14.  WILL GET WELL.—­Feel no more concern about yourself.  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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[Illustration:  INNOCENT CHILDHOOD.]

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THE CURSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF SECRET DISEASES.

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 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.