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 GENERATIVE   SYSTEM,

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HUMAN    FRAILTY;
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   INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS A (^ *k *
      OF             \*
DISEASES
  THE   GENERATIVE   SYSTEM,
                   FOLLOWED BY
             COPIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
  rOE THE PEEFECT EESTOEATION OF THOSE WHO ARE INCAPACITATED
                 FROM ENTEEING INTO
      THE HOLY STATE OF M&TBIMONY,
                WITH OBSEEVATIONS ON
     THE  DIREFUL RESULTS ARISING FROM
                   ONANISM ;
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                 Southern Distriot of New YorK. 
INDEX.
/
Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative Organs,.......................   8
Alterations on the approach ofmar.hood,................................  23
Author's newly-constructedUrinometer, ...                          21   43
Aetus on Seminftf Emissions..                       ...................  41
Atrophy.................._    .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.',"............'.........  44
Advice  and Plain Rules for Patients,...............         ........*.....  54
Affections of the Bones,,.................'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..'..'.'.'.'.".............'."  95
Buboes, fcc.,..................'.'.'/'.'.!!'.'!'.".'.!'.'.'."....................78"  90
Chemical Analyzation of (he Semenj he, ....".'.'.'.'.".'.*.'.....................'  17
Certain means of obtaining a correct knowledge of the Patients case,".'."!".  21
Characteristics rf the Countenance,...................                     39
Cnord' e—Remedy,.....................'//m[       "[....................  73
Chancre—Treatment................."'_)*                              '  gg
Consequences of improper Treatment.'.'.'.'.''.'...'. ].'. *'.'.'.'.'..'!!.'.'!"."."."!!!."!  09
Cases................................                                 "' 1Q3
Consultation and Correspondence.........................'.'.'.'.'.'.".'..".". VlV 118
iivine Blessing to our 6r|t Parents____'.............: .................'  28
f'egradation arising  from Incompetency,.......1...'.........'......'....'...'  29
Pecline of Virilo Power.................................;......". '"'] ""[ '  38
Disease from Masturbation.......'.. 1'. °.'..'.! 7..7.Y...'.'.'.". Y.V.7.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'.'.  45
Directions for taking Triesbmar No. i,..'..."'..'.'. \ \'.' *''.'."'.'. \.'''.''.''.''.'..'.'.  53
Directions for tsking Tfikshmar No. 2,.....'.'.'.'...'.'.'.'.'... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.... .'. '.'.  69
Directions for takiDg TRiiffEiuR No. 3,.....................................  85
Fxliortation............................................................  28
Extinction of Progeny from Impotencv,.........'.   '.'.'.'...!!!.'____.'!.!!!'.  30
Extinction  of Connubial Felicitv......
Excitement, &c,..............'...........................................  34
Gonorrhoea, &c..........................................................  f.l
Gonorrhoea—Treatment...............'.'..'.'.    ,  .'  .....   "".'..  .     71
Clct   .......................................*......................  79
"1*     teson Tab >• Dors:-lis............................................   40
 ,       ns to Correspondents...........................................  102
      .Control..........................................................  31
nervous an<l  Sexual Debility..............................................   52
Onanism aiid its ron-equences,.......................................  ...  .4
Observations from Rufl'on................................................   30
Physiognomy, Mirror of Soul and Body....................................   -If,
Practical Observations on  Venereal and Syphilitic Infection,...............  59
Phymosisand Paraphimosis,......................................63, 64,  74
Pernicious results of Mercury, &c.........................................   98
Privileges to Purchasers of $27 Cases of Triesojar.......................  101
Results from Depraved Indulgences,......................................   25
ResponKibility,..........................................................  27
Ret earches from Galen,..............................................  35
Responsibilities of Matrimony,.......'...................................   96
Spiritual Authority,...................................................   37
Sanctorius, Celsus, &c.. on Onanism, .....................................  42
Symptoms attending Diseases arising from perverted Indulgences,..........   47
Swelled Te tide......................................................62,  75
Str«fcguary, &c.......................................... ..............   71
Stricture.................................................................  84
Syph lis, &c......................................»......................   86
Special Address to Invaubs, whose sufferings  have  been protracted  from
  hidden causes, and who require prompt treatment......................... 117
Triesemar...............................................................  49
Transmitting Diseases to Offspring...................w..................  61
Tkiesfmar. most important observations to Patients.......................   66
Treatment of Syphilis, £c................................................   97
Various ill effects of Self-abuse.........................................  82
383970 
IV.
INDEX.
Venereal Impurities.....................................................  £4
Venereal Eruption of Face and Skin.....................................  |»
Venereal Sore Throat...................................................  »j>
Venereal Ulcers and Sores................................................  jj"
Warts  &c...........................•.................................
Most gratifying results from the introduction ot Tiiesemar in Ameiica..... 119
                             PLATES.

Plash 1—FRONTISPIECE—a front view of the anatomy of the abdomen, penis,
                         and organs of generation.
                                                                      MflH
Pl/tb2—A side view of the pelvis and its contents---*....................   9
Plats 3—A view of the special organs of generation.......................  10
Plate 4—Three views of the penis.....................................  11
Plats 5—Three views of the bladder and generative organs................  13
Plats 6—Seven views of the testacle....................................  16
Plate 7—Four views of the urethra and discharges....................  17
Plate 8—Eight views of the testicle......................................  21
Diate o__Fig. 1, general appearance of the features through onanism......  24
Platk 10—Fig. 1, the meagre appearance of the features through onaniMn.
  Fig, 2, spermatorrhoeal opthalmia through onanism.   Fig  8, varicocele
  jro^uced by self polution.............................................  25
PlateII__Fig. 1, the testis in health  Fig. 9. the testis wasted away through
  onanism.  Fiz- 3, the testicles undescended.............................  27
Platk 12—Fig. 1, anatomical view of the varicocele, showing  the veins en-
  larged  through onanism, previous to the testis b«ing destroyed........... f
Platk 13— tig 1,  Phymosis.  Fig. 2, gonnonhea, with churdee.  Fig. 3, swell- •
  ed testicle.  Fig. 4. deep seated ulcers on the scrotum.  Fig. 5, paraphi-
  mosis.  Fig 6, phymosis with chancre..................................  73
Plate 14—Fig. 1, sympathetic buboes.  Fig.  2. syphilitic buboes.   Fig. 3,
  syphilitic hydro-sarcocele.   Fig. 4, syphilitic chanc  e.   Fig. 5, ch:»ncre.
  Fig. 6  superficial pustules on the skin withgonnorrbea.  Fiic. 7, phymosis
  with gangrene.........................................................  79
Platk 15—Five views of venereal eruptions after suppuration..............  78
Plate 16—Three views of stricture........................................  81
Plate 17—Fig. 1,  gonorrheal opthalmia.  Fig 2, nodes on  the  frontal bono.
  Fig. 3, syphilitic pustules before suppuration.  Fig. 4. veDereal taint   in
  the offspring.  Fig. 5.  suppurations of the venereal erup'ions.    F'g. 6.
  venereal  pustules previous to the nose being destroyed.   Fig. 7, venereal
  eruptions after suppuration............................................  85
Plate 18—Fig. 1,  venereal eruptions  on the skin   Fig. 2, 3,  4. and 5, des-
  truction of the palate, tongue, nose, and teeth, from sypb ilis............
Plate 19—Fig. 1, caries in the Cheek bone.  Fig. 2. caries in the nose   Fig.
  3, destruction of the tongue,   ligt 4, syphilitic pustules on the face.  Fsj)
  5, ulcers on the tongue, through mercury.   Fig 6, deep  seated ulcers
  in the neck and throat................................................  86
Plate 20—Fig.  1, phagedenic ulcers  in the  scotum and thigh.  Fig.  2,
  tertiary symptoms aggravated by the injudicious  use of  mercur y........  89
Plate 21—Six views of the chancre.......................................  gg
Plate22—Fie. 1, syphilitic chancres in the heart.   Fig. 2, venereal pustules
  on the back.   Fig. 3, ulceratpd pustules on the thighs, scrotum, &c......  92
Plate 23—Six views of the eye, hand,  and shoulder, diseased with syphi is.  93
*uTt 24—Four views ot ulcers on the leg.   Fig. 6, the »rm befrre su  j^i  i-
  tkxv  Fig. 6, syphilitic tubercles on the ami...........................  97 
INTRODUCTION.
The present era is remarkable for the diffusion of
knowledge.  Each day brings forth  some new and
unexpected, discovery.  In fact, man's intellectual
capabilities are apparently inexhaustible.  The cloud
of ignorance which  darkened the human mind is
gradually passing away.  The  consequences are,
deep-rooted prejudices,  a false view of things  are
rapidly subsiding, and  arts and  sciences,  which
were formerly devoted merely to abstruse subjects,
are now constantly forming contrivances, even for
our most trivial social enjoyments and comforts of
life.  Hence the discovery of the Triesemab.
  The Patentee,  in  addition to his knowledge of
the researches of the most skilful of the Continental
Faculty, aided by the most eminent Chemists,  in
bringing  the  Trlesemak to perfection, has the ex-
perience of many years' practice, the result of which
the reader will have the full benefit on perusing
the following  pages.  The study, cares, and anxie-
ties resulting from a professional career of a quarter
o f a century, will be amply remunerated, if the
perusal of the following pages be the means of rea-
Bon reassuming her empire  in the breasts of many 
vi
INTRODUCTION.
who  have wandered  from the right and  proper
path—entailing upon themselves ignominy, disease,
and mortification.   May  my exhortations cause
them to throw off the bitter infatuation, and regain
the blessings arising from  rectitude,  chastity and
that social  intercourse with  an amiable partner,
the crown and summit of all human felicity.   I will
endeavour to point out from Scriptural authority,
from the knowledge  of sages  of  yore,  and from
the experience  of modern  philosophers, the evils,
troubles, dissensions, heart-rendings,  and constitu-
tional infirmities resulting from impure and wanton
pursuits.
  I have every  confidence  that  this work will
not altogether be found useless to the unwary and
thoughtless,  and to  those whose constitutions have
become impaired by  impure  connexion.   Many
years' practical and successful experience embolden
the author to give every hope and encouragement
to those  labouring under  every denomination  of
the Venereal Disease.  This subject will be divided
into three classes—Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, and  Secon-
dary Symptoms; -thus  enabling the patient to form
a correct idea of his case.   I am more particularly
inclined to do this, in consequence of the frequent
similarity of  the  symptoms  of  one  disease  to
another ; for example, the untutored  often  con-
founding a seminal discharge with  Gonorrhoea, &c.
I often painfully contemplate, on taking a  retro-
spective view  of -what has been  incontrovertably 
INTR0DU0TI0N.
vii
demonstrated to me in the course of my  practice,
the mass of human misery resulting, alas!  from the
frailty we inherit from our  first  parents.  Many
diseases  have been submitted to me, which have
been  mistaken for otlier maladies, such as rheum-
atism, scorbutic eruptions, pains in the  limbs, &c,
which I traced to their original source—a Yenereal
taint,  after slumbering  in  the system for years
undiscovered, at length presenting itself in various
and distressing shapes.
   In  conclusion, I am incapable of  conveying an
idea of my heartfelt satisfaction, in not only being
enabled to trace to their very source  every stage of
the direful effects  arising from the above  enume-
rated causes, so that the most  unsophisticated  and
inexperienced may clearly understand and perceive
the dangerous  consequences  of pursuing the head-
long  path of dissipation; but, also,  of having the
ability of directing them to a sure, safe, and certain
method  of being restored to pristine  health  and
renovated power and strength;  thus  eradicating
the noxious weed that has sprung up,  through heed-
lessness  and  that  which  may be  justly  termed
HUMAN FRAILTY 
HUMAN  FRAILTY,  &c.
                 CHAPTER I.
   ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE GENERATIVE
                    ORGANS.
In the present work, devoted to the consideration of
special maladies, their causes, prevention, and treat-
ment, it will not be necessary to enter upon a de-
scriptive account of the  anatomy of every part of
the human body:  I shall therefore confine  myself
to that portion of the frame that is included in the
subject matter o£ my researches.  I propose to treat
solely of the diseases of the  generative system, and
their  influence on the constitution and intellect:  a
brief description, therefore, of their anatomical and
physiological relations, will be all that is requisite.
A brief but accurate description of these  parts, and
their  uses in the human  economy, is necessary, iu
order that what follows may be fully understood.
  To  render  the descriptions and  meaning more
clear, illustrative engravings  will  be  attached  to
those portions of the work  respectively to which
they refer; in other words, the anatomy of these
organs will be displayed, not merely in descriptive
type, but alao in engravings, which I trust will be
found to ba accurate to a degree; and  the diseases 
               GENERATIVE organs.  •           9

«nd their consequences, which it will subsequently
be my duty to describe, will also be delineated in
like manner, and, I trust,  as faithfully.
  The great importance of the organs of generation,
and their preservation in a state of health and vigor,
has been generally acknowledged; in fact, the due
and proper performance  of the special  functions
with  which they are charged  has  ever been cod
sidered essentially necessary to the health and well
being of the economy, both physical and mental
They  are of admirable construction, form, and use:
and constitute a striking evidence of the wonderful
skill  and contrivance in the adaptation of a special
mechanism in  the  system for the performance  of
one of its most important and essential functions—
that of the propagation of the species.   Unequalled
in the delicacy of their texture, and the compara-
tive minuteness of  their structure, their peculiar
fitness for  the functions assigned  them  in the
economy, when they are in a state  of perfect integ-
rity,  excites the astonishment and admiration alike
of the anatomist  and the philosopher.  Their very
complexity, while it renders  them liable to many
disorders, by any of which their utility may be
impaired,  is wisely rendered  subservient to the
important purpose of separating and purifying the
vivifying fluid.
  The male organs  of generation may be divided
into  the  external and internal; the  former com-
prising the penis, urethra,  scrotum, and testicles; 
10        ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF

and the latter, or internal, consisting of a consider-
able portion of the urethra, the tubes arising from
the testicles, conveying the seed  to  the seminal
vesicles themselves, the prostate and  the veramon-
tanum in the  prostatic portion of the urethra, and
indirectly all  the organs engaged in the urinary
functions, such as the  kidneys, the  ureters, and the
urinary bladders.
  The Kidneys, the organs solely  engaged in the
secretion  of the urine, are  glandular  bodies of an
oblong  shape, seated  on either side of  the spine
upon  and below the two last ribs, and behind the
stomach and  intestines, and are  external to the
peritoneum.  The right  kidney is below the  liver
when man is  in the  erect position,  and the left
below the spleen; the  right kidney is generally the
lower and the larger.  In shape this organ resembles
the kidney-bean.  The secretion of the  kidneys is
much  influenced  by  the  passions.  I  need  only
instance, in proof,  the effects of fear on quadru-
peds,  infants, and even on men, in suddenly increas-
ing the quantity of urine, and producing an insur-
mountable desire to void it.   In patients  labouring
under tsome difficulty  in passing urine,  from the
presence of one or more strictures, the mind refer-
ring to the complaint will often greatly increase the
secretion  of that fluid, and multiply  the calls to
pass it from the body, and thus greatly add to the
already existing irritation, and  perhaps  set up a
uew disease in the part. 
             THE GENERATIVE ORGANS.          11

  The Ureters are long, hollow tubes, the continua-
tion of the pelves of the kidneys.  There is one on
each side of the body, and they pass  downwards,
and slightly inwards to the back and lower part of
the bladder.  Their use is to convey the urine from
the kidney into the bladder.
  The Bladder is situated in the lowest part of the
body, which is called the pelvis.  It is of consider-
able size, and admits of distension to a degree that
would hardly be credited, were it not a well estab-
lished fact.  This organ in man lies directly on the
bowels, but in women the womb intervenes between
it and the rectum.   It is of an oval shape and is the
great receptacle of the urine.   It has three  coats,
ono of them being composed of muscular fibres, the
constriction of which  causes the expulsion of the
urine; it has on that account been called the detru-
sor or expulsor urmce.
  The Prostate Gland, in shape and size  some-
what resembles  a chestnut.  It  is  situated  below
mid behind the bladder, and above and in front of
the rectum.
  The Urethra is a membranous  canal, extending
from the neck of the bladder to the end of the penis
or yard; it is very vascular, and possesses a certain
degree of elasticity.   Its membranes are very thin,
and almost transparent, and without fibres, so that
in itself it does not possess the power of muscular
contraction  and relaxation.  It is, however, pro-
vided with muscles, the action of which is to assist 
12        anatomy and physiology of
the expulsion of urine,  and also of the seed during
copulation.
  The Sorotum,  or  Purse,  is  a bag of  skin,
divided about the middle  by a septum, so as to
form  two cavities, in each of which a  testicle is
contained.
  The Testicles, or organs which secrete the semen,
are supplied  with blood by long and tenuous ves-
sels, which  arise from  the main  arterial  trunk,
called the spermatic arteries:  the blood of  which
they thus receive serves for the  elimination  and
secretion of the seed,—-a process which is effected
by the peculiar action of the testicles, and  which
secreting  power gives  these organs a  value  and
importance in the human frame  not even second to
that which attaches to those generally regarded by
anatomists as the more noble,  being  those,  the
destruction or serious impairment of the functions
of which may involve the loss of life.   The value
which men place on  these organs (the testicles), or
rather on the due performance of their functions, is
rendered evident by the fact that suicide is not un-
frequently caused by their supposed or real imper-
fection;  and that men  on  whom  the operation of
castration has been performed,  in consequence of
cancerous or other serious disease affecting the testi-
cles, generally become moping and melancholy, and
speedily perish.  The same result occurs when, from
a similar cause,  the penis has been amputated.
  Eunuchs, who have been castrated prior to the 
THE GENERATIVE ORGANS.
13
 possession of those feelings  which  nature  causes
 to  spring up in man after the period of puberty,
 are of course not subject to the same  degree of
 depression and wretchedness  of mind and body as
 are those who are rendered  impotent after having
 shared in the happiness and delight of matrimonial
 intercourse.   Their disgust of life arises from wit-
 nessing  the   comforts which  others  enjoy,  from
 which they are  for ever  debarred, but which they
 have had no means  of fully appreciating.  There
 is  a marked difference  in  the  external  charac-
 teristics of a man and of  a eunuch.   The latter  are
 rendered,  by the  degrading  operation  to which
 they have been subjected, more effeminate in per-
 sonal appearance than are those who are in the full
 vigor  and enjoyment  of  manhood.   The voice  re-
 sembles that of children, the hair is thin and deli-
 cate, the  limbs are small, the beard and whiskers
 do  not grow, or at best are thin and scattered, and
 the mental faculties do not attain either vigor or
 penetration.   Most of these changes and differences
 in  the  constitution  not  unfrequently follow the
 operation of  castration,  when  performed  during
 manhood, if it be complete,—that is, if both testicles
 have been removed.
  The testicles are generally  two in number, one
 on each side of the  scrotum or purse;  but cases
have been published in which there has been  only
one testicle; and in others, again, there have been
found three, four, and  even, although very rarely, 
14    .   ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF

five.  The  older  writers,  by whom  some of these
cases have  been mentioned, considered the  posses-
sore of so unusual a number of testicles to be more
than ordinarily salacious.
  It occasionally happens  that  the testicles  do not
attain their full size and powers of secreting  semen.
This state has been termed an arrest of development,
—a  phrase meaning  that the  organs  at a  certain
period of life, prior to puberty, have ceased to grow:
generally produced from an  early  indulgence in
self-pollution.   A case  has been described of  a
gentleman who, when in his twenty-sixth year, had
a penis and testicle which  were not  larger  than
those of a boy eight years old, and another of a man
thirty years old, in whom  those organs presented a
similar appearance.   Such instances are not beyond
the influence  of  medicine,  unless,  perhaps, when
they occur in the persons of idiots.
  "Wasting  or diminution in the size and power of
the organs may occur at  any age.   The testicle  is
generally of the proper shape, although diminished
in size, but feels  soft, having lost its elasticity and
firmness.  It is pale in texture, and its blood vessels
appear to be less in size  than in the healthy state.
The  secretion contained in the seminiferous tubes is
entirely devoid of spermatic granules  and  sperma-
tozoa, the nature and use of which will be mentioned
in a short  time.  It  sometimes  happens that the
organ undergoes what is called the fatty degenera-
tion.  The  spermatic cord is usually affected by an 
             THE GENERATIVE ORGANS.           15

