PS - - > A; w v-o >: V v ^WT-^i A »|pfP»i»ili MUi # LIBRARY OF CONGRESS..! 4 ha P fcnfiW W« i it JMe^Mm-.: I # #. Sf UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. J MM <rld under such circumstances ! Well may those guilty of this great crime tremble in view of judgment with God, who cannot, and will not, suffer it to go unpunished ! Will not such children rise up in judgment against their parents ? There can be no doubt but that a large propor- 1 6 THE SEXUAL PASSION. tion of the vices and crimes of men and women are the legitimate fruit and consequence of the abuse of the sexual passion in married life. This is the principal cause — although unnoticed by those trying to suppress vice — of licentious men and women, who, when sunken to a certain degree in licentiousness, are prepared to commit any and all crimes, — murder not excepted. Such children, when they become men and women, become the wolves and tigers of mankind, whom we may chain up and cast into prison, but whom no law nor preaching can reform. What then is the use to preach against vice and crimes, and pray God to help us suppress them, so long as there are so many houses in the land that are sending out into the world such children to prey upon society ! To me, such prayers without works seem an insult to God, if not blasphemous. It don't matter that the abuse of the sexual pas- sion is through ignorance; the effect is the same as if those abusing it knew its evil consequence, for such ignorance is no excuse with God ; since all might, and should, know these tilings. The above facts make the bringing children into the world a fearful responsibility ; for God will hold us responsible for their characters, and the consequence of them, since these are decided in their mother's womb, by what the mental, moral, and physical condition of their parents are when the child is begotten. THE SEXUAL PASSION, 1 7 Knowing the evil consequence of sexual abuse in married life, when I learn of the fall of a young man or woman from the heaven of virtue to the hell of licentiousness, before I denounce them, I ask, Who is the greater sinner, they or their parents ■? Who is the most responsible to God, they who only act according to their nature, or their parents who transmitted to, and stamped upon, them their own natures, appetites, and passions ? I have no doubt but that the abuse of the sexual passion is the principal cause of heart dis- eases, which are fearfully on the increase, and the increase of these diseases is in proportion to the increase of licentiousness. Another great evil of sexual abuse and promis- cuous sexual indulgence, is the contraction of the most loathsome diseases which flesh is heir to, of which I speak in another place in this pamphlet. Suffice it to say here, that these horrible diseases which eat up men and women before they die, are transmitted to children, whom they destroy sooner or later. I have known many beautiful and most promising young men and women, from eighteen to tw T enty, to be destroyed with these diseases, which they in- herited from their father. Can there be a greater crime than this against God and children ? And can such a crime go unpunished by God, although there are no laws of the land to punish it ? • 2 I 8 THE SEXUAL PASSION, Nothing is clearer than that the abuse of the sexual passion must be stopped, or it will destroy all that is beautiful and lovely in men and women, and all that is desirable in life, — our homes, society, church, and state, and eventually depopu- late the earth. Believing that the principal cause of the abuse of this noble passion is the universal ignorance of the people in regard to its nature, and the evil consequences of its abuse, and wishing to do what I can to suppress its abuse, and to stay the dark tidal-wave of its evils, which is sweeping over our land and the world, destroying many of the fairest women and most intelligent men in society, I send forth this pamphlet, hoping and be- lieving that it will be the means of snatching, as brands from the burning, many of the victims of sexual abuse, and save thousands from its evil consequences. I am satisfied that the true way to stop the abuse of sexual love, is, not by trying to undo God's work by changing man's nature, which we cannot do, but by teaching the people its nature and the evil consequence of its abuse, man's duty to himself, his fellow-man, and to his God ; the fulfilment of which alone can secure the end and aim of life-happiness. When we teach men how to gratify and control their passions, and the evil consequence of their THE SEXUAL PASSION. 1 9 abuse, they will listen to us, and profit by our in- struction, while they will not listen to our denunci- ation of sexual love, and its gratification ; for this passion has more influence over men and women for good or evil, than any other passion, or any appetite. Knowledge and goodness are the only protection against vice and crime, and yet, these are not al- ways a protection. It seems to me that if we spent more time in the study of man, as a physical, intellectual, and re- ligious being, his nature and mission in life, and God's plan of creation, we should be wiser, bet- ter, and happier than now, and should find less cause for fault-finding that God made the world and man as he has. We should then understand that God made the passions to be indulged and enjoyed in accordance with the laws of man's being, which he made, when they produce no sin nor evil ; and we should also learn, that man's passion must and will be gratified in spite of laws and preachings, in ac- cordance with, or in violation of, the laws of God and man, according to a man's education, and the circumstances and influences with which he is sur- rounded. It is necessary that the sexual passion, as well as all others, should be under the control of our reason and religious faculties, when they can do no harm. 20 MA STURBA TION, MASTURBATION, OR SELF- ABUSE. The greatest sin and crime, not only in degree, but in extent, of which fallen man is guilty, and the most destructive to health and life, to morals and manhood, is Masturbation, or self-abuse, which is very generally practised by boys and young men, and by some older men ! And, what is even more alarming is, this horri- ble vice is fearfully on the increase ! For the reason that it can be practised in secret, it is practised far more than common whoredom ; and its effects are far more terrible ! What is most startling in regard to this vice, is, that it is practised as much, if not more, by young men of our best families, who move in the best society, as by the lower class ! We should have less cause for fear and anxiety, if this vice was confined to the lower class of boys and young men. But facts leave us no such consolation, since there are but few religious homes of refinement that have not these skeletons in it. It is not only practised by moral and religious young men, through ignorance of its being a great sin, and of its awful effect on mind, morals, and body ; but, OR SELF-ABUSE. 21 even by some young men preparing for the Chris- tian ministry ! This vice is the plague and curse of civilization, which not only destroys society and business, but it threatens to depopulate the earth. It is one of the principal causes of insanity and suicides. Talent and learning, and position in society, church, and state, seem no protection of young men against it. It is a vice, which our moral and religious pre- scriptions and preaching do not reach, and can- not, until it is denounced from the pulpit and religious press, and in society and our homes, as it should be. The people have no idea of the extent of this vice, nor those who practise it, of its destruction of morals, mind, and body ! And yet, as strange as it may seem, it is never- theless true, that notwithstanding it is the sin of sins, and vice of vices, and so destructive to vir- tue and manhood, to morals and religion, homes and society, still, no warning against it comes from the pulpit or church ! Yea, more ; these not only countenance it by their silence, but they are opposed to, and de- nounce lectures and the circulation of pamphlets on it, which can only be accounted for on the ground of their ignorance of the extent of its prac- tice, and its awful consequences. What