Beware of these advertising schemes that advertise a speedy cure for "Loss
of Youth," "Lost Vitality," "A Cure for Impotency," "Renewing of Old Age,"
etc. Do not allow these circulating pamphlets and circulars to concern you
the least. If you have a few _Nocturnal Emissions_, remember it is only a
mark of vitality and health, and not a sign of a deathly disease, as many
of these advertising quacks would lead you to believe.
Use your private organs only for what your Creator intended they should be
used, and there will be no occasion for you to be frightened by the
deception of quacks.
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[Illustration: THE TWO PATHS: WHAT WILL THE BOY BECOME?]
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Lost Manhood Restored.
1. RESOLUTE DESISTENCE.--The first step towards the restoration of lost
manhood is a resolute desistence from these terrible sins. Each time the
temptation is overcome, the power to resist becomes stronger, and the
fierce fire declines. Each time the sin is committed, its hateful power
strengthens, and the fire of lust is increased. Remember, that you cannot
commit these sins, and maintain health and strength.
2. AVOID BEING ALONE.--Avoid being alone when the temptation comes upon you
to commit self-abuse. Change your thoughts at once; "keep the heart
diligently, for out of it are the issues of life."
3. AVOID EVIL COMPANIONS.--Avoid evil companions, lewd conversation, bad
pictures, corrupt and vicious novels, books, and papers. Abstain from all
intoxicating drinks. These inflame the blood, excite the passions, and
stimulate sensuality; weakening the power of the brain, they always impair
the power of self-restraint. Smoking is very undesirable. Keep away from
the moral pesthouses. Remember that these houses are the great resort of
fallen and depraved men and women. The music, singing, and dancing are
simply a blind to cover the intemperance and lust, which hold high carnival
in these guilded hells. This, be it remembered, is equally true of the
great majority of the theatres.
4. AVOID STRONG TEA, OR COFFEE.--Take freely of cocoa, milk, and bread and
milk, or oatmeal porridge. Meats, such as beef and mutton, use moderately.
We would strongly recommend to young men of full habit, vegetarian diet.
Fruits in their season, partake liberally; also fresh vegetables. Brown
bread and toast, as also rice, and similar puddings, are always suitable.
Avoid rich pastry and new bread.
5. THREE MEALS A DAY ARE ABUNDANT.--Avoid suppers, and be careful, if
troubled with nightly emissions, not to take any liquid, not even water,
after seven o'clock in the evening, at latest. This will diminish the
secretions of the body, when asleep, and the consequent emissions, which in
the early hours or the morning usually follow the taking of any kind of
drink. Do not be anxious or troubled by an occasional emission, say, for
example, once a fortnight.
6. REST ON A HARD MATTRESS.--Keep the body cool when asleep; heat arising
from a load of bed-clothes is most {460} undesirable. Turn down the
counterpane, and let the air have free course through the blankets.
7. RELIEVE THE SYSTEM.--As much as possible relieve the system of urine
before going to sleep. On rising, bathe if practicable. If you cannot bear
cold water, take the least possible chill off the water (cold water,
however, is best). If bathing is not practicable, wash the body with cold
water, and keep scrupulously clean. The reaction caused by cold water, is
most desirable. Rub the body dry with a rough towel. Drink a good draught
of cold water.
8. EXERCISE.--Get fifteen minutes' brisk walk, if possible before
breakfast. If any sense of faintness exists, eat a crust of bread, or
biscuit. Be regular in your meals, and do not fear to make a hearty
breakfast. This lays a good foundation for the day. Take daily good, but
not violent exercise. Walk until you can distinctly feel the tendency to
perspiration. This will keep the pores of the skin open and in healthy
condition.
9. MEDICINES.--Take the medicines, if used, regularly and carefully.
Bromide of Potassium is a most valuable remedy in allaying lustful and
heated passions and appetites. Unless there is actual venereal disease,
medicine should be very little resorted to.