extension of the disease;  the  nerves shrink,  the
blood-vessels are reduced in size and number, and
the cremaster muscle disappears.                 •
  When disease of  the organ  is  the cause  of  its
atrophied condition, it becomes altered  in shape,
being uneven and  irregular, and  sometimes elon-
gated,  as well as diminished in size and weight.
The proper glandular structure also seems  to have
nearly if not altogether disappeared.
  Among the causes of this atrophy of the testicle
may be enumerated impeded circulation, local  in-
flammation, whether arising from a special cause, or
from the transfer  of inflammation to the testicles.
Excess in sexual intercourse and onanism  are also
efficient causes of an atrophied condition  of these
important organs.   They will be alluded  to more in
detail hereafter.  Their action is generally preceded
by  a low kind of local inflammation.
  Injuries of the head, especially of the back part,
have not unfrequently been the cause of  atrophy of
these organs, and it has been known to occur with-
out any apparent cause.
  The  fact that injuries of a severe  nature affecting
the back part of the head  are sometimes  followed
by  such  a result, would tend to support the views
of the phrenologists, who contend that the seat of
sexual desire is in the cerebellum, which is there
located, and between which and the organs of gene-
ration  they say there is a great sympathy.  The
brain,  either in its entire, or in a particular part, 
16            GENERATIVE ORGANS.
undoubtedly exercises great influence on the desire
for sexual intercourse.   In fact, the influence of the
mind on the organs of generation, and of the lattei
on the mind, is completely reciprocal.
  So much similitude  is there in the structure of
the  brain  and of  the  testicle, as well  as  a mos*
extraordinary sympathy between them, that expe
Hence in the course of a practice extending through
a series of years, has demonstrated to me, that there
are  many  cases  where .the human mind  suffers
under a species of derangement in consequence of
diseases of the organ of generation, especially from
tabes dor8alis.
  The penis consists of the cavernous bodies (corpora
cavernosa), and of  the  spongy body (corpus spon-
giosum), the latter terminating in the  gland or glans.
These are enveloped in  a loose folding of common
integuments.
  The absorbents of the penis are very numerous,
and terminate in the glands of the groin.
  The spongy substance of the urethra, which forms
the  glans penis,  is  covered externally with an
exceeding thin membrane or cuticle, under which
are placed the very sensitive nervous papillae, which
are the chief seat and cause of pleasure and pain in
this part.  "We  may now understand  why many, in
the  venereal act,  have not the glans distended
though the whole penis is, at the same time, turgid •
because the glans belongs entirely to  the  cavernous
body of the urethra; and if  that body be paralytic 
         ANALVZATION OF THE SEMEN,  ETC.      17

or weakened from any preceding or existing cause
—and this  we have often  known to  proceed from
irregular practices—so that the spongy body of the
urethra cannot be distended, impotence will arise,
which, if not perfectly understood, cannot  be cured
jy any physician.
                 CHAPTER H.
 CHEMICAL ANALYZATION AND EXAMINATION  OF  THE
   SEMEN, WITH THE AUTHOR'S NEWLY  CONSTRUCTED
   URINOMETER WITH POWERFUL LENSES.
 On microscopic examination, the seminal fluid is
 found to possess many  of the properties of other
 animal mucilages.  It is of a blueish-white  colour,
 and nearly  of the  consistence  of cream, but more
 unequal.  That which is first discharged by living
 animals has nearly the properties of what is found
 in the vasa  deferentia and  other vessels of the  tes-
 ticles : it is whiter and  more  opaque, while that
 which follows more resembles common mucus,  but
 is less viscid.  It has, when first voided, a peculiar
 heavy smell, which has been compared to that of
 the farina of the  Spanish  chesnut.   This  odour
 appears to be derived from  the secretions of  the
seminal vesicles, the prostate and  mucous  glands
of the urethra, as  pure semen obtained from  the 
18       ANALYZATION  OF THE SEMEN, ETC.
epididymis or  different  vessels  has not any such
smell.   Its taste is said by one of our most eminent
physiologists to be at first insipid, with, however, a
certain degree  of pungency:  after a little  time it
stimulates and  excites a degree of warmth in the
mouth.  Yauquelin describes it as having a sharp
and slightly astringent taste.   Its specific gravity is
greater than that of any  other fluid in  the body:
it sinks in water, is coagulable by alcohol, is soluble
in nitric and sulphuric acids, is softened by vege-
table  acids, evaporates by heat,  loses its viscidity
on the  addition of lime  water, which  however is
increased by potash  and soda, and it is thickened
by ammonia.   When  exposed to  the air,  it soon
liquefies, and then becomes specifically lighter than
before, but it  always remains heavier than water.
When  it does liquefy, it will combine with water
at any  temperature, but  it will not do  so at the
time of ejection, nor will water dissolve  it at any
temperature,  from zero to the boiling point, ^f  it
has not been previously liquefied.
  According to the detailed  experiments of Yau-
quelin,  which were published in the " Annales de
Chemie" for 1791,  and which have been  quoted
by Fourcroy, Richerand, and others, human semen
appears to be composed of ninety parts of water
six of common  animal  mucilage, three of phospate
of lime, and one of soda.  It exhibts a very marked
alcaline character, changing the syrup of  violets
green,  owing to the soda which  it contains.  The 
                                *            -t ft
     MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF THE SEMEN.   19

animal  mucilage is not  pure albumen :  but Riche-
rand observes it should rather be considered as a
gelatinous mucus,  on which its indissolubility  in
water, its odour, and spontaneous liquefaction seems
to depend.
  The application  of the power of the  microscope
to semen has shewn that very minute bodies swim
in it  ; these move with rapidity and  from  their
various  motions, and from their avoiding obstacles,
their  retrogression, and  change of  velocity, they
have  been  regarded  as animalculae.  They  are
formed  like  a tadpole, with a round head or body,
and a narrow  tail.  They are found in  very great
numbers  in  healthy seminal  fluid, and  closely
crowded together.   Ludovic Haume  is said to have
been the discoverer of these animalcules, and to have
shewn them to  Lewenhoeck in 1677;  Lewenoeck
has since claimed the discovery as his own.
  These animalculoe are not  found in the fluid con-
tained in  the seminal organs before puberty;  but
are always  present  afterwards, and m do  not disap-
pear  while  man retains the power  of procreation,
having  been met with in persons of a very advanced
ao-e whose virile powers have not ceased, and which
can be easily  tested by the author;  they are stated
to be either imperfect or altogether wanting in that
of mules ; and they are, without doubt, absent from
the semen  of persons who are suffering from, or
have  been debilitated  by, continued disease, on tin,
dreadful effects of masturbation. 
20   MICEOSCOFIO EXAMINATION OF THE SEMEN.

  Those animalculae are called  spermatozoa.    A
spermatozoa consists of  a .flattened oval and per-
fectly transparent body, terminating in  a filliform
tapei ing tail; and these together measure from one-
fiftieth to one-fortieth of a line in length.  Wagner
has shown that they are developed within cells, and
originate from the spermatic granules, being formed
by the dispersion of the nuclei of these cells.
  These  animalcules are peculiar to the spermatic
fluid, and constitute the chief characteristic of this
secretion.   They  live  for many hours  after  they
have been ejected from the urethra.
  The spermatic fluid  also contains a number of
minute round, coulourless, granular corpuscles, which
vary in quantity, but are usually much less nume-
rous than the spermatozoa.   Both these elements of
the sperm are suspended  in a clear transparent
fluid, termed the liquor seminis, or seminal liquor.
The quantity of seminal fluid emitted during the
act of  sexual congress varies from one  to two or
three drachms.
   In the mature semen of man and of most animals,
there is scarcely anything  mixed with  the liquor
seminis save  the moving seminal filaments;  this
fact may sometimes be verified with the  contents of
the vas deferens and  epididymis in the bodies of
chaste men.  But  the substance met with in the
tubes of the testicles contains younger cell forms,
which are mechanically admixed with the fertiliz-
ing fluid.  Loose epithelial cells, and a few'scattered 
     author's newly-constructed urjnometer.   21

oil drops, may also be present, and where the semi-
nal evacuations succeed  each other too rapidly
large quantities of the semen-cells are found in the
emissions.
  There is a singular fact connected with the history
of these animalculge (the spermatozoa):  they have
been discovered in  very large numbers, and in a
very lively state, on more than one occasion, in the
fluid removed by operation in hydrocele, both simple
and encysted.  • In the former, or simple hydrocele,
their presence has been attributed to a wound  ©f the
testicle by the instrument used in operating; and in
the encysted form, it is supposed that it is owing to
a rupture of one of the seminal tubuli.
  It has been  already remarked that spermatozoa
are deficient  in  the semen of mules, or hybrid
animals.  Hence depends the impotence or sterility
of those creatures;  they are utterly incapable of
generation.
                 CHAPTER IH.

 certain  means by which the author can OBTAIN A
   correct knowledge of the patient's case.
 The only certain means that the  author can adopt
for  obtaining a correct knowledge of the patient's
 case, is having an opportunity of testing the urine
 With HIS NEWLY-CONSTRUCTED  UrINOMETER, WITT 
 22       NERVOUS AND SEXUAL DEBILITY.

 powerful lenses.   He will then, in the first place,
 ASCERTAIN  THE PRESENCE  OR  NOT OF  SPERMATIC
 animalcules or spermatozoa,  so essential for the
propagation  of the species;  secondly, if present,
 their healthy or diseased state /  lastly, and of equal
 importance,  if they  are  divested or  not of that
 vitality, without which they cannot possibly answer
 the purposes designed by nature.  There is a direct
 communication between the urinary passages and
 the seminal vessels / consequently,  when  the semen
 abounds  with spermatozoa (the fertilizing portion
 of the semen),  there is invariably detected the pre-
sence of these animalcules in the urine.
   With the aid of his newly-constructed Urinometer
—in fact, indispensably necessary in Medicus' pri-
vate practice—it  can  be  unerringly ascertained
whether  the discharge,  frequently mistaken for
gonorrhoea, is from the prostate gland, the seminal
vessels, or from improper connection.
                CHAPTER  IY.
nervous  and  sexual  debility, impotence,  etc.,
         their origin and consequences.
In treating  on this highly important subject, it is
my chief aim to shew, by incontrovertible proofs, the
manifold evils society endures by licentiousness and
a* unrestrained indulgence of  the passions.   Sages 
   ALTERATIONS on  the approach of manhood. 23

and moral writers of every age have described in
eloquent terms the  direful and  awful results of
masturbation—:a passion  that captivates the imagi-
nation of its victim imperceptibly, step by step, till
every moral feeling is obliterated, and  all the phy ■
sical powers destroyed.
  In  man  the  desire  for  procreation arises  at
puberty, and may and can be indulged in, if health
and the requisite  powers continue, at all times  and
seasons of the year.  Being endowed  by  nature
with the exalted  function of reason, he is left a free
agent, having the  full power to use or abuse his
capabilities, with the consciousness that if  he do
abuse  the functions  with  which  he is gifted, he
must abide by the penalty.
  Of all the excesses to which man gives way, seJf-
abuse  produces  the most deadly consequences; so
that the feeling which was implanted in  him for the
propagation of his  race, and Intended as a solace,
and  to induce a yet more tender and a closer bond
between the sexes, has  been, and is, by him, per-
verted into a weapon of destruction.
  The changes which take  place  in  the   human
frame at* the approach of puberty are very great
and most important; they are, indeed, of an impor-
tance unsurpassed at any  other period of  human
existence.  These  changes  are both physical  and
moral.  I need not  dwell  on  the physical alter-
ations  that  then  occur, further  than  to  allude
to the difference in the timbre of the voice, which 
24.       onanism and its consequences.

becomes deeper and fuller, the more manly appear-
ance of the body generally (we are speaking of the
male  only), the sprouting of the  tubes (to be fol-
lowed subsequently by the eruption of hair on the
chest  in some persons, and by the ultimate growth
of whiskers, moustache, and the beard) ; and lastly,
by the great alteration in the genital organs, which
rapidly increase in size, the testicles obtaining the
power of secreting semen—a most important secre-
tion ;  for it is the very essence of the vital prin-
ciple—the balsamic portion  of the blood; it is, in
fact, the embryo of the species.
  The sin  of Onanism,—so named from  the  man
who, we are told in sacred History, was the first to
practice it,  and who met with an awful and imme-
diate  punishment  for his crime, is condemned  by
the Divine law,  and by  every code of Ethics.  It
constitutes a fearful violation of the laws of nature,
and, as such, cannot be pursued long ere its deludod
victim pays  the due penalty; and  that penalty ia
one of the heaviest that can afflict mankind on earth;
ruined  health, wretchedness  of mind and body,
great impairment of the  functions and the  senses,
and a marked diminution of the intellect.
  This  maniacal  delusion not  only deprives the
system  of its salutary and essential  support, but
also obstructs the power of seminal excitement; and
by stimulating the organs to transient vigours, brings,
ere middle life succeeds the summer of manhood,
all  the sensible infirmities and foibles of age; pro- 
       results from depraved indulgences.    25

ducing in its impetuous current, such an assemblage
of morbid irritation, that even on trivial  occasions
its excitement is of a high and inflammable  charac-
ter, and its endurance  beyond the power of reason
to sustain; and  when, at  last, the lucid interval
breaks through  the dark clouds, what is  the retro-
spect ? what lights  upon the mind's eye ?—all  that
is opposed to every honourable and honest feeling!
because the  more reflection is concentrated on this
surreptitious  act,  the more  derogatory  to every
thing manly does  this singular and  extraordinary
deviation from the dictates of nature appear.  When
we  are in possession  of every gift of Nature,  and
have the  means of establishing on a firm basis our
happiness and the felicity of every one connected
with us, how little  do we cherish those blessings;
like  the moth, we flutter round the flame, until we
perish by that  which dazzles  us.  How  dreadful
are the effects of youthful  indiscretion,—a momen-
tary pleasure is sought for in self-gratification,—a
mind  agonised  by remorse, a shattered  nervous
system, an enervated  body, and  an incapacity for
entering into the marriage state General Debility,
Loss of memory, Imbecility of mind,  Consumption,
impotency,  and  every  description of  mental and
physical infirmity, are its inevitable results.  Alas !
no language  can describe the horrors of  this de-
structive  and solitary vice, so  tyrannical in its
sway, so utterly master of  all the noble energies of
life,  that, once  plunged into its  abyss,  the social 
26                exhortation.
 compact of reason and sensibility  evaporates, and
 nerveless apathy succeeds.  Then, let  it  be  de-
 voutly hoped, that those who have made  themselves
 martyrs to this solitary, secret, and pernicious pur-
 suit, will pause, and reflect, ere the melancholy hour
 arrives, when  ministering  relief will be  unavail-
 ing, and the power of re-animation lost; let  them
 shrink abashed with fear and horror to think of the
 great and incalculable danger and guilt produced
 by such vile contamination, the  impiety of which
 alone ought  to be like gates of  adamant,  against
 a deed visited with instant deatli by the wratli of
 an offended Deity.
   How imbecile, then, must be  their imagination,
 who seek for pleasure  by delusive  and deceitful
 means!  True felicity and  earthly happiness can
 never  attend  those whose faculties  of  mind and
 body are corrupted, and buried in the vortex of ima-
 ginary enjoyment and desires.  If those, then, who
 labour under the mental infatuation of such poison-
 ous  principles, would only  let reason  resume its
 sway, and nature  her prerogative,  how  sudden
 would be the transition from all ideal, to  real, pure,
 and  substantial bliss: for  if life's  nature, in  its
various forms,  conditions,  and demands, becomes
invaded, and the passions  and  sensibility of the
frame corrupted, how  can you possibly look for the
attainment of reciprocal love and conjugal regard,
when the basis is destroyed, and you yourself  have
 violated  and perverted its source  and  influence? 
responsibility.               27
But  another  all-powerful  claim  hangs over you, a
sacred debt, an awful responsibility and duty which
you  owe to your inheritance, your forefathers, and,
above all,  to your Creator, who ordained.you for
the propagation of mankind, and that you should
not destroy the noble powers bestowed upon you,
by following  a destructive  habit of so immoral a
tendency, of so heart-rending a description, and of
so degraded a condition.
  Then let  no illusion force  your thoughts and
inclinations contrary to their natural duties: for if,
by a self-exterminating power,  you annihilate the
grace bestowed upon you  from above, in vain shall
you  seek to partake of that ethereal abode prepared
for those who leave the path of  error for righteous-
ness  and life.  But  if this malady is still pursued
(to the certain destruction of its disciples), celibacy
should for  ever separate those who have  rendered
themselves unfit to be united in  the bands of affec-
tion and the ties of nature; for, in the holy state
of matrimony, where you are  called upon as you
shall answer for it at the dreadful day of judgment,
if you know " any impediment,"  &c, &c,  what
impediment  can  equal that  of self-insufficiency or
Impotency.  Perjury here arises, and the unhappy
partner of your fate, whom you have sworn to love
and  cherish," becomes linked to unfruitfulness and
contempt;  the bright  dawn of hope becomes ob-
scured ; discontents, jarring, and reproaches invade
the heart;  and what should be a life of joy becomes 
28    divine blessing to our first parents.
a life of pain; for without the fond endearments  of
wedded life, vainly may you hope to number your
years by a reciprocity of regard, feeling, and sen-
sibility. '
(   Then let it be conjured, that the victims of such
deadly self-intemperance will no longer continue
to dwell  in  the purgatory of sin,  but, by  self-
castigation, throw off the bitter infatuation, and by
a  persevering  endeavour  regain  the blessings  of
mankind.
   It will be admitted, we  may venture  to say, by
every one who constitutes the well-disposed portion
of society, that an ardent desire is implanted  in the
breast of all animated nature, where natural incli-
nations have not been  perverted, to exercise those
functions bestowed  upon them by their Creator for
the propagation and  increase of their species.   It
is, in fact, one of the first mandates  issued forli  to
man when he was called into existence; for we find
in the first chapter of Genesis, verse 28, the follow-
ing emphatic words: " And God blessed  them, and
God said unto them,' Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish  the earth.'"  Naturally we inherit from
our first parents those gifts  bestowed upon them by
their beneficent  Creator.   Then  shall we pervert
them ?  Shall we, then, for the purpose of gratifying
a  depraved appetite, a  loathsome passion, convert
the blessings of our all-powerful Benefactor  into a
curse?  Shall  we defile that structure erected  in
the  image of God for such vile  and  grovelling 
    DEGRADATION ARISING FROM mCOMTETENOY.   29

purposes?  Heaven  forbid,—for  the  penalties are
awful!  Therefore, if you  have  rushed into the
vortex of dissipation and self-abasement, stem the
torrent, extricate yourself from the whirlpool; adopt
means to  remedy the  evil; follow the instructions
of a medical adviser in whom you can confide, and
who has  made diseases of this nature his entire
study, and not to the general practitioner; for mala-
dies resulting from sensuality are so  capricious, so
various and   complicated,  that  they  require the
entire study  and  experience of the most skilf/ol to
trace them to  their source and  to remove them.
With sincere repentance and a firm resolution, every
evil may  be remedied, and  you will be enabled to
occupy your proper station of life.  But if you are
so infatuated, so frail, as to persist in those contami-
nations, the results must be  deplorable.
   The consequences to  a person  thus  degenerated
uniting his destinies with a fair and amiable partner
are fully described in this work; also the disappoint-
ment—the disgust—the mortification  and  misery
that are sure to follow.
   A  transitory moment may arise—the victim of
illusion, on beholding the  charms of his beautiful
wife, may experience the most ardent desires; but,
alas I on attempting to accomplish them, he finds,
to  his  chagrin, from what an  eminence  he has
thrown himself: on approaching  the  object of his
admiration, he finds himself incapable of performing
those offices  so  essential to  substantial  bliss.  How 
30  EXTINCTION OF PROGENY FROM TMPOTENCY.

degraded must be the individual thus situated !—he
shrinks, abashed, from the witness of his infirmities;
and, instead of being  a partner who would respect,
esteem, and  love him—participate  in his joys—
sympathise with him  in his sorrows—in lieu of all
this, she looks upon him with disgust, loathing, and
contempt.  May  these words sink deep  into  the
heart of the Sensualist, and cause him to reflect on
the sacrifices  he makes for a fleeting and imaginary
pleasure, which passes away like a shadow, leaving
in its place the greatest miseries that can  possibly
be conceived.
  One of the greatest blessings promised to those
observing the behests of the Almighty is fruitfulness
—the power of reproducing ourselves in the images
of our progeny.   The greatest curse—barrenness;
sinking into  the grave  unlamented—soon to  be
forgotten—we may say, without a name; for how
can our memory be perpetuated if we leave this
transitory state without offspring  to continue  our
name?
  On a woman being  united to him she loves, how
is  the  thrilling delight she  regards  him with  en-
hanced by the idea, that through the instrumentality
of him in whom she delighteth, she wilL derive one
of the greatest  blessings bestowed  upon  man__
children, who will be  dependent  on  her cares
attention, and maternal solicitude in their infancy
creating all those endearments  which sweeten  the
bitter draughts all  mortals are doomed to quaff 
MENTAL CONTROL.
81
however complete  their happiness may be in this
world of tribulation  ;then to watch them expanding
from the bud, as it were, to maturity, and, in return,
become the companions, the confidants, the comfort
of the parent;  and when old age approaches, and
if the nuptial knot should be severed  by death, for
those ~ children to  be the  solace of  the widowed
mother,—her protectors, her guardians against  the
rowns of the world.
  When once the destructive practice is established,
the barrier of intellectual control is destroyed;  for
the mind—that changling of social, cultivated man
—by a singular adjunction, becomes not its corrector,
but its exciter and co-operator, in defiance of culture
moral feeling, moral obligation, and religious impres-
sions : thus the man, who,  at the advent of youth
and genius, was endowed with gaiety and sociality,
becomes, ere twenty-five summers have shed their
lustre on him, a misanthrope and a nadirpoint of
discontent!  What moral region does that man live
in—what moral feeling does he cherish, that would
not unite all the energies of his  nature to stem  the
torrent  of so fatal  a cataract!   Is  it nothing to
give license  and tacit approbation  to a weakness
and predilection that break  through all the barriers
of nature,  and give  to  the individual a  callous
insensibility  foreign to  the native  texture of  his
heart, and  darkens all the brilliant and enthusiastic
prospects of the future ?  Is it nothing to surrender
up  all  the  fine and  manly enjoyment of  social 
 32   THE VARIOUS ILL EFFECTS OF SELF-ABUSE.