excuse can the church and pulpit give to God, and the 22 MA STURBA TION, people, for doing nothing themselves, and for op- posing the efforts of others, to suppress this mon- ster vice, which destroys tens of thousands of young men annually ! Is it not strange, that while we spend so much time, talent, and money in trying to suppress all other vices and crimes, that so little is said against, and so little effort is made to suppress this vice of vices, and crime of crimes ! Society, our homes, morals, and religion, and mankind generally, are, to-day, suffering more from this vice than from any other ; and yet, but little effort is made to suppress it, save by a few individuals in the medical profession, who have witnessed its sad havoc among young men; and they are denounced by those who are the most anxious to make the world and mankind better. Occasionally, however, we find a clergyman who realizes the evil and danger from this vice, and who boldly comes to the rescue, and, in no uncertain words, earnestly denounces the vice, and warns mankind against it. Such a clergyman was the Rev. Dr. Adam Clark, the great commentator, who spoke thus of this vice : "The sin of self-pollution is one of the most des- tructive evils practised by fallen man. In many respects it is several degrees worse than common whoredom, and has in its train more awful con- sequences. __ It excites the powers of nature__to OR SELF-ABUSE. 2$ undue- action, and produces violent secretions, which necessarily and speedily exhausts the vital principle and energy; hence, the muscles become flaccid and feeble, the tone and natural action of the nerves relaxed and impeded, the understanding confused, the memory oblivious, the judgment perverted, the will undetermined and wholly without energy to resist ; the eyes appear languishing and without expression, and the countenance vacant ; appetite ceases, for the stomach is incapable of performing its proper office ; nutrition fails ; tremens and fears and terrors are generated; and thus the wretched victim drags out a miserable existence, till super- annuated, even before he arrives at man's estate, with a mind often debilitated even to a state of idiotism, his worthless body tumbles into the grave, and his guilty soul (guilty of self-murder) is hurried into the awful presence of its Judge." And yet, as well as the doctor has described and denounced this vice, he has not told one half, nor its worst evils. Its march up and down the earth is marked with ghostly visages, emaciated, dwarfed forms, sunken and glazed eyes, and the idiotic stare and suicides, and the graves of its fallen victims, w r hose monu- ments are composed of the blasted hopes of broken- hearted parents and friends ! Through ignorance, and without any warning, tens of thousands of boys and young men an- 24 MAS TURBA TIOW, nually start on this road to ruin, many of whom will die by their own hands, and the rest die pre- maturely, and horrible deaths ! Who can gaze unmoved on this despairing, motley throng, whose hearts are beating funereal marches to the grave! The following case, given ( by the celebrated French physician, Tissof, is only a fair sample of the effects of this vice on its victims : — "Mr. C , by profession a watchmaker, had been brought up morally, and until the age of six- teen had enjoyed a state of perfect health; about this time the evil example of a youthful compan- ion initiated him into the habit of self-abuse, which he repeated daily, even to the extent of two or three times, and until the seminal emission was followed by a slight insensibility, and a complete prostration of the mental and bodily strength ; this warning was insufficient to rescue him from his disgusting practice, and the repetition of it be- came more frequent, till he was in a state which gave reason to apprehend a fatal termination. Too late a penitent, he had become incurable, and the generative organs were so weakened that the slight- est irritation caused a partial erection, with an im- mediate emission of seed, which, of course, in- creased his weakness ; becoming incapacitated, he was obliged to relinquish his business. Thus over- whelmed with misery and disgrace, he pined for OR SELF-ABUSE. 2$ some months without assistance, with the agonizing reflection that he was himself the cause of his awful situation. "I was called to attend him, and found him past recovery ; he was meagre, pale, and almost incapa- ble of moving ; a palish watery matter issued from his nose, and a continual frothing from his mouth. He was affected with diarrhoea, and voided his ex- crement in bed, without being conscious of it ; he had a continual discharge of semen • his eyes were fixed and watery, and his pulse low, rapid, and at times almost imperceptible. It was with much difficulty that he breathed, and he was reduced nearly to a skeleton, "His mind was equally disorderd, his memory was lost, incapable of forming or connecting his ideas, in short, without reflection or any sensation but pain ; he was reduced far below the brute crea- tion, and presented a spectacle hardly possible to describe ; he gradually sunk, and for a few days prior to his dissolution, which took place in the middle of August, he lay in a state of unconscious- ness, and was utterly incapable of taking the least nourishment." There are thousands of boys and young men connected with some of the best families in the land, who are to-day its victims, although the cause of their poor health, pale faces, and strange actions, is never suspected by their doting parents. 26 MA STURBA TION, Our schools and colleges are hot-beds of this mind, body, and soul destroying sin. I have known many of the most promising young men in our col- leges, who were the pride and hope of widowed mothers, that defrayed their college expenses with the toil of their hands by the midnight lamp, to fall victims to this cursed sin, and in a few years fill suicides' graves. Sir Astley Cooper justly remarks in regard to these victims, in one of his lectures, that : " If one of those miserable cases could be depictured from the pulpit as an illustration of the bad effects of a vicious and intemperate course of life, it would, I think, strike the mind with more terror than all the preaching in the world. The irritable state of the patient leads to the destruction of life, and in this way, annually, great numbers perish. " Undoubtedly the list is considerably augmented from maltreatment, and the employment of injudi- cious remedies. " And the late Dr. Pereird, one of the most learned physicians of the age,, in reviewing ner- vous exhaustion* says : u There is a vast deal of injury done, not merely to public morals, but to the individual health, by the abuses and excesses of the reproductive functions ; the primitive fathers and physicians have duly noticed the evils to which I allude, and every experienced medical practitioner can attest their frequent occurrence. OR SELF-ABUSE. 2J It is all very well for sentimentalist and the mock- modest to declaim against the notice of them ; but justice, morality, and the preservation of health, as well as the perpetuation of the human race, demand it. Such, however, is the hypocrisy of the day, that even a notice in a dead language is con- demned by the ignorant and intolerant, who are unable to appreciate the importance of the sub- ject." This is a bold step in the right direction. A knowledge of this vice, its vast extent, and fearful consequences, have induced me to lecture and write for years against it, and to send out this pamphlet, hoping thereby to save a few of the vast multitude of young men, who are annually lost in this great maelstrom of destruction. As I listen to theii sighs and fearful groans, and idiotic ravings, my heart goes out to God in prayer for power to save them ! And it is a great satisfaction to know, as I do, that I have been the means of saving many from insanity, suicide, and death. This knowledge is a source of perpetual joy to me, and affords me hap- piness which money can neither give nor take away ; for I love to do good, as well as to get good. The mental sufferings of the man with delirium tremens, with snakes in his boots, and pursued by devils, is awful ! But this suffering is nothing to those of the vic- tims of this