Congestions, irritation and even inflammation of the Urinary Organs
often occur in men, either alone or as a complication of Seminal Disease
and Weakness. The Seminal Vesicles lie just behind the bladder, while
the Seminal Ducts pass through the body of the +Prostate Gland+, and
open into the urethra (or urine channel) upon its surface (see Fig. 5).
Hence, any inflammation or congestion of this large gland that lies at
the root of the organ and neck of the bladder, is almost certain to
produce +Seminal Weakness+, +Losses+ and +Impotence+.
It will be noticed that men past 50 years of age are often forced to
rise in the night once or oftener to make water. This, and the delay
that sometimes occurs before the stream will start, are usually due to
enlarged +Prostate Gland+--a common condition in men past 50. Many and
many a man at this age finds his +sexual power declining+ and cannot
understand it--+Enlarged Prostate Gland+.
As the gland enlarges and becomes stiff and its tissues hardened and
brawny, it presses upon and deprives the Sexual Nerves of power and
sometimes paralyzes them, causing total Impotency. How useless--worse
than useless, even hurtful--are the usual remedies. The Prostate Gland
must be softened, cooled and +robbed+ of its +inflammation+ before
Anti-Impotency remedies can be of the slightest service. And here it
is where the great success of the +Civiale Crayons+ is best shown:
+The Prostatic Crayons melt, run down upon, soothe, quiet and allay
the inflammatory and hardened gland+, while the +Impotence Crayons+ are
+re-toning+, +strengthening+ and +re-vitalizing+ the Sexual Nerves, and
strengthening the +erectile+ and +ejaculatory+ muscles. Perfect cure and
perfect restoration are possible if +proper+ means are +properly+
applied.
Spermatorrhoea likewise is both caused and complicated by +Prostatic+
and +Urinary+ inflammation. The Sexual Nerves are involved and weakened
in the same manner as in Impotency, while, in addition the hardened
substance of the Prostate Gland keeps the mouths of the Seminal Ducts
open, and the +vital fluid+ runs away into the +urethra+ to be swept out
with the urine, without let or hindrance. Soon this loss tells, not only
upon the brain and nerves and general health, but upon the testicles
where this fluid is made. So much is wasted that these two glands, work
as they may, cannot supply a sufficiency of good, healthy fluid, and
meet the difficulty by making a thin, watery infertile fluid that would
flow away even if the mouths of the ducts were healthy. They do this at
the cost of a terrible strain upon the whole system--they strain and
injure themselves and grow +weak and flabby+ and finally +wasted+--often
rupture small vessels in their substance, thus yielding +bloody or black
seminal fluid+.
The _CAUSES_ of Prostatitis or Prostatorrhoea are many and diverse.
The most prominent are:
_Gonorrhoea or Gleet_, running backward and settling in the gland or
neck of the bladder;
_Stricture_, deep in the canal, causing congestion and inflammation;
_Masturbation_, by keeping the gland excited, congested and irritated,
often causes it;
_Exposure to cold and wet_, especially sitting on a cold door-step or
damp seat;
_Blows and Injuries_ of any kind;
_Strong Injections_, and rough jabbing with steel sounds or rough
bougies;
_Eating Hot Condiments_, or too free indulgence in alcoholic beverages.