PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, security against counterfeits INTRODUCTION. IN commencing our remarks on the highly important subject of SELF-POLLUTION, we cannot impress too strongly on our readers the Divine ordinance, "increase and multiply;" for by constantly bearing in mind the object for which we were sent into this world, it will at once be seen how sinful must be the practices of those, who, by fatally anticipating the purposes of Nature, are incapable of procreation, and entail everlasting misery, shame, and ignominy on themselves here and hereafter, The seminal liquor, it must be observed, is the richest and most powerful of all the animal secretions; it is, in fact, the very essence of life; it is the fluid that strengthens our bodies, and, by rendering our nervous system powerful, enables us to exercise our memory, imagination, and judgment for our worldly benefit and happiness. Now, if this important fluid is wasted, what results must follow? In the first place the nervous system of the masturbator becomes impaired, the brain, the heart, and lungs become impoverished, and hence arise melancholy, impotency, a bewildered mind, nervousness, and a general decay of the system; 'tis then! that the truth flashes across his mind, and he becomes aware of the extreme wretchedness of his situation, and that he is no longer a proper object of society; a complete im R becile, incapable of sexual intercourse; a man only in form, but not in substance, without the power of exercising his functions either of mind or body: the former participating in the disease, becomes morbidly affected, and distrust, fear, extreme sensitiveness, and frequently madness ensues, Here then arises a proof of the importance and necessity of the arrangement whereby some well informed members of the medical profession, should devote their exclusive attention to the Diseases arising from the undue excitement of the generative system, together with those incidental forms of acute disorder, which, if neglected, terminate in the horribly wasting forms of constitutional disorganization. To this part of the subject we have paid the most anxious and untiring attention from a very early period of our professional career. It is one, in fact, in which not a day passes in which we are not consulted either by professional visit, or by correspondents in different parts of the kingdom, and we feel that we are not exceeding the limits of truth, or transgressing the bounds of professional etiquette, in asserting that our mode of practice, suggested and improved by long and multiplied experience, has been productive of the happiest and most successful results in the treatment of sexual debility in both sexes; and during our practice we have too frequently marked the great extent of constitutional disease, primarily springing from neglect or mal-treatment of syphilitic diseases. Every medical man who will make it his study, as it has been ours, to investigate as far as possible in every case, the original channel through which disease or constitutional disorder first found its entry into the system, will be astonished at the mass of human suffering which may be traced up to a venereal origin, although its primary symptoms may have been for years, apparently, eradicated from the frame. Nor do the sources of this misfortune lie very deep from observation. The malady generally commences its attack in early life, before experience has overcome the short-sighted heedlessness of youth, and taught it to look beyond the pains and pleasures of the passing moment. Delicacy or shame will not allow him to seek assistance, until the poison has acquired strength and virulence too alarming to be neglected; and the patient then, instead of applying to his usual professional friend, flies to some unskilful practitioner, who temporarily arrests the external symptoms, and discharges him as cured. Thus matters go on until the malady becomes constitutional; and the patient is at last compelled to place himself under the treatment of those, who, at an earlier period, might have preserved his constitution untainted, and his body comparatively uninjured by the ravages of this insidious disease. It is some years since the idea first occurred to us that a popular treatise, divested as much as possible of technical language, would be of much avail in counteracting the effects of the complaint, resulting from mal-treatment or neglect. Under these impressions we have ventured to submit the following pages, and trust their utility may be acknowledged; we are desirous of explaining that they are not intended to supersede medical aid in any stage of the disorder, but that, on the contrary, we would impress upon the reader, if he need it, the prudence of having immediate recourse to it, in the earliest stages of the disease. But where, from circumstances which in venereal complaints very frequently occur, the party cannot have recourse to professional aid, the next best step is certainly to place in his hands those medicines which are most likely to be successful with himself. In the following pages we have as briefly as possible brought under the notice of the reader the causes, varieties, symptoms, and peculiarities of those disorders of the generative organs, which either partially or totally obstruct them in the due discharge of those important functions which they are ordained to perform in the human economy, and on the proper dis-, charge of which, not only rests the happiness of individuals in families, but also the welfare of empires; for it is not to be disputed that on the degree of vigour and healthy action of those organs in the parents, depends in a great measure the health of their offspring: daily experience presents to our notice painful and not unfrequently loathsome evidence of this fact. Hence it behoves us, before entering the marriage state, to enquire whether or not we are in such bodily health as may ensure that our marriage bed shall not become a hot-bed of disease, from whence nought but weak and puny offspring shall be produced-living evidences of our follies and brutally selfish passions. How degraded, and utterly lost to all the finer feelings which alone ennoble us, must that man be, who, knowing himself to be tainted by disease, or so debili |