terrible sin ! They are not only pur- 2 8 MA STURBA TION, sued by venomous reptiles, but by fiends and fiery scorpions of hell, who not only get into their boots, but into their brains and souls ! This vice, sooner or later, diseases the whole sys- tem, causing indigestion and nervous diseases, and diseases of the liver, lungs, and bowels, constipa- tion, spinal diseases, impurities of the blood, erup- tions on the face, and other diseases ; weak and painful eyes, dark specks before them ; and is one of the principal causes of diseases of the heart, with which so many die daily ; and of the brain with nervous headaches, loss of memory, dread of society, and love of solitude ; epilepsy, paralysis, debility, despondency, inertia, insanity, idiotism, and suicide. Often there is a weight and distress in the stomach, congestion in the head, causing a bad feeling in it, and drowsiness, inability to think, irregular pulse, and wind, or gas in the stomach and bowels, constipation, and diarrhoea; yet, the individual having these symptoms never thinks the cause of these troubles is the effect of self- abuse. Its victims lose flesh, although they eat heartily, both because their stomach is unable to digest what they eat, and because of the loss of semen, which is the life of the blood. They become sen- sitive to the cold, their complexion becomes sal- low, with blue circles under the eyes, and their OR SELF-ABUSE. 2() voice- becomes almost like a woman's, and all man- liness is lost. Sooner or later involuntary loss of semen com- mences, which increases as the disease advances ; the skin becomes a pale yellow, the eyes retreat into the sockets and become dull ; the muscles become flabby ; the energy fails, and they become weary from the least exertion. At times there is a weakening of the legs, which is a symptom of approaching paralysis, and the gait becomes heavy and dragging. No one per- son has all of these symptoms, but only some of them, since all are not affected alike by this vice. Some even retain their good appearance, and red cheeks, for a long time, owing to a strong consti- tution ; but sooner or later, they must succumb to the diseases self-abuse produces, which are work- ing unseen upon the vital organs, when they will begin to feel weak by spells, have fears, and spells of despondency, which may result in insanity and suicide. They frequently experience chills and hot flashes, and more or less suffocating feelings at times ; and palpitation of the heart on exercising quickly, such as running, or going quickly up- stairs, showing that the heart has become affected ; while their sleep is disturbed by fearful dreams, and severe beating of the heart by spells, which are increased during the day by violent exercise, and any excitement. 3 O MA STURBA TION. There is generally more or less confusion of the mind, and a sense of heaviness in the head, and sometimes a buzzing in the ears. Young men afflicted with spermatorrhoea, or in- voluntary loss of semen, generally, but not always, become languid, effeminate, pusillanimous, and the power of volition is very much weakened, and they are easily excited ; and there is a lack of firmness ; and although they have the best of in- tentions, they are unable to carry them out, while in the advanced stage of the vice the power of volition, or will, fails, and is entirely destroyed. At this stage of their trouble, they avoid the society of women, whom they cannot look in the face, and they prefer solitude, where despondency and melancholy consume them. They are constantly thinking of themselves, and their disease and shame, and watch their urine and stools, and every symptom they have. Their memory becomes impaired, and persons with high intellectual powers lose the vivacity of their imagination, and their acute and discriminat- ing power, and their reasoning faculties become weak. As I have said, sooner or later self-abuse results in seminal weakness, and involuntary loss of semen, which is the essence of the blood, one ounce of which is equal to forty ounces of blood. Such a draft on the body soon incapacitates men OR SELF-ABUSE. 3 I for business and pleasure, destroys the morals, conscience, and mind, and wastes away their lives. In the advanced stage of the diseased condition of their bodies, the semen is lost at stool, and with the urine, which may continue for years before noticed. Frequently the result of this vice is im- potency and sterility. Sometimes the impotency takes place in youth and early manhood, but often not until middle age. It is very common for it to result in such weakenings of the generative organs, even when impotency is not complete, that the semen is discharged in the attempt of the sexual embrace, or so soon as it is commenced, which ends the embrace, to the great dissatisfaction and disgust of both parties, but especially of the wife, who keenly feels the deception of such a victim of self-abuse passing himself upon her as a man ! In other cases, the erections are so weak and of so short duration as to prevent the embrace. Of course, this condition of a man unfits him for the pleasures and enjoyments of domestic life, and from being a husband and father ; which makes him feel that he is no man. and therefore is un- worthy of, and cannot command the love, or even respect of women, and of a wife. Instead of a wife loving such an apology for a man and hus- band, who has thus deceived her into marriage, she is repulsed* by him, and loathes and despises 32 MASTURBATION, him • not so much because he cannot satisfy her passion, as because he is no man. Such a condition of a man is considered by the laws of all the States as a good and sufficient cause for a divorce; since no justice of God or man, requires, much less compels, an innocent woman to live with such a man, and sjiare his degradation arid shame, when he has sunk himself below the brute creation ! What a great sin and wrong it would be, to com- pel a noble woman to sacrifice all the pleasures of matrimony and joys of home, and of a mother, and to waste her precious life with, and share the mis- ery of such a man! There is no mocking more deep, and no dis- appointment more keen, and no cup more bitter, . than is felt by an affectionate, true wife, and noble woman, for a man and husband, the mere wreck of sensualism, and the horrible skeleton of a victim of self- abuse ! And yet, when those land pirates who, calling themselves doctors, and by advertising to cure all such weaknesses, and other private diseases ', live by robbing the poor, God-forsaken victims of this vice, have got all the money they can from them, they advise them to marry, and assure them, that by freely indulging their sexual passion with a wife, the involuntary loss of semen will stop : just as though loss in that way was not injurious. OR SELF-ABUSE. 33 That marrying is not a remedy for involuntary emissions, is evident from the fact that many married men have them. Marrying is the worst thing victims of this vice can do; since it greatly increases and intensifies their own misery, by exposing their sin and shame to a wife, whereby she is made to share their mis- ery. None but those entirely destitute of all honor and moral principle, could be guilty of advising those thus suffering the torments of hell, to do such an unjust and wicked thing ! Let every young man beware of such fiends in human forms, and shun them as they would a venomous serpent; for their advice and treatment is worse than nothing. Such young men marry ! They better commit suicide, which would be a less crime in the sight of God ! What must be the feelings of a young wife on learning that her husband, whom she be- lieved to be a pure, virtuous, noble young man, w r orthy of her love and life, is the victim of the lowest vice, with a diseased body, wrecked mind and morals, and on the verge of insanity and the grave ! Can a wife thus deceived, love, or even respect such a creature ? She is compelled, by her nature, to despise and loathe him, as she does a slimy serpent, and would as soon submit to the embrace of one as the other. Then young men, never^ as you hope for the par- 3 34 MASTURBATION, don of God, be induced to marry, and involve in your misery an innocent girl, while you are suffer- ing from the effects of this vice ! Be cured