 and conjugal  intercourse,  and substitute  in  their
 place a deep and barren misery?  Is it nothjjg to
 light the gloomy torch _that guides,  by slo\p and
 melancholy steps, to the sepulchre of manhood, in
 the  gay and fascinating spring-time of you'h and
 ardent desire;  when the brilliant fire of  p/ftssion,
 genius, and sentiment, ought to electrify the whole
 frame ?   Is it nothing to raise a host of sensations oi
 the most depressing nature,  all hostile to the natural
 ardency of youthful passions ?
  To begin the career of manhood by the abuse of
 Nature's functions, and  that, too, when the  system
 has not  completed the powers of its  organization, is
 contrary to all the rules by  which huaith and  hap-
piness may be  attained.  Exclusively  absorbed by
this fatal passion, all the powers of M/ind  and  body
are wasted in illusion, and an age of care and anxiety
follows  ere  the full period of manhood has  been
reached; and, under the varied forms of its peculiai
excitement, it produces morbid sensibility, an erotic
imagination, and their  consequent  results—hypo-
chondriasis hysteria, indigestion, &c.—which, on
their first approach, are considered of too  light a
character to merit attention:  and thus time passes
on till the whole system is  involved in relative or
 positive disease.  In some habits a few weeks' indul-
gence in this infatuated  propensity will induce these
 diseases, either by sympathy  or  connection;  and
 where a predisposition  to insanity  exists, madness
 will  follow.  It not only occasions  impotency by 
      THE EXTINCTION OF CONNUBIAL FELICITY.    33

producing a paralysis of the  muscles  and nerves
concerned in sexual intercourse, but it destroys the
excitement itself by which  the act is induced, and
the feelings which lead to it are maintained.   The
consequences are, before having the power of per-
forming the act of coition the semen escapes, causing
the disgust of the woman, and a contemptuous feeling
difficult to remove;  and, on  the other hand, the
chagrin and indescribable mortification of the man,
penetrating into his heart, and almost upsetting his
reason, thus extinguishing the innumerable blessings
attending connubial  felicity.   By this practice  a
constant irritation is kept up in the system, which,
by its perpetual influence, renders the delicate fibres
of those organs incapable of the act of coition: for,
by  its repetition, the organs of generation are so
familiarized with the dictates  of the imagination,
that they are  more readily excited into action, and
that  imperfectly, by this  morbid  and  vitiated
influence, than by the effects of their natural stimu-
lant.  It  produces  that  debility which must ever
result from excessive action of every  organ,  and
that general exhaustion of the nervous system which
is the morbid consequence of power  unnaturally
exerted beyond its  limits.   Thus the foundation of
an aversion to Paphian  pleasures is laid, and noc-
turnal emissions  soon  follow.   Some slight  local
irritation  of the parts agitates the first link of that
chain of ideas which has been artificially associated
with the action of these organs.  Uninterrupted by 
34     EXCITEMENT--HALLUCINATION OF MIND.

external impressions, the chain continues;  and the
organs perform their functions in compliance with
this excitement, and that too frequently, at all hours
of the day and night, and apparently from the most
trivial  cause.  These repetitions are more than the
human frame can bear, and they produce that inca-
pacity  for erection in the male which lays the foun-
dation  of impotence, and which causes in the female
an aversion to sexual  intercourse.  The mind, by
becoming interested in the  performance of this act,
and by the exhaustion of the nervous energy which
its frequent performance induces, becomes debili-
tated :  silently tortured by  the bitterest agonies of
remorse, the wretched victim of this foul propensity
suffers  from a general lassitude of the nervous action,
in which the whole system participates, but  more
particularly the organs of digestion; for such is the
sympathy of these parts with the  act of impression,
that  all the  physical  and moral sensibilities are
directed to them, as to one common focus.  A stronger
illustration of this fact cannot be  met with than in
Dr. Darwin's " Zoonomia," where, treating of that
hallucination of mind produced  by the predomi- \
nance  of one particular impression, he mentions the ;
circumstance of a man who shot himself, leaving
upon  the table  a slip  of  paper containing  these
words  only, " lam impotent, and not fit to live."
  Returning to  the immediate object of our  inves-
tigation, let us inquire, in the first place, if there be
no moral turpitude attached to an act that  counter- 
             RESEARCHES FROM  GALEN.           35

acts the end for which we were designed?  Secondly,
has the constant repetition  of this act  no effect on
the animal  mechanism ?   Thirdly, will not  the
seminal  vessels,  by being  emptied too  frequently
and too rapidly, be filled with greater abundance of
fluid, but of a less healthy and natural  character?'
Agreeably to the laws of the  animal economy, as
this elaborate secretion  is increased in quantity, all
the other  secretions must  be  impoverished ;  this
effect, therefore, does  not confine its operation to-
muscular energy alone, but causes its influence to
be felt also by the intellectual powers.   Galen says,
that " every pore is full of semen; that it has excel-
lent virtues,  and very .speedily communicates some
of its power and energy to all parts of  the body."
" Nature," says  an elegant writer, " has given us
hunger for the preservation of the individual, and
lust for the support of the species:" reasonable crea-
tures correct their  incentives, and make them  con-
ducive to the purposes of friendship and society, by
placing  them in subjection to moral sentiment and
the influences of the intellect.  In fact this practice
not only injures the body, but the mind also, and
that at a period when it is full of  genius and power:
even  when the  passions are developing  themselves
in the zenith and  energy of their action, its influ-
ence is felt throughout the whole fabric, acting with
fearful, energy on the  mental faculties, and render-
ing the individual unqualified  for the ordinary and
necessary  avocations of social life:  reducing him 
36         OBSERVATIONS FROM BUFFON.

to a  state of childish imbecility and prematnre de-
crepitude, and  bringing on  all  the  habitudes  of
premature age, ere the middle of life has arrived:
he carries with him the form  and aspect of other
men, but without the  vigor and  energy  of that
season,  which his early youth bade  him hope to
attain.   Buffon observes : " How many men cease
to be men, or, at least, cease to enjoy manhood, at
thirty?   How many at eighteen receive the impres-
sion  of  the  seeds of a disgraceful disease itself,
which it is impossible afterwards to eradicate ?  For
an abuse of the sexual impulse greatly accelerates
old age: and unfortunately, as  the  season of life
advances, to its imbecility are added all  the errors
that  approximate  to youthful sensuality; thus the
desire for venery is either transient and insufficient,
or totally annihilated, producing a debility  little
short of death.   In the generative system, it forces
and  weakens the vessels of these organs  to such  a
baneful extent, that when the luxuriance of youthful
passion prompts to the lively intercourse  of sexual
bliss, they feel, they burn,  with all the ardour of
endearing blandishments, yet want the  energy and
capabilities necessary for their gratification."
  Onanism is a sin, condemned by the laws of God
and  man, and  the results  are so fearful, and the
retribution and remorse which follow so harrowing
that a human being, endowed with reason, must be
infatuated indeed, if he deliberately entails  all this
misery on himself—for what ? the momentary grati- 
       EXCITEMENT—HALLUCINATION OF MIND.    37

fixation of a perverted desire, which passeth by like a
fleeting shadow,  producing anguish of heart, con-
tempt for oneself, and a deprivation of all the noble
attributes of man.  A learned a%d excellent divine,
speaking of the abominable habit, says—" The crime
itself is monstrous and unnatural, as its practice is filthy
and odious to extremity:  its guilt is crying, and  its
consequences ruinous: it destroys conjugal affection,
prevents natural inclinations, and tends to extinguish
posterity."   Nor can this latter misery be overrated;
for no bodily ailment, it is certain, imposes such dire
discomfort as the inability to exercise the reproductive
functions, and to beget our future representatives.
   The  punishment   for  unnatural   impurities
committed   with others  is  capital,  whereas,  in
self-pollution, neither the cautious or the covet-
ous imagine they have   anything to fear.  What
a  strange   thing it  is,   therefore,   that  a  man
should show bashfulness  and the utmost cowardice
to  his  fellow creature,  (even  should  that fellow
creature be the most impotent wretch,) and  that he
should behave with gigantic boldness to the Almighty
Creator of heaven and earth.   What comfort must a
man have, in reflecting on the past actions of his life,
who, hardly coming to half the age he  might reason-
ably have expected to have arrived at, finds himself
enervated by the practice of self-pollution, his spirits
sunk, his body wasted, and his  strength decayed,
and in  continual danger  of being  forced to resign
his impure breath upon" the least inclemency of  the
season, or any other trifling accident ? 
38          decline of virile power.
  Individuals  scarcely turned  of  forty  years of
age, and many  even younger, who have lived
rather  freely,  are not  unfrequently, about that
period  of life, greatly changed in their powers of
sexual  intercourse.   They may,  indeed, in general
health  and personal appearance  be stout,  and for
several years not very sensible  of tJie degeneration
of their powers, but  the frequency of iheir inclina-
tion for such duties  gradually becomes much dimi-
nished, and  that is a symptom which  is at all times
indicative of approaching impotence; for the inclina-
tion gradually and entirely ceasing,  the  want  of
power  speedily follows, or rather both  are lost to-
gether.
  In others, about the same time of life, the physical
power  ceases first, and the  inclination continuing,
often for many years after, they are obliged to gratify
themselves in amusements which are the mere panto-
mime  of amorous indulgences.   Such individuals,
being  otherwise  in  tolerable health, are recover-
able.
   Constitutional exhaustion and general enervation
and debility, resulting from premature, intemperate,
and unnatural  venereal  excitement,  are, without
doubt  by far the most frequent causes of impotence
and barrenness in both sexes.  By this evil habit it
so occurs, that the generative organs,  and  the entire
nervous system are  excited to a degree beyond what
takes place during actual copulation; and the natural
and certain consequences of such  excitement are
prostration and premature and  total destruction of 
      characteristics of the countenance.     39

the sexual energies.  The  spermatic fluid, which, as
every one  knows, it is the office  of the testicle to
secrete, every one should at the same time be aware
is not, as is too commonly supposed, an excrementi-
tious fluid, and intended, like the urine, to be elimi-
nated from the body;  but on the contrary (except
during an occasional act  of generation), should be
received into the circulation, and thence distributed
to every part of the system.  It is the presence of the
semen in the circulating fluids of the male, and the
accummulated influence of unexhausted ovaria in the
system  of the  female, which  gives to the counte-
nances of the continent and chaste, the peculiar ex-
pression of energy and vigorous health which gene-
rally  characterise  them,  and  which, though the
features themselves should not be fashioned to the
lines of beauty, never fails, notwithstanding, to im-
press  the beholder with a sense of admiration and
some  feeling of respect.
   The causes  which lead to the indulgence in this
wretched vice are numerous,  and, unfortunately, too
effective; one of these may be described as a pecu-
liar amatory disposition, in force ere the approach
of puberty, and which, especially with boys in the
habit of associating freely with elder lads,  as at the
principal public  schools, causes  a  salacrity which
leads to the practice of self-indulgence, and that to
a most  ruinous extent.   The  danger that thus ac-
crues is  maintained by the ignorance of  these un-
happy and  unfoi tunate youths that they are doing 
 40       HIPPOCRATES ON TABES DOR8ALI8.

 wrong, and inflicting  an  indelible injury on their
 constitutions, inasmuch  as, ere they become aware
 of the nature of the sad results, so  much mischief
 has accrued, so much misery of mind and body from
 this wretched practice, that the utmost efforts of art
 are requisite to  restore health, and  the  wonted
 equilibrium of the frame.
  Hippocrates, the  most ancient and just observer,
 described the ills that are occasioned by self-abuse
 under the title of  Tabes Dorsalis :  " This disorder
 arises from the spinal marrow, and those of a lasci-
 vious disposition are afflicted with it.  They have no
 fever, and though they eat well  they fall away and
 become comsumptive.  They feel as if a string or
stitch  descended from  the head along the spinal
marrow.  Every time they go to stool, or have oc-
casion to urinate, they shed a great quantity of thin
seminal liquor.   They are incapable of procreation,
and  they frequently dream of the  act  of coition,
hence  ensuing  noctural  emissions.  Walking, par-
ticularly in rugged  paths, puts them out of breath
and weakens  them; occasioning a heaviness in the
head and noise in the ears, which are succeeded by
a violent fever, (lypirai,) that terminates their days."
In a further description of the  disease, he also ob-
serves " that it is caused by the wasting of the mar^
row of the back-bone in  an unnatural  way •" by
which  doubtlessly he meant the sperm or seminal
liquor.   "The  patient," says he,  «is free  from
fever, yet feels a kind of burning heat on some in- 
AETIUS ON SEMINAL EMISSIONS.
41
ternal part: sometimes  eats and  digests well; and
if you ask him with respect to his state, he tells you
that he feels  a cold running  stream from the supe-
rior part of his body (the head we suppose,) into the
spine of his back, and when he discharges his urine
or his excrement  there  is sometimes an evacuation
of liquid semen."   " This man," continues  the sage
philosopher of Cos, "  will be rendered incapable of
propagating his species, or answering the purposes
of the marriage bed, unless the healing art afford
him relief.
  " He is generally  short-breathed, feels languid
after arising in the morning, with weakness about the
loins, and especially after much exercise, and sleep
does not afford him  the wished-for refreshment.   An
intermitting dimness of sight sometimes attacks him,
his  memory fails, and his spirits become dejected."
  Hippocrates further  observes, "that when this
distemper continues for  a length of time, it assumes
various appearances in  the constitution, and makes
other  stages under different  characters;  if  not
rightly understood  it may end in an  atrophy,  or
nervous  consumption;  or, perhaps, in  phthisis, or
consumption of the lungs, where the healing art but
too  often proves in vain."
  There can be nothing  more dreadful than the pic-
ture which Aetius  has  left us of the  ills  that are
produced  by  too great a discharge  of the semen.
"Young  people," says  he, "have the air and ap-
pearance of old age:  they become pale, effeminate, 
42    SANCTORrUS, CELSUS, ETC., ON ONANISM.

ben -imbed,  lazy, base, ^tupid, and even imbecile ;
thei/ bodies are bent: their legs are no longer able
to carry them; they have an utter distaste for every
thin£,  are  totally incapacitated, and .may  become
paralytic."  "The  stomach  is  disordered,"  says
Aetius, "all the  body weakened;  paleness, bodily
decry, and  emaciation succeed, and  the  eyes  sink
into the  head."  These  testimonies  of the  most
respectable  ancients are  confirmed by innumerable
mod ern writers. Sanctorious, who has examined with
the greatest attention all  the causes which influence
the human body, has observed that onanism weakens
the stomach, destroys digestion, obstructs i hat insen-
sible perspiration, the irregularity of which produces
the most fatal consequences, occasions  the liver and
kidneys to be overheated, causes a deposition of stone
in the bladder, diminishes the natural heat, and usu-
ally occasions the loss of, or at least weakens, the sight
Lommius, in his  beautiful commentaries  upon the
passages  of  Celsus, supports the testimony of that
author with  his own  just observations.  " Frequent
emissions of the seed relax, dry up, weaken, enervate,.
and produce a crowd of evils ; apoplexies, lethargies,
epilepsies, faintings, the loss of sight, tremors, palsy,
spasms, and every species of the most racking gout."
  The  description which Tulpius,  that celebrated
physician,of Amsterdam, has left us cannot be read
without horror.  " The spinal marrow does not only
waste,  but the  body and  mind both equally  lan-
guish,  and the man perishes  a miserable  victim." 
      UTILITY OF THE AUTHOR'S URTNOMETER.    43

" Nothing,"  says  that  renowned  physician,  De
Louvain, " weakens the stomach and abridges life so
soon."  Blanchard has been an eye-witness  to  a
simple gonorrhoea,  to  consumptions, and dropsies
which have flowed from this source.
  When tabes dorsalis has existed for a length of
time in  the constitution, with frequent and involun-
tary discharges of the semen, from ideas arising in
the mind  during sleep, or by unnatural practices,
the seminal vesicles become so relaxed and weakened,
that they have not sufficient power to retain it.  By
its short continuance in the seminal vesicles,  it has
not time to become elaborated, nor to communicate
that balsamic, sedative, and strengthening quality to
the nerves of the human frame,  which by nature it
was intended to do.  Almost as fast as it is secreted
from the blood, the  slightest stimulus in the mind
from external objects causes it to run off by its own
reservoirs into  the  urethra;  and in  course of time
the natural secretion of the gland through which the
semen  passes  becomes  vitiated, till at last these
organs become  merely a common cistern or sink to
carry off involuntarily the most precious humor of
the human body.
   The secretion of the prostate gland in this dis-
ease will  sometimes run  of, as well as the semen,
with the urine, and sometimes when straining at
StOOl;  AND  IT  REQUIRES THE  UTMOST  SCRUTINY
WITH   THE   AUTHOR'S   NEWLY - INVENTED   URI-
NOMEfER  TO   DISTINGUISH   THE  ONE  FROM  THE 
44
ATROPHY.
other.   In  particular  stages  of  this  disease,
experience has taught me that the nervous system
of some patients will become affected in a peculiai
manner,  according to  the variety of constitution?
and temperaments; besides, many foreign circum
stances occasion a considerable difference in the man-
ner in which the nervous systems  of different indi-
viduals are attacked in consequence of this malady.
Many instances are not  wanting,  where  an atro-
phy or nervous consumption has  succeeded, and
also phthisis or consumption  of the lungs, which
puts a period to life.
  By way pf distinction from other consumptions,
this disease is  termed tabes dorsalis,  because the
seat of the disease at its commencement is generally
perceived  to affect the  patient  about the loins,
and the small of the back, the seminal functiona
being the chief seat  of  the  disorder.  In the be-
ginning  of this disease the body is sometimes  cos-
tive, with symptoms  of heat  in  some parts,  whilst
others are cold, with  lowness of spirits  and melan-
choly ;  but  whether  these  are  real symptoms
or  not,  must  be ascertained by the  experienc-
ed  practitioner.   When it   is taken  early,  and
rightly understood, it is "not  dangerous; but when
it has existed for a length of  time, the  constitution
will  decay, and, as I have  frequently  observed, it
is attended  with peculiar  circumstances,  which
differ from  other  consumptions;  for   when  the
patient has discovered the cause of his malady he 
           DISEASES FROM MASTURBATION.         45

despairs of a  cure, which if rightly managed and
properly  understood it is impossible  he  should
miscarry.
  If the cause of the patient's sufferings have not
been removed, the decay of the constitution makes
a further progress, and spreads far and wide.   I
know,  from experience, that when any  corrupted
humour becomes absorbed into the general circu-
lation  of  the  fluids, the blood  and nervous aura
will be more  or  less vitiated  and impaired.   A
pain, with weakness, sometimes seizes the small of
the back,  and now and then a troublesome sensation
seems to descend, by the backbone, upon the loins;
the patient by degrees will  sometimes grow chilly,
and any air colder than ordinary pierces the spine.
After the  patient has suffered thus for some time, a
langour seizes on the spirits ; and this may happen
to both sexes,  for women are subject to this disease
as well as men.  Moving pains of the head  will
often take place, and wandering pains of the legs,
arms, and joints,  accompanied  sometimes with  a
weakness of the senses, whereupon all sensation be-
comes  vitiated; the  eyes suffer from clouds  and
mists that seem to fall before the sight and intercept
the light;  and the ears sometimes  sing and tingle,
as if something were breeding in their hollow cavi-
ties. Upon  an  involuntary emission of the semen,
which  will  be sometimes frequent, the  strength
of  the  patient seems  to  fail  with  it,  and  the
mental  and bodily powers sink under the drain 
46     SYMPTOMS ATTENDING DISEASES ARISING

upon the vital functions, and death follows sooner
or later, unless the  malady be arrested by energetic
measures.
  I shall now conclude this subject with the follow-
ing summary, consisting of seven heads, shewing at
one view  the  leading  symptoms attending  diseases
arising from perverted indulgences.
  I.—Involuntary nocbwral emissions ; pains in the
back, and often in.  the head; weakness of the me-
mory and#sight;   and a  mucous discharge from
the urethra, especially after straining at a discharge  «
of the excrements;  an aching pain, rolling, and  a
pendulous condition of the testicles, as represented
in the plate.  The  testicles being the secretory or-
gans  of genital fluid, are furnished  with  arteries,
veins, lymphatics,  and nerves,  like  other glands,
and are suspended by the cremaster muscle. When
therefore, from any  cause,  the texture is weakened,
a pain will  be felt, and this is increased by their,
hanging down, caused by that general relaxation of
fibres that affects the whole body, and the  cre-
master muscle in particular.
  H.—All the intellectual faculties are weakened, j
loss of memory ensues, the ideas are  clouded, and
there  is an incapability to attend  to general busi-
ness and  even  to  ordinary occupations, reading,
writing, the society of friends, &c;  the  patients
sometimes fall into a slight madness; they have in-
cessant irksome uneasiness, continued  anguish and
So keen a  remorse of conscience that they frequem 
          FROM PERVERTED INDULGENCES.         47

shed tears.  They are subject to vertigo; all  their
senses, but particularly the sight and hearing, are
weakened; and their  sleep, if they  can find any, is
disturbed with frightful dreams.
  III.—The power of the body decays, and the
growth of such as abandon themselves to these abo-
minable practices  before  it  is  accomplished, is
greatly prevented.  Some cannot sleep at all; others
are in  a  perpetual state of drowsiness.   They are
all affected  with hysterical or hypochondriac com-
plaints, and are overcome with the  accidents that
accompany  these  grievous disorders—melancholy,
sighing, tears,  palpitations, suffocations, and  faint-
ings.   Some emit a calcareous saliva ; coughj slow
fever,  and  consumption,  are  chastisements  which
others meet with for their crimes.
  IY.   The most acute pains form another object of
the patients' complaint;  some are thus  affected in
their heads, others  in their chest,  stomach, and
intestines; others, again,  have external rheumatic
pains, aching numbness in parts of their body, when
they are slightly pressed.
   Y.—Pimples not  only  appear in the face (one
of the usual results), but  even suppurating blisters
and carbuncles upon the nose, chest, and thighs :
and painful itching in the same parts. One patient
complained of  fleshy excrescences upon his forehead.
All these symptoms show  to what an impure condi
tion the blood  is reduced.
   VI,__^he organs of generation also participate in 
48     PHISIOGNOMY MIRROR OF SOUL AND BODY.

that misery of which they are the primary cause.
Many patients are incapable of erections; others
discharge their seminal  liquor upon  the slightest
titillation and the most feeble erection,  or in the
efforts they make when at stool.   Many are afflicted
with a constant gonorrhoea^ which entirely destroys
their powers, and the discharge resembles fetid matter
or mucus.  Others are tormented with painful pria-
pism, dysuria, strangury, heat of urine,  and diffi-
culty in rendering it, which greatly torments them.
Some have painful  tumours upon their  testicles,
penis,  bladder, and spermatic  cord.    In a word,
either the impracticability of coition, or a depriva-
tion of the genital liquor, renders every one imbe-
cile, and more or less impotent, who has for any
length of time given way to this crime.
  YII.—The functions of the intestines are some-
times quite disordered, and some patients  complain
of stubborn constipation, others of hemorrhoids, of
a fetid matter from the  fundament, or else of occa-
sional and troublesome attacks of diarrhoea."
  The physiognomy, that faithful mirror of the
state of soul and body, gives  the first indication of
the internal disorder.  The complexion and plump-
ness, which jointly confer a youthful look, and which
is the sole substitute of beauty (for without this even
beauty produces no other  effect* than  cold admira-
tion,) are the first things that disappear; then a
leanness succeeds, and the skin becomes rough and
dry, and tinged of a lead colour; the eyes  iose their 
TRIESEMAR,
49
brilliancy and deaden, and by their languor express
that of the whole frame; the lips lose their vermi-
lion hue, the teeth their whiteness; and, in a word,
it is no uncommon thing for the whole body to
receive  such  a shock, as for the face  to become
entirely distorted.
                CHAPTER  Y.

