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MARRIAGE and HEALTH 
(Revised Edition) 
VITAL FACTS 
Concerning: Diseases of Mind and Body; 
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CHICAGO, 11,1,, 3 
TNTROD UCTION. 
That we have been the direct means of restOK** 
Ing thousands of afflicted persons to original and 
complete health, and have rescued thousands 
of other physically lost lives, may be the more 
readily appreciated, when a few important facte 
are emphasized by us who write, and duly real 
ized by you who read. 
The last edition of this treatise, which num- 
bered 1,000,000 copies, was exhausted within a 
period of eight weeks. This demonstrates an 
Insistent demand and shows that the majority 
of mankind is daily becoming more inquisitive 
upon the vital subject of its own physical sound 
ness. Those perhaps who hitherto have only 
been concerned in the quality of the “blood55 
shown in the breeding of their dogs, their 
horses, and their stock, and who exercise eternal 
vigilance in the matter of the care of then 
animals, are at last awakening to the fact, that 
it is about time to institute a searching in 
quisition into the quality of their own purity, 
and bestow some small attention upon theis 
own very much neglected physical qualifica- 
tions. 
The thousands of letters which have reached 
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to the extent of this awakening. These letters? 4 
One and all, abound in expressions of commen- 
dation and of gratitude for the knowledge 
gained and the practical benefit derived from % 
study of this treatise. Such expressions o£ 
thankfulness and testification of good-will ws 
accept as recompence for the labor and expense 
Incurred. 
This correspondence also discloses the grati- 
fying fact, that not alone those contemplating 
marriage, but married men, have acquired in- 
formation and accepted advice, declared by 
them to be invaluable, whilst a large number 
of the great army of martyrs to an increasing 
vice—ignorant of the unpardonable sin they 
were committing against nature’s laws-brought 
lace to face with the enormity of the transgres- 
sion, have written pages of earnest congratula- 
tion, in that they have at last had placed within 
their reach a key to their moral and physical 
salvation. 
There is, as most of us are aware, a class of 
well-meaning, narrow-minded, but weak-kneed 
people, who, through a distorted sense of pro- 
priety, have not the courage to adopt heroic 
remedies, whilst admitting the existence of 
grievous disease. It is the members of this class 
who strenuously object to the circulation of 
warning literature on the subject of secret vices. 
If these worthy, but misguided individuals, 
could have access to our confidential corres- 
pondence, they would be pitifully touched and 5 
converted, over the confessions of the thousands 
who have pleaded guilty to the indulgence in 
unnatural practices—in ignorance of the gravity 
of their offence—until enlightened by a perusal 
of our pamphlet on Marriage and Health. Could 
these confessions be made public, all opposi- 
tion to the publishing and distribution of such 
literature as is now in your hands, would be 
forever silenced. / 
It would be interesting to know what news- 
papers and periodicals are for, if not for placing 
within the reach of the multitude new facts, 
and to what higher uses can the printer’s art be 
dedicated, than in directing the physically un- 
fit to the place or persons who can effect his 
cure. One thing however is certain, and that 
is, that it is the manifest duty of those who 
have consecrated time, intelligence and labor 
to the conscientious investigation of certain dis- 
eases, to publish, by every available means, 
their especial qualifications, so that the sorely 
tried and afflicted may know how, when and 
where* to seek permanent relief from their 
disabilities. 
The facts embodied in this booklet deal with 
a subject of the highest importance to the 
human race. The mysterious functions which 
control the reproduction of ourselves should 
be regarded as constituting a subject of such 
almighty importance that their study should 
be approached with the most reverent desire 6 
for the truth, and in the withdrawal of the 
curtain which has for so long enveloped the 
matter in a senseless shroud of mystification 
and perplexity, our desire should be to dismiss 
all cheap curiosity and investigate the subject 
from the standpoint of our own physical ad- 
vancement. 
Let us then reach a complete and confidential 
understanding. To us attaches the duty to 
place before you, with due regard for your 
sensibilities—in as delicate a manner as per- 
missible—the facts of such imperative import- 
ance to yourself that the necessity for their 
recital dare not be disputed. These facts, it 
will be our endeavor to couch in such language 
as to be as easy of comprehension by the un- 
educated, as by the scholar. To you belongs 
the right to accept or reject their consideration. 
As for your duty it is obvious. We may lead 
a horse to the water, but we cannot compel it 
to drink. 
As our previous publications have met with 
the most considerate reception at the hands of 
the public—for which the opportunity is now 
presented to extend our appreciative thanks 
we have little doubt but that as warm a welcome 
awaits this small messenger of comfort as was 
experienced by its predecessors, our chief aim, 
in this as in the others, being to submit to a 
public, forever thirsting for information, the 
advantages to be derived from a study of our 
presentment of a subject, our insight into 
which has only been achieved after a long and 
unparalleled experience in the treatment of 
the diseases of men. 7 
PART I 
CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 
HUMAN PLANT AND CERTAIN VITAL 
FACTS CONNECTED THEREWITH. 
Have you ever studied Physiology, Jjthat is in 
Its relation to the functions of living human be- 
ings? If you have not, bear with us for a mo- 
ment, while your attention is directed to that 
period of your own existence—a counterpart of 
the same period in every other man’s existence 
—when some of the most remarkable physio- 
logical processes are at work in the human physi- 
cal system. The period referred to is that time 
of life embraced between the age of fifteen and 
twenty-four, and the more one reflects upon the 
remarkable changes that are occurring in the 
human development during those nine crucial 
years, the more one realizes the vast impor- 
tance that attaches to the measure of mental 
and physical attention, which should be be- 
stowed upon the maturing male and female 
about that time. It is during this period that all 
the latent possibilities for good or evil, 'and all 
the dormant energies of the child, hitherto 
vaguely existing in the abstract, become crys- 
tallized, and assume concrete shape in the 
fixed temperament of the adult. Half of the ills 
that flesh is heir to, whose shadowy outlines 
have at most given cause but for vague suspi- 
cions, now assume definite shape, awaiting the 
inevitable development into set disease with the 
efflux of time. Who is there of us, who, in look- 
ing back upon this era of our existence, but 
realizes that it was during these years that our 
future destinies were largely shaped. The flot- 
sam and jetsam of the ocean is driven this way 
or that, according to the circumstance of the 8 
tides which surround them; the tree bends 
north or south, in obedience to the prevailing 
winds that bow its head. So the child yields to 
the tide of circumstance and to the ordinary 
gales of chance. 
The soil in which the human tree of life is 
planted, the atmosphere upon which it feeds, 
the climatic changes which surround it, the 
opposition which encompasses it, the species o£ 
human plants with which it comes in contact, 
and which impart to it, in a greater or less 
degree, their ever varying characteristics, the 
degree of attention and culture bestowed upon 
It-all emphatically affect the quality of the con- 
stituent and vital parts from which it was orig- 
inally created. It is to these surrounding cir- 
cumstances in their action and reaction on the 
developing human plant, that attention must 
be devoted in guiding its growth to maturity. 
If the training in the yet earlier has not, 
however, been all that might be desired, if this 
evil that needed redressing has been over- 
looked, if that tendercy to infirmity has been 
unnoticed, much cbn still be done to arrest 
further baneful propensities; evil impressions 
can be counteracted and the soil in which the 
weeds of neglect have been tolerated can be 
cleared of the diseased occupants, and, with 
care and attention, become susceptible to the 
fostering treatment of the trained expert. 
Moral training (luring the period of sexnal 
development. During the years which precede 
the arrival of complete manhood or woman- 
hood every moral attribute of humanity—sub- 
ject to thq ascendency of the changing physical 
conditions which now largely control the body 
-—assumes a definite form. The inherent de- 
sires of the sexes, male and female, are gradu- 
ally developed, and announce themselves in a 9 
more or less pronounced manner, in accordance 
with the intenseness of the actual passions im- 
planted in the individual. The young man 
glories in his strength, and the maiden blushes 
at signs of budding womanhood. Sexual im- 
pulse creates sexual desire, which in turn pro- 
duces the craving for gratification, which finds 
expression in self-abuse or sexual intercourse. 
Various outside causes are in a measure re- 
sponsible for this. The free companionship of 
the young of both sexes naturally tends to in- 
crease these feelings, but it is probably to the 
full flavored literature of the present day, that 
the abnormal and early development of the 
sexual instincts is largely due. 
The ordinary books of fiction, as published 
now-a-days, are often mere dictionaries of 
reckless expression and lax morality. Even the 
press, with its calendar of crime, and daily reci- 
tals of social scandals, encourages impure 
thoughts and excites the passions. The most 
popular works of the cleverest authors are for 
the most part—when shorn of their grace and 
diction—but well written records of graceless 
immoralities, so successfully veiled as to con- 
done sexual frailties, and in the absence of 
grossness, stimulate a desire for beautiful vice. 
It is upon such a dangerous class of literary 
pabulum as this that our boys and girls are 
wont to satisfy their morbid curiosity. Are we 
wise in our generation if we ignore such a state 
of things? No! for in boldly confronting an evil 
which menaces, we have half gained the bat- 
tle. It is a widely accepted axiom among men 
of the world, that ignorance is more ready to 
surrender to temptation than knowledge. The 
experienced bird seldom falls into the snare of 
the fowler. Are we then really as wise as we 
would have each other believe, if we persist- 10 
ently close our eyes to this state of things? Is 
it not, on the contrary, the more manful, more 
human course, to look the matter straight in 
the face, and by the use of the counteracting 
weapons of common sense, and special educa- 
tion, reduce the influences of temptation? 
Would it not be well—realizing the nature of 
these existing conditions which confront the 
purity of the young, and jeopardize the chances 
for a robust manhood—to advocate proper 
physiological education in our schools? Surely 
by a closer personal supervision, and by fear- 
less, but judicious discipline over mind and 
body, the boy or girl could be the better prepared 
for the inevitable conflict between morality 
and vice, which, with faculties especially trained 
for the participating in such a struggle, would 
bring them uncontaminated out of the most 
debasing battle of their lives. No half measures 
should be tolerated in dealing with such things. 
The child should as emphatically be warned of 
the awful consequences of Masturbation, as 
you would warn it from tampering with a 
rattlesnake. 
The solitary vice of Self Pollution or Onan- 
ism, not only marches unchecked through the 
land, but carries desolation into thousands of 
homes. This is no mere bold assertion, but the 
consensus of medical authority, based upon the 
personal observation of the ordinary practi- 
tioner and the specialist. From individual 
sources, the testimony of teachers and parents, 
and from the admission of the unfortunate vic- 
tims themselves, we personally know this to be 
the unmixed truth. Nor is this debasing practice 
exclusively confined to childhood or youth, 
for it is perfectly correct to assert, that the 
majority of the middle-aged men of the land are 
to-day fullering, not alone from the effects of 11 
self-abuse practiced in the days of boyhood, but 
from the effects of masturbation practiced at 
the present time. The disastrous results of this 
scourge of self pollution are attested by tens of 
thousands, as the letters on file in the corres- 
pondence branch of the Bellevue Medical In- 
stitute bear mute but living witness. The young 
man, in his ignorance of the terrible conse- 
quences of the vice, does not stop to think of 
the misery of mind and exhaustion of body he 
is entailing upon himself. Little does he know 
of the vampire his lust has aroused, and which 
if he continues the habit, will drain him of his 
physical vitality and soften his brain. 
The earliest record we have of this unpar- 
donable vice is in the historic case of Onan,the 
son of Judah, who. we are told in the 38th Chapter 
of the first book of the Pentateuch—Genesis— 
9th verse, “split his seed upon the ground,” and 
was slain by the Lord in swift retribution of 
the revolting act. The practice of this solitary 
sin is usually contracted during childhood or 
in early youth, and thousands are ruined irre- 
trievably before they attain the age even of 
boyhood. The habits thus developed fasten 
upon the unfortunate and ignorant victim, and, 
once acquired, cling to the sinner for life, 
dragging him to moral and physicial debase- 
ment, and if not to a premature death, to the 
still worse torture of sexual impotence, caused 
by this form of solitary prostitution, which 
lands him a frightful example of self inflicted 
pollution. Constricted limits preclude the 
possibility of more elaborate remarks upon the 
complex and prostrating results which follow 
upon the acquired and fixed habit of self-abuse. 
