TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES
OF EXCESSIVE INDULGENCE IN SOLITARY

AND DELUSIVE HABITS, YOUTHFUL
IMPRUDENCE, OR INFECTION;

WITH

REMARKS ON THE TREATMENT OF GONORRHOEA,
GLEET, STRICTURE AND SYPHILIS.

Ellustrated with Cases.

BY C. J. LUCAS AND CO.

CONSULTING SURGEONS,

60, NEWMAN STREET, OXFORD street, LONDON.

"The knowledge of disease is half its cure."-Swift.

1842.
LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORS:

SOLD BY BRITTAIN, 11, PATERNOSTER ROW; WILSON, 18, BISHOPGATE
STREET; PATTIE, 4, BRYDGES STREET, COVENT GARDEN;
BURGESS, 28, COVENTRY STREET, HAYMARKET, AND BY

ALL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

CHAP. I.-GENERAL RESULTS OF SENSUAL INDULGENCE,

its Effects upon the Body and Mind

CHAP. II.-ON

SELF-POLLUTION, its Frightful and

1

Destructive Consequences in Man and Woman 11

CHAP. III.-ON SEMINAL WEAKNESS, Nocturnal Emis-

sions, Impotency, Sterility, or Barrenness,

with Remarks upon the General Treatment of

Self-Pollution..

CHAP. IV.-ON GONORRHOEA (or Clap), its Symptoms,

and the Principles of its Treatment, with

Remarks upon Swelled Testicle, Stricture, and

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Gleet

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CHAP. V.-ON THE SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF THE

VENEREAL DISEASE, in its Local and Consti-

tutional Forms, and on the Use and Abuse of