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BRAIN AND THE SEXUAL ORGANS.
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           FORMS OF DECAY

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  MANY YEARS SPECIAL PRACTICE IN SUCH CASES,

     AND SHOWING THE ACTUAL EFFECT OF THOSE

           NEW REMEDIES,
 AND MODES OF TREATIIENT NOT YET GENERALLY KNOWN
            EVEN BY MEDICAL MEN.
BY FREDERICK HOLLICK, M. D.
           NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY T. W. STRONG,
       98 NASSAU STREET.
1817 
   Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855,
               BY F.  ROLLICK,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
         for the Southern District of New York.''
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     198 Fullon Btreat, Maw York. 
HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY
            INTRODUCTION.

                         »»»

  A few years ago I commenced the first complete popu-
lar Lectures on Sexual Physiology, to Ladies and Gentle-
men, separately, ever delivered in the United States. They
were illustrated by Anatomical Models, and Diagrams, and
in every respect were scientific and practically useful.   At
their commencement, from the novelty of such an attempt,
many people regarded them with distrust, but as their real
character became  gradually,  known they were regarded
with increasing interest daily, and received an amount of
patronage far greater than was ever anticipated.  In fact
few novel enterprises ever succeeded so well, considering
the prejudice and misconception that had to  be overcome.
For a long time " Dr. ffollick's Lectures " were the princi-
pal topics of conversation in  New  York, and also in Bos-
ton and Philadelphia!  (See Notices.)
  My object in delivering these Lectures was  to familiarize
the public mind with the discussion of such  matters,  ia a
proper manner, and to point out the real source of numer-
ous physicial and moral evils  under which society labors.
Having succeeded past my hopes  in arousing the publio
mind, I soon saw, as I had anticipated, numerous co-labor-
ers  start up on the same field of action.    Lecturers on
Anatomy  and Physiology,  with Manikins,  soon  became 
vi         HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY
  common every where, and have since been steadily increas-
  ing in number.
    As soon  as this result was obtained, I turned my atten-
  tion to another matter, namely, the preparation of a popu-
  lar and scientific Book, on the same plan as the Lectures,
  to serve as a manual, and for the instruction of those who
  could not attend the Lectures.  The first publication of
  the kind which I issued was called " The Origin of Life! "
  It had a  most extraordinary run of popularity, and soon
  became regarded as the Book on such matters. The public
 needed something different from the old, obsolete,  imprac-
 tical,  and mostly indecent publications on such matters,
 which  alone had previously existed, and "The Origin"
 was every where welcomed as being just what was wanted!
   An absurd and bungling attempt was spitefully made,
 by the Medical Old Fogies in Philadelphia, to prevent the
 sale of this book, and also the  delivery of my  Lectures.
 As might have been anticipated however, such an attempt
 not only failed, most completely, but also increased the
 popularity of both  Books and Lectures  a  hundredfold,
 while the would-be monopolists of knowledge became truly
 pitiable objects of public scorn and contempt.
   In a short time I found  my audiences making  other de-
 mands upon me for more extended information.  The Zadiet
 desired a book on the female system,  and the Gentlemen
 one exclusively on the male  system,  and all its  derange-
 ments.  I therefore published « The Diseases of Women "—
 and the, «Matron's Manual of Midwifery•» and soon after
  The Male  Generative Organs," all of which at once at-
 tamed an  immense  circulation,  which is  constantly and
steadily increasing.   It was soon apparent also,  that the
Bcope  and matter of the original work, '« The Origin of
Life  required  extending, in accordance with the advance
made in the public mind.   I therefore re-wrote it  entirely 
INTRODUCTION.
vii
making it a complete Cyclopedia of everything relating to
sexual matters that could possibly interest adult persona
of either sex, or be of use to them.  To express more fully
its objects and uses the name was also changed to " The
Marriage Guide,"  or  Natural History of Generation, <fec.
This work has been  more popular even  than any of the
former ones, and is now daily printed in increasing num-
bers.
  All these books had to be written  in the few moments
I could occasionally steal from my professional duties, which
became constantly more and more burthensome.  At pres-
ent I  am so much  occupied with my practice that  I can
only overlook the new Editions of each work, and  keep
them all, in every  respect, fully up to  the times, by insert-
ing all the  new discoveries, and giving the latest views.
For eighteen months I published a popular journal, called
" The People's Monthly  Medical Journal,"  but finding it
utterly  impossible to spare sufficient  time each month to
compile it, I was compelled to suspend the issue, though I
trust by and by to resume it in another form.  At present
my professional calls leave me  hardly leisure enough to
keep perfect the works  I have already published, but in
time I hope  to issue others, on different but kindred topics.
The general scope and objects of each Book will be partly
gathered from  its Title, but it may be as well to state  them
more fully.
  The Diseases of Women is expressly for females' own use;
giving the causes, cure, and prevention, of every derange-
ment to which their systems are liable, from infancy to old
age.
  The Matron's Manual of Midwifery is intended to ex-
plain the nature and whole art of childbirth and delivery,
in such a way  that any one may learn from it what to do
in case of emergency, and how to do it.  From the sim- 
Viii        HISTORICAL AND  EXPLANATORY
plicity and practical  nature of the explanations, aided by
numerous engravings, it is suited to make this matter clear
even to the most ordinary intelligence, at the same time
that it  is perfect enough for medical  students or profes-
sional men.
   The Male Generative Organs, is  intended for Gentlemen
the same as the Diseases of Woman is for Ladies.  It gives
the causes, prevention, and cure of every disease and de-
rangement to which the Male Generative Organs are liable.
Many of the  most important of these  derangements were
scarcely known, even to the majority of Medical men, before
the publication of this book.  This was the case especially
with that most serious of all Male Generative  derange-
ments,  Urinary loss of Semen !  This  fatal disease, which
consigns thousands to imbecility, and untimely death, with-
out their ever suspecting even the cause of their ruin,
was never properly explained till this book was written.
It should be observed that this  is not a venereal  work,
but treats only on these derangements to which all are
liable.
  Venereal Diseases are  fully treated upon, in a special
work, called " A  Popular Treatise on  Venereal Diseases,"
«fec, written in the same way as the other books.
  The Marriage Guide has been already spoken of suffici-
ently to give a tolerable idea of its contents.  It should
be remarked, that no other book in the English language
is at all  like it, nor can the information  it contains be found
anywhere else, except in recent French and German Medical
publications.  The new discoveries on Generation especially
excite the surprise of all who first read them, (he old ideas
on these matters are totally upset, and practicnl resulls are
arrived  at regarding  Conception, and kindred phenomena,
as new as they are astonishing.
  In short,  these works are Complete,  each in its own 
INTRODUCTION.
IX
sphere, and they  leave nothing further in their line to be
desired.
  For convenience they are all published in the same form,
and of the same size, with  engravings and colored plates,
drawn and engraved expressly  for them.  The price of
each is One Dollar,—and every  new edition  always con-
tains the  very latest information  on its peculiar topics.
  Besides these strictly  professional books.  I  have also
published some for children and others, on general Anatomy
and Physiology, called the "Primary Lessons in Anatomy
and  Physiology"—and  "The American  Class Book of
Anatomy and Physiology, which will be found in the adver-
tisements more fully  explained. 
JJnfira.
  As might have been supposed, my Lectures and Books
soon created for me a large and peculiar practice, different
from that of any other Medical  man in the United States.
It is well known that on many of the topics on which these
books treat no instruction is ever given to medical students,
nor do medical  practitioners pay  any attention to them.
This is especially the case with regard to sterility, impo-
tence, loss or total absence of proper feeling, parental influ-
ence on offspring, and  numerous other such matters.  Let
any one try to get advice, or information, on such things,
from Medical men generally, and he  will soon find how
little they  know about them, or  even seem to care.  In
fact, such an  application would  often only excite a laugh,
or a stupid  attempt at wit, as if such  matters  were good
jokes.   And  yet few things are  more serious or important
to those who  are really interested about  them.  Perhaps
no other mutters so closely concern health and happiness,
or so well deserve careful and earnest attention.
  How many thousands,  of both sexes, labor  under diffi-
culties and  peculiarities, connected with  their  Generative
systems,  which are to them the great concern  of  their
lives, and yet no one  know about them but Ihemselves.
Conscious that they will not be understood, or appreciated,
if they  speak about their condition, they  conceal it, and
carry with  them to the grave a  secret which has been tha 
PREFACE.
XI
bane of their lives, and  perhaps the cause of too early
death.
  My practice refers especially to all these very difficulties,
in both sexes, both married and single, and in this respect
is different from that of any other person.
  In the course of this practice there have come before  me,
as a matter of course, the most singular cases, different from
any that are ordinarily seen, and which would never have
come before any one else.   Those who have heard my Lec-
tures, or read my Books, will speak to me, though they had
previously determined to remain for ever silent, and in  this
way I have  gradually acquired information and facts of
the most interesting and peculiar kind.
  A few of  the most  peculiar and striking of these cases,
with explanatory notes, I have  thought likely to be useful,
as well as interesting, if published.  My idea was that they
would serve to give more correct notions in regard to such
matters, and also to show that now they are more properly
attended to than formerly.   Those who are personally in-
terested, as patients, can see that their difficulties are now
understood, and  that they also, in common with other  un-
fortunates, may  reasonably look for  sympathy and relief.
  In this way originated the present Book, which is in-
tended to show the public what is now known, in  regard
to these hitherto neglected difficulties, and to give a pic-
ture as it were of my own practice.
  It is scarcely necessary to  remark that all the "  Cases"
referred to are so related  and disguised that there is nc
possibility of detection by  any others than the patients
themselves.   In all cases, in the.=e matters, the slrictest
privacy and  caution is always carefully observed.  I am
constan'ly receiving large numbers of Letters from patients,
in all parts of the country, and invariably I deal with them
in this way,—I first make all the necessary notes of them. 
xii
PREFACE.
 to guide me in my treatment, and then destroy them.  The
 Notes are also made in a peculiar cypher, which no one can
 read  but myself, so that by no possibility, can any secrets
 be accidentally disclosed.  The same process is also observ-
 ed with regard to notes of personal consultations.   No one
 in short need have the slightest  apprehension of exposure
 in any way, and in no single instance  has anything of the
 kind ever occurred in the whole course of my practice.
  I need only say, in  conclusion, that all who consult me,
may depend, not only on the most careful  attention,  and
the best exertions in my power, but also  on that sympathy
and delicate consideration,  which such  cases so urgently
require.
                         F. HOLLICK, M.  D.,
                   Box, 3606,
                           Post Office, New York City,
                                    New Yoek. 
NOTICE.
  Any persons wishing to communicate with Dr. H. by
Letter, can address to
           " Dr. F. Hollick,
                Box, 360'6, Post Office,
                          New  York City, N. Y."
and they will be promptly replied to.
  All  Letters asking an  opinion,  or advice, must be full
and plain in their descriptions, so that a correct judgment
can be formed, and they must always contain the custom-
ary fee of Five Dollars, or they cannot be attended to.
  N. B.—Persons visiting New York, can always  hear
respecting Dr. H. by calling on T. W. Strong, 98 Nassau
Street, his publisher, who will know if he is'then in town
or not, and will give the address of his office.  In the
changes constantly occurring in  New York, removals fre-
quently occur,  which makes this  precaution advisable.
Dr. Hollick's present office is 348 Broadway.
                                            P. H. 
DR.  HOLLICK,
 Is  fully provided with all the Apparatus necessary for
 treating any of the " Cases " referred to in his  works,
 or he can supply them, if required, for private use.  All
 Instruments which patients may wish to possess themselves
 of will be furnished to them at Cost Price.
  It will be observed that Dr. H.'s practice is not a vene-
 real practice, but is confined  to cases of debility,  decay,
 or natural imperfection of the Sexual and  Nervous  Sys-
 tems, in both sexes.  Venereal cases are not desired.
  ngUr*  To  persons at a distance Dr. H. can  suggest a
plan by which the necessary Microscopical examinations
can be conducted without their leaving  home, when  that
is inconvenient, so that the proper treatment can be indi-
cated, and medicine sent, without a personal interview.
  N. B.—Persons sending money by Post should care-
fully seal  the Letters,  and take a list of the Bills, their
Nos., what Bank, &c, and it is best to have the Letter
Registered at the Post Office,  as containing money,  which
by a recent law can now be done.
               " Dr. F. Hollick,
                    Box, 3606,  Post Office,
                              New York City, N. Y. 
PART  I.
    GENERAL REMARKS





              ON






CHASTITY AND LICENTIOUSNESS;





      INTRODUCTORY TO THE






         "CASES." 
 
CHAPTER  I.
   THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL EFFECTS OF CONTINENCE.


  By Continence, is meant a voluntary abandonment of
sexual indulgences, in those who are capable of, and who
have a desire for them.  When a person abstains simply
from  want of inclination  for such  pleasures it is  called
Chastity, which differs from continence inasmuch as it re-
quires no effort.
  Chastity is a natural condition for many, owing to peculi-
arity of constitution, and is therefore both proper and bene-
ficial.  Continence on the contrary is an unnatural  strug-
gle, against one of the strongest animal instincts,  and is
always more or less  injurious, as every attempt to evade
the laws  of our being must be.
  Every  living thing,  Vegetable as well as Animal, has, at
some period or other of its existence, a desire, or tendency,
towards the opposite sex, and this desire or tendency should
be gratified, both for the purposes of procreation and also
because it is necessary to the individual's own well being.
  To praise and recommend absolute continence as a Vir-
tv£ is a great mistake, and to suppose that it can be really
practised, by those who are physically perfect,  is equally
a mistake!   It is true we hear of  it, and  possibly some
persons  think they  really are absolutely continent, but
most  assuredly they deceive themselves.  Some of these.;
persons are really Impotent, and  give themselves credit for
Continence  when in fact they are only powerless; others
who forswear natural  indulgence either abandon  them-
selves to disgusting habits, a thousand times  worse,  or
suffer from unnatural pollutions. 
2            THE PHYSICAL  AND  MORAL
    There is a period of life, in all  perfect organizations,
  when sexual  indulgence  becomes an actual  necessity, as
  much so as food or drink.   In some organizations  this
  necessity is of course  much  stronger  than in  others,  and
  the consequences of not obeying it are in them proportion-
  ably  increased.   In  such persons we often observe  the
  most singular Mental eccentricities, and sometimes even
  moral perversity, carried to excess,  and not unfrcquently
  ending in mania, melancholy, suicide, or crime.   The phy-
  sician often sees, in cases  of forced continence, the most
  hideous exhibitions  of  Nymphomania,  Satyriasis, Pria-
  f'ism, and  Erotomania, not unfrequently  terminating in
  nsanity or death.
   Besides mental and moral  perversions, Continence also
 originates  many  physical derangements, such as various
 infirmities of the Genital  and Urinary organs,  softening
 and inflammation of the  brain  or spinal marrow,  with
 wasting of  the flesh, and fever.
   The celebrated Esquirol remarks, that most of the  in-
 sane persons  who come from Convents,  exhibit morbid
 amative tendencies.  And  Mathieu gives us an instance,
■in his Etudes Clinique sur les Maladies des femmes  of a
 young girl who was attacked with  Nymphomania after a
 lit of religious fervor, and  probably from  previous undue
 restraint.  Many of the so called Perfectionists in religion
 especially those who exhibit the phenomena of TbaW
 or Convulsions, have confessed that  during their fits  of
 excitement they experienced the liveliest sexual  emotions.
 And 1 have heard similar confessions  made to me  bv
 those who have been excited in the same way at love feasts
 and protracted meetings.                   J  wejiasis,
  In short in all  case's where the  natural propensities are
 »^rfy restrained, especially  from  mistake^  relTgioS
 view   there is a constant liability to such exhibition  of
Erotic furor, which are often mistaken, even by the indi-
viduals themselves, for genuine devotional fervor
JJT W^.are c™ ^out details of this kind should
read the writings  of Hecquet, who had many opportunities
of becoming acquainted with, these religious eSsksS
In my  own practice I  have had similar facts c^mmuntt 
EFFECTS OF CONTINENCE.
3
ted perhaps equally curious, and equally instructive, some
of which  will be given in another place.   In all my ex-
perience, and it has been extensive, 1 have never known a
female who was subject to  fits of intense religious excite-
ment, such as we often see at Camp Meetings,  but who
either  had some  uterine disease,  or was naturally of an
ardent amative temperament.
  I have often seen the characters of these  Devotes change
in the most extraordinary manner,  under a proper course
of medical treatment, so that their church  friends accused
them of backsliding, and attributed  the  change to  the in-
fluence of Satan! Many others I have also seen changed
in a similar manner, on being married; and  in  one such
instance the husband was accused of leading his wife from
religion.
  The old Ascetics, who swore to practice perfect conti-
nence, have left us many records of their  daily and nightly
struggles against nature, and  of their remarkable amative
hallucinations,—for which, by the  way, they  often were
called Saints.
  This is  particularly seen in the records  left by Ascetic
Females, whose lucubrations are curious compounds, half
pious half erotic, betraying either uterine disease or intense
warmth of sexual feeling.
  Many  Medical writers have  testified, after long and
careful observation, that uterine furor is very general among
those females who resist all amative impulses from religi-
ous motives.  And not unfrequently, in spite of all their
severe chastity, nature overpowers conviction, so that the
poor victim of a so called  virtue is constrained, in spite
of herself, to betray her real condition.  In more than one
instance, during  uncontrollable  erotic furor,  exhibitions,
and advances, of  the most  libidinous character have been
made unwittingly, by those  renowned for having conquer-
ed all fleshly lusts.  So much so in  fact is this the case
that, in France, it is  a common proverb that the Convent
and the Confessional are the Parents of Hysteria and Nym-
phomania !
  The terrible struggle which  many estimable females
maintain in this way is most extraordinary, and not unfre- 
4
THE  PHYSICAL AND MORAL
 quently terminates in Insanity or death,—though those
 around them have no  idea that  any unusual  effort  has
 been required on their part.
   In short sexual approach is a necessity of the organiza-
 tion, and those who practice undue continence will always
 suffer a variety of evils from which those who do not are
 free.  It  is  also the foundation of Marriage, one of  the
 fundamental Institutions of civilized  society, and equally
 beneficial to individuals and to the community at large.
 Continence  is of  course opposed  to this institution, and
 should therefore be discountenanced by all well wishers of
 our race.
   Statistics  prove that  married persons on an average,
 are longer lived than single ones, and my own  observation
 has  convinced me that they are more exempt  from dis-
 ease.  So well convinced were the ancients of this that
 they erected a statue to Hymen, the God of marriage, with
 this inscription " To Hymen, who prolongs youth ! "
   According to statistical  reports it appears that while,
 in a  given  time,  among single men  between 25 and 45
 years of age, 28 will die out  of  every  hundred,  among
 married men of the same age only 18 die out of  the hund-
 red !
   It  appears  also that for  every  78 married  men who
 attain 48  years of age there are only  40 single ones who
 do so, and as we advance further  in life  the difference is
 still  more striking.   Thus out  of every hundred married
 men 48 will live to be 60  years  old, but  in a hundred
 single men only 22 will attain  that period  of life.  And
 at 80 years of age we find nine married  men, to only
 three single ones.
   Among females the difference is still greater in favor
of the  married, notwithstanding  the many dangers  of
maternity, and they are also less subject to disease.
   As a further proof of this important truth, it is found
that out of  every  hundred suicides sixty-seven are single
and  only thirty-three married !  And  in  seventeen hund-
red and twenty-six Insane, also nine hundred and eighty
are single  and only seven hundred and forty-six married.
   It is true that the unmarried state may not necessarily 
EFFECTS OF CONTINENCE.
5
be a state of Continence, but it must  either be that or a
Btate  of illicit or  unnatural  indulgence, either of which
is injurious.
  Many of the diseases and  infirmities arising from Con-
tinence are attributed to other causes, both by people gen-
erally and also by  Medical men, who have not made these
matters their study.   This  is  especially  the  case with
young females, whose -natural  modesty induces them to
carefully conceal the truth, even if  they fully  perceive it
themselves.   A crowd of  hysterical  and nervous derange-
ments are  originated in this  way, besides  various uterine
diseases.
  In describing Chlorosis, or the green sickness, which is
often  the result of  forced Continence, a celebrated French
writer gives us the following touching picture,  true to the
Life.—" See that young female with pale wax-like cheeks,
languishing sunken eyes, and tottering steps, hanging her
head like a withered flower, her heart palpitating and her
breathing interrupted by  heavy sighs.  Her digestion is
bad, her appetite capricious, and she has an unnatural
tendency  to  eat strange  unusual substances,  which she
often  craves  in the  most  urgent manner.  If allowed to
remain in this state too long  she will continue to languish,
and at last descend prematurely to the tomb.   Let her
mam/ however, to the being she has constantly seen in
her dreams,  and  health  returns like glorious  day at the
rising of the sun.   The roses soon  return to her cheeks,
happiness brightens her eyes, and a pure wholesome blood
rushes gaily through her veins."
   Such pictures are daily to be seen, though none but ex-
perienced eyes detect their  meaning.  In the other sex
also we  have similar experience but  not so  frequently,
owing to less innate modesty, and more facility  for grati-
fication.
   In  history also,  as well as  in modern experience, we find
numerous instances of the  evil effects of undue Continence,
some of which are worthy of being referred to.  Hippo-
crates saved the life of a young Prince, who  was fading
away from some  unknown  cause,  by advising  his mar-
riage with the young female he loved, and the  same ser- 
6
THE  PHYSICAL AND MORAL
 vice was also rendered to another young Prince by Era-
 Bistratus.  The celebrated Galen likewise,  being called to
 treat the daughter of a noble house, who was pining away,
 detected  at once that  she  was a victim of forced  conti-
 nence, and he assured her father that nothing but marriage
 could save her life.  Much against his will he had to Con-
 sent, his daughter refusing to marry  any other than  a
 young plebeian, with whom she was  in love.  The result
 proved however that, though  pride  was sacrificed, health
 was repaired and life saved.
   In that interesting work the Physiologic des passions,
 we find a curious instance of the same kind.  The subject,
 a young lady, was intended  by her parents for &-Nwi, but
 having  an ardent Uterine  Temperament the idea was ex-
 tremely distasteful  to her, and she became seriously sick
 from grief and apprehension.   At first  she fell into  a dull
 stupor, from which she roused  only to pass through  all the
 stages of Hysteria,  and Nymphomania,  till her  reason
 seemed almost gone.   That skilful physician Alibert being
 called in he saw as a glance what was the cause of her
 sickness, and promptly told her parents  that  she must
 marry or die!  Their love for their child was fortunately
 stronger than their  fanaticism, and  they consented to her
 marriage.  She at once recovered and became a  happy
 healthy wife and mother.
  In such cases the natural  action of the  Genital organs
 is indispensable to  the health of all other parts of the
 system, and their forced inaction is  highly prejudicial.—
 The Physiological reason for  this, and  also  the rules by
 which indulgence should be regulated will be found in the
 " Marriage Guide."
  The evil consequences of Celibacy, whether  it be ac-
 companied by actual  Continence or not, are as  great per-
 haps to  society as to the individual, a  fact which  many
 lawgivers have recognized.   In the sacred writings of the
5STS  fie,Hnn?-°u°S' the Chinese' the  Hebrews8 and the
Turks, we find Celibacy expressly condemned, and in  some
 t   ?! ISfeVnenrltated that  the souls of tuo*e who Z
 m  a  state  of  Celibacy will not enter  heaven,  but wiU
 wander eternally on earth.   To  avoid this  it was custom 
EFFECTS OF  CONTINENCE.            1
ary to  marry the dead, before they were burnt.   The old
Romans, and the Greeks, had express laws against Celi-
bacy, and so harrassed  those who practised  it that the
offence was quite rare.
  Lycurgus excluded those who practised Celibacy from
all civil and military employments, forbade them  attend- •
ing the public amusements and branded them as infamous.
At certain solemn  fetes they were also exposed to the
ridicule of the  populace, who promenaded them around
the public places with shouts and laughter, while the wo-
men tore their faces and struck them with small whips.
  A curious  instance of the contempt which was shown
for the unmarried is found in Spartan History. It is well
known what extreme reverence these people had  for their
old men, who were invariably saluted  with respect by the
young whenever they met.   On one occasion  however, an
old man was refused the customary mark of respect by a
youth, of  whom he  accordingly complained, to the magis-
trates.  The  youth on  hearing the accusation admitted
its truth, but replied, "  this old man has never married,—
how then  can he demand marks of respect from me when
he  will  leave no children to  show them to me, when I am
old ?"  This reason was  deemed good, and the old man
was sent away  with  contempt.
   The Laws of Plato tolerated Celibacy" in men  only till
the thirty-fifth year, and in females only till  the twenty-
fifth,—after these periods they were socially outlawed.
   A Roman Citizen  could not testify in any case till he
replied in the affirmative  to this  question—" on  thy soul
and conscience art thou married ? "
   Under  Julius Ceasar, and many of  the other Emperors,
laws were passed to degrade those who did not marry, and
to reward those who did.
   Even in the  Romish Church, among the Priests, Celi-
bacy is comparatively  a  modern Institution, and except
in as far as it  makes the Church itself more powerful, it
 has always been objected to.
    In fact Celibacy is  an unmitigated evil to society, as
 Continence is to the individual.  A forced abstinence from
 natural indulgence  leads to disease or unnatural abuses, 
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THE  PHYSICAL  AND  MORAL
 while a neglect of marriage leads to licentiousness and
 prostitution.   In all cases where a nation has become viti-
 ated by luxury and vice it has disregarded marriage, as
 we see in the  decline of the Roman  Empire, and of the
 Grecian communities.
   In giving these remarks I presume no apology is  need-
 ed, at least not to those who think, because their utility
 must be apparent.   I will now proceed to give some  cases
 from ray note book, confirmatory of the statements above
 made.
   To the  prudish,  and to those who are governed by old
 prejudice  against such  discussions, I  recommend the fol-
 lowing passage from Montaigne.
   " What is there then in the Genital act, necessary and
 natural as it is, which should  cause it to be proscribed as
a subject for rational conversation ?  We pronounce  com-
monly enough the words kill, steal, filthy, and Adulterous,
but must not name the act by which  our lives begin, and
by which the race  is continued !  Oh false modesty !—oh
shameful hypocrisy !"
        CASES  FROM MY  NOTE BOOK,