The consequences of an excessive use of al- 
coholic liquors are not more awfully appalling. 
Though the pursuit of his horrible practice may 12 
escape detection for a time, nature is not slow 
to avenge herself, and, as a bolt out of a clear 
sky, comes unannounced, when least expected, 
an army of a resultant effects, sufficient to quail 
with their terrors the most abandoned victim. 
In plain words, the injury inflicted is the 
inevitable bill of damages imposed upon 
the nervous system, the outcome of an ex- 
cessive tax upon the constitution. Of all the 
component parts of our human economy the 
seminal fluid is one of the most potent, an un- 
natural waste of which will be followed by 
disastrous consequences. Some are afflicted 
with epilepsy, some become dyspetic, others 
endure chronic headache, or are tortured with 
constipation or palpitation of the heart. Sleep 
is succeeded only by exhaustion, and the weary 
one awakes utterly unrefreshed, and wit h a taste 
in the mouth such as ensues upon a long 
carousal. Masturbation seldom kills “on sight,” 
but as a cat with a mouse, as a martyr upon the 
rack, the torture and the misery is a prolonged 
experience. The victims however are easily 
detected. Melancholy and absent minded, with 
defective memory, with ghastly or sallow skin, 
and blue black circles under the lustreless eyes, 
they sit apart from their fellows—moral lepers. 
If confirmed in the habit, the patient is likely 
to lose flesh; the circulation of the blood is im- 
paired, and the extremities suffer from cold; 
confusion of ideas, rushes of blood to the head 
and dizziness follow, and neuralgia sometimes 
racks the nerves. Pains in the chest are fol- 
lowed by a prophetic cough, intense languor 
supervenes, the breath comes short, and the 
feeling of intense lassitude, night sweats and 
hectic cheeks herald the first symptoms of 
consumption. In time, and in most natural 
sequence, the sexual organs themselves con* 13 
tract and shrink, the testicles become soft and 
one of them—the left usually—hangs lower 
than the other. Whilst these symptoms here 
noted are those usually attendant upon the 
practice of masturbation, it of course does not 
follow that all of these are to be discovered in 
the same individual. They are listed here as 
being among the ordinary manifestations in 
different subjects. Indeed, as before stated, in 
some persons the results of self pollution may 
be tardy in revealing themselves. But let there 
be no false hopes entertained on this account, the 
day of reckoning comes as a thief in the night, 
when not only does physical prostration sud- 
denly present itself, but mental collapse fol- 
lows, succeeded often as not by passive or 
active insanity. 
Those who have attained middle age, arid 
who have practiced Onanism, are liable to suffer 
from complete nervous prostration, which in- 
duces melancholy and its train of kindred evils. 
The intellectual powers are weakened, debility 
begets despair, misanthropy follows, business 
is not only neglected but shunned, and all 
ambition ceases. False excitement succeeds 
despondency, and loss of temper upon the 
slightest provocation. In a word, every attri- 
bute characteristic of'man in all his nobleness 
of perfect manhood, becomes a thing of the 
past. Physical and mental impotency reign, 
where formerly manly and nobility of purpose 
flourished. The most palpable and visible ef- 
fects of systematic self-abuse are of course 
shown in the organs of generation. Commenc- 
ing with pains in the back and across the kid- 
neys. and a constant desire to urinate, seminal 
weakness in a variety of forms, sooner or later, 
advertises its presence. Impotence, Atrophy, or 
Wasting of the Testicles, Varicocele and Hydro- 14 
cele, Prostatitis, Gleet and Stricture, are among 
the most common forms of local disease, con- 
sequent upon the habit, and all the vital organs 
in turn suffer from gratification of this solitary 
sin. When this stage of the disease is reached, 
the habit has obtained such absolute mastery 
over its victims as to make it almost an impos- 
sibility to put a stop to the practice. All power 
of self control is lost, and abject slavery to the 
most degrading of vices reign supreme, and 
as all the most vital functions are most 
intimately in sympathy with the much 
abused organs, the shattering of the human 
temple is as signal as complete. Masturbation is 
as much and more of a disease than are the 
chloral, morphine, alcohol and opium habits, 
which to-day fill the asylum and cemeteries of 
the land, aud which, publicly admitted as great 
scourges, have demanded recognition at the 
hands of the commonwealth, in the partial 
maintenance by the Government of Institutions 
especially erected for the cure of those addicted 
to such pernicious practices. Is State interfer- 
ence no less needed in the ameliorating of the 
condition of the victim of Onanism? The 
dangers of Alcohol are proclaimed from pulpit 
and platform, and the civilized word applauds 
and supports. Literature on the debasing in- 
fluences of intoxication is freely and openly dis- 
seminated and discussed in the family circle, but 
would potent words of warning on the greater 
evil of Masturbation be as equally permitted? 
The world, however, is daily becoming more 
and more liberal and tolerant, and the day— 
we venture to predict—is not remote when the 
sufferers fromJ;his prevailing national sin, now 
ostracised from the pale of public sympathy, will 
be recognized as irresponsible wards of human- 
ity* and participate in the benefits of a prac- deal public attention. The victim of self pollu 
don, as a rule, shrinks—through quite explain- 
able motives—from consulting a medical man 
The crime of which he knows himself to be 
guilty naturally appears to him, when inward- 
iy reviewed, to be a monstrous one, and he 
hesitates to confide the hideous secret to the 
one. who, alone and only of all others, is in a 
position to extend to him relief. The ministra- 
tions of a sympathetic physician are rarely 
sought until all hope of a vague and miraculous 
interference from some unknown source, has 
failed to intervene, and then when he does 
seek the aid he should have sought in the first 
instance he is terribly handicapped with the 
ravages of time. The very nature of the habit 
encourages secrecy, and leads him to the belief 
that he is the one leper in the multitude, and 
as such shuns the confession, which in his 
rational and moments of manly resolution, he 
feign wouldtfnake. And so the awful process 
of self destruction continues; a sense of his 
degradation encourages despair, mad indul- 
gence in the most shocking excesses hastens a 
condition of complete physical impotence, unti I, 
realizing that he is wholly incompetent to 
participate in those mysterious enjoyments 
which are wisely recognised as the lawful privi- 
leges of legitimate sexual association—with 
depraved recklessness—he renounces the last 
vestige of his self respect or claims to manhood, 
and launches himself on a sea of loathsome 
lust, to which the ungoverned passions of the 
brute creation even rank in favorable contrast. 
To the afflicted ones we say “Look upV 
Despair not! There are able hands outstretched 
and ready to help you. Won’t you confide in us.?w 
Method of Treatment followed by the 
UelleTUe Institute. Self-abuse should be treat 16 
Ed as a disease, requiring special measures and 
medical aid directed toward the removal of the 
Irritation and congestion of the genital organs 
resulting from the habit In question. Formid- 
able diseases present problems of such vast 
import to the scientific world, that the method 
of their treatment necessarily engages the 
attention of the scientist in as forcible a manner 
as does the system of treatment pursued inter- 
the patient. Such being the case, It is 
reasonable to suppose that any person suffer- 
ing from any special class of disease, 
sooner than consult the ordinary practitioner— 
whose experience in the diseases entailed bj 
secret vices is naturally limited— appeal to his 
sympathy and urge him to direct him to some 
competent physician who has made a special 
study of the particular disease from the ravages 
of which he is a sufferer. To such a one seeking 
Ms assistance the true professional man will at 
©nee extend sympathy and by hk 
ananner overcome the diffidence which may 
possess the patient to discuss his case, and m 
win his confidence, the more so when it Is 
impressed upon him that few cases are so 
complicated but they will yield to persevering 
and expert medical treatment. 
As there is a marvelous sympathy existing 
between the nervous system, the reproductive 
©rgmns, the spinal marrow and the brain, th® 
whole, but simple, story of man’s functional 
nature should be clearly explained to him, the 
character of the injury resulting from his indie 
sretions graphically placed before him, and th® 
consequences resulting from the abuse of na- 
ture’s functions, forcibly pointed out. There 
should be no mincing matters, the truth, no 
matter how unpalatable, must be stated. An 
absolute confidence must be established, and aa Implicit belief implanted in the mind of the 
victim that the treatment to which he may be 
subjected will inevitably bring him the relief 
sought, and remove the irritation and excite- 
ment caused by the disease. All fear should 
be allayed, and doubts combated, and a power- 
ful appeal must be made to him to arouse the 
necessary spirit of manly determination so 
necessary to successfully subdue the desire to 
further indulge in the depraving practice, until 
such time as the proper application of the 
treatment will have commenced to take effect. 
The ordeal will be a great one and a convinc- 
ing test of the will power of the subject, who, 
by every means devisable, must be encouraged 
in his efforts; and though he may have lapses, 
and not succeed as he might deem he should at 
first, with hope implanted in his breast, and 
words of timely encouragement ringing in his 
ears, with the knowledge that he is no longer 
shunned, and that he has powerful friends to 
aid him, and interested in his success, the day 
of triumph will surely come. Solemn words 
of -warning, kindly admonition, and persistent 
treatment, will ere long remove the cause; this 
accomplished, all vestiges of the disaster will 
speedily disappear. 
The well known and inherent dislike of the 
ordinary family physician to deal with such 
cases is sufficient and good reason for justifying 
the patient in seeking some competent special- 
ist. A condition such as that already described, 
If neglected, sooner or later becomes incurable. 
To save time and money the services of an ex- 
pert who has devoted years of labor and obser- 
vation to the study and treatment of such 
diseases, and is in a position to pronounce 
upon individual cases in a more successful 
and intelligent manner than the family doctors 
17 of Vfmited experience in such matters, should 
be sought early, when the case, no matter how 
severe or of how long standing, may safely be 
intrusted to his professional care. That the 
habit can be cured, and its train of disastrous 
consequences on the mind and body checked,and 
nullified, is evidenced by the thousandsof well 
known cases that have successfully been treated 
by us, and every man should clearly under- 
stand, no matter if his condition may appear to 
him as hopeless, that there is* little doubt but 
that he can be thoroughly cured if he rests his 
case in the hands of a competent physician. 
The letter introduced below describes but 
one of the thousandsof aggravated cases which 
appear on the records of the Bellevue Medical 
Institute and which was subjected to special 
treatment, with what degree of success sub- 
sequent correspondence demonstrates: 
18 
case 15,101, book 30. 
M—g., Penn. 
Dear Sir; 
I am about to make a confession that I deeply regret, and 
am ashamed to add myself to the number of persons so 
degraded. I have been a great sufferer for a long time, 
but did not know the cause of my illness until I read your 
small book, and lam now satisfied that it results from the 
shameful practice of self-abuse, which I have been indulg- 
ing in for several years. I started it when I was a boy, 
attending school, when I had no better sense than to do 
what I saw other boys doing, and being encouraged by 
them, has brought me where lam to-day. I stopped the 
practice about six months ago, but fear I continued it too 
long, as my health has been constantly failing, and believe 
that lam now past all possibility of recovery. I will de- 
scribe my feelings as near as I can, and wish you would 
tell me if my case is beyond hope. My nervous systerp 
seems entirely prostrated,'as I feel weak all over. Upon 
arising in the morning I feel very tired and rav legs ache, 
and have a bad taste in my month; I sleep poorly and suffer 
constantly with headache, and believe I am going crazy; my 
tongue is badly coated, bowels irregular and my food does 
not seem to digest; appetite is very poor and am unable to 
eat meats without causing great distress in the stomach; I 
cannot hold my urine longer than an hour; my eyes are 19 
sunken and uj>on the slightest exertion my heart palpitates 
violently and my breath becomes vory short. lam 22 years 
of age and my weight two years ago was 187 lbs. but now 
weigh 123 lbs. I also have seminal emissions at night and 
during the day, and feel that this drain is rapidly killing 
me. Now, doctor, I have been under the treatment of 
several physicians for heart disease and consumption, but 
I believe they do not properly understand my case, being 
thoroughly convinced myself that my symptoms have re- 
sulted from the practice of self-abuse, and wish you would 
five me your candid opinion and state if there is any 
ope for me. I have sent by express a bottle of my urine 
for analysis. I shall await your reply to the present with 
great anxiety, and trust you will not delay answering. 