10. AVOID THE STREETS AT NIGHT.--Beware of corrupt companions. Fast young
men and women should be shunned everywhere. Cultivate a taste for good
reading and evening studies. Home life with its gentle restraints, pure
friendships, and healthful discipline, should be highly valued. There is no
liberty like that of a well-regulated home. To large numbers of young men
in business houses, home life is impracticable.
11. BE OF GOOD CHEER AND COURAGE.--Recovery will be gradual, and not
sudden; vital force is developed slowly from within. The object aimed at by
medicine and counsel is to aid and increase nervous and physical vigor, and
give tone to the demoralized system. Do not pay the slightest heed to the
exaggerated statements of the wretched quack doctors, who advertise
everywhere. Avoid them as you would a pestilence. Their great object is,
through exciting your fears, to get you into their clutches, in order to
oppress you with heavy and unjust payments. Be careful, not to indulge in
fancies, or morbid thoughts and feelings. Be hopeful, and play the part of
a man determined to overcome.
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Manhood Wrecked and Rescued.
1. THE NOBLEST FUNCTIONS OF MANHOOD.--The noblest functions of manhood are
brought into action in the office of the parent. It is here that man
assumes the prerogative of a God and becomes a creator. How essential that
every function of his physical system should be perfect, and every faculty
of his mind free from that which would degrade; yet how many drag their
purity through the filth of masturbation, revel in the orgies of the
debauchee, and worship at the shrine of the prostitute, until, like a tree
blighted by the livid lightning, they stand with all their outward form of
men, but without life.
2. THRESHOLD OF HONOR.--Think of a man like that; in whom the passions and
vices have burned themselves out, putting on the airs of a saint and
claiming to have reformed! Aye, reformed, when there is no longer sweetness
in the indulgence of lust. Think of such loathsome bestiality, dragging its
slimy body across the threshold of honor and nobility and asking a pure
woman, with the love-light of heaven in her eyes, to pass her days with
him; to accept him as her lord; to be satisfied with the burnt-out,
shriveled forces of manhood left; to sacrifice her purity that he may be
redeemed, and to respect in a husband what she would despise in the brute.
3. STOP.--If you are, then, on the highway to this state of degradation,
stop. If already you have sounded the depths of lost manhood, then turn,
and from the fountain of life regain your power, before you perpetrate the
terrible crime of marriage, thus wrecking a woman's life and perhaps
bringing into the world children who will live only to suffer and curse the
day on which they were born and the father who begat them.
4. SEXUAL IMPOTENCY.--Sexual impotency means sexual starvation, and drives
many wives to ruin, while a similar lack among wives drives husbands to
libertinism. Nothing so enhances the happiness of married couples as this
full, life-abounding, sexual vigor in the husband, thoroughly reciprocated
by the wife, yet completely controlled by both.
5. TWO CLASSES OF SUFFERERS.--There are two classes of sufferers. First,
those who have only practiced self-abuse and are suffering from emissions.
Second, those who by overindulgence in marital relations, or by dissipation
with women, have ruined their forces.
6. THE REMEDY.--For self-abuse: When the young man has practiced self-abuse
for some time, he finds, upon {462} quitting the habit, that he has nightly
emissions. He becomes alarmed, reads every sensational advertisement in the
papers, and at once comes to the conclusion that he must take something.
_Drugs are not necessary._
7. STOP THE CAUSE.--The one thing needful, above all others, is to stop the
cause. I have found that young men are invariably mistaken as to what is
the cause. When asked as to the first cause of their trouble, they
invariably say it was self-abuse, etc., but it is not. _It is the thought._
This precedes the handling, and, like every other cause, must be removed in
order to have right results.
8. STOP THE THOUGHT.--But remember, _stop the thought_! You must not look
after every woman with lustful thoughts, nor go courting girls who will
allow you to hug, caress and kiss them, thus rousing your passions almost
to a climax. Do not keep the company of those whose only conversation is of
a lewd and depraved character, but keep the company of those ladies who
awaken your higher sentiments and nobler impulses, who appeal to the
intellect and rouse your aspiration, in whose presence you would no more
feel your passions aroused than in the presence of your own mother.
