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and sympathetic practitioner of the healing art to give assurance, and
not to unnecessarily alarm those who experience nothing inconsistent
with a state of fairly good health. To frighten such young men into
believing themselves diseased, when in reality they experience nothing
but what may occasionally occur in the experiences of any robust,
healthy man, is the most detestable, downright quackery.

TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE. Not only are many men subjected to useless
treatment by general practitioners who overlook the real disease, caused
by pernicious youthful habits pursued in solitude, or later excesses in
venery, but the female sex are also quite as often subjected to
treatment for diseases which do not exist, the real trouble being
nervous debility and other weaknesses that have resulted from the
youthful pernicious practices common to both sexes, or later excesses in
marital pleasures.

MORAL CONSIDERATIONS. Masturbation is a habit which tyrannizes over the
mind, perverts the imagination, and forces upon the victim venereal
desires, even while he is forming the strongest resolutions to reform.
It constrains into its service the higher faculties, such as friendship,
confidence, love, reason, and imagination, to make its ideal graceful
and beautiful.

SENSUAL LUST. The fancy creates an attractive partner, possessed of
girlish beauty, a perfect type of goodness, blended with sexuality, and
whom the subject worships with all the ardor of passion. Around this
_beau ideal_ all his affections are clustered; to her the purest of his
blood is offered in sacrifice, and it is no wonder that female
associates seem tame and unattractive when such imaginary and consummate
divinity is courted. In the sensual delirium is conceived an elysium of
carnal bliss, where half-nude nymphs display their charms and invite to
sensual enjoyments. Thus we see how this habit makes the spiritual
faculties subservient to morbid passion, and by what means elevating
influences are prostituted to vulgar and base-born creations.

SYMPTOMS VARY IN DIFFERENT CASES. We can only partially delineate the
terrible effects resulting from the abuse of the sexual organs. The
symptoms are multitudinous, but, as we have before stated, no two
persons are similarly influenced by this disease. The symptoms will vary
according to the severity of the affection, the age of the patient, and
his constitutional peculiarities. The presence of only a few of the
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