    UNDUE CONTINENCE, FROM WORLDLY PRUDENCE.

  The first case which I extract from my notes  is a good
type of a large class,—those who are continent from  pru-
dential motives, and who think  to avoid complying  with
the requirements of nature without suffering permanent
inconvenience.
  Case I.—The  subject of this case was a Lawyer,  aged
thirty-one. of good constitution, and of active Tempera-
ment.   When he applied to me his general health was not
much  affected, but from various  unusual symptoms he had
begun to be somewhat alarmed.
  I found on  enquiry that he was naturally very amative,
but at the same time very prudent, and  uncommonly fond
of money.  He had made up his  mind not to marry till 
EFFECTS OF CONTINENCE.
9
he had secured a fortune, and was able to support a family
in good style.  This he expected to do before he was forty,
and in the mean time  sexual gratification was to be fore-
sworn.
   His fear of consequences, and of exposure, kept him from
illicit intercourse, except very rarely, and he had too much
good sense to practice self abuse, except when quite young.
He entertained the notion, as many others do, that his
reproductive powers could be held in abeyance as it were,
and yet be  found ready when he could afford to employ
them.  In fact I have no  doubt but he  promised himself
extra indulgence then to make up for his prudential re-
straint.
   The only serious inconvenience experienced  up to his
twenty-eighth  year was  nightly  emissions,  which  some-
what  affected  his mind, making  him, as he expressed it,
not quite so bright as usual.  These however became gra-
dually less frequent, but the effects increased!  His mem-
ory especially began to fail, and  also his power of  appli-
cation, so that he had to drive himself to his work, instead
of making it a pleasure, as formerly.
   At times he would  feel nearly as well  and energetic as
ever he did, but then  would follow a period  of terrible
depression and languor, which he  was strongly tempted to
relieve by using stimulants, but fortunately did not.
   His consolation was in thinking that he could keep on
at least as well as  he was,  until the hoped for period of
his retirement,  when  all would come right again.  The
symptoms had however become  so much more strongly
marked, and his periods of  depression, or fits of the hor-
rors  as he  called them, so  much more  frequent, and so
much longer in their  duration, that he began to fear he
might be too far gone  to recover.
   In this state he  called upon me, and  I found he had a
tolerable idea of his  condition,  though unwilling  to do
what nature demanded. " I know," said he, " that I ought
to marry for my health's sake, but my business is not yet
in a satisfactory state, and I cannot be troubled now with
domestic matters, they would unsettle my mind, though I 
10           THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL
have  no doubt I should be very happy with a wife and
family."
   In  vain I argued  with him  on the  folly of such a
course,  and tried to show him of how much  more conse-
quence his health and happiness were than any aimunt of
mere money ; he tacitly agreed with me, but unfortunately
had the idea  that he could still  hold  over by the help of
Medicine !
   I told him  unhesitatingly that this  was a vain depend-
ance, and that I should only deceive  him  if I made him
any promise that would favor it.   The utmost that could
be done, I fully  assured him, was, to  correct the evil al-
ready done sufficient  to  make marriage proper, so that
nature herself might have a chance to work.   His sexual
powers had become considerably impaired, but still were
capable of renovation, by  judicious treatment and con-
duct, if  such  renovation were advisable.  It would how-
ever  have been  useless to restore his  powers unless they
were to  be naturally employed, because they would other-
wise fail again worse than ever.
  In spite of all however, he determined to try his pow-
ers of endurance still  further, and accordingly procured a
Nervous stimulant which was recommended  to him and
kept on as before.   I lost sight of him for about nine
months, and then receiving a letter dated from a celebra-
ted water-cure establishment, informing  me that he was
worse, and that he would  shortly come on  to consult  me
again.
  The Letter states—" I found  myself so much  worse
about four months ago that I was compelled to leave my
business, and  abandon the medication I had til! then per-
sisted in.  In my despair I came on here, to  try the cure
all treatment, but to my sorrow it has failed  also.   I am
worse and growing worse!   You can have  no idea my
dear  sir what I  have suffered, and yet with  little or no
bodily ailing, at least none that is  very  apparent.  Day
after day have  I sat in my office trying  in vain to fix
my mind on a case.   I could  not  do it to save my life.—
My mind  would fly to the stars or to the depths  of the
sea, or even lose itself altogether, but would  not fix upon 
              EFFECTS OF  CONTINENCE.            11

what I wished to study.  After hours spent in these vain
attempts I would rush out in a state of absolute despair,
and conceal myself, from very shame and vexation.  And
then oh ! who can imagine the torture I underwent ?  You
may my dear sir, from  haying seen so many Similar cases,
but others I am  sure cannot,  and I would rather die than
attempt to explaiu my condition to my friends.
  My head has also  begun to pain me,  especially in the
back part of it, and  is constantly full and heavy, as if
packed  with  lead,—my eyes often  become  dim, and a
rushing sound fills my ears, till I  become quite confused.
Latterly also I have suffered considerably from palpitation
of the heart, and my bowels and stomach are quite irregu-
lar in their action.   The emissions I have not seen now
for six months, and this I think must be a  good sign.  I
am however troubled  with a very frequent  desire to urin-
ate, and my water is often thick and  cloudy.
  Now my dear Doctor I am determined to  follow your
advice, providing you can sufficiently restore me !  There
however is a  new apprehension,  my sexual  powers and
desires have  decidedly lessened, especially  since  I have
used the cold water, and I  begin  to  fear I never  can
marry)—in which  case I say solemnly  I do  not  want to
live!  You must therefore be candid with  me  when I
come, and tell me the truth,  as nearly as you can, for I
wish to  know the worst at once.   As for the fortune let
it go to the dogs!  Only  let me  be again a man and I
care not what labor or privation is  before me, nor what
station I occupy.   Remember, therefore, your decision in
my  fate, but  do with me, and direct me, as  you choose.
I shall be with you in two weeks.   Yours,  &c."
  On seeing this Gentleman I found he really had, as he
remarked, gone  down hill at a rapid rate, and  I by no
means felt sanguine of his recovery.  From his excellent
constitution however, and from his  not having  been ex-
hausted by excesses  of any kind, I did not  despair,  but
put him at once under proper treatment.
  The worst sign was precisely that which he thought the
best, namely, the stopping of the nightly emissions.  I sus-
pected at once that the  discharges still occurred, but in 
12
THE  PHYSICAL AND MORAL
 another and unseen form, much more dangerous.   I ex-
 plained to him how, in sJch cases, the semen began at last
 to flow out with the urine, by which  means so much was
 lost that the ordinary emissions  ceased altogether.   This
 was a new light to him, and he at once  called to mind a
 number of symptoms which seemed to prove my position.
 To make it certain however I at once submitted a portion
 of the urine to microscopical examination, as is  my cus-
 tom, and the  result left no doubt as to  the existence of
 the trouble.   The urine in the morning contained an im-
 mense quantity of semen,  and I  found that more or less
 escaped every time the bladder was emptied.
  On reading my  book on  The  Male Generative  Organs,
 which he had not  seen  before, the truth  broke  at once
 upon  him, and he remarked  that if  he had perused that
 work  earlier,  particularly the part  referring  to  seminal
 losses, he should not have delayed as he had done.
  The first thing to be done was to remove the irritability
 and relaxation of the seminal Ducts, which was  the im-
 mediate cause of the semen flowing  out with the  urine.
 This  was effected  by  Cauterizing,  the  case  being one
 which properly admitted of that operation.   The  result
 was perfectly satisfactory, the urinary losses  ceasing en-
 tirely, so that the old nightly emissions again commenced,
 at intervals, and his desires and powers  evidently began
to return.   The administration of my Aphrodisiac Rem-
edy with  strict  attention  to diet, and  general hygienic
measures, made the improvements still more manifest, but
it was necessary  for him to abandon business altogether,
and live perfectly at ease.
  In six months he was decidedly restored, to a very great
 extent, though not fully to the condition he enjoyed orig-
inally.  1  saw however that the system could  recuperate
 its energies, to a great extent, sufficient in short to allow
 of his marrying  with physiological propriety, providing
 he continued in  the proper course, which  he  was deter-
 mined to do.
  In ten months after my seeing him he did  marry, and
the result was very satisfactory.  He is now  the happy
 Father of two healthy children, and  in the enjoyment of 
EFFECTS OF CONTINENCE.
13
very tolerable health himself.  His sexual powers however
are inferior  to what they ought to  be, and to what they
would have  been had  he married earlier, but  still,  as he
expresses in one of his Letters,  sufficient for the mutual
happiness of himself and partner.  His  mind  has, to a
great extent, recovered its powers, but he is not even now
capable  of  any continued  mental  efforts, as in former
times.
   Here then is the  result, under favorable circumstances.
If this man had not been properly instructed in regard to
his case, in time, he would have become,  incurably,  hope-
lessly, powerless and  probably insane, unless his bodily
deterioration had terminated  his  existence.  As it  is he
has now a reasonable  prospect of existence and of con-
siderable enjoyments of life, though probably in a  much
less degree, and for a shorter time than he otherwise would.

    UNDUE  CONTINENCE, FROM MISTAKEN  NOTIONS OF
                       RELIGION.

   This  was a minister of the Gospel,  a man of earnest
piety, and of the most perfect self-denying character.   He
oonceived the idea  that it  was  his duty to  fly from all
fleshly lusts, and devote himself entirely to his  religious
ministrations.  This he did  most scrupulously, till he was
twenty-seven  years  old,  though  with  hard  struggling
against  the promptings of sin.   " I have," said he, " pass-
ed entire nights  combatting my evil thoughts, and resist-
ing those physical  manifestations  which indicate  our
earthly  longings.  In  spite of all my efforts however, I
realise too forcibly how weak we are, and what an empire
the old  Adam has over our souls.  Of myself I see  too
well I can do but little, and my sole dependance is upon
assistance from above."—
   With this man it was much more difficult to deal, ow-
ing to his peculiar  notions about sin.  I could only  tell
him that, in his circumstances, the sin really lay, accord-
ing to my notions, in what  he considered his  only virtue,
and that both his well being and his power of doing good
depended entirely upon his obeying  the laws of nature. 
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THE  PHYSICAL AND MORAL
   His principal reason for applying to me was the singu-
 lar  state of his  feelings, and a peculiar distress in his
 head.  He was subject  at times to fits of excitement of
 the  most violent character, without any apparent provo-
 cation, and even when quite alone.   At such  times he
 could not rest, but seemed impelled to move quickly about
 in spite of himself,  while  anger and rage, he  knew not
 what for, filled his mind.  At other times on the contrary
 he fell into a state of dreamy languor, or menial torpor, so
 profound that he was scarcely conscious of his own'exist-
 ence, and utterly indifferent to anything that occurred.
  Before any of these  attacks he  usually experienced a
 buzzing  in the ears, with a throbbing  in the large veins
 of the neck  accompanied by  a redness  of the eyes and a
 kind of whirling in  the brain, which  occasionally  even
 made him feel quite giddy.
  In all respects the life of this man  was irreproachable.
 He was strictly temperate in  eating and drinking,  took
 plenty of exercise in the open air, and cultivated a cheer-
 ful contented tone of mind.   His general health too, until
 quite recently, had been  quite fair,  with the exception of
 a constipated state of the bowels.
  His Genital  development was perfect, and his amative
 propensity quite strong,  or, physiologically speaking, he
 formed a large quantity of Semen, the excess  of which
 nature intended to  be expelled according to the laws of
his organization.  This  natural expenditure not going on
however a constant struggle became necessary, the organs
 trying to retain the fluid with which they were overbur-
dened, but being compelled at times to allow it to escape,
 in the form of nightly emissions.  This overcharged  con-
dition of the Seminal  organs kept Hie brain also in a  con-
stant state of excitement, from the powerful efforts requir-
ed to overcome the feelings and desires engendered by the
 Seminal stimulus.   And in this way was produced  the
different moral paroxysms into which he was plunged.
  It was with difficulty I could make him see and admit
his actual condition, and on no account would he  admit
that  the  natural rem-dy I advised was necessary.   He
had made up his mind to a life of Celibacy let the conse- 
EFFECTS OF CONTINENCE.            15
quences be what they might, and he merely wished me to
give him medicines to palliate his  troubles and to deaden
his sexual feelings, so that they would not require so much
effort to overcome them.
  This I of course refused to do, because it required more
or less injury to the organs  themselves, and my duty was
to heal, not to hurt.   I candidly told him, that as long as
his organization  remained perfect  those feelings must  be
experienced, and  that a3 long as he persisted in his  celi-
bacy he would always have the same trouble in struggling
against them.  As to injuring  the organs, or checking  tlieir
action, as  he expressed it, I of  course refused to do any
thing of  the kind.
  Finding that my views of duty would not allow me to
treat him as he wished  he  left, and for a time I heard
nothing  of him.    Afterwards I learnt  however  that
some of his admirers,—and he had  many of them,—sent
him on a voyage  to Europe, in  the  hope  that change of
scene and air would benefit him.   This however  did  no
good, and finally he died in a private Lunatic Asylum, in
France, after suffering intensely  both in body and mind.

                 A VICTIM TO BUSINESS.

