ts with blood, produced by the
cerebellar congestion of the brain, usually found to follow lying upon
the back during sleep. This, however, is unnatural and unhealthy, and is
usually the result, as before pointed out, of masturbation. But these
two important points must be remembered--that emission may be produced
by friction merely as a purely spinal reflex action, and it may be
caused by the action of the brain without any friction whatever. Both
these results are unhealthy and injurious. A true natural and healthy
act of sexual intercourse demands the excitement of brain, spinal cord,
and every nerve in the body simultaneously, and resembles the lightning
flash which restores the equilibrium of electric force disturbed during
a thunderstorm.

"It is useless to endeavor to describe the marvelous actions of nervous
force, but from what has been said it is not difficult to comprehend
that if a convulsive action is produced in any part of the body by the
sole excitement of the spinal cord, when it is necessary for its healthy
and natural production that the brain and senses generally should be
equally excited, the balance of nerve power is destroyed, which fact
alone is proved by the effects upon the nervous system always following
masturbation, which is the irritation of the spinal cord without the
assistance of the brain."

VARIOUS COMPLICATIONS are likely to arise in the progress of this
malady.

STRICTURE of THE URETHRA, or water passage, is a very common
complication and, even when quite slight, generally interferes very
seriously with the cure of the spermatorrhea when overlooked by the
attending physician, as is very commonly done, especially when the
constriction of the water passage is only slight. Very often it occurs
in our practice that on examining a case of this disease that has been
the rounds of the doctors, we find a stricture, which had been entirely
overlooked by other practitioners, being so slight as not to occasion
serious obstruction to the flow of urine but yet sufficient to interfere
very much with the cure of the spermatorrhea. The size of the urethra,
or water passage, should bear an exact and proportionate relation to
that of the penis, and when from any cause the urethra is contracted
below this normal size, it should receive attention, as otherwise the
stricture is likely to increase and the passage becomes so constricted
as to produce serious disease of the bladder, and not fail to perpe