and then marry. Impotency, which is usually the result of self- abuse in youth, or the excessive sexual indulgence with women, is the greatest misfortune that can happen to a man, especially to a married man. There are but few women who are sufficiently endowed with honor and moral principle to resist year after year this strong temptation to infidelity to their marriage relation. It not only prevents sexual enjoyment, which, in marriage, is not only a pleasure, but a duty, binding together more strong- ly husband and wife, by increasing their love for each other, but it excites the jealousy of husbands, and makes a man feel more meanly than if guilty of whoredom. A husband thus diseased, feels he cannot com- mand the love nor respect of his wife, who can never be satisfied, but must be disgusted with such an apology for a man and husband. A wife could easier forgive almost any imperfection of a hus- band's character than this condition of him. Noth- ing else is more disgusting to a wife, and more excites her hatred, than to have her passions ex- cited without being satisfied. Therefore, nothing else is so strong a temptation for her to seek other men's society, and is so trying to her virtue, as to have her husband thus afflicted. OR SELF-ABUSE. 35 The temptation is not so much from sexual desire, as because she feels her husband, in this condition, is not a man she can look up to, respect, and love. The strongest love of a wife for her husband will wane under such circumstances. And a weakness in the generative organs of a man, which is usually the result of youthful sexual abuse, that causes an emission of semen from sexual excitement, before the commencement or comple- tion of the sexual embrace, is equally dissatisfac- tory and disgusting to a wife. Such a diseased condition of a husband is deemed by some of the wisest and best men, a sufficient cause for a divorce, which opinion is ex- pressed in the laws and courts of trie land ; for it is very unjust to compel a woman to live with a man she can neither love nor respect. Impotency, therefore, is the last crowning scourge of sexual abuse, which requires the best skill, and most experience of the medical profession to remove, while the treatment should be commenced when its first symptoms appear, such as deficient sexual desire and enjoyment, and imperfect erections, which are of a short duration, and a premature ejection of semen, and a cold sensation in the penis. There should be no delay in the treatment, since every month's delay diminishes the chances of a cure ; and what is worse, endangers a wife's virtue 3^ MASTURBA TION, and honor, and makes more certain the loss of her respect and love. In fact, many husbands and wives are estranged from these troubles, and finally separate, who under natural circumstances would be true and affection- ate to each other. Therefore no man who prizes his wife's virtue and love, and his own happiness, should delay treatment for such diseases, nor leave any means untried, no matter at what cost, to be cured and restored to manhood, since pleasure, character, love, and fidelity depend on an imme- diate cure. And yet, a false pride and sense of shame pre- vent many men, with these symptoms, and with impotency, from consulting a physician until it is too late for a cure. Away with such a pride, and dare do your duty. The loss of health and destruction of the body by this vice, is sad ; but the loss of manhood, mind, morals, virtue, and character, is much sad- der ! This vice is not only more destructive to health and life, but it is more degrading, and sinks men lower in depravity, than common whoredom. Nothing else so completely wrecks the whole man, and destroys every holy love and noble aspiration of the soul, as this evil. But one of the most lamentable and saddest effects of this horrible vice is, it incapacitates its victims for matrimony, the end and aim of every OR SELF-ABUSE. 37 true man and woman \ and for the pure love of a wife, and an appreciation of her, and of the God- appointed mission of woman in life, on whom its pleasures and happiness more depend than on anything else ! No greater misfortune can happen to a man, than such a loss of his manhood, that he has no desire for, nor enjoyment of, the society of woman ! As I have elsewhere said, the loss of semen soon diseases and destroys mind and body. A celebrated Roman physician says of it: " If noctur- nal emissions continue any length of time, the neces- sary consequences are co?isumption and death, for the most balsamic part of the humor and animal spirits is dissipated ; the whole body falls away, and particularly the back; the patients become feeble, dry, and pale ; they languish in slow, mel- ancholy agony." The remedy for this vice is to teach boys and young men it is a great sin and crime, and its aw- ful effect on body and mind. We should do all we can to save those who are so unfortunate as to be addicted to its practice, and do more to save the boys and youth of the present and future generations from the practice, which can only be done by lectures and the distribution of pamphlets on the subject; and hence it is the duty of every person, especially of parents, Chris- tians, and our religious teachers, to do all they can 38 MAS TURBA TIOM, to secure lectures, and distribute pamphlets on this horrible vice. In this way more can be done for morals and religion, than by all the preaching in the land, — unless the clergy preach against this sin of sins, and vice of vices. It is noble and God-like to raise the fallen ; but, it is more noble and more God-like to keep men and women from falling. Preventives are better and much cheaper than cures. The whitest paper is that which was never soiled ; so the best man is one who was never a bad man. The first step necessary to save the victims of this vice, is to stop self-abuse. Therefore, young man and boy, if you are the victim of this vile practice, repent, and be determined that, by the assistance of God, you will stop it, and never practise it again. And pledge yourself to God that you will do all in your power to redeem your- self, and to restore the wrong and injury you have done to your body, mind, and soul ! It is not enough to restore your health, that you stop the practice • but you must have the assist- ance of the best medical treatment. Don't think if you stop the practice you will be restored to health without medical assistance, and thus delay treatment until it is too late to save you, for that is a fatal delusion. On this idea the celebrated Dr. Lallemand says : OR SELF-ABUSE. 39 "Many diseases, when left to themselves, work their own cure, providing only they be not exas- perated by the imprudence of the patient. But this is not the case with spermatorrhoea ; chiefly, perhaps, because the effects produced by the dis- ease itself are favorable to the increase of invol- untary discharges. The natural tendency of this disease to become aggravated, as the result of its own effects, frequently leads to a fatal termination. Such patients generally die in an attack of syn- cope — a disease of the heart — that follows con- gestion of the brain." "In this way such of the insane as have fallen into a state of dementia usually expire. Many die from diseases (as consumption, etc.) aggravated and inflamed by unsuspected spermatorrhoea ; the symptoms are treated by the physician, but the great cause, spermatorrhoea, remains unsuspected and untouched." The second step necessary for a cure of this disease, is to consult a physician experienced in the treatment of these diseases, whom you know is an educated, physician, by his treating all kinds of diseases, and by his reputation. But it is no use to consult a general practitioner or family physician — as they are called — who has had no experience in treating these diseases. Consulting a physician is what but few young men addicted to self-abuse are willing to do, until 40 MA STURBA TION, they are on the verge of the grave or insanity, on account of ihe/ears the disease engenders, and the shame they feel. They think they will consult a physician, whose services Obey feel they need ; but it is hard work to get up courage to do so. They often start to consult a physician, and per- haps get to the door of his office, when their cour- age fails them and they go away ; especially if they hear some one talking with the doctor. But young men, since your health, mind', happi- ness, and life, depend on your successful medical treatment, and the commencement of it before it is too late to save you, you must not turn frackwhen on your way to consult a physician ; nor delay in consulting one. But don't consult, and throw away your money, time, and lives, on any of the thousand and one quack physicians, who advertise to treat only pri- vate diseases ; for they are no physicians, nor even educated men. Most of them are lazy, unprin- cipled men, from the lower walks of life, who live and grow rich by robbing the victims of sexual abuse and other private diseases. Such men are after your money, and when they have got all they can of you, they leave you to die, and tell you all men have involuntary emissions of semen occasionally, as it is natural for them to ; since, if they did not, there would be too much ac- OR SELF-ABUSE. 