  This  was a mercantile Gentlemen,  who remained un-
married till his forty-fifth year, when he retired from  busi-
ness, with a  hundred thousand dollars, and  married a
young Lady with whom  he had kept company for nearly
fifteen years.  For the previous six or seven  years he had
suffered,  more or  less, in the same way as the Gentleman
in the first case, but as his business was well regulated, and
he had excellent  agents, his own  deficiencies were not so
apparent, neither to himself nor to  others.   His stomach
and bowels had become very  irregular, and he was troub-
led with an almost constant desire  to urinate, but other-
wise his bodily health was quite passable.
  In regard to his sexual powers he admitted that for the
last three years he had experienced a sensible diminution,
so much so in fact that he scarcely ever felt any desire at
all.   Formerly he was accustomed,  at irregular intervals 
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THE  PHYSICAL AND MORAL
to have illicit indulgence, which had doubtless delayed his
decay  considerably,  but when about forty-one  years of
age he unfortunately attended a Lecture on  Amativeness,
by a Phrenologist.
   In this Lecture he was told that all sexual connexions,
except for the purpose of procreation, was improper, and
that the true way to preserve the  generative powers was
not to  use them, except for that  purpose.   Tie according-
ly practised the  strictest continence after  this, and  found
that his amative propensity became gradually weaker, till
at last it seemed almost entirely extinguished.   He con-
soled himself however  by thinking that all  would  come
right at  his marriage,  and  that  his present state of rest,
would  only give  him greater power afterwards.
  Neither he nor  the  Phrenologist, whom he consulted,
were aware that Urinary Spermatorrhoea had taken  place,
in consequence  of  his  continued  Continence,   and that
his sexual organs had nearly become powerless.   Such
however was the case, and to his horror he foundkon his
marriage that he was nearly Impotent !
  The  state of mind of a man so  circumstanced may be
better  imagined  than described.   " Here I am "—said he
to me, " a poor, wealthy, imbecile wretch !   In my senseless
pursuit of riches I have lost that which all the wealth in
the world cannot recompense me for.  Had I known ten
years ago what I have since learnt from your book, (The
Male Organs,) I  should now have been fifty thousand dol-
lars poorer in money  perhaps, but a healthy perfect  man!
I might also have become a proud and happy Father, which
alas I now never expect to be."
  This was one of  the most unpromising cases I  ever had
to deal with, as I candidly told him, but still I undertook
to do the best I could.
  By means of  a good  tonic regimen and diet, sea  bath-
ing,  Champooing  of the Genitals,  and the use of the
Aphrodisiac  Remedy, he began  in three months to have
some slight indications  of power, and in  six months  much
stronger indications.   It was not possible  however to
make a permanent restoration, because the Testes were con-
siderably wasted!  They were not so far  gone  as  to be 
EFFECTS OF  CONTINENCE.
17
                        ¥
totally inactive, but it took them a long time to form any
considerable quantity of Semen, which of course made his
periods of power and inclination very rare.
  Even what he did gain, small  though it was, was much
more than he ever expected, for he fully believed he was
incurable and totally impotent.   Had I seen him two years
before  I would have answered with  my life  for making
him comparatively perfect, for I gathered from what he
told  me  that no  wasting  of the Testes  had then taken
place, and till that occurs no case is Iwpeless.
  In addition to  these I could quote a  large  number of
other cases, to  show  the evils of undue continence, and
especially some  very curious ones in  young females, who
were brought to me as being Chlorotic, and Hysterical, but
these are quite sufficient for my present purpose.   I have
had a Priest, who declaimed against sexual indulgence as
improper, and who adduced  his own case as a proof that
Continence was possible, came to me to be cured of a
loathsome infirmity  which  that  very .continence  had
caused.
CHAPTER  II.
  THE CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL EXCESSES AND ABUSES.

  These consequences are much more frequently seen than
those of  Continence, and people are more generally aware
that they are of a hurtful character, though the actual
extent and nature of the injuries  resulting from them are
not suspected.
  From a variety of causes, many of which are but little
known, a majority of human beings are addicted to excess
in sexual indulgences, and to various unnatural modes of
gratification.  The reason for this  is a matter deserving 
18         SEXUAL EXCESSES  AND ABUSES.
 of earnest investigation, though unfortunately it has hith-
 erto received but little attention.  The Theologian is con-
 tent to ascribe these, in common with  all other  human
 frailties, to Original Sin, and seeks their source only in a
 depraved  soul.   But the enlightened student  of  human
 nature as it really is, recognizes various direct and indirect
 influences, some belonging to the individuals own Organi-
 zation,  and others to  the objects and circumstances by
 which he is surrounded.   These influences  often  impel
 man to that course of conduct which his reason  condemns,
 and which produces untold misery and pain.
   Among these influences may  be mentioned Hereditary
 Tendency, Excessive development or  morbid irritability
 of the Genital  organs, vicious associations,  stimulating
 food and drink, and various  social institutions more or less
 opposed to nature's requirements.
  In those persons who have little or no knowledge of
 the consequences of sexual abuse these influences operate
 almost unchecked, but in those who  have such knowledge
 the fear of those consequences operates  more or less as  a
 restraint.   The influence however is frequently  so power-
 ful as to overcome all such restraints, and the victim falls
into the gulph with his eyes wide open, but still impelled
by a force from which he has neither the power nor the
desire to  escape.  There is  good  reason  to  believe that
sexual excesses and abuses produce, directly or indirectly,
by  far the largest part  of  human suffering  and disease,
much more in fact than all  other causes that  can be enu-
merated.  People  generally only observe the more palp-
able and direct  consequences of these vices, while the in-
direct results of them  are lost sight of, or attributed to
other causes.
 _ The  sympathies of the sexual Organs are  both exten-
sive and  conjplicated, in consequence of which their de-
rangements often affect remote parts of the system, and in
many different ways, appearing like so many different dis-
eases.  This is especially  exemplified in Venereal diseases,
 and particularly in Syphylis, the different stages and here-
ditary modifications of which, extending  as they may do
over several generations, are only just now bein«- under- 
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stood even Ly medical men.   (On this point I would refer
my readers to my Treatise on Venereal Diseases, in which
all this is fully explained.)
   The connexion between the Sexual Organs and the Ner-
vous System, especially the  Brain,  is another important
matter, also but little studied or understood, and yet it is
of the most  overwhelming importance.    Not  only may
the bodily health of human  beings be affected by peculi-
arities in  the  action and development  of their Sexual
organs, but the tone and  ability of their Minds, and also
their moral tendencies are under  the same influences.
   It is requisite, for the welfare of society, perhaps even
for its very existence, that certain actions should be called
virtuous, and be held up to praise, and that others  of an
opposite tendency,  should be called  vicious, and be con-
demned.   Every one is interested in the maintenance of
that moral order which experience has shown to be most
productive of human happiness, and  we must  therefore,
as rational beings,  approve  of  whatever is favorable to
the maintenance of that order,  and disapprove  of what-
ever militates against it.   It may be  requisite,  with this
end in view, to condemn, or even to punish, in many cases
where our  consciences so far from blaming, see only  cause
for pity and regret.   The regulation of society must have
for its end the general good, and to secure this it is  often
the case that individuals are sacrificed to expediency.
   Thus,  for  instance,  a  particular  crime, or  immoral
action, is  punished the same  in all who commit it, though
we know that it must have been much  more  criminal,
properly  speaking,  in some  than in  others.   Thus for,
instance, in sexual immorality the degree of culpability,
properly measured,  must be infinitely varied for  the same
offence, though all are punished for it alike.
  Some human beings are strongly impelled to seek sex-
ual indulgence from the peculiarity of their organization,
from disease, or from hereditary tendency, while  others on
the contrary are but slightly impelled,  and others  even
avoid it, except at rare  intervals.  It is  therefore evident
that, und?r the same circumstances, the effort of self-denial,
or resistance to temptation, is required to be much greater 
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 in some cases than in others, and of course the possibility
 of successfully resisting the temptation is proportionably
 less.
   Society however cannot  consider these distinctions, be-
 cause it is impossible to ascertain the  relative degrees of
 criminality, and therefore similar criminal acts must entail
 similar penalties on all alik<2.
   The institution of rewards and punishments has become
 such  a fundamental principle in  our  social order  that,
 whatever we may, in many  cases, think of its abstract jus-
 tice, we cannot consent to its being abolished.  Till better
 motives than fear, and the  hope of reward  can be gener-
 ally instilled we  must not do away with these, for if we
 do we shall have nothing to fall back upon.
   The Philosophic mind, which traces cause and effect, and
 which draws its conclusions from reasoning, and* not from
 passion, must often pity the criminal as a victim, and con-
 scientiously exonerate him from all moral blame even when
 admitting the necessity  for his punishment,—so true  it is
 that our Social duties and  requirements are  often at vari-
 ance with our conscientious convictions.  As Individuals,
 in our own hearts we must often have cluirity, or  even
 commiseration., for those that social duty compels  us to
 condemn ;  and, in fact, with reflective minds this is ordin-
 arily the case.
   These remarks I have made to prevent the possibility
 of my being misunderstood, or  misrepresented.   In  the
 course of this book I shall  show numerous causes dispos-
 ing, or even impelling, human beings to immoral acts, and
 which causes many cannot escape from.  I do not wish it
 to be understood however  that  I advocate,  on this ac-
 count any  radical change  in our  conduct towards  these
 persons, for such acts, but merely that  we think of  them
 justly and charitably in our  own minds, and that we strive
to remove,  or modify such unfavorable causes, and so pre-
vent others being equally unfortunate.   As  men become
more  experienced the science of preventing  evil will be
generally studied, and then such  inconsistencies as I have
alluded to will gradually cease.   The present little book,
I trust, will do something towards attracting attention to 
SEXUAL EXCESSES  AND  ABUSES.         21
these matters, and lead those who read it  to reflect and
reason on human frailties as well as condemn them.
   Sexual abuses  commence at a much earlier period of
life, in many cases, than is  usually supposed, and their in-
jurious effects are also much earlier experienced.  A pre-
cocious development of the Sexual organs, or a tendency
to preternatural exaltation  of the genital instinct is by no
means  uncommon,  and from either  cause the most injuri-
ous habits may be practised even in Infancy.  Many per-
sons suppose that such manifestations never commence till
the age of puberty, but this is a  mistake, they are some-
times observed, unmistakably, while  children are yet  in
their Nurse's arms.
   It is an error to suppose that no injury can result ex-
cept from a loss of Semen,  for long before that fluid has
begun to be formed both mind and body may be irretriev-
ably ruined, by nervous excitement and exhaustion.  This
is of necessity the case with females, who form no Semen,
and it is also equally the case with males, though few per-
sons are aware of the fact.
  One of the most obvious principles of  Animal Physi-
ology is, that no vital action whatever  can occur except
through the agency of the  Nervous power,—whether  we
think, eat, digest,  walk, or  speak,  every muscle  is moved,
every secretion is  produced, and every idea is eliminated
by the stimulus of the mysterious Nervous fluid, the grand
excitant  and moving power in all Organic or Vital pro-
cesses.
  If the Nervous power be deficient in any organ, that
organ will work imperfectly, to a corresponding degree,
and if  it be  absent altogether the organ cannot work at
all, any more than a Steam  Engine can work without
Steam.   Any cause therefore which decreases the requisite
amount of nervous energy in the system  causes imperfect
or inefficient action,  either  locally or  generally, and thus
predisposes to disease and premature decay.
   We  require so much Nervous power to think, so much
to digest, so much for mascular exercise, and so much for
all the other organic processes, and in a  healthy condition
of the  system there is always  enough for the proper per- 
22         SEXUAL EXCESSES  AND  ABUSES.
 formance of them all.   If however any one  function be
 performed in an exaggerated degree, so as to exhaust more
 of the  nervous  power than properly should be expended
 upon it, the others must of necessity receive less than  they
 naturally should do, and must be imperfectly performed.
   Instances of this  kind are  often  seen among Business
 men, who expend so much of their  nervous power in in-
 tense mental exertion, owing to  pressure of business,  that
 they have not enough left to effect digestion, nutrition, and
 all the  other processes  necessary to the  maintenance and
 continuance of the system.  In consequence of which they
 become Dyspeptic, debilitated, and Impotent, and after liv-
 ing miserably they at last drop off, in an orthodox business
 way, long before they naturally  might be  expected to do
 so.
   Such men suppose that, Pills, Bitters, and  Stimulants,
 or a day or two  of relaxation once a year or so will make
 all right,—but they too often find out their mistake, and
 become first rate patients, always on the Books, and calcu-
 lated upon for so many  " hundreds "  a year, by their phy-
 sicians,  with as much certainty as his Bank is calculated
 upon by the Banker for his Dividends.
   In the same way other men think they can expend most
 of their nervous  power in Sexual excesses, and yet perform
 sufficiently well all the  ordinary organic functions at the
 same time, but they likewise discover their error, and fre-
 quently too late to retrieve it.
   The performance of the Generative act requires more
 Nervous power than perhaps any other organic fuuetion,
and of course it exhausts in a  corresponding degree.  So
also does mere Sexual excitement,  and therefore  indulg-
ence in either should be regulated on proper Physiological
 Srinciples, such as are laid down in my Book called "  The
 larriage Guide."  Excesses of this kind are the most inju-
rious of all, and the evils resulting from them are amongst
the most irremediable.                               °
   Different periods of life, as also different conditions of
the system, require different amounts of  Nervous  power
and also to have  it differently distributed.
   In Adults the  Body is only required to Maintain itself, 
SEXUAL EXCESSES  AND ABUSES.         23
 or to hold its own, but in Youth it must not only do this
 but also increase, or grow, to perfect itself.  There is there-
 fore required, at this  period an extra amount of nervous
 power, and if it is not supplied the body becomes, in con-
 sequence, imperfectly formed.  Anything therefore which
 causes great nervous  exhaustion  is peculiarly hurtful in
 youth, and its evil effects are seen afterwards throughout
 the whole of the individual's life.
   This is the reason why Sexual abuses are so very injuri-
 ous in young persons, and why their effects are "so often
 irremediable.   Numbers have their growth arrested in this
 way, and remain more or less dwarfed, or weakly develop-
 ed, while in  others  the internal organs are imperfectly
 formed, and  in consequence  always act imperfectly, thus
 causing a liability to Disease, and to premature old age, or
 untimely death !
   Such instances come every day under the notice of the
 observant Physician, and  are in fact every where  to be
 met  with,  though there are few  who  understand  them
 aright.   Those however who bear in  mind the Physi-
 ological principles above laid down, will be able to ex-
 plain  them, and to  comprehend why  our efforts to cure
 such evils so  often fail.
  No matter in what form Sexual abuses are  practised
 during youth the same consequences, to a greater or lesser
 degree, may be expected to follow, and, generally speak-
 ing the earlier  the abuses are practised  the  more serious
 are the after consequences,  because of the more imperfect
 stage at which  the system is arrested.   This  is the reason
 why  Infantile Masturbation,  in both sexes, is so hurtful.
 There is nothing  similar to the loss of Semen, of  later
 years, but there is  an equal, if not greater amount of ner-
vous excitement, and exhaustion, and for want of the power
thus wasted the system cannot perfect itself.
  In like manner Sexual abuses are extremely hurtful in
the decline of life,  because tlrm  there is a less amount of
Nervous  power elfrninat/'d, owing to the decaying energy
of the system, and anything which unduly exhausts it still
further hastens the period  of its final extinction.  Many
old men have experienced this to their cost, in expending 
 24        SEXUAL  EXCESSES AND ABUSES.

 as much vital power in one  Sexual act, imperfectly per-
 formed, as  would have sufficed for the ordinary purposes
 of existence for a month.
   In short it  is only after the system has perfected its
 growth, and before it begins to decay, that Sexual indulg-
 ences can be practised with impunity,  except in the most
 prudent and temperate manner.  In the prime of  life, with
 a perfect healthy acting body, there is more nervous power
 produced than the system requires merely to live with, and
 this surplus may be safely expended  in Sexual indulgence.
   But even at this age,  if exhausting labor have to be
 performed, whether bodily or mental, or if sickness makes
 an extra drain upon  the nervous  power, or lessens the
 quantity of it  produced, Sexual indulgences must be cor-
 respondingly abbreviated.
   These are the true  principles which should regulate the
 conduct of humau beings in these important matters, and
 just in proportion as they understand, and act upon them,
 will they be able to avoid those evils which ignorance, or
 inattention of. such things are  sure to entail upon them.
   I shall now proceed to detail a series of Cases, in illus-
 tration  of these matters,  taking them mostly as I find
 them in my note book, and  making  such comments, and
 explanations, as I may think requisite.  They are not ar-
 ranged systematically, so as to apply only to certain topics,
but are  taken  promiscuously,  to illustrate  all,  though I
shall endeavor to make some of the  first ones refer more
especially to the principles just laid down. 
MISCELLANEOUS  "CASES,"





          WITH






       NOTES





          AND





  EXPLANATIONS. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS  "CASES,"
                     WITH

NOTES  AND  EXPLANATIONS.
                    *'
              RETARDED DEVELOPMENT.

  This was  a  remarkable  instance of Retarded develop-
ment, from Masturbation, which, fortunately was partially
corrected, by the subject of it having his atfention awak-
ened in  time.  I shall first let  the individual  speak for
himself, and make my comments^ and explanations, when
I think most useful.

