3. ANYTHING DEBILITATING--such as Overwork, Confinement, Sedentary
Occupations, Worry, Care, Excitement, &c., &c.--These are much more
common causes of Sexual and Generative Diseases than is generally
supposed, and usually very obstinate and difficult to treat, because
the system is so run down that there is very little stamina or vitality
to rely upon. Clerks, business men, lawyers, bankers, ministers and
students are very subject to this form of impaired vital and sexual
power. Theological students are very prone to it. Many do not have any
idea as to what their real trouble is, and lose much valuable time in
doctoring for Dyspepsia, Consumption, Neurasthenia and the like, when
really their very life and vitality are oozing away from them in their
urine or otherwise.

4. WOMEN'S (OR VENEREAL) DISEASES.--Gonorrhoea (clap), Gleet, Stricture,
Injury to the Urine Canal from the rough use of sounds, bougies,
catheters, &c., &c. Any one or all of these, by extending the
inflammation backward to the seminal ducts and neck of the bladder,
may cause either Spermatorrhoea or Impotency. Indeed, Stricture
(often caused by Self-Abuse) is one of the most common causes of
these complaints. It was here that +Lallemand+ and +Civiale+ found
the key-note of the true treatment of these diseases.

5. VARICOCELE, or a wormy, swollen or twisted state of the veins in the
bag, and of those that run down to the testicles, is a very common cause
of both Spermatorrhoea, Impotency and Debility. (For full description of
this very common and often unexpected disease, send for our illustrated
pamphlet on the subject, or see Chapter XI, page 44 of this book.) No
man or boy with Varicocele, no matter how it was produced, can be
perfectly sound and strong in his Sexual Organs.