                  TRIESEMAR,
The great  Continental Discovery, for invigorating
  Debilitated Constitutions,  the  removal of Impo-
  tency, and the cure of all Diseases resulting from
  errors committed from the commencement to the
  decline of Life.
  This is the age of research; all nature is ransacked
for ensuring the comforts and happiness of man, and
ameliorating the calamities inherent in frail huma-
nity.   The prof essors of the  healing art on the Con-
tinent, aided by the most eminent  chemists,  have
DISCOVERED  AN  INFALLIBLE  REMEDY for  that  claSS
of disorders on which I am  treating, and to which
the medical men of Britain (with  few exceptions)
have  paid but  little attention.  This  Preparation
—The Triesemar—  is  so  invaluable,  that  it is
secured to  the  author  by the Royal Letters
Patent  of  England,  by  the  Seals  of the
Ecole de Pharmacie  de  Paris,   and  the  Im 
50        TRIE8EMAR A BOON  TO  MANKIND.

perial  College  of   Medicine,  Yienna.   The
discovery was not made  before  it was required,
How many complete ^vrecks of the human form,
crawlirfg  emaciated on the face of the  earth have
been produced  from this deficiency  in  medical
science—a mere resemblance of man externally, but,
in reality, deprived of all those  attributes and cha-
racteristics  which  make  man the  most noble and
perfect  of the creation.   Thousands  have already
experienced  the  salutary effects  of  this  invaluable
medicine.  The  Patentee has the inward satisfaction
of knowing  full  well, that, whilst he is the architect
of his own fortune, the world will  also share the
benefit  to a far  greater extent, to be equalled only.
by the grand discoveries of Janner and the immortal
and renowned Ha/rvey ; one the  extirpator of  that
pestilential scourge, the  small pox, the  other  the
discoverer of the Circulation of the Blood.
  Many persons,  although fully sensible of their
debilitated condition, and  others who may have the
germ of disease  in their constitution, are prevented
from taking  remedies for their recovery from  fear
of discovery;  for, generally speaking, the remedies
for  those  cases being fluids, renders  the taking of
medicines without  suspicion no easy  task.  What
a  boon,  therefore,  must  the  Triesemar  be  to
humanity, as  it can  be  carried in the waistcoat
pocket  and  eaten at all times, it beino- devoid  of
taste and  smell,  and all  nauseating qualities.
  Before  publicity was given  to  the Triesemar, 
trtesemar no. 1.
51
it was administered by Yalpeau, Lallemand, Roux,
Ricord, &c. &c, in  their  private practice,  with
astonishing success.
  Seminal  emissions arise  from  relaxation of the
seminal <*ssels, brought on by bad habits acquired
in youth, excesses, or the exhaustion produced by
the  enervating influences  of  hot climates.  The
malady is  local, and must be treated according-
ly.   This  is  the chief  reason  the  use of the
Trtesemar  No. 1  is attended with  such  salutary
effects, for it acts directly on  the muscles of the
seminal vessels, restoring their powers, so that the
semen (after a few weeks' use  of the medicine) is
prevented from escaping.  Then follows a decided
and beneficial change to  the  constitution.  The
testes, the secreting organs of the semen, and all the
parts connected with it, regain  their power and
vigour, become capacious and of a  firm  texture,
and, instead of the seed being  wasted, it is diffused
throughout the body.  The entire demeanor of the
external man is changed—a metamorphosis pleasing
and congratulary, for all appearances of effeminacy
vanish, a confidential manly mien  taking its place ;
and instead of the hair and beard growing sparingly,
or not  at  all, those  emblems  of  strength and
vigorous  health  improve in  their  growth, a
token  of satisfaction  to the individual renovated,
and restored to manly vigour.
  Teiesemar No. 1 is celebrated  for  its fine, rich,
stimulating, balsamic, and stomachic  qualities, and 
52         triesemar no.  1, 2, and. 3.

also for the complete reinvigoration of the nervous
system, so that the faculties become restored to
their proper power and functions, and  the fallen
fabric  of life is raised  up to beauty, consistency,
and  duration,  while  the  evidences  of premature
decay give place to sound  and pristine health.
  Since the  introduction  of  the Triesemar,  the
Patentee  has received  numerous favourable com-
munications  of its efficacy from  every part of the
civilized world, establishing its success m a much
shorter time than  important improvements in  the
healing art generally meet with.
  Before proceeding further, it is  necessary to state
that there are three Preparations  of the Triesemar,
each compounded  on the same chemical principles
of the  discoverers ; and in  order that the purchasers
of the  same shall  perfectly understand the proper-
ties of each, they are  distinguished thus: Triese-
mar No. 1  — Trtesemar  No.  2 — Trtesemar
No. 3.
  The  following pages are devoted to a description
of the  qualities of each number, their  use,  with
explicit directions how they are  to  be taken,  and
also  every necessary regulation for the guidance of
the patient.
                 TRIESEMAR N0.f 1,
For General  and  Local  Debility,   Seminal
Emissions, want  of Manly Power, Pains in the
Back,   Loins,  and  Kidneys,  &c.  Adapted  for
Youth, Manhood,  and Old Age 
     DD3ECTI0N8 FOR TAKING TRIESEMAR NO. 1.   53
                TRIESEMAR NO. 2
Cures  Gonorrhoea,  however virulent.   It  is also
adapted for gleet and stricture, however long stand-
ing, without the use of instruments ;  gravel, and all
diseases of the Genito-Urinary System.
                TRIESEMAR NO. 3
  Is the great  continental remedy for all venereal
complaints, namely  Syphilis,  Secondary Symp-
toms, and  all classes of disorders that the English
physician treats with mercury, to the destruction of
the unfortunate  patient's  health  and  life,  and
WHICH. ALL  THE  SARSAPARILLA  IN  THE  WORLD
CANNOT REMOVE.

    DIRECTIONS FOR TAKING THE TRIESEMAR NO. 1.
For Seminal Emissions, want  of Manly Power,
Debility, both general and local, Pains in the Back,
Loins, and Kidneys.  Adapted for Youth, Man-
hood and, Old Age.
  One of  the Triesemar (which is a single dose,) to
be taken four  times a day: it may be eaten as it is
(being pleasant to  the taste), or dissolved in half a
tumbler of boiling water, and when cold  drunk off.

              GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
To be  observed by those labouring  under Genera-
tive Debility, Seminal Weakness, Impotence, Noc-
turnal Emissions, or Deficiency of Natural Strength,
while under a course of the Triesemar No. 1. 
(  54  )
       ADVICE AND PLAIN RULES FOR PATIENTS.

  The first step that should be taken with regard to
the cure, is  to leave off those practices that have
occasioned the disease; though it may appear to be
a difficult matter, as the very soul itself is generally
so much polluted that it can dwell on no other idea.
However, by  a sincere repentance, and fixed deter-
mination  to desist  before it is too late, there is not
the least doubt but  that the irritability and tendency
to excitement  may be subdued, provided the follow-
ing rults be attended to.
  A due attention  to air, exercise, sleep, and regi
men,  are* in  all  cases proper,  and in some abso-
lutely necessary.   A few words on  each of these
heads will be sufficient.
  Wherever the  patient is,  he must not neglect
exercise:  it should be moderate at first, and  aug-
mented by degrees, being always left off before  a
feeling of great fatigue is experienced.   All exercise
is best fasting; and with regard to the kind of exer-
cise most conducive to  health, none  is preferable
to walking.  Yiolent or long-continued exercise of
mind or body impairs the muscular strength, on
account, it  is presumed,  of the dissipation, of the
subtle enlivening fluid.   In fact, excess of all kinds
is certain  to be injurious.
  Much depends on a due regulation of sleep, espe-
cially as the want or disturbance of that great resto-
rative is  one  of  the most distressing  symptoms 
DIRT.                    55
 of the  disease.   To  contribute effectually to the
 cure, it should be sound and not too long.  The best
 way of procuring sleep  is upon a hard bed or mat-
 tress ; rising early, taking  sufficient exercise and
 proper food during the day, and avoiding suppers.
 The greatest attention  should be paid by the patient
 both  to  the quantity and  quality  of his food:  he
 should rather eat a little, and often, than gorge him-
 self with a full meal at  any one time.  This rule is
 the more necessary, as a preternatural  voracity of
 appetite is  a frequent symptom  in this and  every
 other  species  of  decay.  Animal food should  be
 taken once a day.   Hot and heavy  suppers are very
 injurious in every  way.  They not only tend greatly
 to disturb and disorder the functions of the  stomach,
 which in this complaint are rendered preternaturally
 weak, but they also have a great  tendency to in-
 crease that  irritability  which renders the  sleep
 broken and unrefreshing.
   Roots—as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, &c.—afford
 much  nourishment:  and, at  dinner  and supper,
 drink  good  pure  water,  discoloured with a little
 wine, or else very  good table-beer,  &c.  Spirituous
 liquors in any form are very inj urious, as are also
some  malt liquors.  From two to  three glasses  of
port wine or claret may be taken, especially after
or during dinner.
  During the time the patient is under a course  of
this medicine, the  author particularly recommends
sponging the  whole body with  cold water,  or  a 
56
THE COLD BATH.
shower  bath, every morning on first getting out of
bed: it  should be done quickly, and followed with a
rough towel.  It has  considerable effect in  giving
tone to the skin, and maintaining a proper action in
it, and  thus  proves a safeguard  to the injurious
influence of cold and sudden changes of temperature
therefore, a person who is in the habit of thus forti
fing  the  skin, will  be much  less likely to suner
injury from heated  rooms,  and the change  from a
hot room to the cold air.   It also exerts a peculiar
influence on the skin itself, which, in the numerous
and exhausting complaints  dependant on onanism or
their causes, becomes rough and dry, the pores of the
skin being in an unhealthy and unnatural state, in
common with  the  other  excretory organs of  the
body.
  The cold bath recommends  itself in  a variety of
cases; and is  particularly  beneficial to  the  inhabi",
tants of populous cities, who  indulge in  voluptuous-
ness or lead sedentary lives.  In persons  of  this
description the action of the  solids is always  too
weak, which induces a languid circulation, a crude
indigested mass of humours, and  obstruction in  the
capillary vessels and glandular system.   Cold water,
from its gravity as well  as its tonic power, is well
calculated either  to obviate or remove these symp
toms.  It  accelerates the circulation of the blood,
promotes  the different secretions, and gives perma-
nent vigour  to the solids.   These important pur-
poses are  always  most essentially answered  by sea- 
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS.           57
bathing:  salt water ought to be preferred, not only
on account of its superior gravity, but likewise for
its greater power of stimulating the skin,  which
promotes  the perspiration, and prevents the patient
from  catchipg cold. The warm bath occasionally
renders essential service by reducing  the local ten-
dency to  congestion and spasm.   Cases, however,
may occur in which the water in the hip-bath should
be tepid, and sometimes even quite cold, that  it may
act as a tonic and detersive to the skin. The general
warm bath  would  be  injurious,  by determining
blood to the brain, and causing  congestion of that
organ which is already in an irritable state.
  Before retiring to rest it will be necessary to bathe   «
the generative organs, in a bidet or  basin of cold
water, with a large sponge, for at least three minutes,
at the  same time  taking care to move  the fore-
skin back, as there is often a secretion around the
nut of the penis of those patients whose seminal
vessels  are relaxed from  an indulgence in solitary
habits, and which it is absolutely necessary to remove
to prevent excoriation.  Then dry the parts well,
gently moving the foreskin over the nut again.
  Impotent persons are speedily, perfectly, and per-
manently cured  by the use of the Triesemar No. 1
with the assistance of cold bathing, which strengthens
the constitution, invigorates the general health, and
favours the reproduction of the semen.
  Constitutions  relaxed, weak,  or decayed, trem-
bling  of the hands, head-ache, faintings, and female 
      58   TRIESEMAR NO. 1--IT8 SANITARY EFFECTS.

      complaints, are under its immediate influence ; and
      when the system has received a shock, and is debili-
      tated, from imprudence and inattention in the early
      part of life, or is sinking under the advance of years,
      or by long residence in hot or cold .climates, this
      medicine will afford immediate assurance of return-
      ing strength, by giving tone to the muscular system
      and organs of digestion.
       All cases of local and  general  debility, nervous
      irritability and excitement, indigestion of the most
      fearful and exhausting kind, intense melancholy, de-
      pression of the spirits, partial  or  complete  extinc-
      tion of the.reproductive  powers, and non-retention
•     of the urine, and seminal emissions, are permanently
      cured  by  the  Triesemar No.  1, and patients re-
      stored to the full enjoyment of health and functions
      of life. 
C  59  )
CHAPTER Y.
        PRACTICAL  OBSERVATIONS
                      ON
   VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC INFECTION
                 IN EVERY STAGE:
                    INCLUDING
      gonorrhea,  gleet, stricture, and
            secondary  symptoms;
                 WTTH REMARKS ON
          DISEASES RESULTING FROM THE SAME;
           GIVING THE READER THE BENEFIT OP
  THF AUTHORS PRACTICAL  EXPERIENCE  OF A- SERIES
                   OF YEARS.
The  ravages and miseries tHs class of disease have
caused in every  part of the world  are too well
known to require my entering into a minute detail;
but unfortunately many do not give the subject any
consideration, but rush headlong into all  kinds  of
excesses,  unmindful of  the dreadful results upon
the  health, the  reproductive functions, and on life
itself.
   Before I enter into details of the various forms of
 this disease, it is necessary to make  a few general
 remarks.
   The Yenereal Disease  is generally occasioned  by
 the absorption  of a specific  morbid poison, during
 the act of coition with  an infected  person.   It  as-
 sumes so many different shapes  that no  two cases 
60        MALIGNITY OF VENERIAL VIRUS.

are alike.  Difference of constitution, the malignity
of the venereal virus, the  nature of the patients'
avocations and habits of life, all influence the various
symptoms that present themselves.   These  acci-
dental circumstances influence even  the predisposi-
tion for contagion, and the length of time before the
evils resulting from impure connection  are  mani-
fested.  All these facts show the necessity of taking
prompt measures to eradicate completely the disease
from the  system before  it is too deeply rooted, for
the disease is easily removed in its early stages.
  The virus, in slight cases, is merely confined to
the generative organs ;  but when the poison is con-
veyed into the system, through the medium of the
absorbent vessels, no part of the body  is exempt
from  its  ravages.   If  those  cases are improperly
treated,  and mercury   injudiciously  administered,
the most  revolting disfigurements ensue in the face;
venereal  ulcers spread  all  over  the  body, convert-
ing the frame into a putrid  mass : the gums become
rotten, and the teeth fall out;—the finale in this world
a premature death.  The  truth of all this is fully
exemplified  on an inspection of the  various  anato
mical collections in the  museums attached  to every
hospital throughout the  United Kingdom.
  Although generally the existence of the disorder
is ascertained from external  appearances—such as
chancre,  buboe, &c—yet the system may be affected
by it without these symptoms  occuring; though
eventually blotches on  the skin, ulcers on  the ton- 
TRANSMITTING DISEASE TO OFFSPRING.
sils, &c, will be convincing proofs of the existence
of a secondary disease.
  Sometimes  the  most excruciating  agony in the
limbs is mistaken for rheumatic pains ; those sensa-
tions are causefl by vitiated humours, and at length
settle in the shin bone  or clavicle, or in some of the
other long bones.
  These are some of the results arising from vene-
real contamination.  Bad enough, if all these evils
are confined  to the individual transgressing, but,
unfortunately, the  disease is frequently transmitted
to the offspring, even if the least germ is lurking in
the system of the  parent.  Knowing the likelihood
of these casualties, it  is the duty of  every person
that has been infected, previous to marrying, to have
the system purified, thus  preventing evils too terri-
ble to reflect on.
           GONORRHOEA, CLAP, AND GLEET.
 Gonorrhoea, or clap, is  a-peculiar  inflammation
 affecting the mucous membrane of the urethra, re-
 sulting from impure  intercourse and excesses.   It
 is very frequently, under the treatment  ordinarily
 adopted, one of the most troublesome and obstinate
 of all the maladies that are  caused  by promiscuous
 intercourse, and  when neglected, or opposed only
 by inefficient remedies, it induces  a train of most
 severe and dangerous symptoms ; besides, which it
 lays the foundation for a series of organic changes
 in the canal of the urethra, of which the  principal 
62              SWELLED TESTICLE.
may be  the formation of one or more strictures^
with a thickening and a dilatation of certain  parts
of the  canal, diseases of the  bladder and kidneys
haemorrhages, stone, &c, &c.  All these, as I shall
soon show,  may  be averted by  appropriate treat-
ment, employed early.
  The symptoms of an approaching  clap, are heat
and  a tingling sensation at the orifice of the ure
thra, with a scalding pain on passing water.  . These
are soon followed by  a mucous  discharge, which
soon becomes thick and yellow, and  is poured out
fn large  quantities.    All  these symptoms  are in-
creased with severity towards night; and  there is
superadded chordee, which consists in painful erec-
tions, the penis being curved to one  side, attended
with the  most agonizing pain—pain so severe that
it has caused stout and powerful men to waste away
in the course of a few weeks, so as to be scarcely
recognizable.  This is nqt the only  complication;
the inflammation often extends along the canal as
far as the verumontanum, and then passing into the
seminal vesicles, runs down the vas deferens to the
testicle, which partakes in  the inflammation:  then
follows the SWELLED TESTICLE.
  This very  common and very painful  complaint
is an inflammation of the body of the organ itself,
which  becomes  swollen and  enlarged,  and  very
painful to the touch, and even by its own weight
when hanging down.  The  pain is not confined to
the testicle itself, but darts upwards in the direction 
            PHYMOSIS  AND PARAPnYMOSIS.        63

 of the vas deferens, and of the spermatic nerves, shew-
 ing  clearly the course the inflammation pursued be-
 fore it reached the testicle.  The usual indications
 of inflammation are present in the scrotum, covering .
 the testicle, as well as  in the organ itself, and they
 are  accompanied  by more or less severe symptoms
 of inflam matory fever, such as a quickened, rapid
 pulse, heat of  skin, great  thirst,  furred tongue,
 head-ache, pain in the small of the  back and limbs,
 lassitude, general  weariness  and  exhaustion,  &c.
 Nor do these signs materially abate  until the inflam-
 matory action in the testicle has in a great degree
 subsided.
  There are,  further, other  complications   which
 may  arise  during the progress of an attack of
 gonorrhoea, and which may also occur without any
 special  or  specific  venereal cause to  excite them;
 depending then solely on  a peculiar irritation set
 up by excesses and by bad and destructive habits.
  These are respectively named phymosis smdpara-
phymosis.   They  are antagonistic  to  each  other,
 both  being affections of the  foreskin  or  prepuce.
 In the former, when originating in gonorrhoea, it is
 impossible to draw  back the swollen and  inflamepl.
and tender prepuce from the glans penis; while in
 the latter, the reverse takes place, the  inflamed
foreskin  remaining somewhat behind  the  glans
 which it cannot be made to cover, and which it
constricts and strangulates, sometimes even  so as
to induce gangrene of the inflamed and strangled part. 
64         PHYMOSIS AND PARAPIIYM0SI8.
  Phymosis, then, whether it be natural or acquired,
consists of a closely approximating  prepuce, which
cannot be drawn back from  over the glans penis,
and which, when it arises from a peculiar inflam-
mation, may be productive of serious consequences.
It tends to keep up an inflammatory and a debilitated
condition of  the glans, which  is necessarily very
painful, and covered with the secretion of a muco-
sebaceous matter, which sometimes leads to a com-
plaint called  gonorrhoea preputi, or foreskin clap.
When the phymosis is induced by the true venereal
disease, its existence may serve to conceal a cor
roding ulcer, which will continue  to make  way,
unless the phymosis be cured,  until an  amount of
mischief has been done that may be fairly regarded
as irremediable.
  Paraphymosis, on the other hand, as has  been
shewn, is entirely 'antagonistic to phymosis.   The
foreskin  in paraphymosis has  been  drawn  back
from o^r the glans penis, and, in consequence  of
the existing inflammation,  cannot be replaced  in
statu quo.  It remains retracted,  swollen, and  in-
flamed,  the  gland of the penis being necessarily
curved,  and the preputial  mucous  membrane ap-
pearing as if it  were vesicated.  Both  these con-
ditions are attended with  severe  pain  and conside-
rable  swelling; and according  to the amount  of
mischief done, and of  the local  action, will be the
quantum of fever and  general excitement.
  All these serious consequences may be obviated 
 
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by having recourse to  appropriate treatment early
after the commencement of the disease.  The rem-
edies,  or  rather  the drugs recommended for the
cure of  gonorrhoea, are so  numerous that they
may be called legion;  but  it is not a legion of in-  ,
vincibles, for few of them can be reasonably relied
on.  It is not my purpose to enter upon a descrip-
tion of these impotent applications, whether they
be for external or iffternal use; for were I to do so
my pages would swell rapidly under my hands, and
instead of being comprised within the modest space I
purpose to occupy, five times the  number  of pages
I intend filling would  hardly  suffice.   I  must
therefore content myself with stating that hitherto
no remedy is known to the profession  at large, on
which full reliance  can be  placed, as to its  power
of effecting  a cure; while  the principal of those
employed—and used,  too,  on a  wrong principle,
if I may be  allowed to  pen the effete and worn-out
pun—are such  as to excite nausea and disgust in
the stomach, and disorder the  general  health long
ere nature:—often,  under the  old plan,  the only
curative agent to be  relied on—has had time to
effect a cure, by wearing out  the tendency pf the
parts affected to be influenced  by the  morbific
poison. 
66       PROTECTION FOR THE TRIESEMAR.
                OHAPTEB YH.