9. YOU WILL GET WELL.--Remember you will get well. Don't fear. Fear
destroys strength and therefore increases the trouble. Many get
downhearted, discouraged, despairing--the very worst thing that can happen,
doing as much harm, and in many cases more, than their former dissipation.
Brooding kills; hope enlivens. Then sing with joy that the savior of
knowledge has vanquished the death-dealing ignorance of the past; that the
glorious strength of manhood has awakened and cast from you forever the
grinning skeleton of vice. Be your better self, proud that your thoughts in
the day-time are as pure as you could wish your dreams to be at night.
10. HELPS.--Do not use tobacco or liquor. They inflame the passions and
irritate the nervous system; they only gratify base appetites and never
rouse the higher feelings. Highly spiced food should be eschewed, not
chewed. Meat should be eaten sparingly, and never at the last meal.
11. DON'T EAT TOO MUCH.--If not engaged in hard physical labor, try eating
two meals a day. Never neglect the calls of nature, and if possible have a
passage from the bowels every night before retiring. When this is not done
the feces often drop into the rectum during sleep, producing heat which
extends to the sexual organs, causing the lascivious dreams and emission.
This will be noticed especially in the morning, when the feces usually
distend {463} the rectum and the person nearly always awakes with sexual
passions aroused. If necessary, use injections into the rectum of from one
to two quarts of water, blood heat, two or three times a week. Be sure to
keep clean and see to it that no matter collects under the foreskin. Wash
off the organ every night and take a quick, cold hand-bath every morning.
Have something to do. Never be idle. Idleness always worships at the shrine
of passion.
12. THE WORST TIME OF ALL.--Many are ruined by allowing their thoughts to
run riot in the morning. Owing to the passions being roused as stated
above, the young man lies half awake and half dozing, rousing his passions
and reveling in lascivious thought for hours perhaps, thus completely
sapping the fountains of purity, establishing habits of vice that will bind
him with iron bands, and doing his physical system more injury than if he
had practiced self-abuse, and had the emission in a few minutes. Jump out
of bed at once on waking, and never allow the thought to master you.
13. A HAND BATH.--A hand bath in cold water every morning will diminish
those rampant sexual cravings, that crazy, burning, lustful desire so
sensualizing to men by millions; lessen prostitution by toning down that
passion which alone patronizes it, and relieve wives by the millions of
those excessive conjugal demands which ruin their sexual health; besides
souring their tempers, and then demanding millions of money for resultant
doctor bills.
14. WILL GET WELL.--Feel no more concern about your self. Say to yourself,
"I shall and will get well under this treatment," as you certainly will.
Pluck is half the battle. Mind acts and reads directly on the sexual
organs. Determining to get well gets you well; whilst all fear that you
will become worse makes you worse. All worrying over your case as if it
were hopeless, all moody and despondent feelings, tear the life right out
of these organs whilst hopefulness puts new life into them.
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The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases.
[Illustration: INNOCENT CHILDHOOD.]
1. THE SINS OF THE FATHERS ARE VISITED ON THE CHILDREN.--If persons who
contract secret diseases were the only sufferers, there would be less pity
and less concern manifested by the public and medical profession.
2. There are many secret diseases which leave an hereditary taint, and
innocent children and grandchildren are compelled to suffer as well as
those who committed the immoral act.
3. GONORRHOEA (Clap) is liable to leave the parts sensitive and irritable,
and the miseries of spermatorrhoea, impotence, chronic rheumatism,
stricture and other serious ailments may follow.
4. SYPHILIS (Pox).--Statistics prove that over 30 per cent. of the children
born alive perish within the first year. Outside of this frightful
mortality, how many children are born, inheriting eruptions of the skin,
foul ulcerations, {465} swelling of the bones, weak eyes or blindness,
scrofula, idiocy, stunted growth, and finally insanity, all on account of
the father's early vices. The weaknesses and afflictions of parents are by
natural laws visited upon their children.
