These two diseases are probably less understood than almost any other
equally common. It is safe to say that at least one man out of every
ten has, has had, or will have one or both. Neglected gleet often causes
stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and
keeps up a gleet.
Another set of statements, equally sweeping and based upon the best of
medical evidence, may be made, _i.e._, more cases of gleet and stricture
are caused by Self-Abuse (masturbation, Onanism), and sexual excesses
than by gonorrhoea--formerly and ignorantly supposed to be about the
only cause.
Furthermore, the main cause of both Spermatorrhoea and Impotence is
Stricture (whether caused by self-abuse, gonorrhoea [clap], or any other
excess). It was this very important point that +Lallemand+ guessed at,
and that +Civiale+ definitely ascertained to be a fact--proved it by
examinations of both living and dead subjects, and demonstrated it
before the eyes of every member of the French Academy of Medicine,
the most learned body of medical men in the world. Upon this discovery
is based the now world-famed +Urethral Crayon Treatment+. It
cures--absolutely, thoroughly and +Permanently+ cures--because it is
based on truth; because the proper remedies are placed upon the very
seat and fountain-head of the disease; where quickly and thoroughly it
stamps out the fire (inflammation, from the Latin _in_, and _flamma_, to
burn, to be a-fire) and eradicates the cause, at the same time healing
the abrasions, releasing and invigorating the nerves, cleansing and
unclogging the ducts, strengthening the erectile muscles--in a word
restoring the whole Sexual Apparatus to its natural tone and strength;
not harshly or violently, but gently, kindly, soothingly. Indeed it is a
heavy debt of gratitude the sufferers from Sexual Disease and Weakness
owe to +Professor Jean Civiale+--greatest of all French savants!!
Were any further proofs necessary, the following facts, the results
of recent experimental investigations by such men as ACTON,{1} BLACK,{2}
GROSS,{3} HAMMOND,{4} BARTHOLOW,{5} DUPUYTREN,{6} ECKHARD,{7} LOVEN,{8}
GALTZ,{9} OLLIVIER,{10} TROUSSEAU,{11} ERB,{12} OTIS,{13} WADE,{14}
SIR EVERARD HOME,{15} LIEGEOIS,{16} TERRILLON,{17} FLEISCHMANN,{18}
BEARD,{19} GRUNFELD,{20} GUYON,{21} ROSENTHAL,{22} LANDON CARTER
GRAY,{23} and many others, could be cited in its favor.
{Footnote 1: Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1876.}
{Footnote 2: Renal, Urinary and Reproductive 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. Méd. 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 Génerales de Thérapie, 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, proved more
than usually refractory from the extreme morbid sensitiveness of the
whole urethral canal."
Gross goes on to say, that in at least eight out of every ten cases of
+Spermatorrhoea+ or +Impotence+, stricture of the urethra is the cause
of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhoea, gleet, etc.,
or to +masturbation or excesses+.
{Footnote 24 _Op cit., page 25._}
{Footnote 25: _Op cit._}