Especially for the use of young men who have endangered or injured
their sexual power by abuse in early years, and for older men who have
exhausted themselves by later excesses. +Prof. Civiale+ was wont (very
wisely, we know from actual experience) to prescribe, for a few months
before marriage, a +Special Tonic and Strengthening Marital Course of
Remedies+, having three distinct ends in view, viz.:
(a) The strengthening, toning up and fortifying of the general system,
nerves and brain, against the unusual call soon to be made upon them;
(b) The strengthening, toning up and fortifying of the Sexual Nerves,
Ducts, Ganglia, Vesicles and Testes, against the strain soon to be
applied to them, and by this and the preceding means putting the
individual in the very best and most favorable condition for the
production of strong, healthy, robust and creditable offspring; and
(c) The steady and perfect eradication from the system, by every pore
and viaduct, of all poisonous, contagious, venereal or other material
that might in any way endanger the perfectly normal (healthy and
strong) condition of parent or offspring above spoken of. Through early
abuse, excesses, exposure, neglect, carelessness, imperfect sanitary
conditions, wrong methods of living, immoral practices, etc., the blood
and liver are liable, even though the skin be clear and the cheeks rosy,
to harbor some poisonous humors that might be transmitted to the wife or
offspring--poor innocents, too often made to suffer pitiably for the
vices or thoughtlessness of the father.
Every man about to marry owes this cleansing, purification and
strengthening of the system general and the system sexual, to his wife,
his fellow men and to himself.
_CHAPTER VIII._