4 1 cumulation of semen in the testicles, causing much enlargement of them. Such a statement is not only false, but it is positive evidence that the man who makes it is an ignoramus, a knave, or a fool. No healthy man ever had an involuntary emission of semen. And it is impossible for there to be a large secretion of semen in the testicles at any one time, since there is no secretion of semen ex- cept under sexual excitement, and then it is usually ejected in a natural, or unnatural way. Fathers, what have you done to save your sons from the horrible vice of self-abuse and its awful consequences, which may be the result of your bringing them into the world with unnaturally strong sexual passions, as the consequence of the abuse of your sexual passion before they were born? Have you talked with them in regard to this vice? told them of its awful consequence, and warned them against it? If you have neglected so important a duty, and hence suffered your son to commence this vile practice through ignorance, and to go blindfolded to ruin and death, will not God require his blood at your hands ? And how will you answer the call of God for your ruined or dead son ? And how quiet the lashings of a guilty conscience ! When a young man thus falls, I ask, Who is the greatest sinner, he or his parents ? It is more than probable that, in consequence of your abuse of your sexual passion, and neglect 42 MA S TURBA TION", of duty, your own dear son, the idol of your heart, and the hope of your declining years, is to-day the victim of self-abuse, and well on the way to ruin and death ! Let not another day pass before you know if your son is addicted to this practice, and if he is, remember it is your duty to put him under the best medical treatment immediately, and to do all in your power to save him, and restore his health and constitution, and thus atone, in some measure, for the great wrong you have done him, in transmitting to him a sexual disease ! And, young man, if through ignorance you are the victim of self-abuse and spermatorrhoea, which is the most unpardonable sin and vice ever com- mitted by fallen man, that makes you despise yourself, and despised by all mankind, who know your guilt, repent in sack-cloth and ashes, stop it, and do all in your power to restore your health and manhood ! This is your first duty, which you owe to your- self, to your friends, to society, and especially to the father who begot you, and the mother who bore you, and to your God ! Think what would be the feelings and heartaches of your dear mother if she knew of your vice and crime ! It would break her heart to know that her ei dear boy " was guilty of such a vice, and send her with sorrow to the grave ! Consult, immediately, the most experienced physi- OR SELF-ABUSE. 43 cian in the treatment of this disease, since the delay of a month may render your case incurable ; and thus do all you can to restore the injury you have done yourself. It is as necessary to a cure of spermatorrhoea, that the diseases it has caused, such as diseases of the brain and nerves, of the heart, liver and stom- ach, and constipation, be treated and cured, as the spermatorrhoea which caused them. Each of these diseases must be treated with skill and appropriate remedies, in order to cure them. And without these are cured, spermatorrhoea cannot be cured. Therefore, such patients should consult a physician who treats all diseases^ and who is experienced in the treatment of chronic diseases — since these diseases are chronic — instead of throwing away their time and money on quacks, who know nothing of the human system, nor of diseases and medicine. Forr years, I have done all I could, by lectures and writing, to save young men from this horrible vice, and its awful consequences ; and hence, when I receive letters from young men, or they tell me in my office, saying, "Doctor, you have saved me from self-abuse, ruin, and suicide, and therefore I owe you a debt of gratitude I can never pay ; but God will reward you ;" I feel I have not labored in vain, and I am encouraged to persevere in the great object of my life, to relieve 44 MA S TURBA TION+ human suffering, and make mankind wiser, better and happier for my having lived ! This thought will ever be an oasis on the jour- ney of my life, to which I shall joyfully turn in the dark hours of adversity, and when the praise of men shall be desired and prized no more. The monument I would have to save my name from oblivion, and to keep green my memory, is the eternal gratitude oi my fellow-men, whose suffer- ings I have relieved, and whose tears I have dried ! Such a monument will endure and grow brighter and brighter, when monuments of brass and mar- ble shall have crumbled into dust ! I am not only willing to labor for the good of mankind while I live, and desirous to leave the world better than I found it, which should be the object of every one, but I am desirous to help on the noble work of humanity when the green grass of the valley shall wave above my grave. Therefore, I leave to mankind this and other pamphlets and books, that being dead I may yet speak to men, and warn them against all sin, vice, and crimes, and persuade them to live virtuous, noble lives ! My greatest ambition is to so live, that the most appropriate inscription on my tombstone shall be : He lived to do good. All consultations and correspondence, strictly confidential, and free. SEXUAL DISEASES, 45 SEXUAL DISEASES. Some of the worst evils of the abuse of the sex- ual passion, and of promiscuous indulgence, are gonorrhoea and syphilis, diseases that are more de- structive to the constitution and health, and the cause of more evil and suffering, than any other diseases to which flesh is heir, since they are con- tagious, and are transmitted from parents to chil- dren, whose health and life they destroy. And what is most startling is, these diseases are fearfully on the increase, as is licentiousness, with which they keep pace. It may seem strange and incredible, that these diseases are found among every class in society, which shows a lamentable laxity of morals and much easy virtue ; but never- theless it is true. It is true that but few, comparatively speaking, of those who are given to licentiousness, have syphilis, but a large portion of this class do have gonorrhoea. Gonorrhoea. This disease is contracted by sexual intercourse with a person who has the disease, and may appear in a few hours after exposure, or a few days, and 46 GONORRHCEA. in some cases it does not appear for weeks ; but usually the first symptom appears in from two to five days after exposure. It commences with a tingling sensation at the external opening of the urethra, which is soon succeeded by an itching and then a pain. In two or three days the orifice of the urethra becomes red and swollen, and a slight discharge commences. As the inflammation increases, the swelling and discharge increases, and there is soon a burning, scalding sensation in passing urine, until urination become frequent and very painful ; and soon walk- ing causes pain; the erections becomes frequent and very painful. Owing to the severe inflammation, the urethra becomes contracted and the stream of urine is small and divided. Often Couper's glands become involved, as do the testicles, which increases the suffering. Under good treatment, which can only be had from a sci- entific, experienced physician, the symptoms can be removed in from one to two weeks. But in the hands of quacks the disease becomes chronic and results in gleet, — a discharge from the urethra that may continue by spells for months or a year. Men may have all the symptoms of gonorrhoea from a poisonous lencorrhcea of a woman, and from a cold in the penis, and from other causes. In consequence of the ignorance of the medical and GONORRHOEA . 