MOST  IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS  TO PATIENTS TAKING
                 THE TRIESEMAR.

   No one is  authorized to prepare the Triesemar
but the Patentee.   He is protected by the Royal
Letters  Patent of  England, and all the rights
and   emoluments  arising from  the same are also
secured to him on the Continent by  the Seals of the
Ecole de Pharmacte  de  Paris, and  the Im-
perial College of Yienna;  therefore,  whoever
attempts to foist spurious imitations on the public,
hazard the greatest risks of  being visited by the
severest  penalties and punishment Courts of Law
can award.   The simplicity of its  form has  often
tempted  various druggists to imitate the Triese-
mar, representing  it as equally  efficacious; whilst
the spurious article does not contain, in the remotest
degree, one  component part of the genuine one;
therefore patients are cautioned from purchasing any
thing  of  the kind recommended by  druggists, as the
only reason that prompts  them  must obviously be
the mere love of lucre.
  None   are   genuine  unless  accompanied  by
this little work, and  Engravings of  the  Seals
of the Patent  Office  of England, the  Dcpl6me
de  Pharmacien   Ecole   de  Phaemacie  de 
           INSTRUCTIONS to purchasers.        67

 Paris,  and the  Imperial  College  of Medicine
 of  Yienn'a, affixed upon each wrapper.
  The Triesemar  N~o. 1, 2, and  3, are sold in tin
 cases, divided into separate doses,  as  administered
 by  Yalpeau,  Lalleman, Roux, Kichord,  &c, &c.
 Price  S3, or  four cases  in one for  $9, which
 saves $3.
  For advice,  the  usual Fee of $5 must be sent
 direct to

               DR. BARROW,
                     194 BLEECKER STREET,
            {Four doors below McDougal Street,)
                              NEW YORK.  '
  And in purchasing the $27 cases {which can only be
had in America from Dr. B. at the above Establish-
ment), there'is a saving of $9, independent of which
 THE PATIENT IS  ENTITLED  TO THE FULL BENEFIT AND
 ADVANTAGE OF SECURING Dr. Barrow's ADVICE, either
 by letter  or personally, without the usual Fee of $5,
 and which can only be dispensed  with on remitting
 for  a $27 case.
  The patient is requested to be as minute as possible
 in the  description of the  case, station, age, habits,
 occupation, ancUposition in society.
  On remitting $27 for a case  of  Triesemar, the
 Patient is also  entitled to the benefit of having his
 urine  tested  by the  author's newly-constructed
 Crinometer  with  the powerful lenses.  He will, 
 68        PATIENTS RESIDING IN REMOTE

 therefore, enclose with the $27 a  two  ounce  flat
 bottle, containing the urine,  securely  corked and
 sealed, packed carefully in wool, (to "prevent break-
 ing,) in a seidlitz box, which, with the flat bottle
 can be obtained  from any druggist.  The parcel to
 be addressed thus:
           PER EXPRESS—CARRIAGE PAID.

                 DR. BARROW,
                     194 BLEECKER STREET,
            (Four doors below McDougal Street,)
                              NEW YOKE.
v  Every expedient  is adopted  by the  author U
 ensure the  most inviolable secrecy, so  desirable to
 the patient.
   For the convergence of patients residing in remote
 parts of the Continent of Europe, America, or the
 East  or West Indies,  $54  cases of  the  Trdsse-  •
 mar, are prepared, so that there  may not  be any
 intermission  in taking it, where  perseverance  is
 necessary,  the purchaser  of  course entitled to the
 same privileges as those having the $27 cases.
    In some instances it will  be  sufficient  to. take
 either of the three preparations of Triesemar, but
 it often  occurs, some hidden cause, nay, sometimes
 a mere trifle ensues protracting the removal of many
 of the distressing symptoms attending the  diseases
 described  in   this  little   work;  for  the  human
 frame  is  wondrously  made, and  so delicately 
PARTS OF THE  WORLD.
69
  formed, that the most judicious treatment, founded
  on experience  is absolutely necessary  to  promote
  the  complete  renovation of  the  system, and  a
  permanent restoration   to sound  and   vigorous
  health.  When the patient is in this dilemma, how
  easily is the obstacle surmounted.  The rail, electri-
  city, or the cents postage, are  each at his command
  —the courier to the humble artisan, as well as to the
  highest personage of the land!  By directly  com-
  municating with the author, either by letter or per-
  sonally, detailing minutely his case, avocations, and
  habits of life, he has taken the first step towards his
  recovery.   He  will, at the same time, experience
  the  utmost sympathy,  his  case  will meet with
  prompt attention,  and, after the most profound de-
  liberation, advice given that will lead, as in many
• similar instances, to that ultimatum so devoutly to
  be desired—perfect health, with all the intellectual
  faculties and imagination purified from the dross of
  delusion, and  all  those  attributes restored to  him
  which make existence desirable.
                 CHAPTER YEI.
     DIRECTIONS FOR TAKING THE TRIESEMAR NO. 2.
   For Gonorrhoea or Clap, Gleet, Strictures, Whites,
 and all Urethral Discharges, Irritation of the Blad-
§ der, Urethra, and Prostate Gland, &c   One to be
 taken four times a day. 
ft)       A VALUABLE DOMESTIC MEDICINE.
   Triesemar No. 2 is, beyond doubt, the most effi-
 cacious remedy ever discovered for the cure of the
 above complaints.  Urethral  discharges, mistaken
 for gonorrhoea, frequently  arise from  a relaxation
 of the seminal  vessicles,  brought on by solitary.
 habits, and from various  other causes;  a  com-
 plication of disorders may exist.   Gonorrhoea may
 be accompanied by various other symptoms, such as
 bubos, ulcers, inflammations, &c, all of which may
 protract the cure.  At the  same time it will be ne-
 cessary to acquaint the patient with every, particular.
 The Author will  accordingly point out the  mode of
.treatment to be adopted on every emergency, and
 which will be necessary, for the patient's guidance,
 to be read with the utmost attention.
   In  cases of gonorrhoea or clap, in both  sexes, it
 will be found highly efficacious to take  one  ounce of
 jujubes during the day.
   Immerse the penis in warm water two  or three
 times a day; it will not  only abate the symptoms,
 but also keep the parts clean, an object of importance,
 and by which much future inconvenience may  be
 avoided.
   The bowels must be kept  open by the following
 senna mixture:
Senna leaves  .
Epsom salts   .
Coriander seeds
Carraway seeds
Ginger  .  .  .
1 1-2 ounce.
  1-2 pound.
1 drachm.
1 drachm.
2 drachms. 
btranguary, etc.              71
  Pour upon these ingredients one pint of boiling
water, and let it stand for several hours in an oven,
or on the hob of a fire-plate : strain and then add
       Tincture of senna ...  4 ounces.
       Sal volatile.....2 drachms.
  Dose—from  three to four table-spoonsful  every
other morning,  fasting.

  This mixture, which loses none of its virtue by
keeping, if preserved in a well-stoppered bottle,
I can recommend  a3 a most  valuable • domestic
medicine.                   •
  Where the patient is late in applying for assist-
ance, and symptoms of stranguary, or difficulty in
making water, have appeared, the secretion passing
only in drops with  much pain,  the inflammation
must be subdued by the senna mixture before any
other plan is attempted; which then must be takeir
in doses of three table-spoonsful  every  morning.
When the  stranguary  is  removed by the  above
means, then the plan formerly directed must be had
recourse to.
  During the progress  of gonorrhoea, attention  to
cleanliness, cannot be too  much recommended,  bf
frequently washing  the parts with warm milk, and
water, to prevent the  acrimony of the discharge,
which is apt to irritate the skin where it touches:
to prevent this, it may also be proper to cover the
yoint of the penis with  a small bit of lint to imbibe 
 72         TREATMENT OF GONORRHOEA.

 the discharge, removing the soiled and replacing it
 with  clean lint  two or three times a day.  Nor is
 regimen to be considered less necessary in the cure
 of gonorrhoea than the other heads  of treatment;
 everything which heats and stimulates the body, in-
 creases the  inflammation of  the part, and increases
 the discharge and must therefore be refrained from.
 A mild nutritious diet must be adopted, consisting
 chiefly of vegetable matter, puddings, and o'ther light
 dishes: aud when animal food is used, it should be
 boiled, and  not partaken of  freely.   The drink.
 should consist of weak lemonade, linseed-tea, barley-
 water, or toast-and-water; wine, spirits, and malt
 liquors being especially avoided.  The restriction
 of diet will be more necessary in the first stage than
 afterwards.   As the   symptoms  of  inflammation
 °bsto, the patient  may indulge with  a little more
 freedom, but he should still be cautious to avoid
•excess; for no disease is so apt to suffer from irre-
 gularities in this respect as gonorrhoea.   In enforcing
 regimen, some regard, however, must be paid to the
 habit and constitution of the person.  When the
 habit is delicate and nervous, the restriction recom-
 mended would  be  apt to affect the  general health,
 therefore it cannot be rigorously enforced:  it must
 be left to the judgment of the patient what  amount
 of comparative abstinence he can bear ; and in these
 cases a due  medium will be  the best rule.   Sexual
 intercourse  is particularly prohibited.
   When the clap has been apparently cured, it not 
REMEDY FOR CHORDEE.           73
unfrequently leaves behind  it, from  the peculiar
specific character of the inflammation, a great degree
of susceptibility to irritation, and  a  tendency to
inflammation, which may be lighted up by the -most
trivial cause, and reproduce the disease in  all its
worst symptoms.   It is, therefore, advisable that the
use of the medicines already ordered should be per-
sisted in for a considerable time after the disease has
apparently entirely ceased.

                    CHORDEE.
  Cliordee is the  result of the  extension of the in-
flammation from  the  urethra to the 'surrounding
structures,  chiefly  to  the spongy  and cavernous
bodies,  so  that these  bodies during erection are
incapable of the necessary distention, without causing
great pain by the pressure that is exerted in inflam-
mation on  the nerves of the parts  affected.  They
are inflamed, tumid,  and overloaded; and during
erection, laceration of the network  substance is by
no means uncommon, by which haemorrhage is pro-
duced, and temporary relief follows.
  If it  should be troublesome, the most certain
remedy is fifteen drops of laudanum in a wine glass-
ful of water, which must be taken the last thing on
going to bed: it must  not be taken for more than
two or three nights together, which will be  found
sufficient to remove  this painful  and  unpleasant
symptom.
  After the pain and inflammation  are abated, the 
 74        PHYMOSIS AND PARAPHYMOSIS.

 i-unning will gradually diminish, and, when the parts
 have had time to recover their  natural  strength,
 entirely disappear; the patient may then go into a
 cold bath every other day.  The penis may  now bo
 kept  clean with cold water, when the discharge has
 become thick, sticky, and ropy, and can be pulled
 out in strings between the fingers, which are certain
 signs of the taint being subdued:  in this case one
 Triesemar No. 1, four  times a day will be  highly
 beneficial, with one Triesemar No. 2.

           PHYMOSIS AND PARAPHYMOSIS.
  When  the  gland of the  yard  is swelled  and
 inflamed,  the  fomentation ordered for a  swelled
 testicle will soon reduce it, if used for half an  hour
 together;  after which a warm poultice of bread and
 milk will be applied.   Sometimes the foreskin is so
 much swelled that  it cannot get back to uncover
 the nut: this is called a  Phymosis,  and is to be
 treated as just mentioned.  The patient should fre-
 quently endeavour  to get  the  foreskin back  very
gently while using  the  fomentation, but even the
least degree of force would be highly objectionable.
When it goes  back the parts affected should  be
smeared with the ointment  ordered  to disperse the
swelled  groin,  afterwards  letting the  foreskin  o-o
 over the nut again ; this and the fomentation  should
 be repeated several times a  day, till the swelling
 and  inflammation   are  subdued.    Sometimes  the
 foreskin swells and inflames behind the nut  and 
SWELLED TESTICLE.              75
cannot be got over it: this  is called a Paraphymo-
sis, and  requires the same treatment as Phymosis,
always  endeavoring to  get the  foreskin  over the
nut with the greatest gentleness, as the least force
will be very injurious.
  The Triesemar must  be  continued  according  to
the general directions for at least six weeks after
all symptoms have  disappeared.  Leeches are some-
times necessary in these cases : if they are obdurate
it would be as well to apply six to the foreskin.

                 SWELLED TESTICLE
Is generally occasioned by great exercise, as jump-
ing, running, riding, or walking  too  briskly, or by
cold bathing while a clap continues, especially if it
is very severe : or  by exposing the private parts to
cold more than  necessary, or by drinking stimu-
lating liquor: sometimes by strong purges.
  When pain is  first felt in the testicle, and when
the epididymis begins to swell, the discharge from
the urethra usually abates, or entirely  ceases, and
the inflammation in the  testicle proceeds.  A most
exquisitely sensible pain is felt in the epididymis,
particularly on its  being  touched, and  it becomes
hard.  In some  the testicle does not begin to swell
till after the epididymis has become enlarged.  The
pain is then most intense, even when  the testicle is
at perfect rest, probably owing  to the  non-disten-
sibility  of the tunica  albuginea,  with which  the
testicle  is  invested.  Although the scrotum seems 
76              SWELLED TESTICLE.
enlarged upon the  swelling of these bodies, yet -it
seldom partakes, in any great  degree, of inflamma-
tion.  After the swelling commences, the spermatic
cord not unfrequently becomes  similarly affected,
and is also the  seat of very great pain.  The whole
course of the cord  is sometimes  morbidly affected,
and the  pain is felt  in the loins, and about  the
region  of the  kidneys.  The patient  is at length
distressed with  a   continual gnawing pain in his
back, and febrile symptoms affect him.
  This symptom is a very  frequent  attendant on
gonorrhoea,  particularly when severe  bodily exer-
cise, irregularity of  living,  or  excess, have been
indulged in, too  strong and  irritating injections
used, or the too liberal  application of the bougie
has been had recourse  to.   In some very irritable
habits, from the commencement of gonorrhoea, even
moderate  walking  will occasion  a swelled testicle.
It is  not so common for  both  testicles  to swell
at once, as for one  to be first affected, and when it
begins to recover  the other to be affected; and in
this  way,  unless- under proper  management,  the
disease is often protracted for several weeks.
  A little attention may, on almost every occasion,
prevent this symptom.  Indeed, that it ever occurs
is perhaps more owing to inattention, or bad treat-
ment, than exclusively to the nature of the disease.
On its first approach  the patient feels as if the tes-
ticle affected  was, from time to time, in a state
of slight motion; but this soon gives place to dull, 
          TREATMENT OF SWELLED TESTICLE.       77

 heavy, burdensome pain, to  which  is soon added
 twitching, darting sensations.  It gradually, some-
 times quickly, increases  in  size, and a  throbbing
 sensation is felt  in it, so  that its  suspeusion  by
 a bandage becomes necessary.
   This symptom, unless from  improper  treatment,
 seldom remains;  but when the discharge entirely
 ceases, before  the swelling  has subsided, it often
 continues  in the  same  condition  for years, and
 sometimes for life.  Permanent swelling  of these
 glands," however,  is more apt  to  be induced  by
 causes (such as  external  violence, &c.)  which  do
 not occasion a  discharge  from the urethra, and
 those swelling very frequently continue for life.
   It being the most painful and dangerous symptom
 attending  the disease,  the greatest care should  be
 observed to remove it.   The testicles should  be
 supported or bound up with a  linen truss  or  ban-
 dage :  if the patient is of full habit of body, bleed-
 ing will be proper; the diet, in this case, should  be
 as low  as possible.  No  exercise  whatever should
 be  used; even  sitting  up is hurtful: it  will  be
 requisite to lie down as much as possible.   The fol-
 lowing fomentation will be requisite :—
   Take of extract  of lead a  tablespoonful, vinegar
four tablespoonsful,  water a quart: shake  them
 together, and foment (as warm as  the  patient can
 bear with  ease) the swelled parts with flannel fre-
 quently for some time together; after each time of
 fomenting apply a warm poultice of bread and milk 
78
BUBOES, ETC.
under the whole private parts, and take the Tries©-
mar regularly.  Should  the  swelling not go down,
it will then be  proper to apply eight or ten leeches
to the testicles, and repeat them for  two or three
days; the  fomentations being freely applied after
the leeches have fallen off.
  If the patient in a previous gonorrhoea has been
troubled with this symptom, he should not neglect
to keep the testicles supported while the clap con-
tinues as the swelling is apt to return.   If he can-
not  conveniently procure  a  linen  truss, a* slip T>f
linen or handkerchief may be tied round the waist,
and another brought underneath, so as  to support
it.   Swelling  of the testicle  is most  apt to occur
rather late, about the  second or third  week  of a
neglected gonorrhoea.

         BUBOES OR SWELLING IN THEGROIN,
  Occurring during the progress of gonorrhoea, may
be  dispersed by rubbing well the size  of a horse
bean, or half the size of a nutmeg, of strong mer-
curial ointment into the thigh, under the bubo, four
times a  day, and  taking  the Triesemar No. 2, as
directed.  They rarely suppurate.

                     GLEET.
  A morbid or diseased  excitement of the urethra
may induce gleet,  which consists in a discharge of
mucous fluid from the urethra, attended with very
little if any pain.   When the discharge owes its 
GLEET.
79
 origin to causes  which  have no connection with
 venereal disease, we distinguish it by the name of
 constitutional gleet, as will be subsequently shown.
 It is, however, more commonly a disease dependant
 on an ill-cured gonorrhoea, or is a sequence of that
 disorder, having lost its irritable malignity, becoming
 simple in its appearance, but of alarming consequence
 in its duration, because it may and often does induce
 seminal weakness and several other  complaints: it
 is especially dangerous  as being  auxiliary to the
 formation of stricture of the urethra, a distressing
 complaint.  The contagious properties  which cha-
 racterized the  discharge  of  gonorrhoea are still
 present  in that of gleet, but are not quite so pro-
 minent.
   Gleet will remain a chronic, or continual disease,
 for weeks, months, nay even years; and under the
 changes incident to habit and regimen, the symp-
 toms will vary in  severity—a circumstance which
 has not unfrequently led medical men into the error
 of supposing such changes to arise from fresh infec-
 tion : in these cases the patient  has over and over
 again  submitted  to the  routine of pharmaceutical
 doubt; and not until his painful anxiety has become
 insupportable,  has an appeal  to further assistance
 extricated him   from  error,  anguish,  and  uncer-
 tainty.
  The  discharge  in gleet,  however, is  very much
regulated by the habit and diet of the patient.  If
he is accustomed  to indulge freely in the luxuries  of 
80
TREATMENT of gleet.
the table and bottle, or in violent exercise, it will be
increased both in quantity and acrimony ; while, on
Jthe other hand, temperance  and regularity of diet
and exercise will materially  assist in gradually di
minishing the discharge, and ultimately relieving the
patient of his long-continued torment.  Premature
death  has  been  the consequence of  a neglected
gleet;  for it is a reasonable inference that the con-
stant waste will exhaust  and lead to an untimely
extinction of the bodily faculties.
  The  secretion of true gleet is almost watery, com-
bined with the mucus of the  healthy portion of the
urethra; but it will vary according to the excite-
ment to  which  the parts are   subjected.  It  may
occasionally be accompanied  with  slight pain on
making water, or during  erection, but not necessa
rily so;  and, of course, the  more acute the symp
toms, the nearer the approach to the puriform dis-
charge, which characterises the  gonorrhceal disease
in which it originates.  If dependant on the existence
of stricture, the  connection  may be inferred pre-
viously to  any examination in  the canal, from the
thin and ichorus nature of the  discharge, and from
its  being forced away by any muscular effort, as
for instance, during the evacuation of the bowels.
  The  patient  should abstain from  all vegetables,
acid, and sugar.   He should  rise early in the morn-
ing, take gentle exercise, use  the  cold bath, first
plunging in the water over head and coming out
immediately,  without taking a second dip, or re- 
STRICTURE.                 81
rriaining one moment in the  water.  The penis and
testicles should be frequently washed in cold water.
  Take one Triesemar  No.  2, four times a day;
or  the   safest  plan  would  be   to  consult
THE  AUTHOR,  AS  THERE  MAY  BE  SERIOUS  COM-
PLICATIONS.
                   STRICTURE.