Bellevue Medical Institute, Chicago, 111. 
Yours obediently, etc. 
This case was submitted to the joint consider- 
ation of all the members of the medical faculty of 
Bellevue Medical Institute. Due consultation 
and a searching chemical and microscopical 
analysis of the urine, clearly demonstrated the 
existence of spermatorrhoea and a complete col 
lapse of the nervous system, the disease and col- 
lapse both directly traceable to the revolting 
practice of masturbation.The most extraordinary 
feature connected with the case, however,yet re- 
mains to be noted, viz: That whilst every one 
of the numerous symptoms which thisunfor- 
tunate subject displayed demonstrated beyond 
cavil that every organ was in an active state 
of disease, the physicians, who, up tothetimeof 
our examination, had had the case in hand, 
actually asserted that the whole trouble was 
heart disease and consumption in a very 
aggravated form, and with mistaken prejudice, 
begotten either by ignorance or indifference, 
aad given up the case as hopeless. But 
this is no exceptional instance. There are 
hundreds, nay thousands, of similar cases within 
the limits of our own experience, where ordinary 
practitioners in their easy eagerness to treat the 
symptoms of the disease, have neglected or over- 
looked the disease itself . And here is a point tKaf 20 
cannot too Strongly be emphasized, viz; That un- 
less the disease itself ha definitely located, and its 
legitimate treatment pursued, a cure is an im- 
possibility. The reckless use of such dangerous 
drugs as morphine, camphor, digitalis, chloral, 
bromide of potassium, etc., may temporarily re- 
move some of the most distressing symptoms, 
but the patient will soon learn the deception 
which has been practiced upon him by an 
Ignorant and unprincipled physician and loek 
tlsewhereior the relief he so greatly needs. 
In our answer to theyoung man whose letter 
we have reproduced we advised him that he was 
suffering from Spermatorrhoea and Nervous 
Prostration, and further assured him that if he 
would but follow our instructions, we would 
guarantee his complete restoration to health, 
Our method of treatment was accepted, and 
faithfully followed, and within six weeks we 
were the recipients of the following letter from 
the gentleman himself. 
Dr. B. NEWTON. 
Supt. Bellevue Medical Institute. 
Dear Sir: 
I wrote to you about two weeks ago that I had steadily 
improved in health during the month that I had been un - 
der your treatment, but during the past two weeks I have 
made wonderful progress. In fact, scarcely a single symptom 
®f my disease remains and I feel almost as strong as I ever 
did. I have gained twelve pounds in weight, and can eat 
three hearty meals a day without distressing my stomach 
the palpitation of heart has not troubled me for several 
weeks, and I can do a hard days’ work without becoming- 
fatigued, and can sleep as soundly as a child. It was 
when the seminal emissions stopped that I uoticed the 
greatest improvement, and as I have not had an emission 
for three weeks it shows distinctly that these disgusting 
and unnatural losses were the cause of all my physical 
suffering, and had not a kind Providence directed me to 
f-ou lam confident that I would not be alive to-day. I have 
ollowed your advice, and am now taking only one-half 
She dose of the medicines you sent me, ana do not think I 
will need any more medicine after the present supply is 
finished, but will leave that for you to decide. Doctor, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness to 
a poor boy by reducing your fees to such a moderate sum, 
and as 1 can now earn fair wages I will soon be able to 
show my gratitude in a more substantial way. I cannot 
force the tears back when I read your letters, (which al- 
ways give me so much courage and hope,) containing as 
they do such good advice and showing that you have 
taken such personal interest in my case. 
The pills I take at night for my bowels are nearly all 
fone, and I wish you would send me another box by mail, 
’lease also let me know if you think I will need to take 
any more medicine after my present supply is finished. 
I remain your grateful patient. 
A comparison is suggested between this letter 
and the one first quoted. 
A few days after the receipt of the above, a 
communication was addressed to us from one of 
the physicians who had been treating this patient 
in which he candidly and freely admitted his mis- 
taken diagnosis and congratulating us upon the 
success of our treatment of his former patient. 
“I freely acknowledge,” wrote he, “that I was 
astray in my conclusions, and in following these 
out erred in my treatment, and let me make this 
admission nore absolutely complete, when I in- 
form you that I have since made a physical ex- 
amination of your patient and find him entirely 
restored to health.” 
The physician who thus honestly admitted his 
mistake was an educated professional man; a 
family doctor, conscientious, and, as far as his 
knowledge permitted, a capable man, but lacking 
the experience which justified successful treat- 
ment of genito-urinary complaints. And this 
lack of special knowledge, it should be borne in 
mind, is a common failing among ordinary medi- 
cal men. Special knowledge upon any subject 
can only be obtained by practical experimenting, 
and by diligent research, and in the case of the 
professors of medicine is this especially so, for it 
Is only after long years of studious labor, the mas- 
tery of leading medical works, and the practical 22 
application of physiology and pathology, that 
the seeker after truth can dare to say that he has 
laid bare some of the hitherto hidden mysteries 
of life. Unfortunately, it is this common incapa- 
bility on the part of the family doctor which 
drives the disappointed patient—the victim of 
Masturbation—to seek relief from his suffering 
in the ministrations of some ignorant “quack” 
Such an alternative is a calamity indeed. The 
quack for the most part is entirely lacking in 
professional education. His stock in trade is us- 
ually a few bottles of patent medicine and some 
form of local appliance. Avoid him as you would 
a pest house. Much to be regretted however is 
the fact that his false statements and bold 
opinions allure the unwary, and his specious 
reasoning, and drastic treatment, leave a moral 
and physical impression upon his patient, that 
years of untiring and conscientious application 
upon the part of the skillful specialist fail to 
counteract. 
However unreasonable it may appear,it is none 
the less true that, notwithstanding the fact that 
Masturbation and its resultant effects, and de- 
structive train of disaster, have been known since 
the earliest days of the world’s history, the suc- 
cesful treatment of it and its malignant conse- 
quences are at the present time known only to a 
few scientists, and to those only who have made 
it a study, and that of kindred venereal diseases, 
their special imdertaking. These men, who, with 
expanded ideas of humanitarian doctrines, thus 
devote their life’s service to the treatment of dis- 
eases which can hardly be ranked apleasant prac- 
tice in medicine, surely deserve to be regarded 
with reverence, in that they refuse to neglect 
their fellows, who, through their own acts of 
wilful commission, have brought physical mis- 
fortune upon themselves. Those doctors, on the 23 
other hand, who turn away with assumed loath- 
ing from these terribly afflicted ones, are un- 
worthy disciples of a noble calling and deserve 
to forfeit all measure of the world’s respect. 
In our references to Onanism the space at our 
command has permitted the barest mention only 
of the more pronounced features which mark its 
existence, and a few of the most prevalent symp- 
toms and consequences which follow upon its 
practice, but whch consequences, in ever varied 
and equally deplorable form, continually come 
within our daily observation.To enumerate these 
would fill a volume. The awful effects of self- 
pollution are as multitudinous as are its vic- 
tims, but the growth of insanity, the enlarge- 
ment of asylums, and the increase of fruit- 
less marriages—the result of the union of the 
impotent and the barren—proclaim louder 
than any mere words the awful signific- 
ance of its presence. That the Almighty 
has signally declared his extreme condemna- 
tion of this grievous offense is apparent in the 
dire consequences, which he imposes with re- 
tributive justice upon the shattered victim. As 
we have already written, however, none need 
despair; and this thought sustains us in the 
belief, that the object sought in the compilation 
of this small pamphlet will have been more 
than attained, if, by its perusal, peradventure 
even one unfortunate will have been led to 
seek the open highway to moral cleanliness 
and a restored manhood. 
SPERMATORRHOEA, OR SEXUAL 
DEBILITY. 
PART 11. 
Science does not linger, and it is to the reveal 
ments of the microscope that scientists are un. der heavy bonds. Especially is this the case 
in the analysis of the component parts of our 
physical conformation, and particularly in the 
detection of spermatorrhoea, which consists of 
an unnatural flow of the seminal fluid with- 
out being brought about by completed sexual 
intercourse. The seminal fluid is secreted in 
the seminal vescicles, and, under ordinary cir- 
cumstances, the act of coition is necessary for 
its expulsion; for in a normal state the ducts 
which control its flow are kept closed; these, 
either through natural disease, or artificial and 
unnatural excitement, become partially para- 
lyzed, lose the power of contraction, and permit 
the escape of the semen, which finds its way 
to the bladder, or oozes out through the ure- 
thral canal of the penis. Spermatorrhoea almost 
invariably follows upon self-abuse or immo- 
derate sexual intercourse. Excessive sexual 
indulgence, either by the married or the single, 
will produce it, but the one who practices Ona- 
nism can hardly hope to escape the indescrib- 
able ravages which succeed spermatorrhoea. 
Inflammatory diseases, such as gonorrhoea, 
etc., are common causes, also the ignorant 
application of injections supplied by quacks, 
or the crude treatment of unskilled physicians. 
The local symptoms of spermatorrhoea con- 
sist as a rule of a discharge of semen unknown 
to the patient, unless his attention by suspicions 
has been drawn to the probable fact, during the 
act of urinating, when the presence of seminal 
fluid is detected by the milky and stringy appear- 
ance of the urine. This will happen also when he 
is at stool,and though perhaps not always plainly 
apparent, if its presence is suspected, its exis- 
tence can be determined. This—though the 
first startling warning that the dread complaint 
has fastened upon him, and demands immediate 25 
medical interference—is by no means likely 
to have been the first real indication that he 
was a sufferer from seminal weakness,for the first 
symptom proper is likely to be an involuntary 
emission or flow of semen during sleep, height- 
ened and made more remarkable by its accom- 
paniment of lascivious dreams. Erections ol 
the penis may also accompany these erotic 
visions and emissions, but they are usually as 
imperfect as they are occasional, but these 
symptoms, it may be added, are prone to be 
more pronounced in cases of persons who have 
practiced self-abuse or who are striving to 
overcome the vice. Now, these unnatural noc- 
turnal emissions, in some instances, become 
alarmingly frequent. From being an occa- 
sional disagreeable incident, they become 
weekly visitants: then oftener, till at last the 
afflicted sufferer surrenders himself, an un- 
willing victim to these health destroying and 
now nightly visitations. His sleep, it is true, 
may not be broken, but the stained linen and 
feelings of complete depression, which con- 
front him upon awakening, publish the dis- 
astrous condition of his nervous system. 
Should this warning not be heeded, the 
disease will soon pass into the second stage, 
denoted by involuntary discharges of seminal 
fluid during the day. The patient may be 
disturbed with frequent erections, and an 
examination of the mouth of the penis may 
reveal the presence of a slight discharge of 
seminal fluid. In some instances there is only 
a slight moisture present, which may exist 
with or without an erection. 
If the patient continues to neglect himself, 
and does not seek medical advice, complete 
paralysis of the muscular walls of the seminal 
vescicles and ducts will follow, and the seminal 26 
fluid will be discharged with the urine when 
the victim makes water, and is at stool. Instead 
of being an early symptom, he finds upon 
consulting the specialist it is an indication that 
the disease has reached an advanced stage. 
Without a chemical and microscopical anal- 
ysis of the urine, it is impossible to determine 
the exact stage of the disease, but if the patient 
will carefully observe the symptoms presented 
he will usually be able to arrive at an intelli- 
gent opinion regarding his case. 
The detection of the seminal fluid in the 
urine is not so easily accomplished as the 
“quacks” who advertise their “never failing” 
remedies endeavor to make the innocent public 
believe. 
