s powerful enough to effect cures of spermatorrhea and impotency
are capable, when improperly employed, of doing great harm. Especially
should all ready-made, proprietary or put-up medicines, such as are sold
in drug stores and chemists' shops, be avoided, for reasons already
mentioned. Great harm, also, often results from the employment of
"galvanic belts," "galvanic batteries and pads," and other catch-penny
devices, with which the too confiding are not only duped and swindled,
but terribly injured. They are all worse than useless, and often render
the mildest case very difficult to cure by inducing serious
complications. It is better to take no medical treatment, but rely
solely on the hygienic advice we have given, rather than to resort to
any of the so-called "_specifics"_ found in the drug shops, or to any
such silly, good-for-nothing trash as the various "Pastilles,"
"Boluses," "Curative Rings," "Voltaic Belts," or other quackish
medicines and contrivances.

IMPORTANCE OF HYGIENIC DISCIPLINE. The invalid should restrict his
attention to hygiene, and learn that patient endurance and heroic
perseverance are necessary, even when taking the most efficient
remedies. His entire system having gradually become deranged, corrective
medicines must necessarily be _chronic_ in their operations; in other
words, they must act insensibly, slowly, and progressively. Some of the
symptoms of sexual weakness will, under proper hygienic and medical
treatment, generally begin to disappear within a month. If the nervous
system be very much impaired, however, a longer time will elapse before
the restorative effects of treatment will be observed. Neither the
physician nor the patient should expect that a broken-down constitution
can be immediately repaired. The day of miracles is past. The most
rational method of treating the sick promises nothing supernatural,
nothing which is not in accordance with science. Diseases of this
character are always slow in their inception, or development and
progress, and must be cured in like manner, step by step. Nature never
hurries; atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.

OUR IMPROVED TREATMENT. Tears ago our specialists resolved to pay
particular attention to the investigation and treatment of these
diseases, which are not only alarmingly prevalent, but sadly neglected
and mistreated by the general practitioner of medicine.

UNFAILING REMEDIES. Having successfully treated many thous