  Stricture is a disease  that obstructs the free pas-
sage of the urine, and causes it either to come in a
small  forked or  twisted stream,  or drop by drop,
with considerable pain.  If  the  urethral canal  be
not much diminished in calibre  by the stricture, it
may exist many years without producing any great
degree of inconvenience; but though  this may be
the case respecting the evacuation of the urine,  we
are led to conceive that the semen, in consequence,
in the  act of coition, may not properly be  directed
into the  vagina; for not issuing  at the  moment of
ejaculation  from  the  urethra, it  afterwards falls
merely by the effects of its specific  gravity.   Of
course, attention to this stage of the disease becomes
requisite ;  and more  particularly in the advanced
period of life, as  the  power  by which the urine
is evacuated,  and  the  semen ejected, necessarily
becomes weaker.
  Although stricture may arise from constitutional
causes, from malformation or spasm, or from other
accidental circumstances, the cure of which must
depend upon  minute  reference to  the particular 
82            SPASMODIC STRICTURE.
cause, yet the source of this distressing complaint,
in nineteen  cases  out  of  twenty, is to be  traced
to venereal disease, or  to an improper method of
treating  gonorrhoea.  We  may look upon the in-
flammation of gonorrhoea  (after it has continued a
long time)  as producing a new action in the vessels
of the  urethra at  a particular  point, by  which a
sort  of  membranous band  is  formed  round the
internal urethra, the circle of which being hard, and
situated within the natural  space, is denominated a
Btricture.   It may be considered that  the  urethra,
being  hollow,  muscular,  and  membranous,  and
naturally predisposed to contraction, is  readily af-
fected by inflammation or violence of any kind: but
the progress of  stricture  is variable  in  different
habits.  Tropical climate,  sedentary pursuits,  ex-
cessive  indulgence  in—or unnaturally-protracted
sexual intercourse,  are  sometimes the causes of
stricture; and  in irritable habits will  excite  the
disease, without the intervention  of  any  venereal
complaint.
  Spasmodic  stricture  is  generally seated  at the
neck of the bladder, or  on  the membranous part of
the urethra.   It  may occur to  persons in good
health from exposure to  wet and cold, from derange-
ment of the organs of digestion,  from long retention
of urine, particularly when walking (owing  to the
absence of  public urinals), or to  violent horae exer
cise; but more frequently  does  it happen to those
young men, who, when suffering  from gleet or 
TREATMENT OF STRICTURE.
83
gonorrhoea imperfectly or only partially cured, are
tempted to commit an excess in wine, spirits, and
other strong drinks.  Surrounded by jovial society,
glassful after glassful is  swallowed,  each one to be.
the  last.  The  patient,  with  his  bladder full to
repletion, scarcely able  to  retain  his water, yet
probably " going" every  moment, represses his de-
sire until the party breaks up, when, on encountering
the cold air, he finds himself unable to void even a
drop, or if so,  only with extreme  difficulty. The
greater the effort, and  the more determined the
straining, the  greater is the  impossibility;  and
unless relief be speedily afforded, the most alarming
consequences may ensue.            «
  Notwithstanding the  danger attendant  upon a
neglected or severe  case of spasmodic stricture,
when judiciously treated none need be apprehended.
The patient should instantly send for a surgeon to
draw off the urine—there will seldom be any difficulty
in passing the catheter, especially if  the operator be
not too hasty, and be at all dexterous in the use of
his instrument.   Force should  never be employed:
but  as  this devolves  on the surgeon,  the patient
need be under no apprehension.
  The  taking  of one Trtesemar No. 2, four times
a day, for a few weeks after, will soon convince the
patient that perseverance in the use of that invalua-
ble medicine, will effect a permanent cure. 
84            VENEREAL IMPURTTDSS.
               CHAPTER IX.

              VENEREAL IMPURITIES,

  Immediately on  their  appearance,  should  be
eradicated : if neglected, the virus may lurk in the
system for years, and  although for a time unper-
ceived, will at length break out upon the unhappy
sufferer in its most dreadful forms, or  else inwardly
endanger the most vital organs of existence.
  To those who are suffering from the consequences
which  this disease may have  leftTbehind  it in the
system in the form of  secondary symptoms, erup-
tions OF THE SKIN, SCURVY,  SCROFULA, BLOTCHES  ON
THE  HEAD AND FACE,  VENEREAL  ULCERATIONS, AND
ENLARGEMENT OF THE THROAT AND TONSILS, NODES ON
THE SHLN  BONES, THREATENED  DESTRUCTION OF THE
NOSE AND PALATE, OR ANY OF THOSE  PAINFUL AFFEC-
TIONS  ARISING  FROM  THE  INDISCRIMINATE USE  OI
MERCURY,

     TRIESEMAR, NO. 3, ANTI-SYPHTLTIC REMEDY,
is strongly recommended: its use will be found to be
attended  with the most  astonishing  effects.  It
cleanses the blood, and, searching out and removing
the impurities by which it  is contaminated, checks
the ravages of the disorder, and effectually re-esta-
blishes the health, and invigorates the constitution. 
triesemar, no. 3.              85
       GENERAL DIRECTTION8 FOR TAKING THE
                TRIESEMAR NO. 3.
  An anti-syphilitic remedy, in  cases of  syphilis
and secondary symptoms, scurvy, scorbutic humours,
old wounds, ulcers,  sore legs,  venereal ulcers and
sores, glandular swellings, erysipelas, leprosy, king's
evil, pimples, diseases of the skin, cutaneous erup-
tions on any  part of the body,  and all  rMPURiTTEs
OF THE BLOOD.
  For  syphilis, two  to be taken night and morning
For  secondary symptoms, and  urgent  cases,  an
additional one an hour after dinner.
  It is proper  to  observe   that  the  Triesemar
No.  3  must be continued a considerable time after
all symptoms have disappeared, and it will then be
necessary for the patient to take a few cases of the
Tesesemar No.  1, to  give strength, purity, and
general tone to the system.

     IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS  ON THE USE OF
                TRTESEMAR NO. 3.
  This  medicine, from its peculiar  properties,  is
sufficient to effect a perfect cure of the most invete-
rate and obstinate forms of the venereal disease.
  Its  active  principles  are   transmitted  by the
medium  of the  circulating fluid  throughout the
entire  frame, and even penetrate the more  minute
vessels, removing  and expelling  in its course  all
corruptions and impurities from the vital stream, so 
86                SYPHILIS, ETC.

as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and
expel it with the insensible perspiration through the
medium of the pores of the skin and urine.
  Secondary Symptoms,  Chancres,  Buboes, Yene-
real-Sores of every description, Sore Throat, Scurvy,
Old  Wounds, Ulcers, Sore  Legs, Scorbutic  or
Scrofulous  Humors,  Erysipelas,   Leprosy, Erup-
tions on the Lips,  Head, and Face, Glandular Swell-
ings, Diseases of the Skin, and  all impurities of the
blood, are under its immediate influence.
  In all cases the Triesemar No. 1  should  be used
for  some time after the  cure has taken place,  in
order to cleanse strengthen, and renovate the sys-
tem from  the  natural debility and  consequences
attending affections of "the above description.
                CHAPTER X.

    SYPHILIS OR POX, AND SECONDARY SYMPTOMS.
  Syphlis, or Pox, is another and more violent form
of the  Venereal Disease, and is divided into two
forms—the primary and secondary.  The former
consists of a chancre or ulcer, which forms on the
foreskin and gland of the penis, of an irritated and
inflamed appearance,  which  gradually  spreads, if
not speedily arrested. After the disease has appeared
in the  form of a chancre, in a few days a bubo or
abscess of the  groin follows, which inflames,  en-
larges, suppurates,  and bursts, when a quantity of 
              BECONDARY SYMPTOMS.            ° •

matter escapes.  In severe cases, instances have oc-
cured where the abscess has  extended to deep parts
and  exposed  the  femoral  artery.   The  constitu-
tion  ultimately becomes affected,  and hence arise
what are called secondary symptoms, which at first
affect the nose and throat, secondly the skin and the
surface of the body, and lastly the bones.
  When the venereal virus attacks  the  throat or
palate the membrane of the roof of the mouth be-
comes red and inflamed, a pimple forms  upon it,
which opens, ulcerates, and  exposes the bony palate,
which may be felt  by the  probe: this is the  first
state.  The  exposed  bone  soon  exfoliates, and a
communication is thereby formed between the mouth
and  nose, and fluids return through it,  the voice
being  changed into a nasal twang and a most offen-
sive discharge secreted.
  When the tonsils are attacked, ulcers, appear pre-
cisely similar in  character  to chancres—hollow in
the centre, with raised ragged edges, yellow on the
surface, with a  livid colour on  the surrounding
margin.  A sense of dryness is perceived extending
up the Eustachian tube to the ear; and the patient
occasionally becomes deaf,  by the extension of the
disease to the tubes, and the ravages which it there
commits.  Sometimes the tongue is affected.
  The mucous membrane of the nose stands next in
order, as subject to the influence of syphilis.   The
patient's attention is first directed to it by an incrusta-
tion which forms on the nostril.   On this being re- 
88                 CHANCRES.
moved, a  quantity of blood, mixed  with purulent
matter, is discharged, which frequently lays bare the
bone, and  occasions it to exfoliate, and horrible de-
formity is  the result.
              CHANCRES OR  ULCERS.
  The first appearance of syphilis  is commonly in
the form of a chancre on  the gland of the penis, or
on the foreskin, in  men—and in the labia pudcndi,
or nymphm,  in  women.   It will appear  in  other
parts, however, as the back of the penis, and on the
scrotum in men ; and the perineum of women will
sometimes be the seat of the disease.
  The precursor of chancre is a slight inflammation,
followed by a little pimple:  this gradually exposes
a small pustule, the fluid in which is  first  trans-
parent,  then  white;  it breaks, and  a small but
spreading ulcer is formed,  sometimes painful—gene-
rally sore. It has hard protuberent ash-colour edges,
covered with a white slough, and is difficult of cure.
  It seldom  happens that there is  more than one
chancre, although instances  occur where  there are
two, three, or four.
  When a chancre or sore is perceived on the penis,
two  of the Triesemar No. 3 must be taken  night
and morning, and  an additional one an hour  after
dinner, and when  they are healed,  two  night and
morning for at least one month.
  It will be proper to dress the chancres three  times
a day with the following wash,  which may be pre-
pared at any druggist's: 
              TREATMENT OF CHANCRE.          89

        Calomel   .....'    1 drachm.
       Lime-water    ....    3 ounces.
                       Mix.
   Always before the sores are  dressed, the  matter
 must be wiped clean off with a bit of lint, the ulcer
 being afterwards washed with warm water : dip the
 whole penis in a basin  of water for a minute, then
 take off the moisture with a piece of linen rag, and
 apply the black wash on a piece of linen or lint, to
 be kept wetted as much as possible.
   Where, at the expiration of a week, the chancre
 neither recedes nor advances, discontinue the black
 wash, and use the blue wash as underneath.  Should
 the pain be very  great in applying it, it may be
 diluted with a little water :—
       Sulphate of Copper  .  .    3 grains.
       Camphor......3 grains.
       Distilled Water.  ...    1 ounce.
                Mix and strain.
  When the chancre is  situated  under the prepuce,
or foreskin,  and  the latter  covering is so inflamed
and swollen as to prevent its  being drawn back to
exhibit the  sore, the discharge should be carefully
washed out by any of the lotions already recom-
mended, by means of a  syringe, several times in the
twenty-four hours.  As  a  general  rule,  these
lotions will be found sufficient if their use be duly
persevered in.
  If a Bubo should not  have risen much, it may be
dispersed  by  rubbing into the thickest part of the 
90            TREATMENT OF BUBO.
thigh, under the bubo, the size of a large horsebean
of the following ointment, for ten or fifteen minutes
every night and morning;   the Triesemar, No. 3
being  taken  regularly for  a  fortnight,  or for  a
longer time, according to the directions previously
given after it is dispersed:
  Of strong mercurial ointment half an ounce, ex-
tract of lead thirty drops: mix them well together.
  If it should  not decrease by  this method, let  it
come to a head  by discontinuing the ointment.  A
warm poultice of bread and milk applied two or three
times a day will tend to hasten the suppuration, and
produce  ease.   When it is sufficiently ripe, it will
burst of itself; then gently press out the matter, and
endeavour to. enlarge the orifice by distending the
skin ; put a warm poultice over it, or foment it with
warm water, and apply a  little mercurial  ointment,
spread on  lint, to the opening twice a day.  Always
before it is dressed press the  matter out with great
care and  gentleness, and.wipe it very clean.   The
same poultice should never be used but once in any
case.  The poultice need  only be used  for a few
days after it bursts; or if it be not convenient to
apply poultices, four or five folds of clean linen may
be put over in its stead, first applying the  ointment.
If proud  flesh sprout up, a  little red precipitate,
mixed with the ointment,  will consume it.   After it
has been open about a fortnight a little of the  oint-
ment ordered to disperse the swelling may be used
to heal it. 
WARTS  AND REMEDIES.
91
  The Triesemar No.  3 must be  taken  during
the time, as follows—two night and morning, and
one an hour after dinner ; and should this not relieve
the symptoms quickly, the dose must be increased
to two after dinner, and three at night.   In all such
cases,  a  personal  consultation,  or communica-
tion by letter   to  the  Author, would  save the
PATIENT MUCH TlilE AND PAIN.
                     WARTS.
  A wart may be very properly considered  a dis-
ease q£ the papillae of the skin, covered  with a dis-
eased cuticle, commonly of a cylindrical shape.   It
appears on the foreskin  and gland of the penis in
men; on the labia pudendi, in the angle between
the  labia and the inner part of the  thigh, and about
the  perineum in women; and also about the anus in
both sexes.
  Warts  follow chancres, and sometimes gonnorhoea,
but frequently appear without local symptoms : the
injudicious use of violent remedies often produces
ulceration, and  sometimes malignant  growths.
  The warts  should be frequently smeared, with a
flather or hair pencil, with the following lotion:
      Nitrate of Silver  ...   1 scruple.
      Distilled Water.   ...   1 ounce.
                 Mix and strain.
  Or bathed with the following:
       Tormentil Root  .  .   .   \ ounce.
      Boiling  Water   .  .   .   3 ounces.
  Boiled together to two ounces, and strained. 
(92)
    VENEREAL ERUPTIONS OF THE FACE AND SKIN.

  These eruptive diseases are  the production of a
specific irritation, or a peculiar disposition of the con-
stitution, which sooner or later  gives rise to a series
of obscure phenomena, singular in their character,
and  very tedious  in  their  cure,  repeatedly disap-
pearing and returning.  They make the skin thick,
rough, and  unequal; the  countenance  acquires a
livid hue ; and the whole face exhibits an unnatural
and  unpleasing  aspect, being   sometimes #vered
with spots of a reddish, brownish,  or copper colour,
spreading on the forehead and chest, and  between
the shoulders, and even extending their action to the
palms of the hand : the breath  becomes offensive;
and the teeth  also suffer.  The  general appearance
of the  eruption  is  that  of hard  scorbutic spots,
about the size of spangles,  of a  livid,  brown, or
copper cast, only occasionally raised above the skin:
the diseased surface,  soon  after their appearance,
becomes very rough, and white scales  fall off,
leaving a slight pit where they had previously been.
  The  manner of the  eruption occasionally varies;
and instead of displaying this kind of character, we
find the face and  nose covered with real pimples,
tetters,  and subaceous concretions, which'in their
progress become very troublesome, and often  sup-
purate.  There is an unaccountable languor and de-
pression of spirits—prostration of strength__restless
nights—pain in the various bones,  or rather a sort of 
VENEREAL SORE THROAT.
93
tightness and aching sensation, as if they were bound
with a chord.   Although about this period the bones
are evidently affected, the pain is never so  acute as
in confirmed venereal affections principally affecting
these parts.
  From  the sensations  experienced by the patient,
the pain about this time seems rather lodged about
the external  surface than in the body of the bone.
Sleep yields neither comfort nor refreshment: a dis-
agreeable sensation pervades the  body, which is
almost always accompanied by emaciation.
  It will be necessary to avoid warm liquids, to dress
cooly and lightly, and to take moderate exercise in
the open air with nourishing diet.
  The Triesemar No. 3 must be taken  regularly
according to general directions, until the eruptions
have entirely disappeared.
  When the  venereal eruptions are dry and soaly
the following lotion must be applied twice a day—
       Muriatic Acid.   ....    4 drops.
       Emulsion of Bitter Almonds, T\ ounces.
       Simple Spirits of Lavender .  2 drachms.

              VENEREAL SORE THROAT
Begins with little  or no  pain: at first there is felt
only  a slight  .pricking or  irritation,   sometimes
merely amounting to an uncomfortable sensation on
swallowing  food.   When  the throat is examined
ulceration is perceptible,  the ulcers presenting a
particular appearance   They are of a conical shape, 
94     TREATMENT OF VENEREAL SORE THROAT.
often  ol considerable  depth,  and generally attack
that part of the throat called the almonds or tonsils :
on each  side they are covered  with a foul crust of
thick white matter resembling hogs' lard,  or rather
of a cheeselike appearance : their effects, in the end,
are to produce hoarseness, fetid breath, &c, which
IS HIGHLY OFFENSIVE.
  Besides the throat, every part of the mouth may
occasionally be the seat of venereal ulcers, though
they are most frequent on the palate or the tongue.
A deep copper-coloured  spot, somewhere  between
the pap and middle of the palate, is the first appear-
ance :  this spot at last becomes ulcerated, and ad-
vances  rapidly,  both  in  breadth and  depth.  The
cure of venereal sore throat is to be accomplished
by  the taking  of  Triesemar No.  3, according
to  the  general  directions, and which should  be
continued until  the  throat  is  well;  after  which,
Triesemar No. 1  should be taken  for  at  least twe
months; but to assist their operation, check the pro-
gress of the ulceration, and prevent its destroying the
soft palate, it is necessary to make direct applications
to the throat, in tho form of a gargle,  of which the
following will be found one of the most successful:
     Tincture of  Cayenne Pepper .  SO drops.
    Muriatic Acid.....15 drops.
    Infusion of  Poses   . \  .  .    6 ounces.
  The throat, to be gargled three or four times a day.
Care  should be taken  that none of the liquid  pats
down the throat. 
(95)
             AFFECTIONS OF THE BONES.
  Affections of  the  bones in  syphilis (occurring
after the primary symptoms have disappeared) are
often mistaken for rheumatism, gout, lumbago, and
are often the indication of the continuance of the
action of the syphiltic  poison or virus, not merely
after the healing of local sores, but even after ulcera-
tion in the  throat and eruptive  blotches upon the
skin have entirely passed away.
  The symptoms which mark the disease are as fol-
lows :—The patient experiences in the evening a sen-
sation of dull, aching, wearing pain in the bones,
which is afterwards the seat of  the  node.  In the
course of a few days a swelling appears in the even-
ing, which  disappears again on the following morn-
ing : it is excessively  painful and tender at night,
but in the morning it is hardly perceptible,  and the
tenderness is almost gone.   At this particular period
the periosteum is also affected; but when the in-
flammation  has  continued some time longer, the
bone is diseased and becomes enlarged.  The  long
bones are the parts generally affected when nodes
are formed,  such as the shin bones and the clavicle.
  The following treatment  should be resorted to :—
  Take  Triesemar No. 3  according to the gene-
ral directions, and frequently bathe the parts affected
with the following embrocation:—
    Sulphuric Ether.....1 ounce.
    Compound Camphor Liniment.  1 ounce.
    Acetate of Morphia  ....  2 grains.
**■ 
96        RESPONSIBILITIES OF MATRIMONY.

           VENEREAL ULCERS AND  SORES
Must be  dressed -frequently with  the  black wash
ordered for chancres, or.if more  convenient, the
ointment prescribed for  buboes  may be  applied,
either of its full strength, or diluted with an equal
quantity of lard, on a little lint twice a day.
  In the use of all these local applications to syphi-
litic eruptions, it should be borne in mind that they
are  but of  secondary utility;  for without the
Triesemar the applications are next to useless.
  To persons entering  upon  the  responsibilities of
matrimony, and who have ever had the misfortune,
during their more youthful days, to become affected
by any form  of these  diseases, a previous course of
the Triesemar  is  highly  essential  and  of the
greatest importance,  as more  serious  afflictions are
visited upon an innocent wife and  offspring from a
want of these simple precautions than perhaps half
the world is aware of; for it must be remembered,
" where the fountain  is polluted,  the streams that
flow from it  cannot be pure."  In all such cases a
personal interview would be  desirable, or, where
that is  impossible, a full description of the case, by
letter, to the Author.
                  CLEANLINESS.
  Throughout the whole treatment of every species
of venereal complaints, a strict observance of clean-
liness ought  to be our first and   constant  object.
Without this, we  have not only to bear with the 
           TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS, ETC.        97

filthiness naturally  arising from  such complaints,
but  it  has  been believed that  the  absorption of
matter which, on such occasions, must take place,
greatly  aggravates  the disease for the removal of
which my remedies are applied.
                CHAPTER XI.