               To Dr. F. Hollick,
                         New York City, N. Y*
    " My dear Sir,
  " A short time ago I attended your Lectures on Parental
Physiology,  in  Philadelphia, and  from* hearing them I
have determined to address you.  I am one of those truly
pitiable  creatures of whom you spoke, in the early part
of  your  discourse, when referring to Infantile Masturba-
tion, and I am perhaps as painful an instance of the awful
effects of this practice as you ever saw.   When you first
spoke upon this subject, and pourtrayed the terrible after
consequences,  I was plunged jp despair, and truly felt desir-
ous to ' shuffle  off this  mortal coil' as sOon as possible,
for to live as I am is  impossible.   Your final remarks
* This Address will always find me, at any time. 
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MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
 however gave me some hopes that possibly it  might not
 be too late for me to  recover, at least,to some extent, aud
 it is for the purpose of having  your opinion on this point
 that I now address you.   On your opinion depends much,
 I assure you ;—I will not however  say  further on  this
 point, but proceed to my statement, which shall be full,
 and truthful, in every particular, though it has cost me a
 severe struggle to  make such  a  confession, and it never
 would have  been made  had I not heard you Lecture!
 From your excellent discourse however I felt full confi-
 dence, both in your skill and in your  kind  sympathy,  and
 I therefore reveal to you what  I  have hitherto concealed
 from  every human  being, and which,  had I not met with
 you I should have carried a secret to the grave.
   I am the son of  Parents well to do in the world,  and
 who have always, to the  best of their knowledge, striven
 to do  what was best for me.   Unfortunately however their
 kind  intentions were  but imperfectly realized, owing to
 their want of proper information.
   In early childhood I was very stout and robust, full of
 animal spirits, and  active to  an unusual degree.  Every-
 thing  seemed to  promise that  I  should grow  up a well
 developed man, but alas jul such expectations were doom-
 ed to  be disappointed.
   My parents kept a female help expressly to attend upon
 me, whose whole time was occupied in playing with me
 and taking me about.  One day she took me with her to
 see some  of her friends, who  lived ,in  a very low part of
the City,  (Baltimore,)  and while engaged gossiping  she
left me to play with the  children of the neighbour's^wlm
 were swarming all arflund.  They  were as  depraved, mis-
 erable, and vicious  perhaps as could be found, and child
as I was,  being not over four  years of age, I could  not
help thinking their conduct and  language very strange.
It was new and exciting however, and  that was enou°-h°to
 make  it interesting, so that in a short  tune I cast  off all
restraint  and became fully initiated into many of  their
habits and sayings, which I thought especially excellent,
no doubt.   Among  the rest was one precocious ragamuf-
fin, older than the rest, who undertook to explain to them 
               MISCELLANEOUS  CASES.              29

various mysterious  points in physiology and Parentage,
and the uses of certain parts of their bodies, to which my
attention had never before been directed.  This was done
practicallif, there being both girls and boys present, and
none having the slightest objection to any kind of expo-
sure, but, rather  courting it.   The revelations  which I
then heard, given in the grossest manner, and the sights I
saw, have never been effaced from my mind, but,  young
as I was at the time, they are as fresh and vivid now as if
it occurred but yesterday.
  Among other things we were all of both sexes, taught
the habit of  Masturbation,  to the pleasurable feelings
from which I was peculiarly liable, owing to my tempera-
ment I suppose, and from that  time I began to  give my-
self up to the habit.  I had  command enough  of  myself
to keep it secret, from my parents, because I felt instinct-
ively there  was  something in it they would  condemn,
though I knew not  why.  My attendant knew, and rather
encouraged it than  otherwise, because  it often relieved her
of the trouble of attending me.   In fact the whole group,
at the time of the  initiation, were surprised, in the very
midst of their proceedings,  by my nurse  and  one of her
female friends,  who seemed to consider it a capital joke,
and highly  amusing, by the way they laughed about it
when  describing 'the scene to  their companions.    She
however frightened me out  of  telling any one  else about
it by assuring me I should be severely punished if I did,
and besides this I did not want to do so,—it was my secret,
and in my way I felt quite important about it.
   From this  time  on I continued, more or less,  almost
constantly, to practice this  habit, in various ways, till it
became  a perfect furor, and at  six years of age  I have
kept awake for hours together, in the night in this way.
   The immediate consequences were that I became  puny
and weak, and irritable in my disposition, to such an ex-
tent that I was both wretched  myself  and a source of
constant discomfort to those around  me.  To  add to my
misfortune  my Parents placed  me under the  care ot.a
Physician, who drugged me, and sent me to the seafhde,
but all to no purpose, for I did not improve in  the slight- 
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MISCELLANEOUS  CASES.
est degree.  Study I could only pursue at  intervals, and
in a very flighty  manner, so that I was behind with my
education, and as my memory was  bad I fell far behind
my schoolmates.
   Things  continued  more or less in this way  till I was
fourteen years of age, when puberty became established,
and I began  to form Semen.  In consequence  of this, I
suppose, my Sexual desires and  feelings grew stronger, or
perhaps I  should say they then first became natural, and
I indulged more frequently  than ever.  I have frequently
expended the Semen four and five times a day, for several
days together, till I became so weak I could  scarcely walk,
and quite childish in my mind.   My friends all  thought I
was in a Consumption,  and  none of them ever expected
me to live.
   From that time till now I have never grown, and I am
over twenty-one!  Neither do I seem in any way further
developed.   I am no -heavier,—my voice has  the  same
sound, and my Sexual Organs are  quite as  small as they
were at fourteen years of age.  In some respects, however
I am better than I was, and I attribute it  all to this cir-
cumstance.  I was one  day passing down the street and
looking into a Bookstore window, I saw yonr  Book  on
" Tlie Male  Organs,"  and  from  curiosity  went  in  and
bought  it.   The  perusal of that book first opened my
eyes, and made me begin to think that my  weakness and
sickness was caused solely by Masturbation. It is true I
had partially suspected this before, but the impression was
not strong enough to make me leave off the  habit.  Now
however I determined  to do so, and  by hard  striving I
partially succeeded.
   At times I had felt, for a year or two  past, much bet-
ter, and my mind  became a little stronger,  and more set-
tled, so that I made up a little for my past deficiency, and
began to reflect upon my situation.   While in these favor-
able moods I  did pretty well, and conquered my fatal in-
clinations, but when the mood past off I fell back again.
   It was in my seventeenth  year when I  purchased5 your
Boojt, and from then till now I have been  struggling in
tni? fay, and on  the whole perhaps I have gained  but 
MISCELLANEOUS CASES             31
still very little, and1 latterly I have begun to fear I should
never be much otherwise than I am.  This fear began to
haunt me continually,  and I had made  up my mind to
come to New York to see you when I noticed the Adver-
tisement of your Lectures here, and to my great joy had
an opportunity of hearing you.   After I left the Lecture
room I determined, in the first place, to write to  you, and
then, if you  thought there might possibly' be anything
done for me, I would  visit you  personally.   I  am  rich
enough in this worlds goods, having inherited considerable
property, and am both able and willing to recompence you
to any extent you may think requisite, within a reasonable
amount.   Money I value no more than the dust under my
feet,  for unless I  can be made a man  I shall not need it,
and if I can  be, I shall be  quite glad to give it to my
saviour.
  I have thus my dear sir,  made a sufficient confession, I
hope, to enable you to judge  of my .case, and I trust you
will render me your reply as promptly as possible, for you
may  well imagine  the agony of suspense in which I am.
Excuse my long and rambling Letter, which is,  I  fear, like
my mind,  very confused,—and  accept the enclosed check
as a  retaing fee.
                     " Yours, most truly,
  Upon fully  considering this Letter I concluded  it was
possible that the subject of it could be helped, though to
what extent was uncertain, and so I informed him.   The
result was an  interview, in which I found him, as his let-
ter described, half developed, puny, and weak minded, but
still with indications that originally he had been possessed
of a good constitution.   There were also indications that
nature was even  now endeavoring to  recover  her lost
ground, and some little growth, with occasional increase
of mental power, gave hopes for the future.
  At his earnest request I at once commenced to advise
and to treat him, his circumstances fortunately being such
that he could live as I choose to direct.  In the first place
I prescribed such a regular  course of diet, daily exercise. 
32             MISCELLANEOUS  CASES.

bathing, and friction of the skin, as T thought most likely
to promote his general health and  bodily growth.  With
that I also commenced to treat the Genital Organs, in the
most active manner, feeling assured that their develop-
ment would stimulate the whole  organization, and add to
the power of both body and mind.
  The Cougester was used daily, with shampooing, and my
Aphrodisiac Remedy was also used, though very carefully.
The result began to be obvious in less than three rnont 'is!
The Genital  Organs increased  in  size and power.   The
Semen was secreted in greater quantity,—and the Sexual
desire became strong and natural.  The whole  body also
soon began to develope most obviously, so that his friends
made remark of it, and  his  mind became more manly in
its tone, and more steady, so  that he was capable of more
continued mental exertion, and soon extended his acquire-
ments considerably.  One difficulty however arose which
I had forseeu, but could not altogether prevent.   His con-
tinued practice of Masturbation had of course both weak-
ened and irritated the Genitals, so that when the Semen
began to be secreted in greater quantity it could not be
retained, and he suffered from Spermattorrhcca.   To  such
an extent did  this evil prevail, especially  in the  urinary
form, (as described in my book on " the Male  Organs.")
that I feared it would counteract all I  could do.  By de-
grees however it was overcome, by  Cauterization, and "then
the real advance commenced in earnest.
  In the course of the next two  years he seemed almost
to leap forward, so rapid was his growth, till I feared he
would become sickly and weak from it.  By good Tonic
treatment however, and  constant  care, this danger was
avoided, and he continued to advance, so that in  his twenty
fifth year  he  was fully  up  to the average standard of
young men of that age, in size, weight and strength.   His
mind was also quite active, and of good ordinary"capacity,
though not capable of very powerful  or  long  continued
efforts.   No one who had known him  formerly ever sup-
posed it  possible for him to  become what he was, and he
himself  felt so elated  that he  entirely overlooked  the 
MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
33
actual deficiencies which still existed, and thought himself
perfect enough.
  His  greatest pleasure was in writing regularly to me,
and constantly noting the  different stages of his advance-
ment, and speculating as to the future.  I never knew a
patient more gratified or  more grateful.   In  one of his
Letters he remarks, " such as I now am you  have made
me, for without your assistance and advice I certainly
should not have now been  in existence !"
  The  Sexual powers of  this young man  became quite
good, though irregular in  their manifestation, and he was
fully capable of the duties of Married Life, but not so
frequently as in the generality of persons at his age.
  On this case I shall make but few comments,  because
it tells its own tale, in most respects, and the  instruction
it conveys must be obvious.  The principal  facts indicated
by it are the arrest of development, caused  by the  loss of
nervous power, from sexual abuse, and the recommence-
ment of growth when the sexual power became restored.
If the Sexual Organs had not grown, and  become active,
no other  development would have occurred to  any useful
extent, and.if their weakness and irritability had not been
overcome he would soon have died from Spermattorrliaa.
  It was also fortunate that proper attention was bestow-
ed in time, before the period when growth is possible had
passed.   In several such instances I  have been consulted
too late, when that time had gone by, that  is for the body
generally, though the Sexual Organs may  often be much
perfected until nearly the  thirtieth year, and of  course the
energy of the system,—especially of the mind,—along
with them.
  The Moral Lessons which such a case conveys,  particu-
larly respecting the patient's  childhood, must, I think, be
clear to all, and do not need special remark.   There are
more children exposed to similar evils than is usually sup-
posed.
  Unfortunately this individual was killed,  in one of those
steamboat accidents which are unfortunately  so frequent out
West,  or he would now have  been a remarkable  instance
of what proper Medical and Hygienic means can accom- 
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MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
plish, even in the most unpromising cases, when employed
on correct Physiological principles.
   Similar cases to the above I  often have communicated
 to me, not only  by Males but also by  Females, many of
 whom are taught such practices by their domestics, or at
 school.
   In  one such instance the patient was perhaps the most
 wretched victim of  alternate excitement and depression
 of the Nervous  System ever seen.  At times she was sub-
 ject to fits of almost frenzied agitation, and was so rest-
 less, both bodily  and mentally, that she could not sit
 down, nor sleep, nor speak on the same subject two minutes
 together.  At other times she would be perfectly listless,
 and almost as if suffering from  Congestion of the Brain.
 Indifferent to all about her, powerless and torpid she seem-
 ed altogether too low ever to rally again.
  All that could be ascertained about  the  origin of  her
suffering  was  that she had been taught the practice of
 Masturbation by a female domestic, when about ten years
 old.   She had never Menstruated, though nineteen years
 of age when I saw her, and she had many peculiar imper-
 fections in her organization.   The  Pelvis, and  internal
Organs were  unusually small, while the external Genitals
were  remarkably large,  and singularly irritable.  Her
head was also small, and her muscular system lax.
  The case was  interpreted easily enough by these signs.
Her development was imperfect  and irregular, from  the
nervous excitement and  exhaustion  she had  undergone
 just previous  to puberty, from  the habit that had been
taught her.
  Every  means  was tried to  lessen the irritation of  her
Bystem, and  to  perfect her  development,  but all failed
 She died before her twentieth year, almost a maniac. 
MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
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    CASES SHOWING THE  USE OF  THE
                  MICROSCOPE,

IN DETECTING THE ABSCENCE OF THE SEMINAL ANIMALCULES.

  Those who have read my Marriage Guide will be aware
that the Semen can impregnate only when it contains liv-
ing  and perfect Animalcules, and that many men may be
able to  have connection, and even  appear Vigorous, in
whose Semen there are no  perfect living Animalcules.
Such men of course can never become Fathers, though
they may be totally unaware of their imperfection,  and
always ascribe the fault to  the female.
  This state of things can only be detected by microscopi-
cal examination of the Semen, which in the course  of my
practice I am often called upon to make, frequently with
very unexpected and curious results.
  Some years ago I was waited upon by a married couple,
of high standing in society, to get my advice in regard to
their being  childless.  They had been married nine years,
both were young, and apparently perfectly healthy.  The
Gentleman  informed me that,  independent of the gratifi-
cation to their own feelings, which  were intense for off-
spring, it was of  the utmost importance they should have
a child on other accounts.  It seems a large property wa3
so left that  their child would  inherit it, if they  had one,
or themselves as its heirs  even if it died, while if they
died childless it would go to a distant connection  of the
family, who was  already enormously rich, and a very un-
deserving personage into the bargain.
  Here  there was both happiness  and wealth at  stake,
and I was requested to do or suggest everything  in my
power.
  The parties were fully communicative, and disposed to
hear anything, or to discuss anything that I thought neces-
sary.  The result was that I  became fully convinced the
Lady was in no way whatever imperfect, but fully capable
of Conception, and consequently the fault was with the
Husband!   On stating this to him he was amazed, and 
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MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
 quite incredulous, for, said he, how am 1 wrong ?  I enjoy
 the same feelings, and the same powers as other men, and
 have even a copious Seminal Secretion.   1  then explained
 to him  in what I  thought the difficulty consisted, and a
 Microscopical examination of the Semen was at once in-
 stituted.  My surmise  proved to be correct.  There were
 only a  few, very imperfect animalcules  contained  in it,
 utterly  inefficient for the purpose of impregnation.  The
 examination was of course  frequently repeated, to make
 sure that this was  the normal condition,  and always with
 the same results.
  On the true state of affairs being made obvious to him
 he became unusually thoughtful, and evidently brooded
 over the matter most intenslyl  At last he  remarked, in a
 half abstracted  manner, " well, it has always been my
 strongest desire that  Maria, (his wife,)  or her children,
 should inherit this property, and  it shall be so,—if pos-
 sible !   So now Doctor what can be done ? "
  I told him at once that I believed the case  was hope-
 less, for the imperfection, in his case, was  not  the  result
 of weakness, disease, or over indulgence, such as can often
 be recovered from, but was  evidently constitutional,  and I
 therefore could hold out no prospect of its  removal.   He
 madb me the most liberal offers if  I could succeed in mak-
 ing him capable, but I told him at once I could not de-
 ceive him.
  Soon after  this  they returned to Europe, where the
property lay,  and  I  heard no  more from  them for four
years, when one day the Gentleman again called upon me,
and after stating that they had been  travelling for some
time, requested me  to call and see his wife, who was  some-
Bomewhat indisposed, and  desirous of seeing me.  On en-
quiring  after his health I found him  just about the same
as usual, only much stouter, as is often the case with such
constitutions on approaching forty years of  age.  He was
unusually cheerful  however, and on leaving remarked, in
a matter of course way, and with an evident effort to be
unconcerned,—" by the bye Dr. our littU one is not very
well either, and I shall be  much  obliged if you will pay 
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particular attention to him, for you know how much de-
pends on his life ! "
  The announcement took me quite by surprise, and he
probably saw  by my look that  it did so, for he at once
apologized  for not having told me of their good fortune
before, knowing how I should be interested in it.  But,
said he, it is now three years old  nearly, and I forgot that
you had not been informed of  the happy event.  I of
course made no remark, but  paid my visit, and found the
mother and child only a little inconvenienced by the jour-
ney, and change of air.  In  a short time they were quite
well again.
  A happier couple  I have  seldom  seen than they were.
The  child was adored by both, and fortunately  seemed
likely to live to reward them for their care and affection.
  There was however a little  awkwardness and restraint in
their manner to me, and an evident avoidance of the sub-
ject of our first conference.   Only on  one occasion, just
on the eve of his departure  for Canada, did he allude to
it.  He then remarked, " Doctor, could any one else find
out what you told  me four years ago ? "   No sir, said I,
only  by the same means, and there are perhaps not two
other men in the world who would  think of using them.
" Oh  well,"  said he,  " I  am glad of that, though its of
no consequence now, because matters have turned out
right  at last you see,  and  Maria's property will  not go to
those who had no right to it."   To this I replied not and
he went away.  Six months after he died of Apoplexy,
quite  suddenly, to the great  distress of his wife, who was
sincerely attached to him.  Her grief in  fact made hep
quite  sick, and for some time  her life  was despaired of,
but finally  she recovered, apparently more from love to •
her child than  from a desire  to live on her own account.
In fact her whole existence seemed  devoted to her son,,
whom she watched with unremitting care.
  One day that it was somewhat indisposed I was called
to see it, and found with  her an old female friend, one of
those who always say whatever comes uppermost, without
thinking of  consequences. I had just assured the mother
that nothing serious was the  matter with the child, as 
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 indeed her family Physician had  stated just before, when
 the female friend, an old Lady, remarked that  the child
 had a thick neck, and  " what a pity it would be if it took
 after its Father, and was Apoplectic ! "  I could not  for-
 bear looking toward the mother, whose eyes met mine,  and
 I saw at once that she detected my after-thought in a  mo-
 ment, when  I gravely said I thought there  was no dan-
 ger !
   Some days after she requested  to see me, on the eve of
 her final departure for Europe.   A candid admission was
 made to me that my first judgment had not been invalid-
 ated  by what had occurred.  Suffice it to say, the Hus-
 band had determined, with her concurrence, that her child
 at least should inherit the coveted wealth, even if one of
 theirs  could not,—and hence what had followed.  They
 had thought  I might imagine a change had  occurred in
 him, and that matters were perfectly natural, which was
 the reason why our first consultation was never referred
 to.  The old  Lady's remark however, and my manner of
replying, showed the mother  that  I was not deceived, and
hence  the confession.   Of course it  was  no  concern  of
mine, and I could only assure the mother that the secret
was perfectly  safe.  He had been, I  fully believe, almost
as happy as if really a parent.
   On another occasion I had for a patient a married Gen-
tleman, but Childless,  who had unfortunately got  entan-
gled with an intriguing Mistress, who was perpetually ex-
torting money  from him.   Being rich however,  this was
not of serious moment, but at last the Lady became Preg-
nant, and in due time was safely delivered of  a son.  My
Patient was now informed that he must  make ample  pro-
vision for this new comer, and for its mother, for Life, or
some very  disagreeable disclosures  should  be made    I
was not aware of this event till the  child was ten months
old.   The Gentleman then mentioned it  to me to explain
the great embarrassment and  trouble  under which he
labored, and which was acting very prejudicially upon his 
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health.  I was then treating him  for Spermattorrhcea,
which had begun to weaken his powers and to affect his
mind.  My Microscopical examination had shown me that
he was naturally imperfect, like the Gentleman in the  pre-
vious case, and  I at once  saw that he could not be the
Father of the young stranger.  He however had no idea
of this, and was  really desirous of settling upon it a hand-
some annuity, but  some unexpected embarrassments  had
made it difficult  for him then to do so.  Being my Patient
I considered it my  duty to  tell  him  the truth, to prevent
his being imposed  upon.   He was both astonished  and
indignant on  learing this unexpected  fact, and would at
once have had a final, and not very friendly interview with
the Lady, but the fear  of consequences deterred him.
   Now here  was a terrible state of embarrassment for a
man, with no apparent means of getting clear.  He must
either be plundered and imposed upon to maintain the off-
spring of another man, or  he must be disgraced, and his
domestic happiness destroyed, by a disclosure of his own
improper doings.  What was to be done ?  In his despair
he was almost driven to suicide, but by degrees  his mind
was calmed,  and I  induced him  to consider  his predica-
ment in a proper manner, with a view to his extrication.
   After consideration I told him I thought I saw a mean3
which might be  successful,  and though not called upon to
do anything of  the sort,  as  a Medical man, yet  out of
consideration for an old  and liberal patient, I consented
to try.  At my  suggestion the Lady was induced to  visit
me, as a  patient, she being a little indisposed.  I saw at
once that she was a designing intriguante, but evidently
not overburdened with information, and readily impressed
by a confident manner of speaking.
   After  attending with all due consideration to her own
case, the conversation was gradually turned towards the
Gentleman her  friend, who I remarked was  one of those
peculiar  beings,  that Medical men like myself occasionally
met with, whose bodily imperfections would never  be sus-
pected !   This piqued "her curiosity, as I intended it to do,
and led her to inquire more  closely what kind of imper-
fections  I alluded  to ?   The matter  being thus entered 
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 upon I at  once told her, in an off hand manner,  that it
 was impossible for him ever  to be a Father!  The  an-
 nouncement seemed to come upon her like a clap of thun-
 der, and for some time she remained silent.  Finally how-
 ever, putting on a show  of offended dignity, she remarked
 that perhaps I was not aware of the relation in which  the
 Gentleman  and herself stood ?  Excuse me madam, said
 I, but I am  aware of your liaison perfectly well.   Oh! said
 she, that is  not what I  mean,  you do not know then, it
 seems, that  he is the Father of my son,  now ten month's
 old ?  No  madam, said I.   Nor can such be the case  ;—
 it is an utter impossibility !
   This assertion brought on a  perfect scene of rage and
 assumed grief at being suspected, but finally the tempest
 cooled  down and she began  to talk more coolly.   I told
 her that I had no wish to give  offence, and was entirely
 ignorant that my friend  was accused of  being  the parent
 till just now, and that in all  probability  she was deceived
 herself.  Finally she seemed to change her tactics, doubt-
 less  from a  consciousness of being  in the wrong,  and at
 last asked me, with evident interest, if the peculiar imper-
 fection which I spoke of  in the  Gentleman could be prov-
 ed?   I assured her it could be,  and  that  if called upon in
 evidence I could readily prove it, beyond a doubt.  This
 evidently put her completely to a nonpluss, and she went
 off, quite crest fallen.
  At my suggestion the  Gentleman entirely discontinued
 his visits to  her, and treated  her in  quite a cool manner,
 as if he no longer  had- any fear.  This created a disposi-
 tion  on her  part to come to  terms, and by the agency of
 a legal friend, who visited her for the purpose, and hinted
something about a possible prosecution for attempted im-
 position, matters were finally arranged, and for a reason-
able  consideration  she and the child went away, and my
 friend was relieved from his embarrassments.
 On another occasion I had a Patient who died of Con-
traption at the age of twenty eight, leaving a widow, and 
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 a son aged three  years.  It had been what the French
 call a marriage de conveyance, in which there was neither
 affection nor even respect on either side.
   This  Gentleman made one  of  those unjust wills  by
 which  his  widow  had the enjoyment  of a  handsome  in-
 come for life, providing she never married again.   Tho
 disposition of considerable property also depended on tho
 life of the child being preserved till  he became of age.
 Now the widow had no desire  whatever for another mar-
 riage—probably from her experience of the first,—and
 was quite satisfied with her  condition.  She almost idol-
 ized her child, and devoted every moment to his care.—
 He was  perfectly robust, and no apprehension whatever
 crossed her mind in regard to his health till in his fifth
 year.   She visited a part of the country where lived tho
 connections of her late husband, with whom she had never
 beep at all acquainted.  The marriage had been altogeth-
 er the work of so called friends on both sides, and respect-
 ing the family  or  antecedents of her  husband  she  knew
 very little  previous to their union, and cared  nothing
 about after.
   Being  now however quite free from all restraint, and in
 the neighborhood, she naturally sought some further infor-
 mation respecting him that was gone.  To her great con-
 sternation she learnt that his  whole family had always
 been noted  for their tendency to Consumption.  Very few
 of them  where then  left, the majority in every Branch,
 having died quite young, and not one having been known
 to live over twenty-eight years, which was the age of  her
 husband at his death.  It was in fact generally called the
 doomed family, and an old Nurse thoughtlessly remarked,
 sis a matter of course, that little Charley,  strong as  he
 looked, would never see his thirtieth year, even if he pass-
 ed childhood.  The mother became at once almost frantic
 with despair.   She looked upon her darling boy as doom-
ed also, and  thought with  horror  of the day when  ho
would be taken away from her, perhaps when just burst-
ing into manhood and promise.
  I have never seen a woman so entirely possessed by one
idea as she  was with this.  She left  the neighborhood at 
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 once where she had learnt this  fatal news, and began re-
 solving numerous plans to escape the threatened evil, but
 with no confidence in any of them.  Finally she came to
 me, to ask my advice as "to the  probable success of a re-
 moval to another  part of the Globe.  Our consultation
 was of course  confidential and  full  in every respect,  be-
 cause I feel it necessary to arrive at the true cause of her
 evident terror and apprehension.  I had  previously been
 her medical adviser, as well as her husband's, whom I had
 also known  before his marriage.
   Now it so happened that he had consulted me immedi-
 ately after their marriage, in reference to his Sexual pow-
 ers, which  were rapidly failing, as I discovered, from
 Urinary Spermattorrhoea.  This was arrested and he par-
 tially recovered, but only imperfectly.  In the course of my
 Microscopical examinations I discovered that he was then
 totally impotent, there being but a very few animalcules
 in his Semen, and all imperfect,  though he had, to a cer-
 tain extent,  the ordinary  Sexual  powers.
  This fact I had intended to make known to  him in order
 to explain better his real  condition, and also why he had
 no family.   To my surprise however he announced to me
 one day  that  his wife was pregnant!  Of  course  I  did
 not then feel  called upon to state  what I  knew, more
especially as the expectation of an  heir seemed to give.
him great pleasure.  His health also was evidently failing,
and I expected his death  from Consumption even before
it occurred.   This secret therefore  was mine alone, and
would  have been buried with me, but for the present state
of affairs.  I knew that this man was not the father of the
child whose  mother was then  suffering from  such terrible
apprehensions.  I felt perfectly assured in making the as-
sertion I afterwards did, and I had no doubt but that my
accusation would both be admitted and pardoned, for the
sake of the  consolation it would  bring.  I therefore said
at once, in the most decided  and emphatic manner, that
 the child was in no danger whatever from his  connection
with the family of the late Mr.-------/   The  way  in
which I said this evidently caused both surprise  and inter-
ested attention, and in a  somewhat  confused manner she 
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43
asked me  to  explain what I meant ?  I then remarked,
without any comment, and as a matter merely of profes-
sional interest, that the  boy was perfectly safe from that
source, because  it was impossible Mr.------could have
been, at that time, his Father !
  It is not necessary to attempt a description of  the con-
fusion, shame, and pretended anger which at first followed.
Suffice it to say all this passed off, and in tearful humility,
but with eager earnestness I was asked if this was beyond
doubt.   I assured her it was so, and that her  child run no
risk of inheriting  the Consumptive fate of her late hus-
band.  Of course I  could not say what risk he might run
from his real father, because he was unknown to me.
  The peculiar mental condition of  this woman, at this
time, was  one of the most curious perhaps ever known.
Consternation at the discovery of what she had no doubt
thought past discovery,  and shame  at thinking I  had
known it so long, was intermixed with real joy and thank-
fulness at  the escape of  her child.   I  of course assured
her that the secret was as safe as if it  really rested with
her alone,  and that to me it had no other interest than a
professional one, and would never have been disclosed even
to her but under such circumstances.
  Immediately afterwards she departed with her child for
France, where she intended to  bring him up away from
all the associations of her own previous life.
  On the eve of her departure I received  anonymously a
handsome  present, with these words—" I had never dared,
or wished, to think it might be as you said, but now know
it must have  been so, and feel that I ought to make you
this acknowledgment."
         SOFTENING OF  THE BRAIN.


