ce friction or cause any
excitement of these organs. The calls of nature should receive prompt
attention, and the urine be voided at any time (especially during the
night) when there is an inclination. If there be irritation of the
bladder and lower bowels, the patient will receive decided benefit from
the daily use of an injection of cold water into the bowels. From a half
pint to a pint of cold water may be used at one time, and the injection
should be retained for a few minutes before going to bed. The bowels
will thus be relieved, the heat and irritation subdued, and the
liability to seminal emissions lessened.

Patients afflicted with spermatorrhea should not allow their thoughts to
dwell upon their ailments, for they are apt to become moody,
self-deceived, and even insane upon this subject. To avoid this,
harmless amusements should be indulged in, and good moral company
cultivated. They become suspicious, skeptical, and believe that they are
victims of imposture. When they lose self-reliance, their faith and
trust in others begins to waver, especially if their health does not
improve so rapidly as they had anticipated: As much depends upon the
faithful observance of the hygienic rules as upon the constant and
proper use of medicines. The rapidity of recovery depends upon the
constitutional energies and the vigor of the vital resources. If the
blood be greatly impoverished, or the nervous system much impaired,
recovery will be necessarily slow. Time, patience, and perseverance, are
just as essential to a recovery from the effects of these abuses as the
best medical treatment that can be employed.

THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF SPERMATORRHEA AND IMPOTENCY. Few diseases
require so many modifications of treatment, to suit the peculiarities of
individual cases as spermatorrhea, because it is attended with so many
complications and morbid functional and structural changes. Every
complication must be considered, and great judgment exercised in the
selection of remedies. As this selection must depend upon the
peculiarities of the case involved, it is impossible to impart to the
non-professional readers sufficient medical knowledge to enable them to
choose the appropriate remedies for these intricate disorders. Hence it
would be useless to specify the various medicines which our specialists
employ in treating them. It would only lead to many fruitless
experiments, which might result in great harm to the afflicted. For
remedie