               OBSERVATIONS
ON THE  EFFECTS  OF  MERCURY, WHEN  EMPLOYED  IN
  THE   TREATMENT   OF  SYPHDLIS  OR*  POX,  WITH
  DIRECTIONS FOR PROPER TREATMENT.
  Of all the disorders of the human frame, there is
none which  has baffled the skill of medical men
more than syphilis; and when we look to the general
treatment of this  disease  in  all its  varied forms,
we  cannot but deplore  the great loss of life which
is daily  occurring  from  the  use of that  deadly
poison, Mercury, which is constantly administered
by medical  men in  cases  of the venereal disease.
The blood in the system is poisoned, and by  being
so, it conveys, wherever  it travels in the arteries
and  veins, the seeds of disease.  The blood thus
poisoned goes to the heart, and diseases of this organ
are the consequence; it goes to the lungs, and these
organs become morbidly deranged : in fact, to what-
ever organ it travels, there it lays the • foundation ot
disease.   In cases like these, it has hitherto been the
eustom of the faculty, not  to rid  the system of the
poison which is destroying the unhappy sufferer by 
 98    PERNICIOUS RESULTS  OF MERCURY, ETC.

 inches, and preying  upon his vitals, but they have
 pursued  a course of treatment as  incorrect with
 sound theory  as  it is repugnant to  humanity and
 common sense.
   One  would naturally suppose  that some drug
 would be administered to  counteract  the effects of
 the poison circulating in the veins. Not so I Instead
 of so doing, oilier poisons have been thrown into the
 system, in the shape of mercury, arsenic and other
 mineral poisons.  And what are the consequences
 of this unnatural and inhuman mode of treatment ?
 The unfortunate being  has  caries  of his  bones,
 copper-coloured eruptions make their appearance all
 over his body, with running  sores  in the neck, and
 distorted features.
  Yes, the rotten skulls  which are  to be  found
 in the anatomical museums—with  all  the  other
 specimens of diseased bones, which, in our younger
 days, were so abundant in hospitals—in the great ma-
jority of cases were the production of long and haras
 Bing courses of mercury.  The rash, indiscriminate,
 and unqualified use of it has been productive  of in-
 finite mischief.  Under the notion of its being  an
 antidote,  the   untutored  think they have  only to
 saturate the system with  mercury,  and the business
 is  accomplished:  Fatal error!  Thousands are  annu-
 ally either mercurialized  out of  existence, or their
 constitution so broken, and the functions of nature so
 impaired, as to render the residue of life miserable.
  ^he disorder  which we have in  view owes its 
     CONSEQUENCES OF IMPROPER TREATMENT.     99

fatal results either to neglect or ignorance.  In the
first stage  it is always  local, and  easy to be distin-
guished, without the slightest injury to the constitu-
tion ; but when neglected or improperly treated, a
mere local affection may be converted  into an in-
curable and fatal malady. What a pity that a young
man, the hope of his country and the darling of his
parents, should be snatched from  all the  prospects.
and enjoyments of life by,the consequences of one
unguarded moment, and by a disease which is not,
in its own nature, fatal,  and which never proves so
if properly treated ! To do ample justice to the case,
a man must devote his entire attention to investi-
gate diseases, to detect their occult indications, and
promptly to apply a safe and radical remedy.  But
to prevent all the dangerous consequences emanating
from the dregs of this disease lingering in the con-
stitution, and to eradicate them when present, the
Triesemar offers a certain remedy.  Many valuable
lives  have  been preserved by it, and many pain-
ful sufferings relieved, when all  other means have
failed; in fact,  so beneficial have been its effects in
these cases, that, to do justice to the medicine as well
as the  patient, it becomes  a duty  to declare it, and
make its virtues  known.  It must be understood,
that to accomplish such an invaluable object has not
been the mere result of chance or fancy, but the
reward of long and unwearied  research, not alone
in the disease for which this medical discovery is so
aptly applicable, and those causes which give rise to 
100            THEORY AND PRACTICE.
it, but also of deep inquiry, experiment, and obser-
vation of those chemical substances capable, by their
peculiar mode of action, of overcoming these causes.
No schemes  or  theories  can be brought to  perfec-
tion in the study only :  reflection may bring forth
the idea, but practice alone can prove its efficacy.
Nothing speaks louder, in the treatment of disease,
of the advantages  to be  derived from the power of
any particular medicine,  than the great test—Expe-
rience.  The joyful news of health, ease, and com-
fort, spread far and wide  from those who have fortu-
nately found it, while the truth prevails by its own
excellence;
         Magna est Veritas, et prevalebit,
and hence will be  proved the beneficial operations
and results of this discovery,  which  need only be
made known to the world to claim its just reward,
and demonstrate its utility and value.
  But it is necessary to state, that it will be in vain
to expect relief  from this remedy without punctu-
ality ; for taking  a dose or two properly, then leaving
off  for some days and beginning again, will be of no
service.  The dose, should be taken regularly.
  Patients residing  at any  distance, can  have the
remedies applicable for their several  disorders for-
warded to any part of the United States of America,
or the civilized world, carefully secured in a portable
compass, and in every respect ready for convenient
use.  They are requested to be as minute as possible
in the detail of their cases, as to the duration of the 
PRIVILEGES TO PURCHASERS OF $27 CASES.
101
complaint, the  symptoms, age, habits of living, and
general occupation.
  The Triesemar i\fo. 1, 2, and 3, are sold in tin
cases, divided into  separate doses, as administered
by Yalpeau, Lalleman, Roux,  Ricord,  &c,  &c.
Price $3, or four cases in one for $9, which saves $3.
  For advice,  the  usual Fee of  $5 must  be  sent
direct to
                DR. BARROW,
                     194 BLEECKER STREET,
           {Four doors below McDougal Street,)
                              NEW YORK.
  And in purchasing the $27 cases (which can only bt
had in America from Dr. B. at the above  Establish
ment), there is  a saving of $9? independent of which
THE  PATIENT IS ENTITLED TO THE FULL BENEFIT  AND
ADVANTAGE OF SECURING Dr. BARROw's ADVICE, either
by letter or personally, without the usual Fee of $5,
and which can  only be dispensed with on  remitting
far a $27 case.
  The patient is requested to be as minute as possible
in the description of the case,  his  habits,  occupa-
tion,  <&c.
  On remitting $27  for a case of  Triesemar, the
Patient is also entitled to the benefit of having his
urme tested  by the author's  newly-constructed
Urinometer with  the powerfullenses.  He will,
therefore,  enclose with the $27 a two ounce flat 
102
INSTRUCTIONS to correspondents.
bottle, containing the  urine,  securely corked  and
sealed, packed  carefully in wool, {to prevent break-
ing,) in a seidlitz box,  which, with  the flat bottle,
2an be obtained  from any druggist.  The parcel to
be addressed thus

          PER EXPRESS—CARRIAGE  PAID,

              DR. BARROW,

                    194 BLEECKER  STREET,
           (Four doors below McDougal Street,)

                              NEW YORK.
  On forwarding the medicines, the instructions of
correspondents are strictly adhered to.   Parcels can
be sent by express, addressed to be left at express
Dffice till called for, either by initials or  name, or
in any way that may be desired.  In fact, every
expedient is invariably adopted  to  ensure  the
most  inviolable  secrecy, so  desirable to the  pa-
tient.
  For the convenience  of patients'  residing  in re-
mote   parts   of   Europe,   America,   or  the
East or West Indies.,  $54 cases of the Trtesemar,
are prepared, so that  there may  not  be any inter-
mission in taking it, where perseverance is necessary,
the purchaser, of course, entitled to the same privi-
leges as those having the $27 cases.
  Parcels, securely packed, and protected from ob-
servation, forwarded to any part of the world. 
CASES.
  In order that what I have advanced may be per-
fectly  understood, I  have extracted  a few  of the
most  prominent cases that  have  come  under my
notice: a perusal of them is earnestly recommended.
In making the following report, I have  to remark,
in discharging  my professional duties, the  utmost
delicacy is observed, and the feelings of the patient
most  scrupulously studied.   In  accordance,  there-
fore, with my regulations, I  can only  annex the
initials of those  patients' names  whose cases are
quoted.
A MOST REMARKABLE.  CASE OP 1MPOTENCY, CAUSED
                 BY MASTURBATION.

   The'following abounds with incidents  the most
remarkable  and interesting that ever  occurred to
the author during his practice:
  One morning  a  note  was  delivered to me,  stating that a
gentleman felt  very desirous  of having  an interview on the
following evening,  about half past five.  In accordance  with
the reply, which stated that  I should be disengaged at that hour,
the gentleman called.
  He btated that  he was  a  large  landholder; had  been a
widower about  three years:  after  being  married  about  two
years and a  half,  his  wife  died, aged  twenty-three.  With
downcast eyes  he  acknowledged  the marriage   rite   was
never  consummuted in consequence  of  incapacity  on  his
part. 
104                    CASE8.
   On  further conversation,  I  found  ho  was the  representative
of  one   most  ancient   families  in  the  kingdom;  that  he
inherited extensive estates from a long line of ancestry ; was a man
of profound learning ; but with  the  deepest  anguish, he declared
the fruits  of his academical  labours  would never compensate for
the  mischief incurred  from  a  solitary  vice   taught him  by
a  depraved  companion, when he was  about thirteen years of
age.

  No sooner  had  the delusion  empire  over  every other  desire,
than he  sought  every opportunity  to  indulge  in  those  per-
nicous and demoralising habits.   Six years  passed  on in this way,
during  which time  his  mother—for his  father died during his in-
fancy—perceived an alteration in  her  child ;  from a robust youth,
he became feeble and emaciated.  No one but a parent can imagine
the mental agony this  worthy lady endured, on beholding her only
and beloved  child under the withering influence of consumption-
her  first and only child—the heir to unbounded wealth—the only
link left to extend  the chain—to preserve the memory of an ancient
race.   Of  course.oo  expence was spared  in having the first advice
in the  kingdom.   Medical  art certainly succeded  to a certain de-
gree ; the  boy's health slightly improved, so  that he was enabled to
pursue his studies; but he continued debilitated, and unequal to the
least exertion, and  withont  the least zest for those salutary  recrea-
tions so necessary to relax  the  juvenile mind.  In  this state he
went to College, propped up,  as it were, by art.  The causes of the
disease were  not  eradicated ; the  infirmity  still continued,  for the
medical men  had  no  idea from whence the malady sprang : thus
was a promising youth, of bright intellect, and an excellent  consti-
tution, blighted apparently in the morning of his existence.  As he
advanced  to  years of maturity, he began to perceive the enormity
of the crime,  and experienced the dreadful results arising from those
illusions from which no real  pleasure  can be  elicited : a practice
agitating the  system, poisoning thesource  from whence the healthy
spring  of life  flows, perverting the senses, and creating  incalculable
mischief.  Notwithstanding, the demon continued to tempt him to
repeat, at  intervals, the solitary vice ; thus frustrating all the efforts 
OASES.                       105
and skill of his medical advisers.  He  at length perceived, to his
Borrow, how he had perverted  the  ordinances  of nature; how he
had exchanged a powerful and vigorous constitution for a puny,
sickly, and  debilitated frame.   The fact is, this  young gentleman
was naturally,  as has been before  observed, strong and healthy,
otherwise be would have sunk under these repeated inroads.  Shame
held his tongue ;  no one was aware of his being addicted to those
Bolitary habits.   Perceiving  the  evil, he  was  resolved  to fly
from   the  temptation:   he  was  now  about  twenty years  of
age He intimated to his mother a wish  to take  a tour on  the
Continent.   Having met  with  her  approval,  he left  England,
accompanied  by a medical  friend, who could  not only watch
the disease,  but  be   his companion  during  his  journeyings—
cheering and  amusing him on  the way ; for he was now  miserable
in mind as well as indisposed in health.   By acting up to his deter-
mination he experienced a trifling improvement whilst abroad, but
still suffered pains in the back and  loins, loss of appetite and indi-
gestion, with many other bad symptoms produced by  Masturbation.
  During his  travelling on the Continent, he indulged himself in
sexual intercourse ; but was at length obliged to refrain from inabil-
bility; for sometimes, in the act of coition, he experienced erection
without emission; but the erection accompanied with the most ex-
cruciating agony  in the genitals, and across the loins and back ; at
other times he  experienced  au  involuntary emission without erec-
tion, merely on approaching the object of his desire.  After taking
a tour up the Rhine, through Switzerland, he returned home by the
way of France.   After being in England a short time, he was intro-
duced to a young lady  of great  beauty and  accomplishments, the
daughter of a merchant  retired from  commercial pursuits with a
large fortune.  Being  ambitious  of a connection  with an ancient
family, he was very anxious of forming a matrimonial alliance with
our patient.
  This young gentleman secretly wished, for too good a reason, that
this negotiation should terminate, and not be carried into effect; but
shame, pride, and vanity, caused him to keep within his breast the
deficiencies he  laboured under—they were married.  The old gen- 
106                        OASES,
tleman presented his daughter with a handsomo dowry; and made
a will, bestowing the residue of his immense property on the  firs!
boo the young lady should have, being determined to aggrandise hia
name; if she should fail to have issue, the bequest to go to a distant
branch  of his family.   Thus  every preliminary being made, they
were united: now follows—the dread—the  mortification—the con-
sternation—sure to ensue under such circumstances.

  If the veil could be  drawn aside that  conceals the mysterious
 Ltes of Hymen, what a scene would be disclosed!  This young lady's
father centered all his happiness in his daughter's having  a son—
she was allied  to Impotency 1  The shock she received must have
been acute in the extreme—the disappointment preyed deeply on her
mind, and had a visible effect on  her health ;  after  a lingering ill-
ness of two years, she sank into a premature grave, at the early age
of twenty-three.

  When  first I  saw this patient, he  was dreadfully emaciated,
laboured  under great difficulty of respiration,  pains across  hia
back and  loins, involuntary  emissions  of a thin watery liquid from
the urethra,  particularly at night.  After confidentially stating hia
case, he implored me to endeavour to reanimate him.  Fortunately
he was endowed with a strong mind, notwithstanding  his frailties ;
he had resolution enough to  forbear, for  a considerable  time, from
those evil propensities that had been his bane.  These circumstances
gave me some hopes of being enabled, with the blessing of God,  to
restore him  to health.  He was furnished with medicines, directed
to have a cold bath three  times a week,  and to have a light and
nutritious diet;  and  I am happy to state,  in  the course  of three
months, the  improvement in  his health was astonishing.   At the
expiration of that time, he went, by my advice, to Aix la Chappelle,
where he found  the«greatest benefit from the waters and change of
climate.   On his return I had another  interview with him  and
Btrongly recommended  him  to  get married.   About nine months
after he followed my advice.

   )ne morning in March last I received the  following letter the
perusal of which gave me  the most heartfelt gratification. 
OASES.
10? '  *
  " Dear Sir,                    " Bourdeaux, 12 March, 1854
          " It is with inexpressible delight I address you; indeed
I should consider  myself very ungrateful  if I were silent on an
occasion like the present,  owing as I do to you every happiness.
My dearest  wife  was  yesterday morning,  about four o'clock
delivered  of a  flue boy.  You have been the means, through the
blessing of God,   of preserving  an ancient race from extinction
I  shall call  on  you  when  I come to town,  and  will tender
for your   accceptance   some   memento   of my  regard   and
gratitude.
                            " I am, dear Sir,
                                  "Yours very sincerely,
                                           "H.L.W---F."
   The  following case illustrates most forcibly  the
injurious effects  arising from self-abuse.
  Mr. L. S., iron master from Wolverhampton, aged  thirty years,
applied for my advice a few months since.  He complained of ex
cessive debility, pains in the knees, and a peculiar grating sensation
of the hip-bone when walking, a tottering gait, sometimes so prom-
inent that a person would have supposed him intoxicated.  His mem-
ory was also much impaired, and the mental faculties weakened; the
power of hearing was also considerably diminished. After conversing
with him for some time, Mr. S. acknowledged he accustomed himself
from an early age to self pollution.  Being convinced his indisposition
arose from those pernicious practices, I implored  him  to refrain
from them, for without doing so medicines would be of no avail. On
his promising faithfully to follow my advice, I gave him  medicines
expressly to meet his case.   About a  month  after this  interview
he  called on me,  previous to his departure from London, and
was in every respect very much  improved.   I gave him  a fresh 
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supply of medicines, directing  him to write as soon as they wcrt,
taken.  At the expiration  of another month I received the follow-
ing letter:
  '•' Sib,                  " Wolverhampton, 18th March, 1852..
      •' Having  finished  the medicine, I beg leave to address you
in compliance with your wish.  I have certainly experinced much
benefit from your mode of treatment, and  am  happy to state I can
walk Beven or eight miles a  day with very little fatigue, and also
am  capable of attending to my business, which I found myself quite
unequal to before consulting you ; but after eating a hearty meal—
for my appetite  is much improved—I feel a sensation of fulneBS
and slight  nausea. You will have the  goodness  to forward me
another packet of medicine, if you think I require it.
                    " I am, Gentlemen,
                             " Yours very respectfully,
                                              «L.S------.»
   I will add another case, showing the  evil  conse-
quences resulting from Masturbation.

  " Deab Sib,                    " Cambridge, 17th Feb. 1851
          " Will you  have the goodness to pay immediate atten-
tion to the following  statement, for I am truly  miserable ?  The
writer of this is twenty-two years of age, thin and emaciated; and, in
the opinion of every one, approaching very quickly to my latter end.
My friends think me consumptive,—the professional men are  of the
same opinion.  I feel  the greatest lassitude on the least exertion,
have great difficulty of breathing, and on walking gently up stairs
feel violent palpitations of the  heart, and respiration sluggish.  I
have also a hard, husky cough, particulary at  night; my voice,
which  was once as clear as a bell, has a peculiar shrillness ; my
Bight is likewise  very much affected—a lighted candle has the ap-
pearance to me of a halo round it of many colours.  I feel  an 
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unpleasant sensation of numbness down the spine.  The physician
under whose care I am has  no idea of the nature  of my illness.
There are other circumstances attending  my  case, which I have
been ashamed to communicate to him as well to others of the pro-
fession who have been consulted.
  " I will now tell you the cause of my writing to you.   Yesterday
I went into the room of a fellow-student, where I found your work
On Human Fraility.  On my friend's servant telling me he was out
but expected every moment, I sat down, and  was soon deeply ab-
sorbed in reading the contents of the little volume.  My attention
was rivetted, amazement possessed me to thfe utmost, on reading a
description corresponding exactly to my complaint.  Never till then
was I aware of the enormity of the crime I have committed ; horror
and anguish at the  idea have  seized me ; the  sufferings, mental as
well as bodily, that I have endured this night are beyond my power
to describe, therefore I implore you attentively to peruse my letter,
and examine my urine, which  is herewith enclosed, and  give me
your candid opinion by return of post, for I shall  be on the rack till
I hear from you.
   ' There are other symptoms arising  from my complaint that the
doctors  are  not at all aware of.   I am troubled with involuntary
emissions from the urethra, particularly at night, when I am under
the influence of lascivious  and horrid  dreams, unaccompanied with
erection of the penis.  It is now two or three months since there were
any erections, but they caused  a poignant  pain in the testieles,
 almost beyond endurance.  I cannot enjoy the society of the fair sex,
 for I am agitated,  and experience the most unpleasant sensations in
 their company.  If a young lady evinces the least courtesy, I  am
flurried  and nervous in the  extreme; tremors  thrill through my
 frame, and  involutary  emissions follow. I am obliged  abruptly to
 leave  the room and conceal my weakness in solitude.  There is no
 occasion for my avowing the cause of the deplorable state I am in,
 for you can no doubt judge it rightly.  Excuse the rambling manner
 with which I have described  my case, for I am far  from collected in
 my ideas.  There is enclosed  your usual fee.  As I shall be within 
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half a mile of Royston, have the goodness to direct your reply at
the post-office in that town.   Your immediate  attention  would
greatly oblige,
                          "_Yonr very obedient servant
                                         " S. V-----N.»
   Immediately on receiving my reply,  the writer of
the above  came to London, and called  on me.  The
result of  the  consultation  was,  his  immediately
placing  himself  under  my  care,  and solemnly
promising  to  refrain from  those  practices  which
proved so  detrimental to him.   He strictly  adhered
to my  instructions;   and in  the  course of  three
months I had the pleasure of  receiving the follow-
ing letter:

  " Mr Deab Sib,              " Gainsboso', 28th May, 1851.
          " It is with the utmost pleasure I have to acquaint  yon
of the great improvement  in my health, and the surprising  altera-
tion in my mental faculties.  I feel, as you assured me I should by at-
tending to your directions, invigorated, and quite another being;  and
depend on it,  I will never lose sight of your excellent advice.
  " The Earl of------is going on the Continent, and wishes me to
accompany him: he intends to reside at Rome  for two or three
months.  Do you think the air will agree with me ? for I understand
it is far from healthy.  If you  consider it would be prejudicial, I
will not stop there.
  " I feel so well in every respect, I do not think I shall require
any more medicine.  I shall, however, call on you previous to leav-
ing England.