  This is a much more frequent disease than most people
have any idea of.  Medical men are only just  beginning 
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to appreciate its importance, and to be aware of the fear-
ful destruction of intellect and life, which is caused by it.
Softening of the  Brain is the  same disease, essentially, as
that called Spinal Consumption, of which the old  writers
tell us so much.
   The causes of this justly dreaded disease were till lately
unknown, or but vaguely suspected,  and a  variety  of
Theories were invented to account for it.  Lately  how-
ever, its connection with Sexual derangement, in the ma-
jority of cases, has been  established  conclusively, and to
make this  clear  we must give  a  little Anatomical and
Physiological explanation.   •
   The substance of the Brain,  and of the Nervous Sys-
tem generally, is essentially different, both in its structure
and composition, from all the other parts of the body, and
therefore it requires to be nutrified in a different way, and
by different material, from any other part.   A11 the Vital
Organs may be perfect, and the  Muscular system well de-
veloped and supported, owing to  their special nutrition
being complete, and yet the Nervous System may  be in a
state  of decay.   It is true that decay of the Nervous
System is soon  followed by  decay of  all the other parts,
but it may commence  independently of any imperfection
in them, and even while they are as perfect as usual.
   The actual material, or  substance, of the Nervous Sys-
tem, as elsewhere remarked, is almost identical with that
of the Seminal fluid in Man, and of the Ovae in Woman,
and its composition is also very similar.
   In all probability the same vital  effort which calls forth
the Generative Elements  also creates, at the same time,
the Nervous substance.  Whenever therefore the produc-
tion, or nutrition, of the one is imperfect, so is that of the
other.  There is therefore not  only a close sympathy, but
a  real coincidence of origin, and  mutual  dependence  of
existence between these two most  mysterious portions  of
our being.   The  Brain and the Sexual Apparatus are
placed at the opposite extremities of  the  body, likethe
two poles of a Galvanic  Pile,  each being  connected with
the Spinal marrow, which  unite  them.  When  one  of
these Poles is overcharged with  vital  power, the other is 
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45
undercharged, and when one is exhausted the other is soon
in the same condition.*
  This explains at once why excessive mental exertion is
often  followed  by Sexual  importance, and why, on the
contrary, Sexual abuse so frequently destroys the intellect
Softening of  the  Brain is caused  by an actual deficiency
of some of the substances composing it, and these sub-
stances  are  precisely  those that  are carried off by the
Seminal discharge.  When a man expends too much Semen
therefore he does  the same  thing as if he really destroyed
a portion of his brain, because he takes away that which
is necessary to nutrify it.  Nature will not produce enough
of these substances to make Brain and to allow of licen-
tious  indulgence at the  same time.   In this way arises
softening, or chronic decay of the Brain,  a disease which
may be very slow in its progress, but every step of  which
weakens the intellect more and more, and which eventually
causes either  death or idiocy.
  It is not  wilful Licentiousness alone however  which
leads  to softening of  the Brain,  but more frequently it
arises from Urinary Spermattorrhcea, or loss of Semen in
the urine.  This is a most destructive and insidious dis-
ease, but little known to  Medical men, and almost totally
unsuspected by the people at large, numbers of whom are
its daily victims.   The first, and only full account of this
disease, in the English Language, was given in Dr. Hol-
lick's Treatise  on  "The Male Generative Organs," to
which the reader is referred for fuller particulars.
  In treating softening of the Brain, or the Sexual diffi-
culties from  which it  arises, it will  readily be seen that
quite a different course is required from that which is pur-
sued in  other diseases.  It is not  only necessary to arrest
the Nervous  decay, and  Seminal  loss, but also to supply
such substances as will make more new brain, or new Gen-
erative  elements, and this none of  the ordinary Medica-
ments will do.  There are  but few things in fact that are
suitable for this purpose, and it requires an accurate know-
ledge of their real properties, and of the true  Chemical
composition of the Nervous and Seminal matters, to know
                    * See Frontispiece. 
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  how to properly combine and  apply them.   The ordinary
  Cordials,  and Invigorators, are mere excitants, or stimu-
  lants as elsewhere explained,  and  only excite for a time
  the little Nervous or Generative matter that is left,  but
  do not stop its decay, nor cause a new production  of it.
   The effects of softening of the Brain are worse even than
 those which follow from  Urinary loss of Senvm,  because
 they affect more generally, and quickly, the whole system.
 It is also a more hopeless disease  than Spermattorrhcea,
 unless  taken  very early.   Its extent  cannot always be
 judged of however by the apparent effects, as some pati-
 ents will suffer much from the first, while the  Disease is
 but slight, and others will hold up for a considerable time
 against it till  they give way all at once.
   The  condition of a person suffering  from  Softening of
 the Brain is, in the main, much like that of  one suffering
 from confirmed Spermattorrhcea, and it requires  careful
 Microscopical  examinations to  tell which  of the  two
 troubles is being experienced,  or if both exist together.
 Usually however  there is more  mental imbecility in  Soften-
 ing of the Brain, with a greater clmnge of character.  The
 patient feels  that his mind is passing away.  He can not
 think clearly, and  has a sensation as if his head were really
 empty, and as if he would like every moment to close his eyes
 and  go off!   There is no possibility of rousing a  man in
 this  state, nor of doing him good in  any way,  till the
 waste of the Brain is arrested  and the process of renova-
 tion recommences.
   Many patients remark, after their recovery, that they
 used literally to lose themselves,  and  forget who and where
 they were.  One  Gentleman assured me  that on waking
 in the morning he would frequently  be half an hour or
 more before he could  make out who he  was, and what lie
 should do.  It would partly come in his  mind and then go
out again, till  he got some stimulant, and then, for a time,
he would gradually come round.  The  fact was that his
 ideas were previously  only  half formed, and imperfect,
owing to the imperfect condition of  his Brain.  He could
no more think  perfectly than a  man can labour hard who
has weakened muscles. 
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                 NERVOUSNESS.


  It is scarcely necessary to remark that Nervousness is
very general, and spoken of as something which all people
are supposed to be acquainted  with, but still it is some-
thing which no one can  describe or define.  The term
Nervous is applied to such a variety of bodily and mental
derangements, combined so differently in different people,
that it Ls scarcely possible to  find two nervous people
whose experience is the same.  This however need not
surprise us when we reflect upon the functions of the ner-
vous system, and  its associations with  every part of the
organization.   Itself  the source of  all organic power,
upon which  every part depends, and by which alone the
whole is maintained in action, it cannot  experience the
slightest derangement without affecting all that is depend-
ant upon it.  If the integrity  of the Braiu and Spinal
Marrow be impaired, we not only experience  mental im-
becility, or  moral perversity,  but  derangement of the
Vital organs also, though in their  structure they may be
apparently as perfect as we could wish.
  Even  a slight  affection of the great  Nervous centres
causes sympathetic derangement of everything  else, which
is the reason why nervous people suffer from such a compli-
cation  of symptoms,  without  perhaps  having  a single
organic  disease they suffer the  peculiar effects of almost
every disease known.  Once correct  the  vitiated condition
of the Nervous System in these cases,  and all the symp-
toms vanish  at once, so that the patient  passes in a single
day almost,  from the extremest misery  to well being and
happiness.   Uninformed  people either ridicule such cases,
or else attribute them to mere deception or wilfulness, but
those who know  their  nature look  upon them as among
the most interesting that can be met with, and eminently
deserving of true sympathy.
  A deranged condition  of the Nervous  system arises
either from "actual decay or change, in the  Nervous mat-
ter itself, as  in Softening of tlie Brain, or else from sympa- 
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 thetic irritation, as in various derangements of the Sexual
 Organs.   In fact the nervous system becomes deranged
 through  the influence  of  other parts in  nearly  every
 instance, and seldom  suffers from any disease  originating
 within itself.  In  the majority of cases Sexual derange-
 ment precedes, or  accompanies nervous derangement, and
 must be corrected before the  Nervousness can be over-
 come.
   In Nervous females the Womb, or Ovaries are affected,
 and  in Nervous men the Testes or Prosrtate Gland, almost
 invariably, and  to those who are  acquainted with the
 Physiology and connections of these different parts of our
 organization, this  mutual action and  reaction will  be no
 mystery.  Those  who have not yet  become  acquainted
 with these  matters are referred for a  full  explanation, to
 tlie Marriage Guide.
   The great misfortune for  Nervous  people is, that they
 are seldom  treated for the disease under which they really
 labor, bat only for the secondary derangements to which
 it has given rise.  The effects only being observed, while the
 cause remains unnoticed.  This is owing to the general in-
 attention, among  medical men, of all  matters relating to
 Sexual Physiology and sympathy.  Now for instance, a
 female will have  chronic  irritation  of the  Womb, or
 Ovaries,  giving rise to the most curious train of nervous
derangements and symptoms, and will  be treated with the
utmost skill as  a Nervous Patient, without  tho slightest
benefit, but once remove the Ovarian or Uterine irritation
and  the  Nervousness ceases at once.   Numbers  of men
also  lose their judgment, and memory, and become wretch-
ed to the last degree, from Urinary"loss of Semen, which
must be stopped before any assistance can be rendered to
them.
   Severe Sexual derangement will even cause actual wast-
ing Of the nervous substance, as before experienced, and
on the other hand any serious  disease, or  exhaustion, of
the nervous system, reacts upon the  Sexual organs and
deranges them.   In the great  majority of cases however,
the Generative Organs are the first to become impaired,
and the Nervous system follows, in both sexes. 
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  This intimate mutual  relation of the Nervous and Sex-
ual systems will be made more evident by an inspection
of the Frontispiece Plate of  the  " Nervous and  Sexual
Centres."
  The Brain is composed of two perfectly distinct halves,
either of which may act, or  become diseased, without the
concurrence of the other,-r-the same as either Testicle or
Ovary may act perfectly, or become diseased, independ-
ently of any action, or affection of the other.
  The Testicles in the Male, and the Ovaries in the Females,
are precisely similar, both in their organic functions and
in their sympathetic relations.  In fact they are identical,
in every respect, in the earlier stages of  development.
The Testicles are merely more  fully developed Ovaries, in
the same way that all the Organs of the Male Generative
system are merely more perfect developments of  corres-
ponding parts in the female.
  The two Sexual Centres, and the two Nervous Centres,
stand  to each other in the relation of Electric Poles, being
Positive and Negative reciprocally.  If an undue amount
of power be concentrated, or expended, in a Sexual Cen-
tre, the opposing Nervous Centre must be proportionably
deficient  in power, and on the contrary if the Nervous
Centre be over excited the opposing Sexual Centre must
become torpid.
  This will make the  true nature  of all cases of Sexual
or Nervous derangemeut evident,  and will also show the
reason why all past treatment of  them has been so useless.
Dr. Hollick  has found out,  from his  experience, that all
the old ideas on these  subjects were fallacious, and he has
been compelled to study out  the true explanation of them
from actual  observation and experiments.  These views
therefore are entirely  new, and are now for the first time
laid before the public.   In a short time they will be more
fully elucidated in a work which Dr. H. is now writing
exclusively upon the Nervous system.
^•TOM, 0. C «  * 
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MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
  PERFECT RECOVERY  FROM  IMPOTENCE,

              BROUGHT ON BY EXCESSES.

