not remove the functional and organic
derangements of the nerve-centres; hence, at a time when the victims of
this disease should be in the prime of life, they are impotent, and
epilepsy, apoplexy, paralysis, softening of the brain, or insanity,
frequently results.

EPILEPSY (OR FITS). This dread disease is one of the most common and
serious complications of the more advanced stages of spermatorrhea. The
injury done to the nerve-centres by the practice of masturbation is
manifested in epileptic convulsions, more or less frequent. If proper
treatment be early adopted, and faithfully pursued, the case is not yet
hopeless; though, in the majority of cases, the patient never recovers
after the disease assumes this phase.

PARALYSIS. Paralysis, or Palsy, when occurring as a complication of
spermatorrhea, may be preceded by an attack of apoplexy, in which the
patient loses consciousness, and lays in a condition of profound stupor
for a time, and on recovery from his unconscious state, finds himself
unable to use one or more of his limbs, or the disability and loss of
power, which may also be accompanied by more or less loss of sensation,
may come on gradually, without any premonition or marked manifestation
of its approach. In either case, its appearance is to be regarded as a
matter of serious importance. Paralysis, when occurring as a consequence
of masturbation or sexual excesses, is usually difficult of cure; yet,
now and then, cases are cured at our Institutions even after this grave
malady has appeared as a complication.

SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. This malady, although less common as a result of
masturbation than the complications mentioned in the preceding
paragraphs, is of sufficiently frequent occurrence to entitle it to a
passing notice here. This condition usually results ultimately in
complete dementia, or loss of reason. It is an incurable disease.

INSANITY. This deplorable malady is not a very uncommon result of
masturbation and its various resultant morbid conditions, as the records
of the many institutions for the unfortunate class of sufferers from
this disease bear abundant witness. Sometimes it manifests itself in the
milder forms of hallucination, or monomania, but in the majority of
cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many
times followed, sooner or later, by a raving mania.

In cases of monomania resulting from masturbation, the mental
derangement is often so slight as to