47 legal professions of the fact that a husband may contract leucorrhcea of his wife which causes all the symptoms of gonorrhoea, many innocent wives have been disgraced and divorced on the ground that she has been unfaithful to her husband, and contracted and given him gonorrhoea, than which, nothing was more false, cruel, and unjust. The disgracing and divorcing of a wife is too serious a matter to be done upon anything but positive proof of infidelity to her marriage relation. Gonorrhoea has been considered merely a local disease, simply an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the urethra, and hence of but little account ; whereas, it diseases the blood, and may remain in the system for years, or for life. It not only causes other diseases, but it fre- quently causes deformities of the penis for life, and severe strictures that can never be cured, which makes it a very serious disease. The idea that gonorrhoea is merely a local disease has been exploded by some of the most eminent French and German physicians, who have made the study and treatment of private diseases a specialty all their lives. They now tell us that gonorrhoea is a venereal disease of the blood, of which fact I became con- vinced, and advocated, some ten or fifteen years before its announcement by these physicians. The fact that persons having gonorrhoea often 48 SEXUAL DISEASES. have buboes, and sore throat, mouth, nose, and eyes, is positive evidence that it is a virus in the blood which is seldom cured. Not because it can- not be cured, but because it is treated as a local disease, by physicians who do not understand it. It is generally treated as simply an inflammation of the urethra, and when that is removed, and the discharges are stopped, it is pronounced cured ; whereas, the virus remains in the system, produc- ing constitutional difficulties, chronic diseases, such as diseases of the kidneys, bladder, prostate gland, and testicles ; while it deranges the stomach, liver, and bowels. Yet none suffering from these troubles ever suspect, nor do their physician, that the cause of them is gonorrhoea, or syphilis, which they have had at some time. Therefore, it would be well when persons con- sult a physician in regard to any chronic disease, if they have ever had these diseases, to tell him, as he does not like to ask them such a question. For it makes a great difference in the- prognosis and treatment of any disease, whether or not it is caused by either of these diseases. To illustrate. While a common case of rheuma- tism, or paralysis, is curable, such diseases in some cases, if caused by these diseases, might be incurable. If these diseases were caused by gonorrhoea or GONORRHCEA. 49 syphilis, they would require different treatment from common cases of these diseases. Besides, during a few weeks' or months' delay in the physician's knowledge of such cause of rheumatism and paralysis, it might pass into an incurable stage, while they might have been cured had he understood the cause in the commencement of the treatment. Men addicted to promiscuous sexual indulgence with women, have an idea that they can prevent taking diseases of them by washing the penis in soap and water, or some strong liquor, immediately after cohabiting ; but that will not prevent taking a disease, as hundreds who have tried it can tes- tify. The reason that washing is not a prevent- ive,* is because the virus is absorbed into the blood through the pores of the penis before the embrace is completed. The idea that washing is a preventive of sexual disease, may have had its origin in the fact that one man washed immediately after sexual intercourse and did not take any disease, while another man having intercourse with the same woman who did not wash, took a disease. Such a case is no proof that washing is of any benefit, since it is a common thing that different men having intercourse with the same woman, at the same time, some take a disease while others do not. 50 SEXUAL DISEASES. And some men may become affected by the leucorrhcea of their wives, while other men are not affected by their wives' leucorrhcea. And a woman may contract gonorrhoea of one man, and give it to another man who has inter- course with her soon after, before she knows she has it, or she has any symptoms of it. But as a matter of cleanliness every man and woman, even husbands and wives, should wash themselves immediately after cohabiting. The only sure way to avoid gonorrhoea and syphilis, is to avoid exposure to them, by living a pure, virtuous life, which gives far greater happi- ness, without any danger, than the moment's pleas- ure of sexual gratification, even if there was no danger of a loathsome disease, as there is. Syphilis, or Pox. This is a much worse disease than gonorrhoea, which I have just described. In fact, it is the worst and most loathsome disease that a man can have. This disease, like gonorrhoea, is generally con- tracted by sexual intercourse with a man or woman who has it. But it may be transmitted from one person to another, by dressing syphilitic sores, by kissing and inhaling the breath of those who may have a syphilitic sore throat, mouth, or nose ; and by a child nursing a woman who has syphilis, and SYPHILIS. 5 1 by one woman using a syringe that has been used by another woman who has this disease. The infection may also be transmitted by using glasses, spoons, and tobacco pipes; and also by surgical instruments, lancets, which have been used ' on persons who have syphilis, and from water closets, and by sleeping in the sheets where one having the disease has slept and left matter from the sores on him. And I have known instances of its being transmitted by physicians using a syringe in confinement of a woman who had syphilis, and then using the same syringe with another woman in confinement. Such recklessness and tampering with health and life by any physician, cannot be too severely condemned. No woman should use a syringe that has been used by another woman, much less should a physi- cian use the same syringe for all women he may attend. While syphilis may be transmitted as above, men are much more likely to contract it of a woman than from a water-closet, or any of the other means. The first symptoms of this disease are very sim- ilar to those of gonorrhoea, viz. : itching, burning and inflammation of the head of the penis, within from three to eight days after exposure ; yet, these symptoms may not appear for weeks after- ward. Soon after the above symptoms appear, a small, $2 SEXUAL DISEASES. red spot appears on the foreskin, or head of the penis, at the point where the virus was absorbed, on which a small ulcer, or chancre, appears, from which pus, or matter, soon commences discharg- ing. The small ulcers soon become a large, eating sore, which often partially, and sometimes entirely destroys the penis. In secondary syphilis, these ulcers and sores may appear on any part of the body, but they oftener appear on the face, and particularly on or in the nose and throat. In time the lymphatic and ingui- nal glands become affected, and when they sup- purate they are called buboes. Sometimes the buboes do not appear for several weeks, and may not until the chancres are healed. Buboes appear most frequently in the groins ; but they may appear under the chin, or in front of the ears, from chan- cres on the lips or tongue. Constitutional syphilis generally, but not always, makes its appearance in cutaneous eruptions, in a few weeks or months. If the disease is not cured in the first stage, as it seldom is, it passes to the second, or chronic stage, called Secondary Syphilis. Often the first symptom of this stage of the disease is a paleness of the patient, and swelling of the lymphatic glands, especially on the neck, with shift- ing pains of a rheumatic, or neuralgic nature, cutaneous eruptions, falling off of the hair, and SYPHILIS. 