   In this case we have an example  of  a very large class.
Persons naturally of powerful  Sexual Organizations,  ca-
pable, in the first vigor of virile power, of the most con-
tinuous and exalted enjoyment, but, from ignorance alone,
becoming dispirited, debilitated, and impotent.   It also
shows that, in even the worst of such cases, it is generally
possible,  by the use of proper remedies, to recover most of
what had been lost, and to  rejuvenate the  Sexual Organs
after their functions are thought to be entirely extinct.
  The individual living at a distance communicated with
me by the following Letter.
                  To Dr. Hollick,
                           New York City, N  Y.
     " My dear Sir,
  A fortunate chance having thrown in my way your
invaluable  and unique Book on " The  Male Generative
Organs," I have determined to address  you in regard to
my case, feeling fully assured that if any mortal  man can
assist me it is you.
  Not to lose time, or to occupy you unnecessarily, I will
make my statement as brief as possible.
  I was  born in affluent circumstances, well brought up,
and well educated, and at twenty-one years of age found
myself  the  uncontrolled master of quite a respectable in-
come, and in the enjoyment of a large circle of friends
and acquaintances.   I had never been much addicted to
the usual vice  of young people, Masturbation, though con-
stantly in the midst of it, neither had I ever been intem-
perate, and at twenty-one I  was healthy, full of animal
spirits, and capable  of the most perfect physical enjoy-
ment.  About my eighteenth year my Sexual desires be-
came very strong, but my position, and prudential consid- 
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erations, prevented me from running into excesses.  Be-
sides this I looked forward to my majority as a time when
I could indulge as I should wish, without any control, and
thus repay myself for past restraint.
   Had it not been for my Guardian I should have married
as soon as I was  of age, and had I done so it would have
saved me incredible suffering,  and a broken down consti-
tution.   He however dissuaded me from it from pecuniary
motives, and ignorantly sacrificed my health and happi-
ness to filthy lucre.
   I  formed several attachments of an  illicit  character,
and  being led away by  my powerful Sexual propensities,
I  indulged to excess.   How  much I need not perhaps
specify, but suffice it to say that till my  twenty-fifth year
it was almost my sole occupation, and till that period I
felt no  diminuation  of power,  but soon afterwards  my
appetite for these  indulgences began to lessen, and by de-
grees my powers also.   I had neither desire nor  capability
so often as before, and frequently for a considerable period
would be totally  indifferent.  This  falling off in my Sex-
ual powers was also  followed by a lassitude and debility,
both bodily and mental, which  unfitted me for any active
exertion whatever.  I became dull, listless, peevish or mo-
rose, my appetite failed  me, and  all the symptoms of con-
firmed dyspepsia  set in.  My condition in fact  became so
bad that I consulted a Physician, but only about my gen-
eral health, for I  dared  not then speak on  other matters.
He gave me directions as to my diet, and directed some
Tonics,  with cold bathing.  These did me some  good,
for a  time, but I rapidly fell off again, and became worse
than before, especially Sexually.   In fact I was nearly Im-
potent, and in my despair I resorted to many of the Cor-
dials and Antidotes which I saw advertised, in the hopes
that they would restore  me. Some of them did stimulate
me for a time, and I began to hope I was  going to recover,
but alas it was soon over, and I felt that I was worse than
before, and that  my general health  had also been  much
injured by these remedies.  I, then gave up all hope nearly,
and came to the melancholy conclusion that I must drag
out a short lived  miserable existence in the best way I 
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 could.  This has continued till now, my twenty-ninth year,
 when a gleam of hope  has  been awakened by perusing
 your book.
   Now Doctor I want you to deal candidly and honestly
 with me, and tell me plainly if a person in my situation
 has any prospect of recovery ?  I don't wish to be deceiv-
 ed, and would rather know • the worst at once.
   I will tell you plainly I am as nearly Impotent as man
 can be, not  being  capable  of  Sexual communion more
 than once in two or three months, and  that  iu the most
 imperfect manner, with no enjoyment, and scarcely with
 any Seminal flow at all.  My Organs are wasted, and my
 desires for the other sex are  almost extinct—in fact I am
 becoming a woman hater!  Of my state of mind I can
 scarcely trust myself to speak.  Doctor, I am perhaps the
 most utterly wretched being that lives !   1 sit and mope
 for hours together, with the most gloomy images crowding
 upon me,  and black despair hovering over all.   Fearful
 apprehensions constantly  haunt  me  of some  impending
 evil, and I distrust every one who comes  near me.   This
 I know is wrong ; but I cannot help it!   A  dark cloud
 seems constantly weighing upon me, and  casting a gloom
 on all my  thoughts.  Reason I  cannot, for  my judgment
 and memory are nearly  gone, and my mind is not under
 my control.
  Of my bodily sufferings I will not now speak, though
 they are severe enough  I can assure you.  Suffice it to
 say here that my system is thoroughly debilitated and run
 down, and that scarcely a single function  is perfectly per-
 formed.
  Doctor, I am a mere wreck, and I fear too much broken
 and shattered  to be  ever  repaired.   Perhaps  I am only
showing my imbecility by indulging  even a hope, but I
could not resist the  impulse to address you. Had I read
you book, Doctor, when I was twenty-one, oh what might
I not have been.   It maddens me to think how terribly I
have paid  for my ignorance.  But I  must now stop.  I
have written this, Doctor, under the  influence of stimu-
lants, I confess it to my further  shame, but I  could not
have made the effort without.  The effect of  the stimulant 
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is now passing away, and oh the sinking which I feel com
ing on is horrible to think of,—but it is done, I have writ
ten to you, Doctor, and earnestly pray you will speedily
reply.  Tell me if it be possible for me to be helped, I will
not dare  to say recovered,  and if you  will take  me under
your care.   The  expectation of your answer will some-
what buoy me up till  I hear from you,—but what that
answer may do 1 dare" not even imagine.  Write  soon,
Doctor, and let me know my doom.
                      Yours, despairingly,
  On receipt of this Letter I at once wrote for him to
come to see me, as I considered a personal interview desir-
able.  On his arrival I  certainly  found as unpromising a
case as could be well imagined, but still I did not despair,
and without making any definite  promise I agreed to ad-
vise him.
  In conjunction with appropriate general  treatment, I
I commenced giving him the Aphrodisiac  Remedy,  and
carefully watched the result.
  In a short time it became evident that he was recover-
ing, and I gave him leave to return  home, having  first
arranged to correspond with him regularly, and supply
him with the Medicine.
  In six months he was  so much  restored that no further
treatment seemed called for, and  I requested him to send
me a full account  of his condition at that time, to put
on record, as a  contrast to his first statement.   The fol-
lowing is what I received :
             To  Dr. Hollick, New York.

    " My dear Sir,
  " According to your request I send you a report of my
present  situation, as  I feel I ought to do, if it  will be
either useful or interesting, for there is nothing, it seems
to me, which I can do for you but what gratitude calls on
me to do.  I merely request that if you  make use of my 
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 Letter it will be in such a way that no one who knows
 me can-recognize them.
   I am now my dear sir, I verily believe, tlie happiest man
 living!   I am quite well in health, in every way, my mind
 is clear, my spirits buoyant, and my strength greater than
 I have ever  known it before!   In  fact I am quite  gay,
 and instead of moping at home, as I used to do, afraid to
 see any one,  and thinking life a burden,  I am constantly
 on foot, whistling, or singing, as I used to do when a boy.
 My friends wonder what has happened, and can scarcely
 think it  is really me.  I dare not tell them the cause of
 my happy change however, because it would  expose the
 secret of my former misery, and that I could not bear.
  The greatest change however is in my Sexual Organs,
 whose functions I had thought lost.   I am now nearly as
powerful as  ever I was, and am evidently gaining  still,
every day.  In fact I intend, if you think it proper, to
marry, which at  one time I never  dared to look forward
to !  It is  now the  dream of my life, and  if you give me
leave it  seems to me there is little else  I  can ask  for.
Please be plain  on  this point, and  tell me candidly if I
may, and how soon ?
  That Medicine of yours seems almost magical, and I
wonder you do not  make it generally known.  The good
effects of it were manifested on  me tlie third dose, and so
convinced did I. feel of its good  effect that I would  have
given all I was worth in tlie world for sufficient of it, if
that had been necessary !  You  must, if you  can, let me
have some to keep by me.   The cost is no object.  I have
not taken any for the last two weeks, because I felt pow-
erful enough.
  How evident it now is to me, as you explained, that all
my other troubles arose from decay and derangement of
my Sexual  Organs.   Immediately they  began to improve,
and gain strength, I became better in every way, just in
the same  proportion.  How silly the practice now seems
of giving tonics and stimulants for the Stomach, or Liver,
to try and cure them, while the sole cause of all their dis-
eases is left untouched.
  In conclusion my dear sir, I am  a perfectly well man, 
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and I firmly believe that your advice and medicine would
make any one so.
  May you enjoy  as much happiness as I do.  I cannot
wish you better,—and may I be able to show myself as
grateful to you as I ought and wish to be.
                      " Yours, ever truly,
  Being satisfied that he might marry with propriety, 1
gave him leave to do so, and he  is now the happy Father
of two healthy children, and younger by Ten Years than
when I first saw him !
  This case I have been more  particular in describing, in
detail, because it is a good example of a large class that
come under my care, nearly all of whom are equally  bene-
fitted by the same means.
 RESUSCITATION OF THE SEXUAL POWER

                  IN AN OLD MAN.

  This individual was aged sixty-six when  he called on
me, and had been for  some three or four  years almost en-
tirely- Impotent.  In fact he had  begun to think that his
powers were really gone, from age, and  he  scarcely ever
thought of their being in any degree restored.  His health
was very  good, and his  years had evidently affected him
but little  in other ways,  which made him sometimes won-
der why he should fall off in  this respect alone, and dis-
posed him to ask my opinion.
  I told him without any hesitation that proper treatment
would act favorably upon him, but I could not judge to
what  extent.   He  accordingly commenced following my
advice, and in three months afterwards  sent me the fol-
lowing Letter. 
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MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
                  To Dr. Hollick,
                          New York City, N. Y.
    " My dear Sir,
  " I wish  you to send me a fresh supply of the Aphro-
disiac Remedy.  I still have some, but wish to  be sure of
not getting short.
  In regard to the effect of your treatment, it has worked
a real miracle!  I am almost as young, in one  way at
least, as 1 was at. Forty, and 1 assure you that were I not
prudent I might easily be led into some folly.   What sur-
prises me most however is  my not suffering in any way
from my indulgences.   I was somewhat afraid, when my
powers were first revived, of using them, for fear it might
do me an injury,  but incredible as it may appear I feel no
ill effects whatever afterwards.   In fact I feel less lassi-
tude after  Sexual indulgence than I used to  do, and it
seems as if  my organs were really stronger.
  To say how much my happiness has  been increased, and
how much I feel indebted to you, is unnecessary.
                           " Yours,  truly,
  This old man I knew  when  he was  past seventy-two,
and there was then no indication of decay in his powers.
He merely required to  take a little  of  the remedy occa-
sionally, and decay seemed totally arrested.  I have known
some instances of even older persons being much benefit-
ted in a similar manner.
         BARRENNESS  IN  A  FEMALE

                OF THIRTY-SIX CURED.


  In many instances Barrenness is caused simply by a
torpid condition of the Genital Organs, which  prevents 
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the absorption  of the Seminal fluid, as  explained in my
" Marriage  Guide."   The  Lady referred  to was an in-
stance of this kind, and the resuit shows the power of the
Aphrodisiac Remedy  alone, in such cases.   Her husband
had obtained some of the remedy from me without saying
definitely for what purpose he  wished it; the Letter will
tell why.
             Dr. Hollick, New  York.

     "Dear Sir,
  " You will recollect probably that I requested you, as
a personal favor, to let me have some of your Aphrodi-
Biac  Remedy.   I will now tell you what I wished it for,
and what has resulted from its use.
  I had been married nearly Twelve years,  and with no
prospects of being blessed as a Father, when I read  your
book, " The Marriage Guide."   The perusal of that work
led me to think that our childless condition was owing to
my Lady's  extreme indifference, she having always  been
perfectly cold in her temperament, and I thought possibly
your remedy might change this, and cause her to conceive.
I according procured  Some from you and she agreed to
take it.
  The effect has been as surprising as satisfactory.   I
need only say that she is entirely clianged in her tempera-
ment, and is now, our  Doctor tells  us, five month's Preg-
nant, for the first time 1
  If any one had told me before  this that any remedy
could effect such a change I should  have laughed at them,
but such is the fact, and I inform you of it because I know
it will both interest and please you, and because I think
you  are justly  entitled to know what your  remedy has
done.  I advise all my childless friends to read your " Mar-
riage Guide."
                        " Yours  truly, 
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      GREAT LOSS OF  SEXUAL POWER,

 AND SEVERE  NERVOUS DERANGEMENT, IN A MERCHANT,
                       CURED.


  This Gentleman, like a great many  more of his class,
had  completely exhausted his nervous power by intense
application to business.  He had made  his fortune  and
lost his health.  The following is a part of the incoherent
Letter he first addressed me.
             To Dr. Hollick,  New York.

    " My dear Sir,
  " Will you be so kind as to tell me at once, if you can
do me any good ?  I am a Merchant, age forty-one.  Good
constitution naturally, fully grown, and formerly of excel-
lent health.
  About seven years ago I began my present business,
which  required me to exert all my energies, and to apply
myself unremittingly.  For the first two or  three years I
held out well, but gradually my energy  began to fail, my
digestion,  became disordered, and I  felt miserably weak,
low spirited,  and dejected.  In  fact I became a perfect
hypo, and had I not  been blessed with a good and trust-
worthy agent my business must  have utterly failed, for I
could not, during half my time,  pay proper  aitention to
it.
  I found it utterly impossible to apply myself regularly,
or to  stick to  anything,—my mind  wandered away in
spite of me, and the smallest  forcing of attention to any-
thing threw me into utter confusion.
   For the last  two years  this has been much worse, and
now I have many bodily ailings too.   I cannot sleep well,
and wake in the morning with difficulty, and feeling as if 
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I had been intoxicated  the night before, which I never
am.
  Besides all this I find myself Sexually Impotent.   My
powers have been getting less for the past three years, and
are now almost extinct.  In fact I have a repugance to
the association, and am utterly incapable either of giving
or of receiving enjoyment.
  Doctor, I cannot  say more,—this has required great
effort, and I feel  weary.   Your  experience will probably
show y«u exactly how I am, in all that is not here told.
Try what you can do for a wretched debilitated man, to
whom money is no more than the dirt under his feet if he
can but get well.   Tell me at once if you can help me.
                            " Yours, &c.
  I made no hesitation in promising this Gentleman that
he could be  helped, providing he could fully relax  from
his business.   This he did effectually, by selling out, and
investing his money.
  He commenced at once using the Aphrodisiac Remedy,
and observing proper rules of regimen and diet which 1
gave him.  In two months he was a new man, and by the
fourth month he Avrote me a Letter from the country, of
which the following is an abstract.
  *  *   *  " Doctor, I don't need you any longer now,
nor do I think I ever shall  again, if you will  only let me
always have some of that Medicine by me.  Don't think
this ungenerous.   I mean it to be complimentary.   From
the very first dose I felt it would cure me.  It seemed to
satisfy as  it were, my nervous system, like food does a
hungry stomach.  All my anxiety  and apprehension left
me, I felt  calm,  cheerful, able to apply myself, and dis-
posed to  be active.   My mind cleared up as if the sun
had suddenly broke in upon it, and I began to digest so
heartily that I gained flesh rapidly.
  My Sexual powers also are fully restored!   I need say
no more  on this point, except  to assure you that your 
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caution as to being  temperate shall  be faithfully observed,
though I am free to confess it requires an effort now !
  How many of my brother business men lose their health
and  powers in the  way  I did,—but how  few of them
are so fortunate as  I  have been  in restoration.  Doc-
tor,  you  must  try  to  announce that  remedy publicly.
Why, my dear sir, it would save many a man  from ruin,
and not a few from  insanity and suicide, to say nothing
of mere suffering and imbecility.  So far I have said noth-
ing about it, as you  requested, though I have  often been
sorely tempted to do so when seeing an old  friend suffer-
ing, and  hearing him demand—' wluxt makes you look so
well ?'
  Please accept the enclosed in  addition to your account.
I can never repay you,  for I verily believe had I not met
with you I should not now have been alive."
                                           *  *  *
  Note.—I do not wish  it to be  supposed that a similar
result would  follow in all  apparently  similar cases, by
simply following -the  same course.   In many  instances
there are other matters to be attended to,, and  other de-
rangements to be corrected, before the remedy can act.
This was a case of simple Seminal and Nervous exhaus-
tion, uncomplicated.
       CURE OF  SEXUAL IMPOTENCE

             AND INDIFFERENCE, IN  CUBA.

  Some two  years ago a Gentleman from Cuba called
upon me to see if I could render him any assistance.   He
was only thirty-five years old,1 but quite Impotent, and alto-
gether indifferent to the other sex.  He had been origin-
ally of an unusually warm temperament, and had indulged 
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to excess, till his powers became so exhausted that  he
could do so no longer.   His general  health had held out
pretty well, though latterly it had begun to fail, and he
suffered  from severe attacks of nervous depression.
  His desire for a restoration of  his Sexual powers was
so great that  nothing seemed too  dear to pay for it,—in-
deed he  assured me he would not care to live  as he was.
Unfortunately before I saw him he had injured himself  by
taking  a stimulating Cordial, which he  saw advertised,
and I had in the first place to overcome the ill effects  of
that.  I then commenced treating him, and in less than a
month he experienced such evident indications of restora-
tion that he arranged to return home, taking sufficient  of
the Aphrodisiac Remedy with him to perfect the cure.
  He also begged me to let him have a  little besides to
try the effect alone,  on some of his companions, who were
like he had been.  The following Letter shows the result.
            To Dr.  Hollick, New York.

    " Dear Doctor,
  " I send this by the  Brig------just to say that I am
now as good as ever, and  am too busy enjoying myself to
write much. You know  I have  much lost time to make
up for.
  The medicine I brought here, except what I wanted for
myself, I gave to several Gentlemen about here whom I
knew to be in want  of it, and it  has been fully successful
in every case!
  This has made a most extraordinary sensation  about
here, and I am almost worried to death by  others.   In
fact I have often  regretted  giving any away, and to save
me  in future you must really send some more.  I could
sell any amount for  you,  if you wish to sell it.  Some of
my patients have been known hereabouts as perfect Impo-
tents for many years, and their resurrection is regarded as
little less than a miracle.   Some of their unexpected gal 
 62             MISCELLANEOUS  CASES.

 antries are most amusing, but I am afraid that in the ex-
 huberance of our new born strength we shall be apt to
 need your services again.  It is hard to restrain ones-self
 when all seems  to prompt to  indulgence, in spite of your
caution.  To give you an idea of how I am now, I will
give you an account of one of my Adventures.
                                           *   *  *
     REMARKABLE  CURE  OF  IMPOTENCE

               AT NEW ORLEANS CURED.

  This Patient, like numerous other high spirited and im-
 etuous young  Southerners, had thoughtlessly delivered
 imself to unrestrained Sexual indulgences, till he had be-
come completely exhausted and  powerless.  In this pre-
dicament he was strongly urged by his friends to marry,
as a  most advantageous  opportunity of doing so  present
ed itself,  and they knew no  reason why he should not.
He was also extremely desirous of forming the Union, the
young Lady and he having become ardently attached to
each other,  but alas  his condition forbade it.  He thus
wrote to me, in describing his case.
  *   *  *  *  « gsxuai Union is scarcely possible at all.
At times I have imperfect indications of power, but they
never come when I will them, and they disappear in spite
of all my efforts to perpetuate them.  Oh ! how mortified
I have bjen at my  vain attempts with females lately, and
how  wretched I have felt at the thoughts that it must al-
ways be so.   Doctor, I cannot live in this way,—I don't
care  to do so.  And then in  regard to this proposed mar-
riage, what can I do, what can^I say, how can  I possibly
excus- myself?  Oh Doctor, this is misery indeed,—help
me and name your own reward."
                                          *  *  *
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  After being treated for six weeks he felt so far restored
as to arrange for his marriage,  and in three months from
the time of his first consulting me that event took place.
He then wrote to me another Letter, from which I extract
the following.
  *  *   *  *  « An1 my fears are dissipated, I have no
apprehensions as to the future, and feel myself in every
way as capable as I could desire, and much more so than
I deserve to be perhaps.  No failures have occurred,  nor
have I any reason to dread them in future.  In fact it is
rather restraint that  I  need  now !  Doctor, what is that
you gave me ?   By Jove its effects are scarcely credible,
and I certainly should be skeptical about them had I  not
experienced them in  my own person.   But  for that,  I
should  now have either been dead or a poor miserable
wretch, instead of the healthy happy husband I  am.  There
are thousands in this part  of the country who need such
a remedy, and who would  give their own weight in Gold
for it."                                     *  *   *
CURIOUS CASE OF LOSS OF SEXUAL POWER

              IN  A MARRIED MAN, CURED.