By watching the urine, just as it is passing 
from the end of the penis, it will frequently be 
noticed that it is mixed with semen, which is 
usually most abundant as the last drops of urine 
are passed, presenting a whitish or milky ap- 
pearance. It must be remembered, however, 
that this symptom occurs only in the second 
stage of the disease. 
One of the simplest methods is. the following; 
Provide yourself with a six ounce bottle, of 
white glass, and cleanse it throughly with a 
strong solution of salt and hot water, after 
which wash out the bottle with hot water 
alone, and place it aside where it will dry. 
Upon arising in the morning urinate in the 
bottle and then let it stand—in a moderately 
warm place, if possible—for twelve nours, at 
the expiration of which period examine the 
contents of the bottle before a good light. If 
the urine is found to be streaked with a whit- 
ish substance, and is not clear, it is evidence 
of the presence of seminal fluid. It frequently 
happens that the semen has been precipitated 27 
to the bottom of the bottle, in consequence of 
being mingled with unnatural chemical depos- 
its, such as urates and phosphates, which are 
much heavier than semen. Should this be 
•he case, and the urine appear perfectly clear 
when the bottle is held upright, you should 
then turn the bottle in the opposite direction, 
and if there is any deposit of seminal fluid in 
the bottom of the bottle it will gradually float 
downwards, but in order to make the latter test 
perfect the bottle should be quite full of urine. 
Should the urine, however, appear perfectly 
clear, it is by no means positive evidence that 
it does not contain seminal fluid. 
It frequently happens, that, in consequence 
of the existence of other disease, the urine be- 
comes highly acid in reaction, disintegrating 
the spermatozose of the seminal fluid and so 
absorbing its other components parts as to 
render the presence of semen invisible to the 
unaided eye. Here the microscope, with its 
superhuman power, will have to be pressed 
into service, and with a chemical analysis com- 
pel the urine to reveal its true composition. In 
this connection it may be well for us to state 
that the analytical chemist employed by the 
Bellevue Medical Institute is a scientist of rare 
attainments, and for the benefit of those who 
may desire to embrace the advantages of our 
services, would announce that we will analyze 
chemically and microscopically the urine of all 
•who come under our treatment, free of charge. 
In the composition of the urine lies the key 
to a whole category of complaints, and its early 
analysis often reveals the latent seeds of future 
disease. Forearmed upon this point, it is easy 
io realize that a course of treatment based upon 
such revelations as a chemical analysis might 
disclose—whether resulting from Masturbation or excessive venereal indulgence, or from na- 
tural causes without any overt act—would 
strangle in its infancy any incipient disease, 
which if neglected would ultimately develope 
into active and confirmed malady. The terrors 
of diabetes and Bright’s disease would be mitig- 
ated, and even paralysis might be anticipated. 
Chief then among the effects following upon 
the presence of spermatorrhoea are unnatural 
emissions during sleep, involuntary discharges 
during the daytime and premature discharges 
during the act of sexual indulgence; flashes of 
heat, rush of blood to the head and those other 
varied consequences created by an abnormal 
condition of the sexual organs. 
The symptoms of seminal weakness vary little 
from those described already in referring to 
Onanism. The conditions, though much the 
same, are of a more aggravated character; in- 
deed, the natural tendency of this disease is to 
become aggravated. There is the same nerv- 
ousness, but of a more complex nature, with 
increasing loss of memory. Under the insidious 
exactions of this aggressive resultant of vice, 
the patient becomes sallow, dark circles appear 
beneath the eyes, and premature baldness not 
unfrequently ensues. Palpitation of the heart, 
dyspepsia, noises in the ears, headaches, pains 
in the back, and a variety of acute complications 
indicate the fearful assaults upon the circula- 
tion, the brain and the nervous system, and if 
the seminal losses—the cause of these blasting 
effects—are not promptly checked, sexual in- 
ability follows, and whilst an uncontrollable 
desire for coition still remains, the wretched 
penitent is torn with various emotions, which 
Insatiable passion, mocked at by complete 
impotence, wrecks his manhood, and ultimately 
destroys his reason and his life. 
28 Treatment of Seminal Weakness.—ln the long inventory 
of diseases to which human flesh is heir to, there is none 
probably which taxes the skill of the physician, or the di- 
rections" of his pharmacopeia to the same extent as does 
Seminal Weakness. What is one man’s meat is another 
man’s poison. The prescription which may prove of last- 
ing efficacy in one case may be nothing short of man- 
slaughter in another. No two cases are alike, hence the 
folly of prescribing patent specifies, when each individual 
case, with its singular and separate symptoms and compli- 
cations, needs individual and judicious scientific treat- 
ment; hence, again, medicines especially prepared for each 
individual case, are as much an absolute essential as are 
various sized cartridges for guns of different caliber. Un- 
der such circumstances improper treatment is apt to be 
more fatal than no treatment at all. Every case of Sexual 
Debility is, as it were, “a law unto itself,” and can only be 
cured after a thorough diagnosis of its peculiar character- 
istics, and by expert interference. “Quack medicines’11 
and_ “nerve tonics” should be religiously shunned, and— 
as if neglected the complaint is almost incurable—the ad- 
vice and assistance of a competent medical man should be 
promptly secured upon the appearance of the slightest 
symptoms. 
29 
PART 111. 
IMPOTENCE. 
Impotence, which ordinarily signifies “loss 
of manhood,” may be either an absolute or 
partial inability to accomplish the sexual act. 
and is either the direct result of Onanism8 
excessive indulgence with the opposite sex, or 
an organic atrophy consequent upon the shat- 
tering of the nervous system. In partial im- 
potence—which is the more common phase of 
this wasting of the sexual powers, which are 
not completely destroyed—the erections of the 
penis are imperfect, the desire for coition less- 
ened and the accomplishment of the act ac- 
companied with as much mortification to the 
man as it is to the complete disgust of the 
woman. The premature discharge of the semen, 
sometimes even before entrance has been 
effected, denotes all but complete sexual im- 
perfection, and renders intercourse all but im- 30 
practicable. This state of physical infirmity 
may not be entirely due however to disease,, 
but may result from extreme mental worry and 
an overtaxed brain. 
In absolute impotence, botn aesire and capa- 
bility are entirely wanting. This condition, 
apart from the fact that coition is practically 
impossible, is further one of confirmed sterility, 
for the semen loses all vitality. Virility no 
longer exists, manhood is a thing of the past 
and the victim sinks lower even than one who 
has been emasculated. 
Physical Decay, as all of us are aware, follows 
in the nature of things, upon old age, but it 
may surprise some people to know that im- 
potence is by no means the invariable accom- 
paniment of advanced years. Men who have 
husbanded their virility in youth often enjoy 
—as the hackneyed phrase declares—a “green” 
old age, an expression which,though frequently 
used, seldom conveys its true significance. A 
man who lives to a “green” old age is one who 
up to the very last rejoices in the possession 
of his manly virility, and when men of half his 
time of life, in what should be the flower of 
their manhood, fall by the wayside physical 
wrecks. Shorn of the power of self repro- 
duction, through the excesses and abuses of 
early youth, this same “old man,”—old enough 
to be a grandfather, but old through efflux of 
time alone—is yet in the full possession of his 
sexual faculties and capable of exercising the 
greatest function committed to man’s keeping, 
whilst his grandson perhaps—regarded as a 
type of manly perfection—is physically im- 
potent and sexually sterile. By avoiding over 
indulgence and by regarding the common laws 
of nature, and a proper conserving of the sex- 
ual powers, it will therefore be seen that the 31 
reproductive forces of man may be retained to 
an advanced age, and Medical Records, and 
our own practice, offer continual proof that this 
condition of things is of quite common occur- 
rence. 
The retention of unimpaired sexual vigor by 
those of advanced age is the noblest physical 
blessing with which a man can be endowed; 
on the other hand, its forfeiture, or loss through 
unnatural causes, is one of the most disastrous 
and degrading calamities which can befall a 
human being. The latest statistics on the sub- 
Ject of sterility in the male and female go to 
show that in one case out of every six the re- 
sponsibility of unfruitful marriages must rest 
with the man. The proportion of puny and 
unhealthy offspring yearly begotten, and for 
whose infirmities the husband is directly re 
sponsible, is almost incredible. 
Surely such facts as these should be suf 
ficient to stay the hand of the masturbator, 
and cause him to reflect ere the sublimest phy- 
sicial attribute permitted him by an Omniscient 
Creator is sacrificed by self pollution or lust. 
The day of moral as well as corporal account- 
ing will inevitably come. The body will 
succomb to degradation and the soul Will have 
to answer for the misdeeds of the flesh. The 
opportunity for atonement, by abstention, is 
yours if you will but exercise courage, and the 
opportunity for obtaining bodily relief is yours 
also, with renewed manly vigor for many years 
to come, if you will not hesitate to seek the 
medical system of relief as outlined in these 
pages. 
Treatment of Impotence.—The victim of Impotence should 
not delay a moment in seeking the services of a compe 
tent specialist, and as improper treatment is even worse 
than no treatment at all, complete vigilance should be 
exercised in the selection of a physician whose reputation as a specialist has become recognized. The importance 
attached to this choice has already been pointed out, and 
whilst the services of a family doctor would of course in 
every sense be preferable to the ignorant ministrations 
of an uneducated quack, it should always be borne in 
mind that the treatment followed by incompetent physi- 
cians is more perilous to the patient than delay, Impo= 
tence is always more or less susceptible to expert treatment; 
indeed, in a majority of cases, the loss of sexual power can 
be completely and permanently restored, provided of 
course, that there is no paralysis of the sexual nerves, and 
that atrophy or wasting of the testicles has not actually 
taken place. Not a moment, however, should be lost in 
submitting a sample of the urine for chemical and micro- 
scopical analysis, for it is only by a thorough examination 
of the water of the patient that the extent of the evil and 
the specific nature of the disease can be determined, and 
this analysis can only be legitimately undertaken and 
properly completed by a chemist who has the scientific 
qualifications and an especially equipped laboratory. 
VARICOCELE. 
The engorgement of the veins of the sper- 
matic cord produces Varicocele, which consists 
of a swelling or lump in the scrotum, appear- 
ing to the touch like a bundle of earth worms, 
It usually appears on the left side of the 
scrotum—or bag—assuming a variety of sizes, 
sometimes extending half way to the knee in 
a heavy tangled mass, and sometimes not larger 
than a pea. Whilst not unfrequently it may 
be the result of injury, sexual abuses are the 
almost invariable cause of the complaint. It 
advertises its presence by a dull dragging pain 
in the groin, and unless the patient receives 
prompt medical treatment a wasting of testicles 
and permanent impotence are sure to follow. 
Seminal debility is an invariable accompani- 
ment of varicocele. So that a treatment sim- 
milar to that as noted in the discussion of sper- 
matorrhoea will have to be followed subject to 
the conditions imposed by the presence of 
Varicocele. PART IV. 
33 
SYPHILIS. 
This terrible venereal complaint (commonly 
known as Pox) may be contracted with of 
■without actual sexual intercourse. Though 
usually transmitted from one to the other 
of the opposite sex during the act of copu» 
lation, it may also be communicated by the 
wearing of infected clothes, the use of a 
towel or by kissing, where the scourge has 
developed itself in ulcers on the mouth. Indeed, 
there are instances where a razor has been 
known to convey infection, and the use of 
hair or tooth brushes and pipes, which have 
been in contact with syphilitic sores, have not 
unfrequently been the means of conveying the 
poison to innocent persons, whilst the seats of 
waterclosets have frequently introduced the 
virus into the system, and vaccination even 
has been known to communicate the germs of 
the disease. 
Syphilis has been classed under three differ- 
ent heads, viz; Primary, Secondary and Terti- 
ary. 
