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.

    {Footnote 1:  Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1876.}

    {Footnote 2:  Renal, Urinary and Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1872.}

    {Footnote 3:  Disorders of the Male Sexual Organs, Phila., 1883.}

    {Footnote 4:  Impotence in the Male, New York, 1833.}

    {Footnote 5:  Spermatorrhoea, Phila., 1880.}

    {Footnote 6:  Dictionaire des Sciences, tom. viii, Paris, 1856.}

    {Footnote 7:  Beltrage zur anat-uns Phys., Bd. iv. and Bd. vii.}

    {Footnote 8:  Arbeiten aus der Phys.  Austatt, zu Leipsig, 1866.}

    {Footnote 9:  Pflueger’s Archlv, Bd. viii.}

    {Footnote 10:  Traite des Maladies de la Moelle Epiniere.}

    {Footnote 11:  Chu.  Med. de l’Hotel-Dieu de Paris.}

    {Footnote 12:  Ziemssen’s Cycloped., Amer.  Edit., 1876.}

    {Footnote 13:  Stricture of the Male Urethra.}

    {Footnote 14:  Stricture of the Urethra; its Complications and
    Effects.}

    {Footnote 15:  Practical Observations, &c., &c.}

    {Footnote 16:  Medical Circular and Gazette, 1869, page 381.}

    {Footnote 17:  Annal. de Dermatol, et Syphiligraph.}

    {Footnote 18:  Wiener Med.  Presse, 1878.}

    {Footnote 19:  Medical Record, 1879, page 184.}

    {Footnote 20:  Endoskopische Befunde bei Erkrankungen des
    Samenhugels Wein, 1880.}

    {Footnote 21:  Bulletin Generales de Therapie, 1867, page 501.}

    {Footnote 22:  Wiener Klinik, May, 1880.}

    {Footnote 23:  Archives of Medicine, October, 1880, page 191.}

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 +Spermatorrhoea+ 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