  This was one of those  curious cases  occassionally met
with, in which the Sexual power suddenly fails  a man
without any previous warning, and from no very obvious
cause.
  The  individual  was forty years of age, had been mar-
ried fifteen years, and had four children.  His health was
good, his habits regular, and his  Sexual powers naturally
quite' strong.   He had never been addicted to Sexual ex-
cesses at any  period of life, and had  never  felt symptoms
of decay come on.            ,..,.„.        Al
  All at once he found  himself quite  indifferent to the 
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caresses of his partner, and quite incapable of Sexual as-
sociation.  To  use his own expression  " the parts seemed
dead, and utterly refused to perform their  office."  His
alarm and mortification at this unexpected occurrence may
be  conceived, and the most  gloomy apprehensions took
possession of his mind.   He  not only thought that his
Sexual powers  were  totally and unaccountably gone, but
he also feared that it was  only the beginning of complete
bodily decay, and visions of premature old age and death
loomed  fearfully before  him.  Matters were  also made
much worse by the fact of his partner being naturally of
a warm temperament, and  of course chagrined at his im-
potent condition.  Under such circumstances  unpleasant
surmises  arose in her mind as to the cause of his indiffer-
ence, which he  was unable to  dispel, and thu3 both were
made wretched.
  In this condition he sought me, and I commenced the
investigation of his case.  From his statement however I
could discover no very obvious cause for his sudden defi-
ciency, and therefore concluded that it arose  from want
of sufficient Seminal and Nervous Nutrition, brought about
by  some unusual  combination of  circumstances.    The
Aphrodisiac Remedy was  therefore given  to  him, with
proper general  advice, and with full confidence, on my
part, as to the result, though he felt sorrowfully dubious.
  After the third day he felt certain that his powers were
returning, and  in two weeks,  to use his own  remark he
was " a man  again!"   It is now several years since this
occurrence, and he still  retains his usual vigor, though
occasionally requiring a few  doses of the Remedy, as he
says, to keep him quite right.
  But for proper treatment he would have remained per-
fectly impotent, and  his general health would soon have
decayed also. 
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 A CASE OF  INVOLUNTARY, AND INSTAN-
        TANEOUS  SEMINAL EMISSION,

     WHICH HAD ALWAYS EXISTED, FULLY CURED.

  This  individual  was a perfect Type of thousands of
men that are daily to  be met with.  In his youth he had
been much addicted to Masturbation, and in consequence
his Sexual Organs, and Sensibilities, were so preternatu-
rally irritable that Sexual union was utterly impossible.
He had  a plentiful seminal secretion, but the slightest at
tempt at connection, or even thinking about it at times,
brought on immediate  emission,  so that  he was in reality
 fiowerless, and  had always been so.  He had taken I be-
 ieve every Cordial and Tonic that was advertised, but all
to no purpose, and scarcely a hope of relief seemed left.
  By some accident he fell in with the " Marriage Guide,"
and that induced him to seek me.
  The first thing I did was to Cauterize him, as explained
in my book on " The Male  Organs," and that at once
stopped  the involuntary emissions, but  still any attempt
at connection  brought them  on too soon, so that the act
could not be consummated.   For this trouble I gave him
the Aphrodisiac Remedy, to  Nutrify and  Tone the parts,
and improve the  quality of the Seminal fluid.
  The most perfect  success followed this course, and in a
short time his powers of retention were perfect, so that he
married, and is now a father.
  This trouble, of too quick emission, is very common, and
is both annoying and hurtful, for it is sure eventually to
bring on involuntary  emission.   I  have never  known a
case that was not cured in this way.

                   ------»♦•------

 HABITUAL AND  SUDDEN CESSATION  OF
           SEXUAL POWER, CURED.

  This case was very  curious, though not uncommon, in
certain degrees.  The patient was as vigorous, and healthy 
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MISCELLANEOUS  CASES.
 sexually, as any man, and  wfien alone, his feelings,  and
 desires,  and the development of his Organs, were perfect,
 but always on attempting connection he became powerless,
 and without seminal loss!   Afterwards he would become
 as perfect as he was before, but never could  remain so at
 the proper time.
   After taking  the Aphrodisiac  Remedy for six  weeks,
 with general treatment,  his condition  improved so much
 that for the first time in his  life  his  powers were fully
 manifested.  The trouble however had existed so long, and
 had become so fully established, that he is compelled even
 now, to  use a little of the remedy at times.
  Many men are troubled in this way,  more or less, and I
believe  all  may be completely relieved, unless too far ad-
vanced in life.
 DISTRESSING CASE OF INABILITY  AT THE

              TIME OF MARRIAGE, CURED.

  In this instance a young man found himself, at the time
of his  marriage, perfectly impotent from  inability to re-
tain the Seminal fluid,—the  emission occuring always on
the- instant of his making an attempt.  His shame  and
despair may  be imagined, and I verily believe  that noth-
ing saved him from committing suicide but the fact that
he had read my book on the Male Organs, and thought
that I could help him.
  I advised him to  feign sickness  for a time, as a reason
for  his situation,  while he underwent proper treatment.
This he did, and before two  weeks the difficulty was over,
aDd has never returned since. 
MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
61
           MISCELLANEOUS CASES.

  Besides  those  above described,  and which  are only
specimens of hundreds which could be given, of the same
kinds.  There are numerous others  of a different charac-
ter, and which can only be perfectly understood by persons
acquainted  with the Physiology of  Generation.   Those
persons who have  read  my " Marriage Guide "—or the
" Male Organs," will understand this at once, and will per-
ceive that many of these cases are the most interesting of
all that can come under  a Physician's notice.
  There are some men impotent because their  Testes form
no Semen, from having become torpid.  Others form it
but of an imperfect kind,—watery, and without Animal-
cules.   In some men again there is a peculiar loss of Nerv-
ous sensibility in the Organs, owing to which there is no
proper feeling,  and though there may be desire yet there
is neither enjoyment nor efficient capability.
  In the same manner Females are often sterile from causes
but little known or suspected.  The Ovaries  may be tor-
pid the same as the Male Testes, and then they form no
Ovce, or Eggs,  and sometimes these are formed, but im-
perfectly.  In this case they either cannot be impregnated
or else they germinate into monstrosities, as shown in " The
Marriage Guide."
  In the greater part of such cases the Aphrodisiac Rem-
edy,  conjoined  with proper treatment, usually  effects a
cure, unless there be virulent  disease, or organic defect.
  Numbers of  childless  couples, who have called on me,
have had their dearest wishes fulfilled, who otherwise would
have had no hope whatever.  In such cases however it is
necessary first to know in which party is the deficiency, and
this can always be told, by  a careful consultation.
  The beneficial effects of  similar treatment have also
been equally apparent in numerous  cases of the most dis-
tressing  Nervous Debility  aud Irritability!  In these
the Aphrodisiac Remedy acts in the most beneficial man-
ner, soothing the excitable,  giving strength to  the debili-
tated,  and new power to the imbecile. 
68
MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
   Many men, unable to attend to their  business,  from
Nervous Debility, have been  completely cured  in a very
short time, and others have had their mental powers so
much improved as to be much more capable than ever
they were before.  The common expression of these men
is that their minds seem " to clear up," or  " brighten," so
that mental labour is a pleasure instead of a burden, and
application does not distress them. 
CONCLUDING  PART.
   THE GREAT FACT.—THE EVIL AND ITS
                     REMEDY.

 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE NERVOUS AND SEXUAL SYSTEMS,
   WITH AN EXPLANATION  OF THE MEANS  WE POSSESS
         FOR THEIR NUTRITION AND RENOVATION.

   It has long been known, as a general truth, but very
 vaguely, that there is an intimate connection between the
 Nervous and Sexual Systems, but it has hitherto been
 thought to be merely sympathetic.  Physiologists have how-
 ever  recently discovered that the composition, and mode
 of production, of the Nervous substance and the Seminal
 fluid are almost identical;—that in fact they are essentially
 the same thing.  It has also been ascertained that, in all
 cases of severe Nervous or mental derangement, the actual
 substance of the Brain  and Nerves either  wastes away or
 undergoes a destructive change.   And in  the same way,
 in all cases of confirmed loss of Sexual power, the seminal
 substance either wastes, or  becomes destructively changed,
 in a similar manner.  But, what is still more  important,
 the destruction or injury of either one of these elements
 of our systems brings on inevitably a similar evil to the
 other.  Every man therefore who becomes Impotent is in
 imminent danger of becoming Insane, or at least of weak
Intellect, and every one whose  nervous  suhstance is seri-
ously impaired will almost certainly lose his sexual powers.
The" two are  intimately dependant the one  on  the other,
and are affected, for good or for evil, by the same external
and internal causes.
  At the present time a number of causes are in constant 
70
CONCLUDING  PART.
  operation, on  most men, exceedingly destructive both to
  their Nervous and Sexual powers, causing an actual waste
  of  Brain and Seminal  substance, and entailing bodily
  suffering and mental deficiency to an unknown extent.
   This has of course originated plenty  of remedies, as
  they are called, which are put forth as infallible, by those
  who know nothing of the nature of these evils, and who
  care nothing for the effect which follows after the remedy
  is sold.
   In all such  cases it is requisite, in the first instance, to
  arrest  further change, or waste, and then effect a Restor-
  ation,  if that  be possible.   To effect this Renovation we
  must of course use such means  as  will really  create new
  Brain, or Seminal  Substance.   The same as we create new
 Muscle in cases of muscular weakness.  That this can be
 done is undoubted, for each portiou of the organization
 draws the elements  of its nntrition from peculiar sources,
 and when we know what those elements are, and whence
 they can be obtained,  we can supply them.   It is not pos-
 sible to nourish and  renovate the Nervous and Sexual
 systems by the same elements alone that nourish and reno-
 vate the muscular  system, though these are necessary as
 adjuncts;—there is needed in addition certain rare elements
 that are found  only in the Nervous and  Seminal substan-
 ces !
   Chemistry has taught us what these rare  elements are,
 and  also whence and how we can obtain them, though as
 yet but sparingly, and upon this  recently acquired know-
 ledge is  based that successful  treatment of Nervous and
 Sexual  debility exhibited in  the above "cases."   The
 Remedy there mentioned, which I use in my practice, con-
 tains all these " Elements," properly combined by myself,
 and  this  accounts  for  its great success.   The popular
 Invigorator's Cordials, and Antidotes, sold by Advertise-
 ment, are  entirely  different.   They  simply  stimulate, or
excite the exhausted organs to extra labour, for a short
time but only to leave them afterwards  more hopelessly
impotent than  before,  as thousands  have found to their
cost.
  My Patients, and all those familiar with my Books are 
CONCLUDING PART.               71
aware how popular this Remedy has been, among those
who knew of it, but to many persons it is as yet unknown,
except by  rumor, and it may  be matter of  surprise to
them-that  it has not  been put more  openly before the
public.  The following remarks will explain this, and also
my reasons for now offering it for sale.
  There is no doubt but what all uncomplicated  cases of
Bimple Debility, Impotence,  Sterility, or loss of feeling, un-
accompanied  by organic  Disease, or natural imperfection,
may be cured by this  Remedy alone.   It will only fail in
cases of Organic Disease, or natural imperfection, in which
no medical remedy can cure alone.
  In  my work on tlie Male  Organs  I have given  an
account of all those Medicines which are generally known,
that exert  any power over the Generative Organs, and
have shown the real value of each.   These Medicines are
called scientifically  Aphrodisiacs.  There  are several  of
them, but none of those in ordinary use can be relied upon
for any good  effects, and  many of them  are quite danger-
ous.  When  they do act it is as Stimulants, or Excitants,
giving a false appearance of restored strength for a short
time,  but only  to cause more  incurable impotence  after-
wards.  There are some remedies however, (as already ex-
plained,) not  in common use, that do exert, in numerous
cases, a most decidedly beneficial influence, even to the pro-
duction of quite unexpected and almost unhoped for cures,
-^-especially in Impotence and Sterility.
  These remedies are difficult to  procure, in a pure state,
and are expensive.  For these reasons they  are never em-
ployed in ordinary practice ; and in fact physicians seldom
know anything about  them.  They are not mentioned in
the Pharmacopeias, and are only occasionally alluded to
in the Medical Journals.   The advertised Quack Cordials,
Antidotes, and Invigorators, it is scarcely necessary to say,
never really contain a  particle of them, though they pre-
tend to do so.
  The necessities of my practice have of course compelled
me  to procure and use every article of the kind, and to
combine them together, and experiment with them in every
conceivable way.   From  this  I have succeeded, in the 
72                CONCLUDING PART.
course of years, in forming a compound that is, I have no
hesitation in saying,  far more efficacious in all  cases of
debility, torpor, and  premature decay of the  Generative
and Nervous power,  than any other  preparation of the
kind ever in use.  In fact it  is almost infallible, except
where there is some  Organic Defect,  or  some  primary
lesion which requires correcting first.  In  proof of this
I need only  refer to the " Cases."
  This preparation is not a Stimulant or Excitant, nor a
mere  Tonic, but a real Renovator, supplying  precisely that
kind of material, and  influence, that is needed to produce
New Brain, and new Seminal fluid !  I have myself  often
been amazed at its effects, and seldom despair of any case
in which it can be used,  except from some  of the causes
above mentioned.
  For a long time I  have been importuned to advertise
and sell this preparation, as a general  remedy, by those
who have used it, or  heard of its power, but  for various
reasons I have not hitherto chosen to do this.  The essen-
tial articles are very scarce and dear, and the preparation
is difficult,  so that till lately I could scarcely  provide
enough for  the wants of my  legitimate practice, and to
supply the demand for  it which has arisen through the
mere mention of it in  my books alone.
  Very recently however, after much trouble and experi-
menting, I have succeeded in ensuring a more reliable and
abundant supply of the requisite materials  than  1 before
could, and can therefore dispose of this remedy more gener-
ally, though it is still rare and expensive.  It has enabled
me however to sell it to others besides my immediate  pati-
ents, and thus extend  its  usefulness.  The large and truly
unfortunate  class of Nervous and Sexually Impotent suff-
erers may now therefore obtain a remedy upon  which they
may safely  rely for help, and  from which the  slightest ill
effect can never follow !   Even if taken by those  who did
not need  it  no  injury  or  inconvenience  could  possibly
result.
  The reader will  now understand the Nature  of this
remedy, and will see the  footing on which I place it.  It
is not advertised in the manner of the Quack Cordials and 
CONCLUDING PART.
73
 Invigorators of  the day, nor will it be so, but can always
 be obtained by those who require it.   There are some few
 debilitated and Impotent persons who cannot be restored
 by using this remedy alone  undoubtedly, but by far the
 larger number can be, and even in my regular practice, in
 all uncomplicated cases, it  is the main agent relied upon.
   In short it  will be  found to be, I  venture to  assert, as
 nearly infallible,  and self-sufficient, as any medical remedy,
 in the  nature of things,  can be!  If it fails the Patient
 Bhould at once seek  Dr. IPs.  advice,  for he may rest fully
 assured there is some Organic or functional derangement
 which  imperatively and urgently requires  Surgical  or
 Mechanical aid.
   For convenience I have it so put up, in a dry form, air
* and water  tight, that  it can be kept uninjured, for any
 length of time, in any climate, and under almost any cir-
 cumstances.   It  can also be  taken without the inconve-
 nience of measuring, using  Liquids, or any other trouble-
 Bome requirement, thus ensuring secrecy' and facility of
 use let a man be situated however he may.  A Gentleman
 can keep it in his vest  pocket without  any fear of detec-
 tion from  smell or appearance.   It  will  go anywhere by
 Post, with  perfect safety, and in such a form that no one
 through whose hands it passes would ever suspect its nature,
 or that it was anything peculiar !
   The price for a package is Five Dollars ! and if order
 ed by Post it will be sent free, to any  part, with full di-
 rections.  There are no Agents for it anywhere, at present;
 nor will  there be except they are specially mentioned in
 my Books, so that it can only be obtained from me per-
 sonally, by addressing through  the  Post to " Doctor F.
 Hollick, New York."   I do this to avoid trouble, and also*
 to prevent Counterfeiting, which would be sure to be prao»
 tised if it were generally sold through agents.
   It is scarcely necessary for me to  repeat that  there is
 nothing whatever in this preparation that can  be in any
 way hurtfal. under any circumstances.   It is applicable to"
 cases of female Sterility and torpor, as well as to derange-
 ments  of  the male System or Nerves, as will be seen by
 Bome of the  " Cases " in my Books. 
74
concluding part.
  As a name is convenient in  asking for, or describing it,
I have called it " Dr. Hoi.lick's Aphrodisiac Remedy,"
because that is the term generally made use of, spontane-
ously as it were, by those who have used, and who speak
of it to others. 
    MICROSCOPICAL  EXAMINATION  OF
                   THE URINE.

  No. 1. Represents the appearance of the Semen when
perfectly healthy, as seen under the miscroscope.   It was
a portion lost in consequence of straining at stool, from
constipation, as is very often the case.
  The Seminal Animalcules, those minute living beings, al-
ways found in that fluid, and without which it is imper-
fect will be seen perfect in their form, and active in their
motions.  While this state of the vital fluid exists, a man
will retain his powers, but if it continues to be lost to an
undue  extent—and especially if it passes in the urine, a
change  occurs—the  animalcules becomes less abundant,
imperfect  in form, and with very feeble powers of motion.
This is shown in No. 2. 
76
ADDENDA.
  No. 2. This  was a portion of Semen contained in the
urine of a person who had debilitated himself by mastur-
bation, in early  life.  There are a few animalcules, but they
are imperfect and very  feeble.   This individual had  but
faint amative desires, and but little power.  It is possible
that a man so circumstanced may be capable of association,
to a limited extent, and may even  become a parent, but
his  children, if he have any, are sure to be either deformed,
still born, or constitutionally weak !  Most usually, however,
there  is no impregnation, or if there be, miscarriage takes
place.
  The reason for this is obvious enough, to those who know
the part which the Animalcule performs  in originating
the new being, and it is fully explained in " The Marriage
Guide."
  No. 3. This  was also taken  from the urine of a man
who had long suffered from Urinary Seminal loss, and who
had become nearly impotent, with great decay of his men-
tal  powers, gloomy feelings, general debility, and all those
distressing symptoms of constitutional decay, which invari-
ably follow this disease if  it is-not checked.
  In this case the Animalcules are  all dead, and the parts
of the body detached from each other. Impregnation from
this semen could never take place, though the person might
still at times, retain slight powers of association.   Many
men are circumstanced in  this way—especially those long
addicted to excesses of any kind, and also business men,
exhausted by too much  anxiety and mental labor.
  No. 4. This  view was  taken from a man wholly  and
hopelessly impotent, and in the last stages of decay, bodily
and mental.  Of course,  at  this stage, there is  neither
power nor desire.  The Semen is utterly destitute of  ani-
malcules, and almost substance.  It passes almost constantly
in the urine, and is merely like gum water.   During the
second and  third stages, a man may recover, with proper
assistance, but  in the last  stage there is no hope.   There
are many married people without children, owing to these
imperfections in the male, though it is  generally thought
that it must be from the female.   Some men are even natur-
ally imperfect n this way, and never can be parents, though, 
ADDENDA.
71
apparently, like other men.  The true reason for weakly
and deformed  children, and also for frequent miscarriage,
is also often in the male,  though not suspected.
  Dr. H. is daily making microscopical examinations of this
kind, both  for those who call upon him, and for others.
  Persons  at a distance, who cannot possibly  pay a per-
sonal visit  to Dr. H. need not give up all hopes of receiv-
ing proper  treatment in any of the above affections.  Dr.
H. can  suggest a means  by which  the necessary examin-
ations can be made perfectly, without their coming, so that
he can advise by regular correspondence, as he does con-
stantly with hundreds.  All the peculiar medicines which
he uses are so prepared as  to go by post, without fear of
injury or detection.
  In short, Dr. H. attends to all those derangements which
are connected  in any way with the parental system, in both
sexes, and  those peculiar  nervous  affections which arise
from them.  His practice is, therefore, different from that
of any other medical  man  of the day, and he does not in-
terfere, except incidentally, with those diseases  that ordin-
arily engage professional attention.
  The success that has attended his efforts, and the public
confidence  and patronage that has been so extensively
awarded him  for many years past, and which is daily in-
creasing, make it utterly unnecessary for him to adopt any
means for  extending  his practice; nor is this statement
published for any such purpose. It has merely been issued
at the request of many former patients,  to let those per-
sons know, who are suffering from these  peculiar  causes,
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which they are too apt, naturally enough, to fall.
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bestowed upon every case.  Dr. H. has numerous testimo-
nials from those who  were formerly impotent,  debilitated,
or  childless, but who  were fully  restored to health, happi-
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 Hok  the eminent popular Lecturer, and  successful practitioner,
 should be in the hands of every man who values his health, and the
 preservation or restoration, of his powers  It is complete n every
 particular, and is the onlv work in the English Language where that
 Fell destn.yer of thousands, urinary sem.nal lo**, is tully explained,
 and  its cure  and prevention pointed out.   How manv thousands
 yearly  die or become  imbecile from this cause, who have uever
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APPENDIX.
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   Dr. Hollicx and Physiology.—The second of a series of Lectures,
 by this gentleman, on human physiology, and the all important truths
 connected with our physical constitution, was attended by a full
 house, in National Hall, last evening.  The time was well spent, and so
 appeared to think the audience.   On the delivery of the first of these
 Lectures on  Tuesday evening, the  speaker  in a cnmprehen»ive and
 well-digested exordium, placed himself and the subject right with the
 public.  His manner, language and style, did the  first ; his sound logic,
 his argument, his candor  and  research, accomplished the second.
 Apart from the interesting and  apposite details of the  wonders of
 reproduction, the illustrations of the immutable wisdom of nature,
 which teem in the animal and vegetable worlds—which

       " Glows in each slem, and blossoms in each tree ;
         Lives through all life, extends  through all extent,
         Spreads undivided, operates unspent."