Syphilis in the Primary stage appears in the 
form of a sore, called a chancre or chancroid, 
on that part of the body which came in contact 
with the contagious spot, either upon the gen- 
ital organs, mouth or elsewhere. Its presence 
is first indicated by a small red pimple, dark in 
color, accompanied by a burning sensation, 
inflammatory and itching, and this occurs gen- 
erally within three weeks after contracting the 
disease, but this period may by extended to as 
many months. This small red spot may possi- 
bly disappear in a few days and cause no alarm 
and many weeks may then elapse before the more dreaded secondary symptoms reveai 
themselves. On the other hand, the sore may 
develop into a sloughing ulcer, the discharge 
from which may produce other ulcers, which 
in aggravated cases may spread and, all uniting, 
terminate in one large sore, terribly destructive 
to the genital organs. In certain cases where 
the chancre is of the hard variety, and has 
existed for some time, other glandular portions 
of the body become affected. The poison being 
absorbed into the system, the glands of the 
groin are often attacked, and painful abscesses, 
professionally known as buboes, are in time 
produced. 
Secondary Syphilis seldom shows itself until 
at least six weeks after the first appearance of 
the chancre, but months, as previously noted, 
may elapse before the symptoms are noticeable. 
The presence of secondary symptoms is usu- 
ally indicated by small copper colored eruptive 
spots, which form on the head, breast, back, 
palms of the hands ond other parts of the body. 
The eruption on the scalp frequently culmin- 
ates in scales and general dryness of the skin 
followed by loss of hair, and sometimes in 
complete baldness. At this stage the disease 
often as not attacks the throat and mouth, and 
syphilitic ulcers are here reproduced, resulting 
in a complication of symptoms in tonsil, palate, 
nose and ears. At the present time there are 
thousands of persons, men and women, innocent 
victims of the effect of syphilitic poisons, who 
suffer from a variety of forms of skin diseases 
that have vainly taxed the skill of as many 
family doctors in their unsuccessful attempts 
at cure. Most of these cases however are quite 
curable ‘if placed in the hands of a competent 
specialist whose scientific assistance no time 
should be lost in securing. Tertiary Syphilis. The last and crowning 
stage of this repulsive venereal disease is 
reached when the virus may be said to have 
become absorbed into every tissue and organ 
of the body. Tumors form upon the bones, 
which lose their brittleness and become soft, 
the flesh above such spots acquiring the con- 
tagion, and finally developing into loathsome 
ulcerous sores. The bones of the face even 
are in time eaten away, the shape of the nose 
Is entirely destroyed, the teeth fall out, the 
eyesight becomes permanently impaired and 
the voice almost lost. Indeed, the whole hu- 
man frame is rendered a target for attack, the 
venereal pest sparing neither brain or lung, 
heart or liver, eye or ear, or indeed any portion 
or organ of the body in its insidious ravages. 
Its conquest is as complete as terrible. 
Treatment of Syphilis.—As in Impotence—and indeed in 
all cases o£ disease of the Genital organs—so in the case of 
syphilis, the significance to the patient of an early treat* 
ment cannot be too strongly emphasized. If in sexual de- 
bility delay is perilous, what must the danger be to one 
who suffers from a malignant form'of blood poisoning and 
defers seeking professional aid until the infection has 
taken complete possession of the system. At the very first 
appearance of the chancre medical intervention should be 
promptly obtained, for by the securing of proper treatment 
m the earliest stage of the disease a life time of wretched- 
ness and physical suffering may be averted. It must be re- 
membered that from the moment the virus is introduced into 
the system by inoculation at the spot where the sore or 
chancre reveals itself, no matter on what portion of the 
body, then syphilis becomes a constitutional disease and at 
once demands thorough and constitutional treatment. The 
feckless and promiscuous use of mercury, so frequently 
employed as the chief healing agent by unprincipled 
doctors, should on no account be tolerated; the practice is 
unprofessional and reprehensible. A popular falacy which 
widely prevails, and endorsed by the professional declar- 
ations of incompetent physicians, is that the disease is 
incurable. This assertion on the part of the medical man 
is however usually consequent upon his inability to render 
the patient any relief. 
1 That syphilis is susceptible to intelligent treatment we 
tan assure the sufferer, and can further most positively 
35 reassure him, that where no real destruction of any of the 
vital organs has taken place, its cure can be made radical, 
mo matter what may be the stage of the disease. 
Upon the first appearance of any suspicious symptom, 
which by way of spot or sore, etc., would indicate the 
presence of syphilis, the services of a reputable specialist 
should be secured, and no labor should be spared in obtain- 
ing the most skillful treatment procurable. The syphlitic 
poison in the blood should first be counteracted, and when 
neutralized should be expelled from the system through 
co-operation of kidneys, bladder, intestines and skin. 
GONOREHCEA, OR CLAP. 
Gonorrhoea—ordinarily known as clap—is a. 
specific and acute form of inflammation of the 
mucous membrane of the penis, contracted 
through contact with an infectious discharge 
after coition with a person suffering from the 
disease. It usually appears from three to four- 
teen days after intercourse and commences 
with a sense of heat and uneasiness about the 
head of the penis, which develops into itching 
and soreness, and a discharge of a thick, whitish 
fluid takes place, which increases gradually in. 
quantity, and in a day or two assumes a green- 
ish yellow color. In severe cases this discharge 
is partially mixed with blood, urinating is at- 
tended with pain and the stream is broken, and 
whilst the desire to urinate increases with the 
progress of the disease, the pain of so doing 
becomes greater. Involuntary and painful 
erections—known as chordee—are also of fre- 
quent occurrence and are attended with much 
local physical suffering. Neglect of the disease 
encourages many complications, the chief of 
which are swollen testicles, prostatitis, seminal 
weakness, inflammation of the kidneys and of 
the bladder, bubo, gleet and stricture. Any of 
these symptoms can of course be greatly 
aggravated, if not indeed created by improper 
treatment, some of which may become chronic if not submitted to expert treatment by a com- 
petent specialist. 
Treatment of Gonorrhoea. In Gonorrhoea each individual 
case is so varied in its conditions, that its treatment 
“becomes a law unto itself,” governed by the peculiar 
symptoms which are controlled by the constitution of the 
patient. Heroic treatment should be guarded against. 
Powerful injections in ignorant hands are liable to produce 
the opposite of the effects sought. Cubebs and copaiba are 
at best dangerous specifics and are safe and valuable only 
when applied by professional hands or upon the advice and 
by the direction of a well qualified medical man. “Patent 
medicines ” and “ proprietary prescriptions,” advertised 
under various guises, with the recommendation that every 
man can become his own doctor and preserve the secret oi 
bis indiscretion, are all pernicious, and many dangerous, 
for whether they succeed or not in an apparent cure, they 
invariably do so at the loss of functional power and subse- 
quent destruction of the genital organs. Where so much is 
at stake—a lifetime of suffering in the balance—the man is 
wise in his generation who incurs no risks that will jeopar- 
dize his sexual virility. 
37 
PART V. 
A few words of earnest advice and warning 
to the married and to the unmarried.—The 
Divine ordinance Marriage is the holiest and 
most exalted of all human institutions. Page 
upon page could be filled,if time permitted and 
necessity demanded, in borrowing from the 
books of the Bible and the existent canons of 
heathen races, to prove that the purposes and 
rites of matrimony, which have not only been 
encouraged but imposed by the Deity, have 
received the active endorsement of all civilized 
nations, and the approval even of the pagan. 
The most highly cultured and progressive 
people of the world, are those under whose 
government marriage is sanctioned by religion, 
and imposed by law for the purpose of procre- 
ating children and the legitimate indulgence 
of the sexual desire. Good government is 
Sepresentative of good families, and we hold 
MARRIAGE. 38 
in supreme contempt the social iconoclast who 
proclaims the futility of the marriage bond, 
and the institution of matrimony. The obliga- 
tions of marriage are manifest; mutual and 
premptory. Though a civil contract, it is a 
divine ordinance, wisely instituted for the en- 
joyment of the highest human individual 
happiness, and, as such, is the keynote in the 
prosperity of nations. It is alike the keystone 
in the temple of the affections, as it is the key- 
stone in the national structure of moral obli- 
gations, which creates wholesome government, 
and the one who would attempt to break down 
the barriers which preserve the purity of the 
domestic hearth, commits as great a crime 
against society as he who would shatter the 
institutions of the State. If matrimony has its 
incomparable pleasure it also has its obligations, 
and the married of both sexes should so con- 
duct themselves that they need fear nothing 
from the searchlight of publicity, which should 
only throw into greater prominence their de- 
gree of purity and honor. 
As marriage was especially designed for the 
legitimate procreation of children, and the con- 
summation of the obligations of the sexes, we 
believe that all men and women should marry 
when they arrive at the age of legal maturity. 
The human race is so constituted that the 
longer marriage is delayed the more universal 
does prostitution become. This is an evil to 
be eradicated, not perpetuated, and every man 
who honors woman should enter a crusade 
against the empty fictions of an ill-advised 
teaching, which, by the advocacy of delayed 
marriages, encourages the so-called social evil 
and condemns a contingent of unhappy creat- 
ures to a shameful and most pitiful calling. 
Celibacy is neither natural or advisable. Sfc 39 
Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, knew 
whereof he spoke, when, in addressing the 
Corinthians on the law of marriage and the 
subject of continence, he declared (I, Cor. vii. 
Chap.) “it was better to marry than to burn,” 
and a higher authority even than St. Paul, the 
Almighty Himself, when providing Adam with 
a helpmate, declared “ that it was not good that 
man should be alone.” Bodily needs demand 
satisfaction, and celibacy is contrary both to 
natural law and biblical teaching. Amative 
enjoyment is as lawful as the quenching of 
thirst, and men and women realize that if they 
desire to be in complete harmony with nature 
they must necessarily be husbapds and wives, 
and fathers and mothers. If further proof 
were wanting that wedded life is the most 
natural condition, statistics, which represent 
facts, not theories, show that the average life of 
the unmarried is shorter than the average life of 
the married! The unmarried are less vigorous 
and they age more rapidly. 
Celibacy, from a physical standpoint, has also 
much to answer for. Undue continence sooner 
or later provokes disease, and spermatorrhoea 
in the male, and hysteria in the female are 
visible results. The fact that late marriages 
can never be generally practised need not be 
seriously contemplated. Passion, which is 
strongest in youth, in both men and women, 
leads to early unions, and fortunately so, for 
the offspring of early marriages are more 
robust and vigorous than are the children born 
to parents of middle age. Women were phy- 
sically fashioned to complete the domestic 
happiness of man, and the relation which 
exercises the greatest ascendency over man- 
kind is undoubtedly the domestic influence.. 
The attraction of the sexes towards each other 40 
Js of such a nature that, not satisfied, and 
legitimately met by marriage, it is not slow to 
leave an undesjrable legacy, evidenced by an 
ultimate lowering of the higher qualities. On 
the other hand, the man who is happily married 
discovers that there is no state comparable to 
it; it promotes peace of mind and supreme 
contentment, and encourages a man to success- 
fully combat with the trials of the present and 
stimulates him to nobler achievements. 
If the history of wedded human life could 
be published in its entirety, it would be dis- 
covered that far and away the larger portion 
of exalted deeds accomplished in the cause of 
humanity, science, religion, civilization, and 
progress, were the direct outcome of an inspir- 
ation due to the ennobling influences of a 
happy marriage. An unmated man lives a life 
of crude incompleteness, but the woman who 
has answered to the call of affinity, and is 
mated to the man whose aspirations she can 
elevate, soon leads him to regard toil exacted 
in their mutual interests as a labor of most 
perfect love. 
That unhappy marriages exist is not disputed; 
we are only writing of the great advisability of 
marriage from an abstract view of the question, 
and must be contented to deal in generalities 
only. Upon the subject of matrimonial dis- 
appointments there is much to be said from a 
physiological standpoint, in which connection 
it may be most positively asserted that a large 
proportion of marriages which have turned out 
unhappily are almost entirely due to a lack of 
proper information upon the subject of sexual 
obligations and physiology which should be 
imparted by parents or medical men previous 
to marriage. 