                       " I remain, dear Sir,|
               " With every feeling of regard and esteem,
                          " Yours very truly,
                                         "S.V------».» 
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Ill
  The  following letter is anuexed, as it  illustrates
most forcibly the mischief that ensues from neglect.
A person may be  infected  with a clap, and,  from
false delicacy, feel averse to consult a medical  man,
or  presumptuously think himself capable of con-
ducting his own  case—apparently  a mere clap and
excoriation; he goes on, taking medicines, aggra-
vating  and  increasing, instead of subduing, the in-
flammation, till *at length the case assumes a  more
decided and alarming aspect.  However, we cannot
do  better  than let  the  patient speak for himself,
through  the  medium of  his letter, which is as fol-
lows:

  " Mr Deab Sib,               " Chepstow, 20th April, 1854.
           " It is now nine weeks since I last had the pleasure of
seeing you. My gratitude dictates me  to express my most fervent
thanks for what you have done for me.  Yon will know me by the
initials of W. S.; but I indeed should be unworthy the name  of man
were I longer to withhold my true name.
  " You cannot forget the awful state I was in, from an imprudent
connection, when I first saw you; and how I had been treated, part-
ly through my own indiscretion and partly through a desire to keep
the affair a secret from even a medical man.
  "The swelling in the groin subsided, according to your expecta-
tion/!, and the foreskin of the penis went back, as if by enchantment,
and, as you conjectured, the glands were covered round with small
ulcers, which I treated as you desired,  and am happy to state they
have all disappeared and the discharge has stopped.  1 have been
very attentive  to the rules you laid down, for they were so easily
followed.  I have no occasion to stop even within doors, and am
sure no one suspected my having taken medicine. I was enabled, 
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as you have stated to follow my usual occupation, and have frequently
been to Newport, after being under your care.   You stated it would
be necessary for me to have another supply of medicine, for which
I have enclosed a remittance.  You will please to forward what yon
may think necessary to the Railway Office, Bristol, addressed as the
last.  When I come up to town, which will be in the  course of two
months, I will  call and give you  personally more substantial ao
knowledgments for what you have done for
                                         "Yours obliged,
                                               « W.S------."
  An unmarried gentleman, aged thirty, was addicted to private in-
discretion at a very early period of life.  Being ignorant of the bad
consequences of such practices, he continued this habit to excess for
a considerable time.  The first bad effect, which he did not then at-
tribute to that cause, was frequent giddiness, attended with a sensa-
tion as if the earth were sinking under him.  Still he did not refrain
from his bad habits, and of course these symptoms increased.  To
these were soon added others: he became perpetually apprehensive
and alarmed, he knew not for  what, and on the most trifling occa-
sions ; was almost constantty  troubled with violent palpitations of
the heart, stinging or shooting pains  across the chest; and on such
occasions he  experienced flushing  of the face, and a most disagree.
able heat all over his body, particularly in the palms of the hands
and soles of the feet.  The testicles hung much lower than  usual
particularly the left, and the spermatic chord was somewhat en-
larged and swollen, and was very painful.
  The intellectual faculties seemed to share in the general disorder :
he became awkward and stupid to a great  degree ; all his mental
powers suffered considerably, especially his memory, which unless on
very particular subjects, and these of the simplest nature, was almost
quite lost: and he constantly entertained a dread lest at Borne period
not very distant he should become altogether insane.  He at length 
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he became greatly alarmed for his safety, and was  in cont inual fear
lest he should expire suddenly when in bed.
  It was not till now—i e. in his twenty-second year—that he resol-
ved to abandon  all these practices, which he considered must have
caused his present miserable condition.
  From  his twenty-second to his twenty-sixth jear he occasionally
used cold bathing, which  he thought yielded momentary relief, but
produced no permanent good effect on his health.  He at length, how
ever, found that he had no inclination for sexual intercourse, nor were
his powers in that way so vigorous as they had been for some time be-
fore.  He tried the effect of nourishing diet, and regularly used min-
eral waters for two seasons, which he thought of advantage.
  About his twenty-ninth- year he had greatly improved in general
health; the  mind was at times cheerful, and even happier than it
had been from the age of fourteen or fifteen.   In short, in respec-t to
his feelings he was quite a new man.
^_One morning about  this period while in bed, he experienced the
most unconquerable desire for sexual connection ; but not having  it
in his power to gratify his  desires at the time, he had recourse, for
the first time in five or six years, to his old habit.   He was immedi-
ately after seized with a degree of stupidity,  and a kind of derange-
ment, different from, and much more distressing  than he had ever
before felt; a profuse sweat, also, covered his whole body, so as to
render his linen quite wet.  He declared he never was in such com-
plete misery, and he  earnestly wished that every moment  might-
terminate his existence.  He suffered a sort of delirium, yet was sen-
sible of his state.  He leaped out of bed and bathed his face in  cold
water, but this only seemed to increase his sufferings; he put on his
clothes and  stalked about the house like a person in despair; drank
several glasses of wine, and then of ardent spirits, but without any
effect.  After this he went back to bed, to endeavor to procure some
Bleep ; and, the spirits he had used  assisting bim, he slept for about
two hours.  He was now somewhat refreshed, but his mind was very
much and strongly confused and he felt as if afraid of entirely lei,
iug his reasoning falculties. 
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   This gentleman ultimately placed himself under  my care, and
 ilthough the case was a very bad one, from its nature and long du-
 ration, and from the fact that the seminal vessels had nearly lost all
 power of secretion, I did not despair:—but after giving him full
 Jirections as to diet, and the appropriate management of himself
 with respect  to exercise, bedding, &c., I placed him on  a course of
 medicines, from which he said he soon experienced greater comfort
 than before its administration, but for a day or two afterwards uni-
 formly relapsed into his old state.   By steady perseverance in the
 plan of treatment recommended, at the end, however, of some months
 he felt sensibly invigorated ;  his  mind was more cheerful, the testi-
 cles not  nearly so relaxed as formerly ; and the penis,  which had
 shrunk considerably, resumed its natural size, power, and appearance.
 He continued the use of the  medicines  about seven months more,
 and is now perfectly recovered.
   In many cases of impotence thus induced, the  patient has stated
 that he experienced a  sort of sensation, as if a thread were firmly
 tied round the penis, immediately behind the glans—the urine, how-
 ever, being seldom obstructed in  its passage.  By administering the
 medicines I ordered, the spot complained of, as above stated, vas the
 first and most severely affected by it—indeed, the only part effected
 for a considerable  length of time.    As  the  patient, however
advanced toward  recovery, the sensation produced by the medicine
 became more extensive, or more  diffuse, and  spreading  along the
greater part of  the urethra, no tightness  was at length perceived,
and thus the cure was effected.
   One more case on this subject will suffice:
  "Sm'                           "Manchester, 4thFeb. 1854.
      "About a  week  since I pnrchased  a case of Triesemar, of
which you are the patentee; in the mean time. I read the little book 
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enclosed with it  As I proceeded in its perusal, I became deeply in-
terested, for it contains  observations and exhortations that deeply
impressed me.
  " I am very anxious to have your  advice, for I am suffering fear-
fully from the ill  effects of Onanism.  I shall, therefore  enter  as
minutely as I can into the particulars of my case.
  " I am now twenty-three years of age, spare habit, and of billions
lemperament.   I live well, for my  father, with whom I reside, keeps
a luxurious table.  As far as I can recollect, I was twelve years of
age when I was initiated by a youth older than myself, into the prac
tice of the degrading vice of which I am the victim.  I remember
well the shock I sustained, but some  how I was so infatuated,  that I
indulged in the propensity until I was seventeen.   About that time
the lassitude I experienced was beyond description:  I had an utter
disinclination for society, and after dinner felt so weary that I could
not possibly keep awake.   All this attracted the observation of my
family circle : they were at a loss to conceive the cause.  About
this time my uncle went to Bermuda  upon some particular business,
and I accompanied him.  Some little time after my arrival, a young
gentleman with  whom I formed an  acquaintance  lent  me a book
which treated on Onanism.  On reading it I perceived at once the
cause of the debility I experienced :  thereupon I was at once deter-
mined  to refrain from  those pernicious habits.   I lived frugally,
bathed frequently, and kept myself as tranquil as possible, but alas!
I found the frequency of the seminal emissions, wliich occurred on
the least excitement, had  so debilitated  the frame, that something
more was required  thau simple forbearance.  On  my return to Eu-
rope, in about three months, my pajents were shocked at my appear-
ance.   They imagined I was consumptive, but I knew too well the
cause of the hollow  and  flushed cheek—the  glazed eye—the trem-
bling hand—the shortness of breath—and the stooping gait.
  The alarm of my revered father caused him immediately to take me
to the metropolis for the best medical advice.  I  certainly derived
some trifling benefit from the advice  of the eminent physician whom
we consulted  ; but the lassitude the  noctural emmissions, the loss of
memory, and the pain across my loins still continued. 
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   " About a year since I attempted to have sexual intercourse, but
 found all  the powers  inert; a slight erection ensued; but  what
 agony I endured across my back and loins, and a dull heavy pain in
 my testicles, Which continued for two or three days.
   On having a noctural emission, I find the semen is thin and watery
 The penis is shrunken, and sometimes in urinating I find a clammy,
 liquid ooze from the urethra for ten minutes.   Pray what can be the
 cause of  it?
   I perceive you have constructed an  instrument called the Urino-
 meter, witb powerful lenses, to test the urine.   I herewith send mine
 in a flat bottle carefully packed  up, according to your directions,
 which you will please carefully to examine.   There is also enclosed
51. for a case of Triksemar, which entitles me to your  advice and the
examination with the above instrument.
   Another  word:  I am  very temperate, but  my habits of life are
very unsettled, for my enfeebled state  of health will not  allow of
active pursuits.
               " Anxiously awaiting your replv,
                            "I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
                                          "Richard B------.
   " Address, Richard B., Railway office, till called for, Manchester." 
                      (117)

    SPECIAL ADDRESS TO INVALIDS,
WHOSE  SUFFERINGS HAVE BEEN PROTRACTED FROM HIDDEN CAUSES
  AND  WHOSE CASES  REQUIRE  PROMPT  TREATMENT TO BENDER
                 EXISTENCE DESIRABLE.
  The foregoing pages have been written so that the
reader may perfectly understand what he peruses ;
and instructions  given, and means pointed out, to
lead to an expeditious  and perfect recovery.   Not-
withstanding, in  many instances  maladies arising
from sensuality and exhaustion are so complicated
in their nature and origin, as to require the immedi-
ate and direct supervision of the experienced practi-
tioner.  The human frame is, in fact, a fine piece of
mechanism—a mere trifle disarranges it; and conse-
quently the most  simple means will often suffice to
put it in order : in those instances an interview with
a medical man is frequently absolutely necessary, as
well as in cases assuming a graver aspect.  It is in
the power of any individual, no matter what his daily
avocations  may be, to take a journey any distance,
especially when it is of the utmost importance to his
future weal.   The inmate of a hut has infinitely
more  at his command, at the present epoch, than the
most powerful potentate of the days of yore.  For a
mere  trifle  our wishes  may be conveyed with light-
ning-speed  any distance ; we may traverse hundreds
of miles with the rapidity of the carrier-pigeon at a
small expense ; therefore  no  time should be lost in
adopting means  for the removal of the  formidable 
118      CONSULTATION AND CO EEESPONDENCE.

maladies described in this little work.  But if, not-
withstanding all these facilities, the patient finds it
impossible to have a personal interview with Medi-
cus, the  nature of the disease can be described by
letter,  (which may be signed A.B., or any other  ini-
tials) its  contents will be immediately  taken into
consideration and most seriously deliberated on,  the
utmost solicitude evinced, and every means adopted
to restore the sufferer to  vigorous  and renovated
health.
                 DR. BARROW
 MAY BE PERSONALLY CONSULTED AT HIS RESIDENCE,
          194 JBL.EECKER  STREET,
                (Four doors below McDougal Street,)
                             NEW YORK,
  From 11 until  2 P. M., and from 4 till 8 in the
evening,  Sundays excepted, unless by  previous
appointment.
  ***  In^ all cases of consultation  by letter (which
may be signed A.B., or by any other initials) tht
usual fee of $5 must be forwarded.
  For further instructions to Correspondents, an at
tenttve perusal of pages 101 and 102 is absolutely
necessary.
  Author's address:
                  MEDICUS,
        19  BERNERS  STREET,
               Oxford Street. London. 
                      (119)

MOST GRATIFYING RESULTS FROM THE IN-
      TRODUCTION OF TRIESEMAR IN
                   AMERICA.
  The introduction of Triesemar in America has
been  attended with its usual success, the demand
progressively increasing, and the most  astonishing
cures effected.
  Dr. Barrow will now introduce a few cases, that
came under his immediate notice, some of which
might have been  deemed past recovery; but by a
perseverance with his medicines, and  attention to
his advice the patients have been restored to them-
selves and society.  He might have quoted an im-
mense number, but  that  would  far exceed  his
present limits.
  It will be perceived in the foregoing, and follow-
ing report, that every case is mentioned  in those
general terms, as to preclude the possibility of per-
sonality, and farther, when the slightest objection
exists to even the most distant allusion, the feelings
of the patient are always regarded, and under no
circumstance, nor  in any instance, the most distant
allusion made.

  The following case most forcibly illustrates the
evil  influence, and the pernicious effects of Mastur-
bation :
                          Buffalo, 17th January, 1856.
  " Dr. Barrow:
     " Dear Sir,—I ha\je received the three dollar case of Trie-
Bemar, No. I, and, after reading the book sent with it with all  due
attention, consider it necessary to submit for your consideration a 
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statement  of my case ; pray devote your utmost attention to  It,
and let me know your opinion as soon as possible.  Enclosed ia
your fee of $5.
   " My age is about twenty-six, and my position in society such as
will  eventually  cause some influence,  if  my prospects are  not
blighted from having indulged in the debasing and pernicious habit
of Onanism; for,  alas 11 am one of those wretched beings, who  has
injured a good constitution, rendering myself incapable of attend-
ing to my various duties.   I was initiated into this degrading  vice
by a youth much older than myself, when I was a mere lad, and
oontinued the practice for I do not know how long without being
aware  of  the enormity of  the error, and the physical evils arising
from it.  But, in a short time my appearance indicated all was not
right.
  " I  became  quite  emaciated,   was so weak that  the  least
exercise would fatigue me, pains across my loins, and an indescrib-
able sensation down the spine.  My appetite was almost voracious
yet I was not benefited by  the most nourishing food.   Seminal emis-
sions during sleep frequently.  In fact, the state of my health caused
some  anxiety among  my friends.  Our family doctor was  baf-
fled, for there was no cough nor  the least irritation of the lungs,
respiration pretty free, unless I walked too fast up  a hill, or too
quick  upstairs ;  but then, this gradual wasting of the system, las-
situde, heaviness  and  depression of spirits, all  was a mystery  to
them.
  " One day  an  excellent worK, treating on  Masturbation, fell
into my hands.  A perusal of it convinced me of the folly and dan-
ger of such indulgences.  I was resolved to break myself of them,
and try cold bathing.  A slight improvement to my health followed,
yet, at long intervals, I   was  tempted  to  repeat  the  delusive
habit, but  the  last time I indulged myself I experienced such utter
prostration that I  was almost beside myself.  I staggered across the
room, bathed my temples with cold water, threw myself on the bed,
and in a short time fell into a heavy but far from refreshing sleep.
The paroxysm occured about  a month since and I have never re-
covered from it.  I have  at the present  time nocturnal emissions
twb or three times a week, and am more debilitated  than ever—in
fact, every symptom I formerly experienced, exaggerated ten fold. 
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   A  short   time  since  I  received  the  following
pleasing  letter:
                                     " Mobile, May 15, 1S56.
  " Dear Doctor :
      " Three months ago I called  on you, and placed myself un-
der your care.  I had blotches on various parts of my body, pains
in my limbs, 6ore throat, scurf on my head, and when it peeled off
a disagreeable humor would appear.  I  also had a dull Pam in m/
left testicle at times.  After taking  a quantity of physic  and pay-
ing a lot of doctors, your famous  medicines and  clever manage-
ment entirely removed all my complaints.  You termed it " Second-
ary Symptoms of Syphilis."   I  am now as hardy as a  buck, and
Bhall call on you in the Autumn, for I  shall like to see you about
something particular.  As I do not like to take any thing from
any other doctor, will you Bend me a box of pills to keep me regu-
lar, for I am rather bound up.  When I  see you, you shall have  a
present, that shall convince you how I value the benefit I have
received.
                      •'* Yours, very truly,
                                                   « J.  M.»    *
   The following will suffice for the present:
                               " Boston, 28th February, 1856.
  " Dr. Barrow :
      " Dear Sir,—I duly received the nine dollar case of Triese-
mar, No. 1, you sent me, and have derived so much benefit from it
that I  am more  than anxious  to enter into particulars, so that a
lasting and permanent cure may be made, through your experience.
  "Last November I married, and found myself incapable of con-
summating the marriage rites.  I found every attempt fruitless, and
sexual  power  checked  by premature emission.   Bitter indeed was
my mortification.   On the expiration of a few days similar results
transpired, convincing me beyond doubt that total impotency would
be the consequent, if I had not recourse to some remedy.  Thus
was I induced to procure  your Triesemar.  Now for an outline of
my case.  When a  boy I wa* initiated into the dreadful habit of
Masturbation, and continued  it for some  time without  bemg aware 
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 of the consequences.  Aftei a time,  however, nocturnal emission!  «
 occurred every week or ten days, succeeded by excessive debility.
 On learning the injury arising from such practices, I refrained from
 them,  had  recourse to strengthening medioines, bathing, exercise,
 and so forth, rallied a little,  and considered myself competent to
 marry, but woefully have I been  mistaken.  Since  I have taken  the
 Triesemar the emissions have not followed so quickly the  excite-
 ment of the  parts,  and I  have  certainly been more successful  in
 my efforts, yet there is  a lack of power, and the idea of being  de-
 prived  of  those  attributes   which   ensure  matrimonial  felicity
 depresses my  spirits and renders me incapable of attending in a
 proper manner to my business,  which is a Commission Agent.  I
 am about 36 years of age, head aches at times, and no relish  for
 my food, taking my meals regularly but without appetite.  Pray
 let me know how I shall proceed, so  that I may quickly get rid of
 all these annoyanceB.   Enclosed is nine dollars  for Triesemar
 Pray reply to  this immediately, with your usual  punctuality, and
 oblige,                    " Yours truly,
                                                   " U. M."
   A  week  after replying to the above, the gentle-
 man  paid me a visit,  and was so satisfied with the
 result of the  interview, that  he was resolved impli-
 citly  to follow  my advice;  he  was then  provided
 with  the requisite  remedies.   Last Ms y I  received
 the following letter from him:
                                     u Boston, May 23, 1856.
  "Dr. Barrow
      " Dear Sir,—Enclosed you will  find $20, balance duo you
It  is with the utmost pleasure I  remit it,  for  I am completely in-
vigorated, and have all my  physical powers restored : indeed there
is every likelihood that my lady is enciente.
                          " Yours  gratefully.
                                                  " U.  M."
  "P.  S.—We are  thinking of  visiting  Europe this  summer.  1
 ahall call on you before  my departure, for some instructions  for my
 future  guidance." 
CASKS.                    121
Pray reply to me qaickly, and be assured, if I find benefit lrom yoa*
skill I shall feel ever grateful.
                           " Yours respectfully,
                                           "N.C.S."
  " Address at Post Office till called for."

   In  due course this patient was  provided  with
medicine, and clear and ^explicit instructions for-
warded to him for his guidance ; about three  weeks
after forwarding  the parcel I had a  visit from him
and found him  better in every respect, but yet far
from recovered.   He appeared  very anxious for a
complete renovation.  He was furnished with every
necessary advice and a fresh supply of medicine.
The  latter end  of March he visited me  again, re-
stored to sound and vigorous health, with all the at-
 tributes of manhood.  He was desirous of ascertain-
ing whether he was competent to enter the marriage
state.  With further advice for his future  regula-
tion  he left  me  with every assurance of  being res-
cued from that  premature decay, so truthfully por-
trayed in our  little work entitled  "Physiological
Researches."
  G. L., aged 36, remitted me from Baltimore $9 for  a  case of
Triesemar, No. 1.  It was forwarded to him without delay.  At the
expiration' of  a fortnight he proceeded to New York, havmg made
up his mind, after perusing the medical work sent with the Triese-
mar  to consult  me.  The cadaverous hue of his countenance
Btartled me on hiB presenting himself.  His  frame was  emaciated,
his nerves unhinged, faculties blunted, memory seriouely impaiiri,
o« thus addressed  me : 
122
OASES.
  " I received a case of your Triesemar, and have been very
anxious to see you.  Can you imagine from my present appear-
ance that I ever was of a robust constitution ? I am now a com-
plete  wreck, reduced to this extremity from the  cursed habit of
masturbation.  Can you do me any good ?"
  He then stated in the most candid manner every
circumstance relative  to his case.  The  excellency
of his constitution repelled for some time the effects
of the delusive practice ; but gradually all the func-
tions of life became impaired ; excessive  fatigue on
the  least  exertion, frequent nocturnal  emissions,
often on the least exertions during the day;  indi-
gestion, and a long train of other evils, until he was
reduced to the state I beheld.  It appeared a rela
tive, from  whom he had no expectations, had  re-
cently^ left  him considerable  property:  " All use-
less," he  exclaimed, " in  the present state of my
health." I condoled with him, and consented to un-
dertake his cure, and use my best endeavors for his
restoration,  and I was gratified with complete suc-
cess, for, about a month since he presented himself
to me completely  changed;  in fact, never was  a
more perfect metamorphosis effected.   He appeared
re-created  as it were,  with  a clear eye, an erect
mien, self-sufficiency, and a man in every sense of
the  word.

  This  was  indeed an instance of the  breaking up
tff the constitution.  A short time longer, if prompt
and efficient means had not been  adopted, he would
have been a tenant of the tomb. 
 
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