (and every honest man cannot but admit) that it is only by the
+widespread dissemination of a knowledge of certain facts+ to young and
old, especially the former, that such vice and its consequences can be
met and overcome. We are daily spreading such knowledge throughout the
length and breadth of this land, not only warning and advising the young
and cautioning the older, but also pointing out to all such as need it a
perfect and easy means of cure and restoration to health and vigor.

Our mission is as real, noble and important as that of preaching the
Gospel, and aside from its bearing on the enlightenment of those who
would otherwise go astray, and offering the means of relief to those who
have already sinned against Nature, it is of a broader and even more
sweeping importance. As every whole must needs be the sum total of its
integrals, so +each nation+ and +people must+--in mental, moral and
physical traits--+be that which its individual members make it+.
Hence, if perfect general health, full procreative ability and healthy
offspring mark the majority of the individuals, so naturally must the
health, vigor, populousness and power of t