One of the most important of all unwritten 41 
Jaws is, that no man should marry until he has 
the warranty of expert medical authority that 
he is physically fit. There are few men who 
at one time or other, having been guilty of 
self-abuse or sexual excesses, but have injured 
their generative organs. Impotency in any 
form, even of the mildest and most partial 
character, should form an inseparable bar to 
marriage. The perpetration of such a crown- 
ing act of inhumanity, as the wedding of an 
innocent woman to a man incapable of duly 
meeting his sexual obligations, or of one who 
though vigorous and amorous, is yet incapable 
of procreating a sound offspring, cannot be 
too solemnly denounced. 
The victim to some form or other of derange- 
ment of the genital organs, in ninety cases out 
of a hundred, unless the disease is of an acute 
nature, may be quite unconscious of his weak 
ness, a microscopical examination and chemical 
analysis of his urine alone revealing that the 
spermatozose of his semen are entirely deficient 
in vitality, and that he is quite incapable of 
procreation. He may indeed feel perfectly 
healthy, but at the same time be as sterile as 
one castrated. As one of the chief aims of 
matrimony is the propagation of the species, 
and as every married man looks forward to the 
time when he can lay claim to the proud title 
of parent, his chagrin, when the time rolls by 
and his wife remains childless, leads to the 
blame being placed upon the innocent woman 
instead of being righteously charged to her 
impotent husband. Whilst it is quite true that 
many women cannot conceive, or bear chil- 
dren, owing to disease of the womb, it is none 
the less a fact, that in a greater number of 
the husband is entirely to blame. Indeed, 
it has been asserted by statisticians that one 42 
man out of every four has some disease of the 
genital organs and, in most cases, unless cor- 
rected by special treatment, impotent in the 
matter of virility. Hence, no man should 
ever dare to unjustly accuse his wife of barren- 
ness until he has demonstrated hist own 
capacity to become a father, which can only be 
accomplished bv recourse to a critical analysis 
of the urine. 
No one, either, should marry—man or wom- 
an—who has been a sufferer from Syphilis, 
without first ascertaining from a duly qualified 
specialist if the poison has been thoroughly 
eliminated from the system. Ignorance of the 
nature of syphilitic diseases is responsible for 
the belief amongst many persons who have 
suffered from Primary Syphilis, but have 
escaped secondary symptoms, that they have 
not indeed been victims to the scourge of pox. 
When questioned upon the subject, many have 
Indignantly denied having ever had syphilis, 
whilst frankly admitting that they once had a 
chancre or chancroid. And here we cannot too 
strongly impress upon the reader that a chancre 
or chancroid invariably is ocular proof of the 
presence of Primary Syphilis. The victim who 
has thus suffered and who continues for years in 
the fancied security of a fools paradise at last 
discovers—probably after he has married an 
innocent and pure woman—but too late, the 
awful and unpalatable truth. 
Syphilis may remain latent in the system for 
years, unsuspected by the victim, only to reveal 
Itself and cause grave trouble when least 
expected. 
This, like other preventable disasters, is en- 
tirely due to the neglect of the patient. Some 
trace of syphilitic virus yet remaining in the 
system, owing to too early discontinuance oi 43 
medical treatment, the disease reappears in an 
aggravated form after years of concealment, 
■if a married man, still-born children and mis- 
carriages demonstrate to his medical advisers 
-he husband’s heritage of disease, but in the 
eyes of the unlearned a state of things attrib- 
utable entirely to the organic incompleteness 
of his unfortunate wife. 
With this knowledge of irrefutable facts we 
are of opinion that no man should enter upon 
the married state without first submitting him- 
self and his confessions into the professional 
custody of some competent physician, and if 
necessary postpone his marriage until such 
time that he receives authoritative assurance, 
that he may safely take unto himself a wife, 
and become the father of a robust and untaint 
ed progeny. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
The Bellevue Medical Institute, 112 Monroe 
treet, near Dearborn, Chicago, (incorporated 
under the laws of the State of Illinois), is de- 
o ed exclusively to the treatment of all chronic, 
nervous and private diseases. 
The staff of physicians attached to this estab- 
lishment are all professional men of large at- 
tainments, and wide experience, each member 
enjoying due exceptional advantages derived 
from an educational course in the hospitals 
fnd colleges of the United States and Europe, 
jn addition io which they have had expert 
instructions and special training under th~ 
Personal tuition, and in the office of many of 
the most celebrated specialists of the world. 
The Superintendent of the Bellevue Medical 
Institute, Dr. B. Newton, has had singular 
opportunities for observation daring an active 
practice for over twenty-eight years, and is re- 45 
garded as the most successful specialist in 
America, He is a graduate of the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College and was a private 
pupil of three of the most distinguished phy- 
sicians and surgeons the ranks of medicine—■ 
the world over—has ever produced, viz: Prof. 
Jas. R. Wood, Prof. Austin M. Flint and Dr. 
C. Olcott, besides having taken a course of 
special instruction at the Hong Island Hospital 
Medical College. Dr. Newton, upon twelve 
separate occasions, has traveled Europe in the 
Interests of his profession, with the sole pur- 
pose of acquiring any recent medical or surgi- 
cal discovery, which might be utilized to the 
advantage of his own patients and the medical 
fraternity at large. Dr. Newton’s thirst for 
knowledge has led him as far east as the Orient, 
where in Turkey, and also in Egypt, he has 
been enabled to obtain, through the courtesy 
of prominent officials of the various govern- 
ments, invaluable fnformation bearing upon 
the subject of his special investigations. His 
researches in Egypt were greatly facilitated 
through the personal offices of Gen. Stone, 
commander-in-chief of the Egyptian army, and 
also through introductions furnished by the 
Surgeon-General to Pashas and Chiefs of 
tribes and native doctors. By means of these 
quite exceptional facilities some information of 
very peculiar value has been obtained. 
These circumstances are mentioned here, not 
with any personal object, but in order to con- 
vince the reader contemplating seeking the 
advice of a specialist, that in entrusting his 
case in the hands of the Bellevue faculty, he 
is not casting his case upon the doubtful mercy 
of charlatans, or quacks, or other impostors 
who have no legal authority to practice medi- 
cine. 46 
The reputation already established by the 
Bellevue Medical Institute is of too high a 
character to be forfeited, and the professional 
■study of the gentlemen associated therewith 
Is of entirely too high an order to tolerate any 
description of treatment which might place 
Sts good name in jeopardy. Gf honorable and 
scientific treatment, the public may rest 
assured. 
One painful obligation imposed upon the 
honest practitioner is the stating of absolute 
truths, no matter how unpalatable. Hence, 
while we sometimes have reason to deeply de- 
plore the necessity which demands from us the 
statement that the condition of a patient is 
such as to permit us to hold out no hope of his 
cure, common honesty compels us to do so. 
In such a case the sufferer will probably apply 
to some one else, who will take his money and 
guarantee his recovery, though the death of 
the patient is obviously a question of a day or 
two at most. If a cure after careful examin- 
ation appears possible, we are prepared to 
guarantee one, but we will on no account render 
a favorable opinion unless the complete facts, 
as disclosed, warrant us in so doing. 
Drugs and Chemicals.—The Bellevue Medi 
cal Institute supplies it patients with medicines 
prepared in the private laboratory attached to 
the institution, and from drugs known to be 
absolutely fure. This system, we have discov- 
©red, is imperatively necessary, if our patients 
are to be protected against the frauds practiced 
fey unprincipled or incompetent druggists. 
This plan should at once commeVid itself to ah 
Interested, as our reputation and existence 
being at stake, we could not afford—if con 
toolled by no worthier motive—to risk out 
business by the dispensing of inpure drug* 47 
It is also preferable, we find, upon the patient’s 
part, to secure the drugs from us direct, as no 
publicity or exposure of their misfortune 
menances them. 
Under all circumstances it is of course the 
bounden duty of every physician who com- 
pounds his own prescriptions, to have a perfect 
knowledge of the preparations he administers, 
and assure himself of their purity, physiologi- 
cal activity and therapeutic value. The slighest 
negligence in this respect may entail incon- 
ceivable injury to the patient. We maintain 
that our facilities in this respect are entirely 
superior to those at the command of the ordi- 
nary practitioner or the dispensing druggist. 
Constant practice in compounding a certain 
class of drugs educates us into an expert know- 
ledge of their purity and provides against any 
possibility of mistake in the filling of our own 
prescriptions. 
We do not keep or use any ready made prep- 
arations, but prepare medicines expressly for each 
individual case, to meet the stage of the disease, 
the complications existing, and each particular 
symptom complained of. Our method of treat- 
ment never interferes with the usual daily occupa- 
tion of the patient, and we will always furnish 
medicine entirely in powder and pill form when- 
ever requested, thereby enabling the patient to 
conceal from everybody the fact that he is under 
medical treatment. 
Each case is submitted to the full medical 
board, and the treatment required is determined 
upon at a regular meeting of the staff especially 
convened for the purpose of investigating the 
facts of the case, as submitted by the patient. 
A.t all these consultations Dr. Newton is 
present, and presides, and gives to all corres» 
pondence his personal consideration. Our terms for treatment, though invariably 
reasonable, necessarily vary, and are bassd 
iapon the nature of the disease, the time under 
treatment whilst effe a cure, and the valu® 
of fhe drugs consumed. 
Medicines are sen! by mail or express, care* 
fully packed in boxes or heavy paper, with ait 
absolutely plain address, and with nothing 
whatever to indicate their contents or by whom 
they are sent. We also use plain envelops, 
thereby protecting our patients from the slight- 
est possibility of exposure. Should they desire, 
patients car? have their medicines shipped Ist 
care of any express office '■'■ to he kept till called 
for" in which case they will not be delivered 
at their place of residence. 
No one should hesitate to consult us, as con- 
saltations, vjhether by letter or in person, are given 
free of charge. 
All reasonable questians will be duly con- 
sidered and answered and advice readily ex- 
tended, which might possibly prove of incalcul- 
able benefit to the enquirer. 
Treatment of Cases at a Distance. Whilst it is generally 
(to the manifest interest of Patient and Physician that a 
personal consultation should be>arranged for, circumstance*, 
of course, render in many cases, a personal interview al ■ 
together impracticable, and indeed in many cases not only 
impossible but undesirable; for though we would always fee 
glad to consult personally with all onr patients, before 
arranging to engage in their treatment, experience fea* 
(taught us that more satisfactory results are often mom 
readily obtainable by correspondence; especially so in tins 
case of a certain class of patients who become embar 
srassed at an interview and are unable In conversation to 
state their case with all necessary clearness. In such in- 
stances the interests of the patient are greatly promoted by 
a thoughtfully written statement of his symptoms, which 
can be submitted for the consideration of tile entire staff oi 
the Institute, assembled for the purpose. 
Should the patient, however, be unable to supply us with 
sufficient and satisfactory .information by letter, in const • 
quence of-the existence of complication he is unabls 
to intelligently describe, we will demand a personal inter- 49 
v!?w and a physical examination before deciding: to under 
take the case. 
Patients can consult with us, either person- 
ally or by letter, in the following languages, 
yiz:> English, Norwegian, Swedish, German, 
Italian and French. 
Attention has already been drawn to the de- 
sirability of a chemical and microscopical analysis 
of the urine, as it affords the most reliable means 
of determining the extent and gravity of the 
case and nature of disease, besides offering & 
Basis upon which to advance an opinion as to 
the period of time required to effect a perma- 
nent cure. This analysis will be made for 
patients without cost to them. The urine sub 
®|tted must be some of the first passed after 
arising in the morning; two ounces will be 
sufficient, and the bottle in which it is enclosed 
must be forwarded by express, charges paid, or 
It will not be received. 
Remittances. Money should always be sent 
by draft, express, money order or registered 
letter, made payable to B. Newton, M. D. Re- 
mittances forwarded in any other manner are 
liable to be lost or stolen, 
. Correspondence, etc. All letters must be 
signed with full name and address of the writer, 
®nd all samples for examination similarly en- 
dorsed. Correspondence and packages should 
be addressed to 
B. NEWTON, 
*l2 Monroe Street, - Chicago, Ilf, 50 
LETTERS, TESTIMONIALS, ETC. 
