As a rule the +organs waste away+ rapidly or become +curved, twisted, or
misshapen+. Oftentimes the testicles +dwindle away+ to almost nothing.
+Settled gloom+ and +melancholy+ pervade the mind, and +hallucinations+,
+morbid fear+, +unnatural lust+, +groundless jealousy+ and a +morbid
desire for solitude+ show themselves. Undoubtedly the list of promotive
causes is considerably augmented by maltreatment and the employment of
injudicious remedies. We should therefore suggest to all prudent persons
the wisdom and importance of consulting _competent authority_ only.
Self-enervation in the first instance brings about that irritability
which evinces itself in +nocturnal discharges+, afterwards in
inappreciable but exhaustive +diurnal discharges+, and subsequently in
complete debility of the whole generative system. This seminal fluid,
such indeed as it is--weak, effete and devoid of all generative
power--is undoubtedly the fluid which the organs suffer to escape; and
to prevent further its flow, as well as to give a healthy tone to the
secretory and retentive vessels ought to form our first care.