habit the organ becomes
_+small+ and +relaxed+, the +erections feeble+, the +corpora cavernosa+
either +waste away+ or their +vessels+ lose their +tonicity+, whereby
an apparent +shrinkage takes place+; the +corpus spongiosum+ and the
+glands+ also +shrink+, so that the +prepuce+ (fore-skin) appears
+unnaturally elongated+. The +testes+ may +increase+ in +size+, become
+tender+ and +irritable+_, or they may waste away to nothing but little
strings; the latter is the more usual result.

"_+Pains+ in the small of the +back+, a sense of +weight+ and +aching+
in the +loins+, around the +anus+, and in the +testes+_ is experienced.
_The +appetite is capricious+, the +digestion feeble, and the bowels+
are +constipated+_, or constipation alternates with diarrhoea.

"_The+ mind+ is +deficient+ in +power+ of +attention+, the +imagination
is constantly pervaded with vague erotic dreams+, the +moral sense+
is +blunted+, and the +perceptions+ are +dull+ and +confused+. +Pains+
in the +head+, in the +occipital+ and +frontal regions+ (front and back
of head)_, and a sense of fullness, and in serious cases _alarming
+Vertigo+ (dizziness and falling); +pains+ in the course of the
+principal nerves+, and an extreme +nervous susceptibility+, are
experienced. The +organic nervous system+_ manifests a functional
disturbance in harmony with the disorder of the nervous system of animal
life. _+Gastralgia+ and +abdominal pain+ (pain in stomach and bowels)_
and +uneasiness+ are in some cases very distressing symptoms.

"The distinctiveness of the foregoing symptoms will be determined
by the extent and duration of the habit, and by the constitutional
peculiarities of the patient. +The more highly developed the nervous
system, and the more it preponderates in activity over the muscular and
digestive systems, the more serious the effects.+

EFFECTS OF MASTURBATION ON THE MIND

"The most serious +mental effects+ are produced by +masturbation+. This
vice, commenced at or before the period of puberty, interferes seriously
with the development of the brain and the evolution of the mental
faculties.

"That +spermatorrhoea+ will produce in one class of cases
+mental disorders+, and not in another, indicates either that some
predisposition to these disorders existed, or that the habit of
+self-pollution+ was merely an expression of +mental alienation+
(insanity). The +images+ which pervade the minds of boys possessed
of the highly-developed nerv