GLEET AND STRICTURE AS A CAUSE OF SPERMATORRHŒA AND IMPOTENCY.
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, Our Crayons are Inserted without Pain. 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 gonorrhœa—formerly and ignorantly supposed to be about the only cause.
Furthermore, the main cause of both Spermatorrhœa and Impotence is Stricture (whether caused by self-abuse, gonorrhœa [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.
[1.] Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1876.
[2.] Renal, Urinary and Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1872.
[3.] Disorders of the Male Sexual Organs, Phila., 1883.
[4.] Impotence in the Male, New York, 1833.
[5.] Spermatorrhœa, Phila., 1880.
[6.] Dictionaire des Sciences, tom. viii, Paris, 1856.
[7.] Beltrage zur anat-uns Phys., Bd. iv. and Bd. vii.
[8.] Arbeiten aus der Phys. Austatt, zu Leipsig, 1866.
[9.] Pflueger’s Archlv, Bd. viii.
[10.] Traite des Maladies de la Moelle Epiniere.
[11.] Chu. Méd. de l’Hotel-Dieu de Paris.
[12.] Ziemssen’s Cycloped., Amer. Edit., 1876.
[13.] Stricture of the Male Urethra.
[14.] Stricture of the Urethra; its Complications and Effects.
[15.] Practical Observations, &c., &c.
[16.] Medical Circular and Gazette, 1869, page 381.
[17.] Annal. de Dermatol, et Syphiligraph.
[18.] Wiener Med. Presse, 1878.
[19.] Medical Record, 1879, page 184.
[20.] Endoskopische Befunde bei Erkrankungen des Samenhugels Wein, 1880.
[21.] Bulletin Génerales de Thérapie, 1867, page 501.
[22.] Wiener Klinik, May, 1880.
[23.] Archives of Medicine, October, 1880, page 191.
We Cure where a Cure is Possible.
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 Spermatorrhœa 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 Spermatorrhœa or Impotence, stricture of the urethra is the cause of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhœa, gleet, etc., or to masturbation or excesses.
[24.] Op cit., page 25.
[25.] Op cit.