Paralytic Impotence.
The last variety of impotence, Paralytic, presents a condition opposite that just described, and instead of irritation and over-stimulation of the nervous sexual apparatus, it shows its weakness and exhaustion down to complete paralysis.
It is understood that every man reaching a certain age gradually declines in vigor of sexual power. This age of sexual decline varies considerably with different people, from the ages of 45–70, depending on general health, and still more on the mode of life. This much is sure: that men who have led a regular and moderate sexual life and have married early retain their sexual power a good deal longer than men who have dissipated and indulged in various excesses.
Paralytic impotence may mean either complete loss of erection or partial. Most common causes of paralytic impotence in young men are a persistent and excessive masturbation habit and excessive sexual indulgence. The earlier in life these vicious habits and excesses are started and the longer they last, the harder and harder is the cure of the resulting sexual exhausting impotence. In fact, these cases are the most difficult of all to cure, and many of them are incurable. Men suffering with paralytic impotence present a truly pitiful picture. They lose every ambition in life, lose their energy and force of personality, lose mental and physical vigor and endurance, and become mere wrecks and shadows of their old selves. If boys and young men could only see these victims of their own ignorance and folly as the physician sees them in their desperate and hopeless fight to regain their lost manhood, surely thousands and thousands of young, happy lives could be saved to themselves and to society.
The treatment consists in general and local tonic treatment.