ployed by interesting the patient in the various topics
of the day, and social features of the community.

3. Plenty of bodily out of door exercise, hoeing in the garden, walking, or
working on the farm; of course not too heavy work must be indulged in.

4. If the patient is weak and very much emaciated, cod liver oil is an
excellent remedy.

5. DIET. The patient should live principally on brown bread, oat meal,
graham crackers, wheat meal, cracked or boiled wheat, or hominy, and food
of that character. No meats should be indulged in whatever; milk diet if
used by the patient is an excellent remedy. Plenty of fruit should be
indulged in; dried toast and baked apples make an excellent supper. The
patient should eat early in the evening, never late at night.

6. Avoid all tea, coffee, or alcoholic stimulants of any kind.

7. "Early to bed and early to rise," should be the motto of every victim of
this vice. A patient should take a cold bath every morning after rising. A
cold water injection in moderate quantities before retiring has cured many
patients.

8. If the above remedies are not sufficient, a family physician should be
consulted.

9. Never let children sleep together, if possible, to avoid it. Discourage
the children of neighbors and friends from sleeping with your children.

10. Have your children rise early. It is the lying in bed in the morning
that plays the mischief.

[Illustration: (l) Healthy Semen, Greatly Magnified. (r) The Semen of a
Victim of Masturbation.]

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NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS

Involuntary emissions of semen during amorous dreams at night is not at all
uncommon among healthy men. When this occurs from one to three or four
times a month, no anxiety or concern need be felt.

When the emissions take place without dreams, manifested only by stained
spots in the morning on the linen, or take place at stool and are entirely
beyond control, then the patient should at once seek for remedies or
consult a competent physician. When blood stains are produced, then medical
aid must be sought at once.

HOME TREATMENT FOR NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS.

Sleep in a hard bed, and rise early and take a sponge bath in cold water
every morning. Eat light suppers and refrain from eating late in the
evening. Empty the bladder thoroughly before retiring, bathe the spine and
hips with a sponge dipped in cold water.

_Never sleep lying on the back._

Avoid all highly seasoned food and read good books, and kee