though the proprietors of the most popular
proprietary medicines in the market, medicines carefully adapted to the
cure of the diseases for which they are recommended, yet, should we
attempt to get up a general remedy to cure spermatorrhea and kindred
maladies, we are certain it would be an utter failure, and this is
entirely true of all such preparations now and heretofore offered for
sale, and, from the very nature of the diseases they are recommended to
cure, ever must be. Each case must have medicines carefully prepared to
meet the conditions present, and when these conditions, from the effects
of treatment or other causes, change, the treatment must be varied
accordingly.

POSITIVE INJURY instead of benefit often results from the employment of
some of the nostrums advertised for the cure of spermatorrhea, impotency
and kindred affections. Especially have we found that the use of
"Soluble Urethral Crayons," "Boluses," "Pastiles", and kindred
contrivances, which are so extensively advertised, are exceedingly
injurious, and often render otherwise moderate and simple cases,
complicated and incurable.

Although of pretended French origin, they are evidently the invention of
an ignoramus, who knows nothing of the delicate anatomy of the
generative organs or of the proper treatment of the diseases incident
thereto, for none other would have thought of such a preposterous plan
of treatment. No man should insert such absurdly devised and mischief
breeding contrivances into his urethra (urinary canal), for thereby he
is almost sure to do himself a permanent injury. So far from having been
invented by an eminent French surgeon, as claimed, such treatment is
entirely unknown in France, and ever has been, as the writer well knows
from personal observation and enquiry while sojourning in that country
and visiting its most noted hospitals and medical institutions.

All the various "Troches," "Boluses," "Wafers," "Suppositories,"
"Pearls," "Rectal Pearls," "Rectal Capsules," and other contrivances
which are recommended for the cure of Spermatorrhea and kindred
weaknesses, and which are designed to be employed by inserting them into
the lower bowel (rectum), and there permitting them to dissolve, are
only so many irrational and filthy devices for duping the ignorant and
innocent sufferers from these maladies.

AN ALLURING SWINDLE. A still more enticing, and hence more dangerous,
device for swindling unfortunate sufferers, is th