  Apart  from all this. Dr. Hollick's Lecture was excellent as a defence
 of truth, a vindication of the right of free and unshackled inquiry, and
 as a convincing refutation of that Billy,  but far too  prevalent opinion
 that there are truths of which it is belter to remain in a state of igno-
 rance.   Had  nothing  else been  imparted in  the forcible and well
 defined exordium of Dr. Hollick, than this judicious demolition of that
 fallacious, silly, but injurious twaddle  which would forbid  research
 to pass in advance of the old landmarks prescribed by custom,  igno-
 rance or a spurious morality—even that  would well deserve the public
 patronage.  Truths, well set forth, will make an  impression,  whether
 their investigation be fashionable or  not.  There is an affinity between
 the capacity  to learn, and the truths  to  be learned,  which always
 results, when a fitting opportunity is presented, in a free inquiry, and
 the gentleman who is bringing, in a  judicious and elevated manner, a
 knowledge of those fundamental principles of our corporeal existence
 which are abused because unknown, will accomplish more good than
 half a dozen teachers of higher pretentions, and lower ability.  It was
 gratifying to observe the  decorum—the sense  of  respect for  both
 speaker and subject, that was observed throughout the evening, which
 evidently shows that  those who go there  are  actuated  by higher
 motives  than  mere curiosity ; by  desires more ennobling than  a
 passing gratification ; in a word, it was clear that those who  com-
 posed Dr. H's hearers, were men who know and dare to think  and
 who wiU prorH by these most useful discourses.—iVci»  York Herald
August 7, 1844. 
APPENDIX.
83
  At a Meeting of the Class attendant upon Dr. HoUick's Select Lec-
tures on the Physiology and Philosophy of the " Origin of Life " in
Plants and Animals, held at the Lecture Koom of the Museum, Wed-
nesday evening, December I, 1844, George G.  West, Esq., was called
to the Chair, and Samuel W. Black appointed Secretary.

  Resolved,  That  we have listened  with unfeigned  pleasure  and
interest to the Course of Lectures delivered by Dr. Hollick, and now
brought to a close, and  that we  deem it an act of justice to him and
the community, to express our entire confidence  in his character,
ability, and  the  manner of illustrating his subject, which, to use the
words of a daily journal,  " is couched in such delicate as well as per-
spicuous language, that  the most fastidious could find no fault, nor the
idlest curiosity go away unimproved."

  Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to  tender to Dr.
H. the thanks of the Class for his courtesy to the members in affording
them every facility for obtaining information upon  the subject of his
Lectures, and that he be requested to repeat the Course at the earliest
period consistent with his other engagements.

  Published  in all the Philadelphia daily papers of December, 14, 1844,
and signed by one hundred and forty of the most respectable and influ-
ential inhabitants.

  (See similar Resolutions, with over  two hundred names attached, in
the Philadelphia daily papers of March 9, 1844 ; also of March 16 ;
and on several other occasions.)
          From the Philadelphia Daily Paftrs, Feb. 31, 1845.

  At a meeting of the Ladies composing Dr. Hollick's Class, held on
Wednesday  afternoon, February 19th,  in  the  Lecture Room of the
Museum, the following resolutions were unanimously  adopted, and
ordered to be published in one  or more  of the city papers :

  Resolved,  That we have listened with  great pleasure and interest to
Pr. Hollick's Lectures, and we are happy to add our testimony to the
many already recorded in behalf of such Lectures : and regarding Dr.
Hollick as a benefactor of his race, and especially  of our sex, we cor-
dially wish for him abundant success, and ample  reward in the con-
sciousness of doing good.

  Resolved, That we will exert ourselves to induce our female friends
and acquaintances to avail themselves of the great and rare privilege
of obtaining the valuable instruction imparted in these Lectures in so
chaste and dignified a manner.
             Signed on behalf of the meeting by
                                       Susak Wood, President.
    Sarah Webb, Secretary.

  flffl- With over 50 names attached thereto.

  (See also  similar Resolutions, with numerous names, on Feb. 27,
1846 March 20, 1840, and on April 10,  1846, with over three hundrtd
names attached) 
84
APPENDIX.
  A Gold Mkdal to Doctor  Hollick.—The Ladies of Dr.  Hollick's
class have presented him  with a beautiful Gold  Medal, enclosed in a
handsome morocco case.  The front of  the Medal bears the following
inscription :

  " Presented to Frederick Hollick, M. D., by the Ladies who attended
his Lectures on Physiological Science, delivered at Philadelphia, March,
1846, as an expression of their approbation of tho knowledge therein
conveyed, and as a testimonial of personal regard."

  On the reverse is the Sun, and reflected by the rays of the luminary,
• scroll containing the words

           " To give light to them that sit in darkness."

                         Phila. Spirit of the Times, March 28, 1848.
              "LETTERS  FROM NKW YORK, NO. 11.

  "   *    *   . *    *   There have been several courses of Lectures
on Anatomy, this winter, adapted to popular comprehension.  I rejoice
at this ; for it has long been a cherished  wish with me that a general
knowledge of the structure of our  bodies, and the laws which  govern
it, should extend from the scientific few into the common education of
th? people.  I know of  nothing so well calculated to diminish vice and
vulgarity  as universal and rational information on  these subjects.
But the impure  state of society has so preverted nature, and blinded
common  sense, that intelligent women, though eagerly studying the
structure of the Earth, the attraction of the Planets, and the repro-
duction of Plants, seem ashamed to know anything of the structure of
the human Body, and of those Physiological facts most intimately con-
nected with their deepest and purest emotions, and the holiest experi-
ence of their lives.   I am often  tempted to say, as Sir C. Grandison
did to the Prude—• Wottest thou not how much m-delicacy there is in
thy delicacy ?'
  - The only Lectures I happened to attend were those of Dr. Hollick,
which  interested and edified me much.   They were  plain, familiar
conversations, uttered and listened to with great modesty of language.
and propriety of demeanor.   The Manikin, or Artificial Anatomy, b»
which he illustrated his subject, is a most wonderful machine invented
by a French Physician.  It is made of papier mache, and represent*
the human body with admirable perfection, in the shape, coloring, and
arrangement even to the minutest fibres.  By the removal of wires it
can be dissected completely, so as to show the locality and functions
  «< if v.ar'ou8 0rgans, the interior of the Heart, Lungs, &c.
    Until I examined this curious piece of mechanism, I had very faint
and imperiect  ideas of the  miraculous machinery of the house we live
in.  1 lound it highly suggestive of many things to my mind."  * * •



^m^T^^kT"Boston Courier"of Mondv''- 
APPENDIX.
85
  Dr.  Hollick's  course  of lectures at Washingtonian Hall on the
Origin of Life, commenced on  Monday,  and were  listened  to  with
breathless  attention  till  the close, when the audience, in a  body
assembled around the speaker's stand, and congratulated him upon the
excellence, novelty and  utility  of his discourse, and the vigor and
felicity of his explanations.  The manikin used by the Dr. to illustrate
his remarks, is as large as life, and contains a fac simile of all the im-
portant machinery of the human body, and it is a treat to behold  them
and listen to the accompanying  observations  regarding their uses and
abuses.  The advance of  modern  science is  aptly illustrated by the
declaration of Dr. H., that within the  last two years there have been
discovered greater facilities for teaching medical  doctrines to the
multitude than the two foregoing centuries furnished for the instruc-
tion of medical men.  If then, modern  days alford so much additional
light, it is even culpable on the  part of the community if they do not
avail  themselves  of knowledge so indispensible to health and happi-
ness.   Dr.  Hollick's remarks are unexceptionable, easily understood,
and have all the force of philosophy without the learned' jargou of the
pedant— Boston Post, March 23, 1849.
  J8SJ" Dr.  Hollick's  new series of Lectures which commence to-day
for ladies in the afternoon, and for gentlemen in^the evening, will no
doubt prove a source of high gratification, and useful instruction, to
all who can attend them.   We  understand each lecture wjll  be quite
complete by itself, and will embrace every topic of interest and every
fact of value, that have the slightest bearing upon the subject  dis-
cussed.  The Dr.  has a most admirable power of condensation,  and
never loses time  with mere words,  so that he  puts more valuable
matter in one of his  discourses  than  is ordinarily scattered over four.
The ladies' lectures are all  to be of a strictly useful character,  em-
bracing the causes  of their various complaints,  and how to avoid
them, &c.   It was remarked by many, who were there last week, that
sucli knowledge would prevent more disease  than any medical skill
could cure, and that they  scarcely knew which to admire most, the
value of the informal ion itself, or the singularly pleasing,  plain,  and
delicate manner in which it was communicated.   Tlie attendance  will
no doubt, be large, and those who go late will probably be again  dis-
appointed,  as hundreds were last  week.—Boston Bee, March 7, 1848.
  Dr. Hollick's New Series of Lectures.—At the request of  many
of our citizens Dr. H. has arranged to commence on Monday next, a
course for ladies and gentlemen together, on Physiology and Health,
and al-io one in the afternoon for ladies alone, illustrated by his cele-
brate 1 models, paintings, kc.   The great  interest and importance
of tnis subject, and the reputation of the lecturer himself, will no
doubt cause a  very large  attendance,  but the Doctor has properly
made Ms  arrangements so that no  more will be admitted  than can
be comfortably seated.  These lectures will be quite a prominent fea-
ture in next  week's entertainments, and we should not be  surprised
if the Doctor is even better patronized than he was last winter, when
hundreds  could not  obtain  admission to hear him.—Boston Times,
November, 1848. 
86
APPENDIX.
  Dr. H's. style of lecturing is exceedingly plain, lucid and intelligi-
ble.   He relies on no trick or  art of oratory—no elfort to surprise or
startle__to obtain  or keep up  the interest of  his lectures.  But they
are deeply interesting.   They are  listened  to in  silence and with
enchained attention—an attention that would  feel annoyed at any
fictitious arts of  the speaker.   The reason of  this is  obvious.  The
entirely novel character of the lectures, the  deep  and pi-evading in-
terest of the subjects discussed—subjects embracing all lhat is mys-
terious and of momentous importance in the matter of man's re-pro-
duction and existence in this  world—give to the lectures a solid and
inestimable value as well as enchaining freshness and interest.
  We believe Dr. Hollick is the only man in the country who has de-
voted years of study to this important but too much neglected branch
of human knowledge, or rather of human ignorance ; and who is now
trying to extend the lights of wholesome understanding  on the sub-
jects embraced, among the people.
  In this matter, we recognise in Dr. H. a public benefactor, and we
owe it to the welfare of our fellows to commend him as such in this
deeided manner.   We give utterance to no formal or paid for puff in
this matter.  Our  readers know us to be iucapable of such a prostitu-
tion  of our columns.   The large numbers of ladies and gentlemen
who  have attended Dr. H.'s  lectures  know that we do but speak of
this subject as it merits.—St.  Louis Intelligencer, Feb. 8, I860.

  We were most agreeably surprised  and delighted.   Highly as  Dr.
H. came recommended,  and thoroughly as were  his lectures approved
by men of intelligence  abroad, we had no idea before hearing him, of
the vast utility of his labors.
  The subjects he  discusses are  of the highest importance to  the
well-being of the human race, and an ignorance of  them is daily pro-
ducing a degree of disease and death, the extent of which nothing but
the astounding disclosures of eternity will reveal.—St. Louis Era,
Feb.  1, 1850.

  He  is certainly an admirable lecturer, being clear in voice, distinct
in expression, and having a very  felicitous manner of  imparting in-
struction.   We  are persuaded his  lectures  must  be  productive of.
great good.—Organ, St. Louis, Mo

  Dr. Holuok—This distinguished lecturer had a  crowded house at
the Apollo last evening and  his delighted audience expressed their
approbation at the close of his discourse by loud applause.
  Dr. H. is indeed a most entertaining and instructive  lecturer.   We
heard a medical gentlemen say last evening, after listening to him,
that he would not  fail to hear the whole series even if he should have
to sell his coat to raise the means.  The information, imparted by
Dr. H., must be truly invaluable to  every one who  possesses it.—
Louisville Journal, Jan. 8,  1850.

  Undoubtedly  he is the most eloquent,  instructive and impressive
lecturer in the  United >,tates  upon physiology and health.  The peo-
ple of Cincinnati were  so delighted  with him that they prevailed on
him  to  deliver four courses of lectures, and,  when he  was at  length
obliged ta leave them, they obtained from him a promise to return —
Louisville Journal, Jan.  5, 1850. 
APPENDIX.
87
  Another Course.—Dr. Hollick, in consequence of the great success
with which he has met, has concluded to repeat his course of lectures.
as will be seen by reference to another column.  His lectures imparl
information of such value, and are so highly interesting,  that a per-
son who hears him once, will not fail to attend the series.—Tivies,
Cincinn, December, 1849.
  Dr. Hollick's Lectures have excited great attention and produced
much benefit  throughout the country.  These lectures are  strictly
moral and highly instruclive.  There is  nothing connected with them
calculated to offend the most sensitive delicacy.—Delta, New  Orleans,
Feb. ?4,  1350.
  In November, 1849, Dr. Hollick lectured in Pittsburgh, Pa., to crowd-
ed audiences, and at the termination of his last course was publicly
thanked and requested to return.

  In December, 1849, he gave four courses in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
then had to give a promise to return at an early period.

  In January, 1850, after two crowded courses, tlje ladies of Louisville,
Ky , tendered him  publicly a most flattering  vote  of thanks and re-
quested him to visit them  again as early as his engagements would
allow.

  In St. Louis, Mo., February, 1850, he had crowded houses, both of
ladies and gentlemen, for three weeks, and public resolutions, com-
mending his lectures in the  highest terms, were  passed  on several
occasions.

  On going down the Mississippi River, February, 1850, he was unan-
imously requested by the officers and passengers of the splendid steam-
er Atlantic, to  unpack his Models and lecture to  them on  the boat,
which he did on three several days.  At the conclusion, the audience
resolved itself into a meeting, Dr. Gibson of Mississippi, being called
to the chair, and Dr. Clark of St. Louis, elected  Secretary.  A series
of resolutions were  then passed unanimously, returning  thanks for
the lectures and commending  them in the highest terms.  These reso-
lutions, headed,

     " Novel and'interesting scene on board a Mississippi steamer."

were published in the  Picayune, New Orleans,  the inhabitants of
which  place were strongly  urged to attend when  the lectures were
given in their city, and which they did not fail to do.

  During his stay in the West and South, Dr. H. was everywhere re-
ceived in the most flattering manner, and his efforts to impart import-
ant physiological knowledge in a popular manner, were ful'y appreci-
ated.   In every place the largest room that  could be  obtained  waj
crowded at each lecture, and  the number of applicants for consulta-
tions was so great  that on several occasions Dr. H. was obliged to
postpone the lectures in order to attend to them. 
APPENDIX.
#RITING DESK AND COLD PEN PRESENTED TO DR. H. BT ONI
                 OF  HIS LADY CLASSES.

             Dr. Hollick—Dear Sir:  The members of
          your class, desiring the gratification of offering
          you some testimonial  of  their personal regard,
          and gratoful appreciation of the benefits whieb
          you are  conferring upon them and their  sex
          generally, respectfully request your acceptance
          of the accompanying writing desk.
             Were it necessary,  we  might repeat our as-
          surances that your services to humanity will be,
          by us, long and gratefully remembered.  The
          women of this generation have reason to rejoice
          that, by your efforts, a new and extensive field
          of information has been opened to them, whenoo
          they may derive treasures of knowledge, of  im-
          mense importance to themselves and their pos-
          terity,  hitherto concealed  within professional
          enclosures.
             Wishing you health and happiness, we beg
          leave to subscribe ourselves,

                            Truly your Friends,
                   Signed on behalf of the class by,
                                             M.  G.
                                          O. W. B.
            Phila. March 20, 1845.
 
THE  GOLD MEDAL PRESENTED TO DR.  HOLLICK,
LAHDIIIES  (DIP IP
E L A IE) IE 3L IP EI H A. 
90
APPENDIX.
LECTURES  IN  1852.
  In the early part of this year Dr. H. lectured  for four weeks, with
the most unbounded success, in Philadelphia, and for four more in
Baltimore, where his reception was enthusiastic,  the ladies filling the
room, and passing  on the last day a series of highly flattering and
commendatory Resolutions, which were published in the daily papers.
The following are a  few of the Editorials given at that time :—

                         [COMMUNICATED.]

  Messrs. Editors —The  most scientific and  useful lectures of the
present day, which  should claim the attention of every one, are now
being delivered at Masonic Hall, by Dr. Hollick, on  the subject of Pa-
ternal  Physiology  and Health.  The  writer of  this heard his first
course,  delivered during the last week, and having been educated to
the medical  profession, is, parhaps, capable of judging of their use-
fulness.  There is  no doubt that  the general  feeling of the medical
faculty, and of an enlightened community, towards itinerant lectur-
ers, has been one of disapprobation and apprehension of  quackery,
but in the present instance there is certainly an exception.
  Dr. Dunbar, (formerly Professor at the Washington College,) who
attended Dr. H.'s last lecture, on Friday evening, was so pleased with
the manner and matter of the lecture that he came out openly at the
close of  the lecture and stated, before the audience had dispersed, that
he had come there at the request of a patient,  prejudiced against the
lecturer, bu^on  hearing him he thought it his duty to  say that thi
lecture  was  perfectly fair, scientific, calculated  to do a vast amount
of good, and that every man, young or old, should hear, and would be
benefited thereby.   His  illustrations are complete and beautiful, and
his explanations  couched in such delicate language  that the most fas-
tidious can find no fault.  Those of your numerous readers who may
devote an hour to his remaining lectures will thank you for giving
this publicity.—Baltimore American, March 2, 1852.
  Dr. Hollick's Lectures.—The distinction which Dr.  Hollick has ac-
quired as a most  intelligent,  judicious and salutary lecturer on ths
interesting and important subjects of human physiology and health,
renders any  commendation from us quite  unnecessary ; yet,  in view
of the fact that the course which he has lately delivered in this city,
is, at the solicitation  of many, to be repeated on this and the next
two days at Masonic Hall, we would take occasion to assure all of their
great value to every individual member of the human family.  Many
of the most  prominent of  the medical  faculty in this city bear testi-
mony to  the  excellence of these lectures, as calculated to be highly
useful, in imparting, in the most unexceptionable manner, that know-
ledge of human physical structure and the laws of  health, the want
of which now occasions so much disaster and suffcrine.— Baltimore
Sun, March 1, 1852. 
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