m in
after years. There are many thousands to-day who are just now feeling
the effects of early vices, now almost forgotten. They can be restored
to _natural_ power by proper treatment, but they rarely are, because but
few of them believe that early self-abuse or later Onanism has anything
to do with it. So they spend a fortune almost--and uselessly too--on
Stimulants, Nervines, Tonic and the like, but still remain partly or
wholly Impotent. Foolish men!

_CHAPTER II._

THE VITAL FLUID

What it Is, What it Does, and How it is allowed to Drain Away,
Weakening, Emasculating and Dementing the Vicious and the Careless.
Diurnal (daily) Emissions. Nocturnal (nightly) Emissions. Impalpable
Oozings. Losses in the Urine. Losses while at Stool. Mistaken Gleet.

There are thousands of weak, nerveless men, who do not know what ails
them; thousands of invalids whose physicians are puzzled and perplexed
by their symptoms, and cannot account for the rapid waste of strength,
energy and vitality, much less check it; and thousands of others, on
the street, in the pulpit, on the bench, in the counting room, whose
troubles, illness and misery are due to losses of vital fluid. Some
know it, many more do not. Some are being properly or improperly treated
for it; many are being dosed and drugged for Malaria, Neurasthenia,
Consumption, Overwork, Brain Troubles, Paralysis and many equally as
foolish and irrational complaints. They sicken, die, destroy themselves
in hopeless despair of ever getting well and strong again, verge into
hopeless idiocy or go raving mad, simply because their trouble is not
understood; because day by day and hour by hour there is draining from
them in their urine, at stool and otherwise, that precious vital fluid
that represents life, health and energy to them.

{Illustration: Fig. 1.
A HUMAN TESTICLE.
Perfectly Healthy.
[From Gray's Anatomy.]
Each _lobule_ may be seen (carefully guarded from pressure or injury)
in its cell, with a strong fibrous partition on each side. All these
_lobules_ empty into small ducts which converging form the _Globus
Major_, _Epididymis_ and _Globus Minor_, which finally end in the
_Vas Deferens_, _Cord_, _Duct_, or _Tube_ that conveys the fluid to
the Seminal Vesicles at the back of the bladder. (See _Figs._ 5, 6.)
As the veins of a _Varicocele_ surround these delicate _lobules_
as well as _fine tubing_, it can readily be seen how easily such
pres