ved more
than usually refractory from the extreme morbid sensitiveness of the
whole urethral canal."

Gross goes on to say, that in at least eight out of every ten cases of
+Spermatorrhoea+ or +Impotence+, stricture of the urethra is the cause
of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhoea, gleet, etc.,
or to +masturbation or excesses+.

{Footnote 24 _Op cit., page 25._}

{Footnote 25: _Op cit._}

THE CIVIALE PERFECTED AND COMBINED TREATMENT.

How senseless, then, to endeavor to cure such conditions with stomach
medicines. Still, the CIVIALE method does not wholly discard them.
They have their place and their purpose, and served it well. It was
his practice in many cases to use +Nervines+ and +Tonics+, as well
as +Digestives+ and +Laxatives+, by the stomach, and with excellent
results, for in many of these cases the +digestion was poor+, the +liver
torpid+, the +bowels sluggish+ and +constipated+, and +filled with
wind+, the +appetite capricious+ and +uneven+. +Crayons+ in the urethra
could not wholly cure these symptoms, although they stopped the drain
that originally caused them. Combined with the +Tonic-Regulator+, the
results were prompt and satisfactory.

+Many patients began to recuperate the moment the inflammation,
stricture, ulceration and accompanying losses of vital fluid were
stopped, and were soon in robust health again+. In others, however,
he found it best, +at the same time that he was healing the diseased+
urethra, to +clear and invigorate the debilitated nerves and weary
minds, to tone up the stomach and bowels, set the liver gently working,
start the kidneys+ (nearly always congested), +and infuse new life,
strength and vigorous impulses into the whole system by means of his
Tonic-Regulator+, which is a pleasant and most efficacious combination
of +tonics+, +laxatives+ (not purgatives), and +deobstruents+. +Skin,
kidneys, lungs, heart, mind, nerves, stomach, liver and bowels, were
all set to working right+. And, as a consequence, aided by the urethral
remedies, the +losses ceased+, erectile power and +sexual vigor
returned, the step became buoyant and elastic, the mind clear, the
memory retentive, the eyes clear and bright, the lips and cheeks ruddy
with healthful color; the whole system, indeed, renovated, refreshed and
re-invigorated.+

_CHAPTER VII._

THE DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND FAILURES
IN AND OF MARRIED LIFE.

What more perfect or pleasing picture t