What it Is, What it Does, and How it is allowed to Drain Away,
Weakening, Emasculating and Dementing the Vicious and the Careless.
Diurnal (daily) Emissions. Nocturnal (nightly) Emissions. Impalpable
Oozings. Losses in the Urine. Losses while at Stool. Mistaken Gleet.
There are thousands of weak, nerveless men, who do not know what ails
them; thousands of invalids whose physicians are puzzled and perplexed
by their symptoms, and cannot account for the rapid waste of strength,
energy and vitality, much less check it; and thousands of others, on
the street, in the pulpit, on the bench, in the counting room, whose
troubles, illness and misery are due to losses of vital fluid. Some
know it, many more do not. Some are being properly or improperly treated
for it; many are being dosed and drugged for Malaria, Neurasthenia,
Consumption, Overwork, Brain Troubles, Paralysis and many equally as
foolish and irrational complaints. They sicken, die, destroy themselves
in hopeless despair of ever getting well and strong again, verge into
hopeless idiocy or go raving mad, simply because their trouble is not
understood; because day by day and hour by hour there is draining from
them in their urine, at stool and otherwise, that precious vital fluid
that represents life, health and energy to them.
{Illustration: Fig. 1.
A HUMAN TESTICLE.
Perfectly Healthy.
[From Gray's Anatomy.]
Each _lobule_ may be seen (carefully guarded from pressure or injury)
in its cell, with a strong fibrous partition on each side. All these
_lobules_ empty into small ducts which converging form the _Globus
Major_, _Epididymis_ and _Globus Minor_, which finally end in the
_Vas Deferens_, _Cord_, _Duct_, or _Tube_ that conveys the fluid to
the Seminal Vesicles at the back of the bladder. (See _Figs._ 5, 6.)
As the veins of a _Varicocele_ surround these delicate _lobules_
as well as _fine tubing_, it can readily be seen how easily such
pressure, weight and crowding may do very serious injury and make
the flow of semen irregular, or shut it off altogether.}
{Illustration: Fig. 2.
HUMAN SPERMATAZOA.
[From Gray's Anatomy.]
A. Healthy, well developed and active zoa-sperms from the _Vital
Fluid_ of a strong, robust man.
B. Showing cells and bunches, in which form they are secreted or
made by the testicles.}
And is it surprising that the continual losses do drain away strength
and vitality? This fluid is the only one charged with _life_--actual
_life_; capable of producing _life_--of creating offspring--of
impregnating and developing into perfect being, with thinking and
reasoning brain and mind, pulsating heart, expanding lungs, sentient
nerves, motive muscle, and all that beautiful, minute and co-ordinate
mechanism that forms a perfect human being--the only secretion in the
body capable of propagating species--carrying _life_ within _life_.
Surely this was not meant for waste. Surely the influence of its loss
upon the system, especially of a boy or young man (growing and not fully
developed), must be great, and it is. Many and many a young man thus
wastes away before the eyes of his friends from no other cause. Many a
one loses health and strength from this cause alone, yet does not know
it. How much better if all this false modesty, social hypocrisy, and
blundering medical dosing and drugging, without thorough examination and
full understanding, were wholly done away with, and the young men, and
old men too, were brought to understand two cardinal facts:
(a) The immense devitalizing effects of even small continued losses of
vital fluid, and,
(b) The fact that many apparently strong and healthy, as well as weak
and nerveless, men who find their sexual powers gradually or suddenly
failing them, can, in nine cases out of ten, trace it directly to
losses of vital fluid in the urine or otherwise, that have been going
on--perhaps wholly unknown to them--for months or years past.
(See also chapter on "Hidden Spermatorrhoea")