Organs, Phila., 1872.}

{Footnote 3: Disorders of the Male Sexual Organs, Phila., 1883.}

{Footnote 4: Impotence in the Male, New York, 1833.}

{Footnote 5: Spermatorrhoea, Phila., 1880.}

{Footnote 6: Dictionaire des Sciences, tom. viii, Paris, 1856.}

{Footnote 7: Beltrage zur anat-uns Phys., Bd. iv. and Bd. vii.}

{Footnote 8: Arbeiten aus der Phys. Austatt, zu Leipsig, 1866.}

{Footnote 9: Pflueger's Archlv, Bd. viii.}

{Footnote 10: Traite des Maladies de la Moelle Epiniere.}

{Footnote 11: Chu. Med. de l'Hotel-Dieu de Paris.}

{Footnote 12: Ziemssen's Cycloped., Amer. Edit., 1876.}

{Footnote 13: Stricture of the Male Urethra.}

{Footnote 14: Stricture of the Urethra; its Complications and
Effects.}

{Footnote 15: Practical Observations, &c., &c.}

{Footnote 16: Medical Circular and Gazette, 1869, page 381.}

{Footnote 17: Annal. de Dermatol, et Syphiligraph.}

{Footnote 18: Wiener Med. Presse, 1878.}

{Footnote 19: Medical Record, 1879, page 184.}

{Footnote 20: Endoskopische Befunde bei Erkrankungen des
Samenhugels Wein, 1880.}

{Footnote 21: Bulletin Generales de Therapie, 1867, page 501.}

{Footnote 22: Wiener Klinik, May, 1880.}

{Footnote 23: Archives of Medicine, October, 1880, page 191.}

STRICTURE THE RESULT OF MASTURBATION,
AND THE CAUSE OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE.

In brief it may be stated that +Masturbation+ in early life, and
sexual excesses at a later period, may, and do produce +congestion+,
+inflammation+, +spasm+, +ulceration+, +granulations+, +ulcers+,
and both +spasmodic and organic strictures+ of the urethra; that
+Spermatorrhoea+ and +Impotence+ are due to this condition, and that
the only really rational treatment is that which directly medicates and
heals these parts. This, +Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons+ do, better
and quicker than anything else. Prof. GROSS,{24} for instance, says:
"Exclusive of these cases, my notes show that 13 out of every 100 cases
of stricture are due to Onanism;" and OTIS{25} says: "9 per cent. of all
cases are traceable to that practice." REEVES, HENRY SMITH, GOULET,
PHYSIC and LEROY give masturbation as a cause of stricture. BLACK states
a like case leading to sexual incapacity, as a result of the stricture.
WADE says: "In several instances of the kind, +where there had been no
sexual intercourse+, the strictures, which were at the bulb, pro