+Bashfulness and trepidation+, especially in the presence of females, is the rule.  The person feels +clumsy+, +embarrassed+ and +ill at ease+. +Sleep+ is sometimes poor, there are occasionally +terrible dreams+, sometimes +lascivious ones+ accompanied by +emissions+, +drowsiness+ and a tired, languid feeling in the morning, and a +disinclination to rise+ and go to work are certain signs of +impending+ nervous exhaustion. +The eyes are dull and heavy+, often +black-ringed+ underneath.  The pupils of the eyes are unequal—­often very large—­sometimes one small and one large.  The hands tremble and perspire +easily+.  The person is +absent-minded, melancholy, prone to brood, and fears the jests+ or ridicule of his companions.  The +skin+, especially of the +face+, sometimes becomes +coarse and red, sometimes is pale and pasty+ and covered with +blotches or pimples+.  There is sometimes +spasm at the neck of the bladder+, causing +some delay before the urine will flow freely+.  Often it is passed in a +forked or twisted stream+, plainly showing the presence of either organic or spasmodic stricture. +Twitching of the muscles of the eyelid, face and limbs+ is often present, accompanied sometimes by +creeping sensations up the spine+, +flushings of the face+, +chills+ (slight), +dizziness and black spots before the eyes+ on stooping over and occasionally by neuralgic pains in the +head+ and about the heart.  If unchecked, or if the baneful habit is still persisted in, the symptoms of the First Stage merge rapidly into those of the

SECOND STAGE.—­CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION.

Here all the symptoms of the foregoing stage are usually present, only somewhat more intensified.  The +congestion+ and +irritation+ are +more decided+, the +weakness+ more marked, the +nervous prostration+ more decided.  Any, many, or all of the following symptoms may be present, according to the degree of severity or the rapidity of the disease: 

+Emissions+ (day or night), +Oozing of a glairy fluid+ under excitement and imaginings, presence of the opposite sex, etc., +Partial+ and +Imperfect Erections, Desire to Masturbate+, Formation of +Evil Pictures in the Mind+, +Flushing and Chilliness+, +Stupidity and Tendency to Doze or Sleep+, +Mental Hebetude+, +Failing Memory+, +Lack of Power of Application, Energy or Concentration+, +Restlessness+, +Pain and Smarting+ in passing urine, +Wetting the Bed+, +Pain in the Kidneys+, +Headache+, +Pimples+ on the face or body, +Itching or peculiar sensations+ about the scrotum (bag), thighs, legs, anus, etc., +Wasting+ of the +Organs+, +Stringiness and Softening+ of the +Testicles+, +Dyspepsia+, +Sluggish Bowels+, +Torpid Liver+, +Failing Sight+, +Pains in the Head+ (front, top and back), Chest, Limbs, etc., Sensation of the +Bowels Falling Out+, +Dizziness+ on stooping over or kneeling, +Specks+ before the +Eyes+, +Erotic Dreams+, +Melancholy+ (developing