53 headaches; with heat and burning in the head, and pains in the shoulders, arms, back, legs, and knees, with excessive languor, weariness, restless- ness, sleeplessness, indigestion, bad stomach, coated or clean red tongue, despondency, or low spirits, sore throat, thirst, constipation, hot skin, with more or less moisture ; quick pulse, sediment in urine, and sometimes burning when urinating, diseased liver, with yellowish complexion, a dread of business, and a desire for rest and quiet. The soft palate, tonsils, uvula, pharynx and larynx, become diseased, causing a burning sensation in the fauces, hoarseness, hawking, and cough, with dryness in the mouth and throat, and an affection of the voice. Often the disease appears on the face and nose, which it destroys, as it does the roof of the mouth. In time ulcers and sores appear on the legs and body, and eat up the patients, even before they die. There is no other disease that so com- pletely destroys the system before the patient dies as this, which is owing to the fact that the vital organs are the last attacked by it. This seems a judgment of God for licentious- ness, that the victims of this horrible disease shall live and suffer until they have drained the last drop of the bitter cup of their damnation ! Often the sufferings of patients in the last stage of this disease are unendurable, compelling them to beg to be killed to end their misery! 54 SEXUAL DISEASES* It does seem to me, that if men and women could witness the suffering of the dying, God for- saken victims of this disease, and listen to their groans, nothing could tempt them, and especially the mere momentary gratification of the sexual passion, to expose themselves and their children to this terrible disease ! Perhaps the reason peo- ple with this disease live so long and suffer so much, is because of the great sin and crime of transmitting it to innocent children ! The virus of these diseases may remain in the system from one to fifty years, and then break out like pent up hell-fire as it is, and consume its vic- tims. And this brings me to another and greater evil of these diseases than I have yet mentioned. While the suffering from syphilis, and the de- struction of the body by it, are awful, the crime of transmitting it to children is more awful ! Syphilis; Its Transmission to Children. This is the greatest sin and crime against children, humanity, and God, of which man can be guilty ! and yet there is no law of the land for its punishment. What moral right have men to thus poison the streams of life through hereditary descent, and transmit this loathsome disease to innocent chil- dren, which unfits them for the pleasures and duties of life, especially for matrimony, while they do live, SYPHILIS. 55 and finally sends them to an untimely grave by the worst disease of which man ever died ? Can such a sin and crime go unpunished with a just and righteous God on the throne of the uni- verse I Men have a legal right to thus damn their chil- dren before they are born, and to kill them. But, it is a satisfaction to know that if they escape punishment at the hands of men, they cannot escape the punishment of God. Will not such children, who have been so wronged, rise up in judgment against their parents ? We have laws for the punishment of scattering contagious diseases, and we should have laws for the punishment of this greatest crime of trans- mitting this disease to children. Men having this disease in their blood should be prohibited by law from marrying, until they shall have been examined by, and can present a certificate of cure from an honorable physician of a high medical reputation, who shall be appointed by the governor of the State, in every city and large town for that purpose, while the transmission of it to a child should be punished by imprison- ment for life. There is more danger to mankind from this disease, the virus of which runs in the blood of so many men and women, than from all other diseases flesh is heir to. S6 SEXUAL DISEASES. And yet, what is the church and state doing to save mankind from it ? Instead of furnishing means for printing and circulating pamphlets, and for lectures on this subject, as they should, since this is the only remedy for vice and its evil consequences, they denounce everything said and written on this subject. O, consistency! to spend so much time and money in preaching against, and for the suppres- sion of common evils, sins, and crimes, and to save fallen women ; and suffer this, the greatest sin and crime man can be guilty of, to go unrebuked. None but physicians, and only a few of them, have any idea as to what extent the poison of syphilis runs in the veins of the present generation. It truly threatens the destruction of the human race ; and yet, who are alarmed ? and where is the excitement that is usually manifested at the ap- pearance in our cities of a common epidemic, or contagious disease, like small-pox, or cholera? I have known some of the fairest and most promising young men and women in society to be destroyed at the age of eighteen and twenty by this terrible disease, which they inherited from their parents. It is hard for the young to die under any circumstances, when their hearts are full of hope and anticipation; but it is horrible for them to be killed by their own parents, and by such a disease. SYPHILIS. 57 The crime next in degree to transmitting this disease to children, is that of giving it to an inno- cent, virtuous wife. God only knows how many wives are to-day suf- fering and dying from this disease, which they have taken from licentious husbands ; or how many are annually thus sent to the grave ! Little do such wives think that the disease for which they are doctoring, and which causes them so much suffering, is a disease contracted from their husbands, which fact, physicians are sworn to keep a secret, and to call by some other name. What is a just punishment for such a wrong and injury to a wife ? The way of the transgressor is hard, yet it is just ; but to make the innocent suffer for the vices and crimes of the wicked, is the greatest wrong and injustice of which man can be guilty. Fathers, who have brought children into the world with syphilitic poison in their blood, remem- ber that your first duty to your children is to put them under medical treatment, so soon as you know they can, and have inherited it from you ? and continue the treatment at any cost, until they are free from all taint of it; and thus do all in your power, to repair the injury you have done their bodies, and the great wrong you have done their minds and souls, and to save them from the sufferings and awful death to which you have 58 SEXUAL DISEASES. doomed them by transmitting this disease to them ! The discharge of this duty is demanded by your children, society, and your God ; and woe to you if you neglect it ! This is your first duty ; and your next is to have this virus removed from your own system before your transmit it to other children. The cure of these diseases, as with all others, depends on having them treated right, and in sea- son; since they are incurable when they have reached a certain stage. Every month of delay in its treatment, the liarder, and more expensive is its cure, and the less are the chances for a radical cure. It is not probable that one case in a hundred of these diseases is cured ; not because they cannot be, but because those having them generally go to quacks who advertise to cure only private diseases, which is positive proof 'that they are no physicians, nor even men of education, since no regular, re- spectable physician will thus advertise. Such men are only robbers and land pirates who live and grow rich by robbing the poor victims of private diseases. These men may heal chancres, and even sores, for the time being, and suppress the discharges of gonorrhoea by the use of some recipe they have found in some medical work; but the virus remains SYPHILIS, 59 in the system, and in time destroys the health, breaks down the constitution, and at some future time comes out in sores and destroys the individ- ual. The only chance for the victims of these dis- eases is to employ regular physicians who are experienced in their treatment, for no others under- stand treating them, and not throw away their money and time on quacks, who are only after their money, thereby losing their last chance for a cure, when they must die an awful death. The successful treatment and cure of these dis- eases requires medical knowledge, skill and expe- rience, and a long time. 60 CHRONIC DISEASES. CHRONIC DISEASES. It is a significant fact which should excite the greatest alarm, that seven tenths of the deaths among mankind are caused by chronic diseases, which steal upon us so imperceptibly that they excite no fear, and hardly attract any notice until death is at the door. Most of the deaths by acute diseases are among people who have been dying for years with chronic diseases. These diseases have slowly but surely destroyed the vitality of the system, have eaten off the roots of the tree of life, when it is easily blown over by the squall of a fever. Because chronic diseases do not at once confine people to their bed, like a fever, no anxiety is felt until we are in the jaws of death. It is no un- common thing that those who die of chronic dis- eases are about their business until within a few weeks or days of their death. These are called sudden deaths. But the fact is, as above stated, that they have been dying for years. There can be no sudden deaths by diseases, as the destruc- tion of the system by them is necessarily gradual. It is frequently the case that the progress of chronic disease is unmarked by any pain or other symptoms, save " general debility," or loss of strength. But generally, we are warned of death's CHRONIC DISEASES. 6 1 approach by some of the following symptoms, which cannot excite too much alarm : Coated tongue in the morning ; bad taste in the mouth ; offensive breath ; a clean red tongue, with sore edges sometimes ; acid or sour stomach, called heartburn; goneness, or sinking in the stomach before meals ; sometimes no appetite, and at other times a voracious one ; pain in the side, chest and shoulders, with or without sore- ness ; headache ; shortness of breath, or difficulty of breathing, especially on going up-stairs, or with little exercise ; sore throat at times, and raising a grayish, offensive substance the size of a pin's head or pea, which are tubercles, indicating the first stage of consumption ; an inclination to hawk or swallow ; hoarseness and cough at times ; spit- ting of blood ; rattling in the lungs ; debility and nervousness ; low spirits, and loss of memory ; bad dreams, and sleeplessness. The first touch of the cold, icy, and paralyzing hand of disease should startle you from your lethargy, and arouse you to a sense of your dan- ger, since life and health depend on your having your disease treated in season. Still, the sick delay the treatment of their case, not realizing that delays are dangerous, and procrastination is not only the thief of time, but of life. They heed not the timely warning of reason and friends, nor their pains, which are the sentinels of life, crying, " to 62 CHRONIC DISEASES. arms, to arms, the citadel of life is in danger, the enemy of life is approaching." No person ever died of disease, who might not have been cured if taken in season and rightly treated. Think of this, ye who are trifling with your health and life by neglecting to treat your case to-day. Your case maybe curable this month, not next, — to- day, not to-morrow. When chronic diseases have reached a certain stage, they change more for the worse in a few weeks or months than they have before this time for years. They have less ambition, and gradually grow weaker, until they sink into the grave, with- out any severe sick spell or great suffering. When the sick feel as above, they should lose no time in putting themselves under medical treat- ment. And, if patients are being treated by a physician, or have been treated for some time, and they are not decidedly better, much more, if they are growing worse, and sinking into the grave, it is high time that they change their physician be- fore it is too late to save them. People seldom attend to their diseases until they are unable to attend to their business, or are con- fined to their house or the bed, when most cases of chronic diseases are beyond the reach of medical skill. Is it not, then, the height of presumption and madness to thus trifle with health and life ? What CHRONIC DISS E SEA. 63 moral right have we to delay so important a matter, involving such certai?i and awful consequences ? No skill of physicians, no tears, sighs, regrets, nor re- pentance, can make up for such neglect of duty ! Then, as you desire health, that you may live and enjoy life, attend to your case to-day, before it is too late to save you from a premature grave ! Remember, that, although you have repeatedly tried and failed, still your only hope and chance for health and life, is to continue trying until palsied by the cold, icy hand of death, which is your Christian duty, and a duty, you owe to your family and friends. It is for the reason that I have made the study and treatment of these diseases a specialty for over thirty years, that I understand them better, and treat them more successfully than phy- sicians in general, who give their time and atten- tion to family practice, as such physicians can have but little, if any experience in treating Chronic Diseases. TO THE SICK. DR. KNAPP, OF CHSCACO, now located in Providence, is treating successfully ALL CHRONIC DISEASES, ON A NEI SYSTEM, which embraces the best and most approved methods in this and other countries, for treating diseases, including the use of ELECTRICITY, AND PNEUMATIC, OR DRY-CUPPING, and Inhalation of Atomized Medicines. He treats successfully all Neuralgic and Nervous Affections, all forms of Scrofula, Fever Sores and Old Ulcers, Dyspepsia, Dis- eases of the Liver and Kidneys, Dropsy, Constipation, all Skin Diseases, Pulmonary Consumption in its early stages, Paralysis, Epilepsy, Salt Rheum, Headache, Heart Disease, Fever and Ague. HE CURES ALL DISEASES OF THE Throat and Lungs, and Diseases of the Heart, if applied to in their early stages. He cures more cases of Curvatures, Weakness, and Diseases of the Spine, and all other Deformities, than any other physician in America. He treats these diseases on entirely new principles, and with a new ap- paratus. He has had an extensive practice and wonderful success in the treatment of CANCERS, which he cures without Cutting or Eating them out. He cures all DISEASES OP THE EYE AN1> EAR, which he treats on a NEW SYSTEM, including? CUPPING-. See testimonials. He never fails to cure RHEUMATISM, in all its stages, no matter of how long standing. C A T A. Tt 11 H. He is treating Catarrh on a NEW SYSTEM, which is a sure cure for this terrible disease, with which almost every person is more or less afflicted. CONSULTATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS FREE. His consultations for years have averaged several thousands a year, which gives him an experience unsurpassed by any other phy- sician, and equalled only by a few. j&s^* He does not promise to cure all stages of disease, and no case will be received where there is any doubt of cure or relief. 4®^ Dr. Knapp, having been burnt out in the great Chicago fire, has located in Providence, R. I. 4^* All letters inclosing a letter stamp, addressed to Horace Knapp, M. D., Providence, R. I., will be promptly answered. Office, 179 Broad St., cor. Mathewson St., Providence, R. I Office Hours from 9 A, M. to 1 P. M. % and from 2 to 8 P. M. (64) ?^^|o^M^M^«^^-^^^^*: MAN'S PRIVATE 68MPAK I SOUND BODIES ARE NECESSARY TO P SOUND MINDS AND PUKE MORALS, i I 1 4t OUR FIELD IS THE WOELD : OUR BROTHER, — SUFFERING MAN. OUR OBJECT: HE RELIEF OF HUMAN SUFFERING ; THE INCREASE OF HAPPINESS ; AND TO SAVE LIFE. HORACE KNAPP, M. D. PROVIDENCE, R. I. 1873. mv AND and to Mom tg& or. i Tins pamphlet treats on one of the most important matters of life ; on the most extensive and worst vice of which fallen man is guilty, — a vice more destructive to virtue, morals, and manhood, than anything else. It contains startling facts, and science, which are as important to every one as are character, virtue, manhood, health, and life. 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