5. The mother often takes the disease from her husband, and she becomes an
innocent sufferer to the dreaded disease. However, some other name
generally is applied to the disease, and with perfect confidence in her
husband she suffers pain all her life, ignorant of the true cause. Her
children have diseases of the eyes, skin, glands and bones, and the doctor
will apply the term scrofula, when the result is nothing more or less than
inherited syphilis. Let every man remember, the vengeance to a vital law
knows only justice, not mercy, and a single moment of illicit pleasure will
bring many curses upon him, and drain out the life of his innocent
children, and bring a double burden of disease and sorrow to his wife.
6. If any man who has been once diseased is determined to marry, he should
have his constitution tested thoroughly and see that every seed of the
malady in the system has been destroyed. He should bathe daily in natural
sulphur waters, as, for instance, the hot springs in Arkansas, or the
sulphur springs in Florida, or those springs known as specific remedies for
syphilic diseases. As long as the eruptions on the skin appear by bathing
in sulphur water there is danger, and if the eruptions cease and do not
appear, it is very fair evidence that the disease has left the system, yet
it is not an infallible test.
7. How many bright and intelligent young men have met their doom and
blighted the innocent lives of others, all on account of the secret follies
and vices of men.
8. PROTECTION.--Girls, you, who are too poor and too honest to disguise
aught in your character, with your sweet soul shining through every act of
your lives, beware of the men who smile upon you. Study human nature, and
try and select a virtuous companion.
_Transcriber's note: there is no 9. in the original._
10. SYPHILITIC POISON INERADICABLE.--Many of our best and ablest physicians
assert that syphilitic poison, once infected, there can be no total
disinfection during life; some of the virus remains in the system, though
it may seem latent. Boards of State Charities in discussing the causes of
the existence of whole classes of defectives hold to the opinion given
above. The Massachusetts board in its report has these strong words on the
subject:
"The worst is that, though years may have passed since its active stage, it
permeates the very seed of life and {466} causes strange affections or
abnormalities in the offspring, or it tends to lessen their vital force, to
disturb or to repress their growth, to lower their standard of mental and
bodily vigor, and to render life puny and short.
11. A SERPENT'S TOOTH.--"_The direct blood-poisoning, caused by the
absorption into the system of the virus (syphilis) is more hideous and
terrible in its effect than that of a serpent's tooth._ This may kill
outright, and there's an end; but that, stingless and painless, slowly and
surely permeates and vitiates the whole system of which it becomes part and
parcel, like myriads of trichinae, and can never be utterly cast out, even
by salivation.
"Woe to the family and to the people in whose veins the poison courses!
"It would seem that nothing could end the curse except utter extermination.
That, however, would imply a purpose of eternal vengeance, involving the
innocent with the guilty."
This disease compared with small-pox is as an ulcer upon a finger to an
ulcer in the vitals. Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this
disease does. Its existence in a primary form implies moral turpitude.
12. CASES CITED.--Many cases might be cited. We give but one. A man who had
contracted the disease reformed his ways and was apparently cured. He
married, and although living a moral life was compelled to witness in his
little girl's eye-balls, her gums, and her breath the result of his past
sins. No suffering, no expense, no effort would have been too great could
he but be assured that his offspring might be freed from these results.
13. PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.--Here is a case where the old adage, "An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," may be aptly applied. Our
desire would be to herald to all young men in stentorian tones the advice,
"Avoid as a deadly enemy any approaches or probable pitfalls of the
disease. Let prevention be your motto and then you need not look for a
cure."
14. HELP PROFFERED.--Realizing the sad fact that many are afflicted with
this disease we would put forth our utmost powers to help even these, and
hence give on the following pages some of the best methods of cure.
HOW TO CURE GONORRHOEA (Clap).