ASTED 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 the
other. _Twisting or Curving_ is one of the most positive signs of
previous inflammation, stricture and twisting or distortion of the
seminal ducts, and hence sterility or barrenness. In such especially are
the remarkable effects of the +Civiale Treatment+ the most noticeable.
We can say with positiveness, and prove it by case after case, that by
no other method can such rapid and perfect restoration of the organs to
a natural and healthy state be obtained as by this. Some of the very
worst and apparently most hopeless cases that we have had--cases that
have gone from one physician to another without the slightest
improvement--have yielded effectually to the +Civiale Remedies+. In some
of them the persons thus afflicted would have been totally unfitted for
marriage had they failed to find relief. Their children--healthy, happy
and finely developed--speak volumes for what our treatment has done for
them. (For Treatment refer to page +42+ of this book.)

IMPOTENT OLD MEN--
THE SEXUAL DECAY OF ADVANCING AGE.

We have thus far given briefly the most common causes of Seminal
Disease. There are a few that we have not mentioned: Blows on the Head,
Loins (Small of the Back), Testicles, &c.; Weakness caused by prolonged
illness, fevers, &c.; Malaria, Consumption, &c.; the abuse of Tobacco,
Opium, Alcohol and Chloral, &c., &c.; but these are less common and less
important. There is one condition, however, that we have only referred
to incidentally, and that is the failure of Sexual Power in men past
middle age. No man (if he is reasonably careful and does not abuse
himself) should find his powers decaying before he is seventy or eighty
years of age. Mind, we do not say "no man does," but no man "_should_,"
provided he is reasonably careful.

But here comes the fact. Most men are _not_ careful, and most men _have_
abused themselves at some period. Many believe and stoutly maintain that
they "never had emissions or seminal disease, and it didn't hurt them."
But it did, and it is just now that they begin to feel it. It is true
they escaped the more acute and direful effects, but it told on the