The following etters will prove highly in* 
tractive to the reader, being but few of the 
great numbers that have reached us and that 
we are constantly receiving. We do not give 
the names, or even the initials, of the writers, 
believing as we do, that the specialist who de- 
votes his attention to diseases of the sexual 
organs should maintain the profoundest secrecy 
with all his patients, and we condemn the prac- 
tice pursued, no doubt with best intentions, by 
so many specialists of giving the initials of their 
patients, which might lead to the discovery of 
the writer, particularly in small towns. One oi 
our by-laws pledges the Bellevue Medical In- 
stitute “never to divulge, upon any pretext, the 
names, or their initials, of our patients and corres 
pondents, nor publish any fart of the letters of the 
same, -without -written permission from the writer 
Case 40,690, Book 82. 
€a«e of Spermatorrhoea, Passive Congestion 
of the Kidneys and Dyspepsia. 
Or. B. Newton. 
Dear Sir : I have greatly improved in health during the 
past month, which is the second since I began taking your 
medicines. I have had but one emission; “'my appetite is 
food, and do not have any more pain in the stomach and 
owels or across my back; my bowels move every day 
and the palpitation of the heart and shortness of breath 
have entirely disappeared. I am fully satisfied with the 
iresuit of your treatment, as you stated it might require 
about five months to cure me in consequence of my case 
being of such a complicated nature, but after two 
month’s treatment I find my seif feeling perfectly well, 
but will continue taking your medicines until you say that I 
not need them any longer. % 
I remain, your grateful patient. 51 
Case 63,320, Book 127. 
Case of Syphilis and Inflammation of the 
Brooklyn, New york, Jan. 2, 1892. 
Dr. B. Newton. 
Bladder. 
Dear Sir ,* Dr. M. F. Brickner sent me word a few days 
ago that he would like to see me at his office, and when I 
called said that he had received a letter from you wishing 
to know how I was, and whether there had been any return 
of my disease during the past year. 
The Dr. told me that I had better write you myself 
regarding the matter, and I thought so too. 
i am pleased to inform you that there has not a single 
symptom returned and it is now over a year since I stopped 
taking your medicine. The syphilitic ulcers on my legs were 
entirely cured, as you know, close to five months after I 
began your treatment, and they have not appeared since. 
The only trouble that I find is a little dryness of the throat 
at times where the large ulcer was, which destroyed my 
right tonsil, and came near eating a hole through my neck. 
The nose is all right. I can breathe through it as naturally 
as ever. The little lumps or tumors over the long bone of 
the leg which were so troublesome and ulcerated, have 
never reappeared since I discontinued your treatment. In 
fact there is no eruption of any kind to be found on my 
body. 
My hair has entirely returned, with the exception of a 
small spot on the top. As you know, I was entirely bald 
when I came under your treatment. I can now urinate 
without causing any distress, and the urine is of natural 
color. Ido not make water more than three or four times 
a day, which is certainly a wonderful relief, considering 
the fact that I would make water, which was very painful 
to do, about every half hour when I first began taking your 
medicines. 
In fact, I am entirely well, but if you think that I ought 
to take any more treatment let me know. I can never pay 
you sufficient for having restored me to health, I have done 
the best that my circumstances would allow, and trust that 
the patients I have sent you, you will accept as a small con- 
sideration of my high esteem, and somewhat pay you for 
the extra trouble you had in treating my case. 
Your grateful patient, 
Case 69,901, Book 140. 
Seminal Weakness and Partial Impotence. 
Dr. B. Newton. 
Dear Sir ; I send you by express to-night $ for the 
last month’s treatment, as that will end the matter in a satisfactory way, as I never felt better in my life, as far as 
1 can remember. I have to thank you for your consideration, 
and hope that you may have success in your every undertak 
ins. lam sure you have re-established my health by yous 
treatment. 
The pains in the back have ceased entirely and the erec- 
tions now assume a natural standard, and the emissions 
have also ceased altogether. Ido not notice any discharge 
an the nrine, which is of a natural color, nor do I have the 
tired feeling I formely complaised of. Thanking you again, 
2 remain, Respectfully yours, —; 
Case 7,033, Book No. 15, 
Case of Spermatorrhoea and General 
Dear Sir! Some ten days ago I received one of yous 
little books, and having read it carefully I see what X have 
done in days gone by. Lord forgive me, as I did not then 
know the harm I was doing myself. I have not practised! 
masturbation for seven years, but 3 am satisfied after read- 
ing your book that my present deplorable condition has 
resulted from the horrible habit, i. have been feeling ill 
for six years, and during this time have tried a great many 
doctors. One told me 1 had kidney disease, another said I 
had spinal disease, another brain trouble and rheumatism, 
and others stated other diseases. Some of them relieved me 
fora while, butl would soon become worse than ever. Ihave 
also taken different patent medicines, without giving me any 
relief. Now, doctor, I want to know what you can do fo* 
me. 1 suffer from continual nervousness; am also very 
diszy;on,arising in the morning feel very tired and have 
pains from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, 
usually worse in my head, back and around my ears; my 
legs give out sometimes so that I cannot stand up; have 
Ifeummg sensation in bladder for two or three hours, then 
have a servere pain, and feel as though my last hour had 
come. I have examined my urine and find it high colored 
and contains a good deal of semen, and will send you a bottle 
lor analysis. I also have losses during my sleep; my tongue 
is coated in the morning and have a coppensh taste; my 
appetite is poor, the most delicious food does not tempt me 
to eat, have bad dreams and constantly feel that something 
terrible is going to happen to me. lam very thin and pale, 
»ssd something must be done for me soon, otherwise I know 
2 cannot live long. Can you cure me ? Oh, I hope that you 
can, as I have spent much money in doctoring without 
J®ang me the slightest good 
, Debility. 
I am, sir. obediently yours. 53 
This patient commenced treatment at once5 
and six months thereafter we received the fol- 
lowing letter from him: 
Dr. B. Newton. 
Dear Sir : I address you this morning about my health., 
I am what I consider in the “very best ofhealth”, which caa 
only be attributed to your treatment and advice. It is almost 
two months since I took the last of your medicine and still 
feel all right and have no fear of a relapse. My appetite is 
good, and bowels regular, and have gained twenty-two 
pounds in weight. My restoration to health seems almost 
miraculous to me, and I am unable to express my thank - 
fulness for the generous manner in which you have treated 
me, and the kind words of advice so frenquently given. 
Yours, tankfuily 
Case 69,318, Book 139 
Impotence, Secondary Syphilis and 
New York City, Jan, 19, 1887. 
B. Newton, M. D. 
Varicocele. 
Dear Sir: I have been advised by my family physician 
to consult you. lam suffering from impotence, caused by 
self-abuse, I think you may be able to help me. I am 32 
years old and have felt the effects for the last six or seven 
years. I very seldom have an erection and they are very 
feeble at all times, and have been unable to indulge in 
marital duties for two years. Three years ago I contracted 
a chancre, resulting in secondary syphilis, for which I took 
a course of treatment for fourteen months with one doctor, 
but he failed to cure me, as the symptoms returned three 
months after I discontinued his treatment. I have been 
treated constantly by different physicans but they have 
failed to cure me, and am now heartily discouraged, bus 
will give you a trial if you will hbnestly assure me of your 
ability to restore metohelath. I have syphilitic ulcers in 
the throat and mouth, and my back, arms and chest are 
covered with sores, my bones ache incessantly and my hair 
has almost entirely fallen out. I nearly forgot to mention 
that 1 also have a bad varicocele. Can you cure me ? If sq 
how long will it take; and what will your entire fees 
amount to? I am, very truly 
The complications existing in this case were 
of a very gi'ave character, and we decided to 
defer rendering a prognosis until! we could be 
furnished with further particulars and be sup- 54 
plied with a specimen of the patient’s urine and 
blood for analysis. We were confident the kid- 
neys were diseased, and wished to satisfy our- 
selves the extent of the same, as we are obliged 
to rely very largely on these organs to elimin- 
ate the syphilitic virus after it has been neutral- 
ized in the blood. The analysis showed that the 
patient was suffering from Addison’s disease of 
the kidney, but that it had not progressed be- 
yond the first stage, and finding the red cor- 
puscles of the blood still in excess of the white, 
we were sufficiently assured that the complica- 
tions presented in this case would not prevent 
a radical cure if the patient would be guided by 
our instructions, and take our medicines regu- 
larly and continuously. He was notified of out 
decision and began treatment at once, which 
he continued faithfully for ten months, when 
he was discharged as cured. 
Whilst our Supt., Dr. Newton, was in New 
York last summer, this gentleman called on 
him at tne Murray Hill Hotel for the purpose 
of thanking him in person for his restoration 
to health, and volunteered to give him a testi- 
monial for publication, the following being a 
copy of the same. 
New York City, July 5, 1891. 
B. Newton, M. D. 
Dear Sir: In the month of Jan., 18S7, I applied to you 
lor medical advice. I was suffering from impotence, second- 
ary syphilis and varicocele and had been treated for several 
years by a number of eminent physicans in New York 
without deriving any permanent benefit. I was induced t« 
consult you by my family physician Dr. Ten Eyck, who 
informed me that you were the most scientific and capable 
specialist in America, and that he personally knew of a 
number of cases similar to my own—some or which were 
much more serious—that had been restored to perfect 
health by your treatment after the failure of other doctors. 
I freely confess—notwithstanding ihis praise from such 
trust worthy source—l placed myself in your hands without 
She slightest confidence ia your ability to cure me. But 55 
tour medicines were almost immediately beneficial, and at 
the expiration of four months I found myself a new beings 
the syphilitic eruption and ulcers in mouth had entirely dis- 
appeared, together with ail other symptoms of this disease. 
But what astonished me the most was my entire restoration 
to manhood, and the disappearance of my varicocele. My 
sexual organs are now as strong as ever. Although I felt 
perfectly cured at the end of four months treatment, by your 
advice 1 continued the same six months longer, in order to 
prevent the possibility of a relapse. It is now nearly three 
yars and a half since you discharged me as cured, and from 
that day to this I have enjoyed perfect health. I would 
also state that I have been blessed with two healthy children 
within three years, neither of which show the slightest taint 
of the terrible syphilitic disease with which I was afflicted. 
You have acted in the most honorable manner toward me, 
and I thank God, and Dr. Ten Eyck, for having been 
directed to you. I remain your grateful patient, 
Case 9,877, Book 20. 
Spermatorrhoea, Varicocele and Catarrti, 
Dear Doctor: I solicit your opinion in regard to my 
case, which is as follows: Age, 26; single; committed self- 
abuse from 15 to 22 years of age. lam suffering from ner- 
vous prostration, palpitation of heart, dull headache and 
impaired memory. There is a feeling like a bundle of 
worms in left side of my privates, which hangs much lower 
than the right side. Have seminal emissions about every 
other night, and there is a milky discharge mixed with 
urine when I make water. lam also troubled with dizzi- 
ness and my eyes are weak and watery. My hearing is ais® 
impaired. Now, doctor, tell me how much it will cost to 
cure me. The doctors in my town do not seem to under- 
stand my case and I am anxious to be cured as quick as 
possible. Yours truly, 
Letter from same patient six weeks after 
commencing treatment. 
Dear Doctor: Your medicines are doing wonders for 
me. 1 have not had an emission for three weeks, and I 
have gained six pounds, and think I will be perfectly cured 
in another month if I continue to feel as Ido at present. 
My catarrh does not trouble me any more, and the Varico- 
cele, as you call it, has dissappeared. I inclose the balance 
of money for this months’ treatment, which I could not send 
before. Please send mecdcine in pill form if possible. 
Yours truly, -■ 56 
One month after the above letter was re- 
ceived this patient was discharged as cured, 
and he has suffered no relapse. 
Case 4,217, Book 9. 
Dr. B, Newton. 
Case ot Seminal Weakness. 
Dear Sir: By chance I got hold of one of your books 
concerning that secret disease, and have read it carefully, 
and find that some of the cases correspond with my own. 
lam 28 years old, and live on a farm. I suffer from loss of 
memory, pains in the small of the back and a heavy feeling 
in the left side, near the heart, and a buzzing sound in the 
left ear. The genital organs are cold and moist, and the 
penis shrunken, and when I go to stool semen discharges 
from the penis, and I have night losses about twice a week. 
I am truly miserable and do not care to live, and I wish you 
would give me your opinion if I can be cured. 
Your obedient servant, 
Letter from same patient three months after. 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir: I have just taken the last of last months’ med- 
icine. You need not send any more, as lam all right now. 
Your grateful patient - 
Case 14,032, Book 29. 
Masturbation and Seminal Weakness. 
B. Newton, M. D. 
Sir: lam suffering from the effects of self-abuse. I 
practiced masturbation five years, until two months ago, 
when I quit it, but it has left its mark. I have noctural 
emissions three or four times a week, and have noticed 
when at stool a few drops of semen dicharged. In the 
morning, sometimes after the urine has passed, or as the 
last of the urine is flowing, there will be a whitish, milky 
dicharge. All of these dicharges seem to be on the 
increase, and I am convinced that they are destroying my 
health and life. I used to masturbate nearly every day for 
several years, and did not know the cause of my broken 
health till I read your valuable book, and now see what a 
fool I have been. Now, doctor, I have frequently heard 
you highly spoken of by parties you have treated ana cured, 
and trust my case in your hands, knowing that you will do 
your best to restore me to health. My case is a sad one, 
and I need assistance as soon as possible, otherwise I will 
become a physical and mental wreck in a short time. How 
much will it cost, and how long will it take to cure me? 
Respectfully, 57 
Last letter received from this patient: 
Dr. B. Newton. 
Dear Sir: Enclosed find draft, to pay for next months’ 
treatment, which will be the last I will need, as I am 
entirely cured. I have not felt so well in fifteen years, and 
am very thankful to you and the doctors connected with 
your Institute, for the cure you have effected in my case, 
and trust that God will bless you for the good you are doing 
for mankind. I remain your friend, 
Case 3,977, Book 8. 
Complete Impotence, of Three Years 
Standing, Caused toy Excessive, 
Masturbation. 
DR, B. Newton. 
Dear Sir: I have had an opportunity of reading your 
truly interesting book, and feel it is my duty to ask your 
advice. lam 37 years of age, and a merchant by occupa- 
tion. At the age of 14 I was induced to indulge in the 
practice of masturbation, which I practiced unremittingly 
cnee or twice a day for eight years. I need not tell you the 
result upon my general health, as the cases referred to in 
your book would fit my own exactly. That which troubles 
me greatest at present is the fact that I have met a lovely 
lady whom I would like to marry, but cannot, as I am per- 
fectly impotent, and my health is too feeble in every respect. 
It is driving me to the commission of some desperate deed 
to think that I have deprived myself of my manhood 
through my own folly. I did not regret the matter so much 
till I realized that marriage was impossible. Within the 
past three years I have not had a dozen erections, although 
sometimes have strong sexual desire, and this leads me to 
believe that, perhaps, my case is not beyond cure. I will 
add that I have been treated by several physicians without 
improving my condition in the slightest. I am willing to 
pay any price within reason for the restoration of my sex- 
ual functions, but do not wish to be tampered with. I have 
heard of several instances where you have declined to 
promise to cure cases because you considered them beyond 
medical skill, and shall therefore, put the utmost faith in 
your opinion and abide your decision. Anxiously awaiting 
your reply. I am very truly, 
Had we simply been guided by the history 
of this case, as furnished by the patient, we 58 
would have pronounced it incurable, but the 
success we have had in the treatment of di- 
seases where so many others have failed, haa 
been obtained through the thorough and 
scientific investigation we give to every case 
coming under our observation. A chemical 
and microscopical analysis of the urine in this 
case, revealed the fact that the patient was 
sufferingfrom paralysis of the nerves supplying 
the genital organs, thereby rendering erections 
impossible. Although other organs of the body 
were more or less diseased, all resulting entir- 
ely from excessive masturbation, we were un- 
able to discover anything that would determine 
the case to be incurable. We, therefore, ren- 
dered an opinion to this effect, and the patient 
began treatment. At the expiration of one 
month he wrote us that his general health had 
greatly improved, that he had gained three 
pounds in flesh, and felt greatly encouraged. 
At the end of second month’s treatment he 
wrote as follows; 
Fourth Letter. 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir ; Enclosed please find check for third month’s 
medicine. I am glad to say that I am making good im- 
provement under your treatment. During the past month 
I have had two strong erections, and you cannot imagine 
how glad I am to see sucli positive evidence of the ultimate 
return of my sexual power. My general health seems al- 
most as good as ever, and I have gained fourteen pounds 
in the two months. I send by express a bottle of urine 
for analysis, and wish vou would inform me the result of 
same. Very truly, 
Tenth Letter. 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir ; I can add but little at the present writing to 
what was stated in my last report. I feel as well and strong in every respect as I have ever felt, and do not see any 
reason why I should take any more medicine, but will do 
as you think best. My sexual organs are now in perfect 
condition, and you cannot imagine the happiness your last 
letter conveyed to me when you stated that you had “no 
further objection to my getting married,” and have lost no 
time in preparing for the happy event, which will take 
place on the 23d of this month. I beg leave to again ex- 
press my fervent thanks for the admirable manner in which 
you have handled my case, and although I consider your 
services beyond value in a financial point of view, please 
accept the inclosed check as a slight indication of the high 
esteem in which I hold your invaluable services. Money 
can never recompense you adequately for the service you 
have rendered me, but the memory of the same will be the 
happiest thought of ray life, and my gratitude unceasingl, 
I am sincerely, 
59 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Last Letter. 
_ Dear Sir : I trust that you will not think, by my long 
silence, that I have forgotten you. The fact of the matter 
is, my wife was confined three weeks ago, and has been in 
a very critical condition ever since, but the doctors in 
attendance have to-day assured me that all danger has 
passed. I have not left her bedside for two weeks, and am 
almost prostrated by my long vigilance. I have availed 
myself of the first opportunity offered to inform you of the 
birth of our boy baby, who weighs ten pounds, and perfect 
in every respect. I owe all this happiness to you, and may 
God bless you. Your grateful patient, 
Genital Organs Enlarged, and Seif-abuse 
Case 53,525, Book 107. 
Dr. B. Newton. 
Cured. 
Dear Sir: lam glad to report that I have sufficiently 
recovered my health to enable me to go to work, and you 
know I have not done any work for the last five months 
in consequence of being too weak to perform any daily 
labor. I now feel nearly as strong as I ever did, and had it 
not been for coming under your treatment, I fear that I now 
Would be dead. 
Ido not know whether I will need any more treatment 
after this month or not. Should you think so, let me knowK 
and I will immediately send you the required amount. 60 
The floating- specks before the eyes, and the dizziness 
and palpitation of the heart have entirely left me, I am now 
able to walk ten miles without feeling- the slightest fatigue. 
The humming noise in my ear has also entirely dis- 
appeared. I no longer desire to practice that disgusting 
habit, and my sexual organs are at least twice the size they 
were when I commenced your treatment. 
Your obedient servant, 
Spermatorrhoea and Syphilis. 
Case 50,791, Book 102. 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir : I stated my case to you about two weeks ago, 
personally, and have taken your medicines according to di- 
rection, and feel very much better already. 
I now have a good appetite. The pimples on my back 
and shoulders are rapidly disappearing, and my cough has 
not troubled me at all for the last week. I have also not had 
a single discharge of semen since 1 began taking your medi- 
cines. It seems to me that they are working like a charm, 
and if I keep on improving as 1 have during the past two 
weeks, it certainly cannot take so long to cure me as you 
first stated. However, lam willing to take the medicine 
until you say I am cured. Faithfully yours. 
Seminal Weakness and Onanism. 
Case 22,064, Book 45. 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir : I am all well, and have no pains whatever. 
I eat hearty, sleep well and am a cured man, but on your ad- 
vice, will take another month’s treatment so as to make sure 
that there will be no return of the disease. I have not had 
a single emission for over two months, my bowels move 
regularly, and I can work without getting tired. The dizzy 
- pells have not troubled me since I have been taking your 
medicine. In fact, I consider my cure one of the most re- 
markable things in the world, and shall publish the fact to 
all my friends. 
Seminal Weakness and Impotence. 
Case 66,709, Book 133. 
Dr. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir : As I have not sufficient room on the monthly 
report to write all I want to, I will finish on this. 61 
J 30 muph better I can hardly tell you all about It. 
u° n .^ tired or worn out any more when I get up in 
the morning’s as I used to, and I can sleep soundly. lam 
not so nervous, my bowels are perfectly regular and I have 
not had a single emission for the last six weeks. My sexual 
organs are getting stronger every day, and if I get along as 
I have been doing, it wont take long before I am entirely 
Your humble servant, 
Seif-Abuse, Dyspepsia and Slervons 
Debility. 
Case 59,100, Bock 119, 
£>R. B. Newton, 
Dear Sir : Never before in all my life have X felt so wel| 
as during the past month, which is the third month since I 
first began taking your medicines. I have gained some 11% 
-t>s. in flesh, my stomach does not trouble me any further, 
aPpetite is good, my legs do not ache any more, and I ara 
able to do a hard day’s work without feeling any bad effects, 
'’.am certainly very much encouraged, and believe that an- 
other month’s treatment will do the rest of the work and 
make me a new man. , 
I have no longer any desire to commit self-abuse, and 
have not had an emission at night or during the day for over 
a month, and had it not been for finding your little book on 
the road one nay, I probably would have been in an insane 
asylum. You don’t know how thankiul lam that I was 
directed to you through your little book. 
When you send the next medicine, please send it by mail 
in powder and pill form. 
I have sent you a bottle of urine to-day as requested. Let 
me know how you find it. Yours truly, - 
_ We will not tire the reader with the produc- 
tion of other letters in full, but furnish a few 
extracts for consideration. 
Case 61,028, Book 123. 
“I have now been under your treatment two months, and 
my condition is so improved I think another month’s treat- 
ment will be sufficient to restore me to health.” 
Case 52,900, Book 10a 
‘‘l thought I would write to you to-day, and let you Know 
how lam at the present time. lam completely cured. My 
face is as smooth as glass, the pimples having all disap- 
peared, and have not had an emission in three months. I ans 
a new man, thanks to you, and I could not feel better.” 62 
Case 33,117, Book 67. 
“1 have taken your medicines according to directions, and 
am happy to say I feel much better. The first week I took 
the medicine I had one involuntary discharge at night, but 
think I shall have no more, I feel so much better.” 
Case 40,28 a, Book 81. 
‘‘Enclosed you will find money order for another month’s 
treatment, I feel well and all right, but think I had better 
keep up treatment for a while yet.” 
Case 62,003, Book tax. 
“I send a bottle of urine for analysis. I am glad to say 1 
am improving under your treatment. Have not had an 
emission for two months, and in other respects am enjoy- 
ing the best of health.” 
Case 12,134, Book 25. 
‘‘l have now been under your treatment for the past three 
months, and no one but myself knows how much better I 
feel. My case was a desperate one, but think another 
month’s medicine will bring me around all right, I am so 
very thankful for the good I have derived from your treat- 
ment.” 
Case 15,405, Book 31. 
“I enclose you post office order for next month’s treat 
ment. I feel five hundred per cent, better than I did, and 
you have done me more good this last month than all the 
rest of the doctors combined.” 
Case 44,273, Book 89. 
‘‘lt is with heartfelt thanks I seat myself to write you. 1 
feel entirely well, and will never begrudge the money I 
have paid you. Every one I meet remarks my improved 
appearance, and wish to know who my doctor is.” 
Case 18,500, Book 37. 
‘‘Enclosed find remittance for another month’s treatment, 
which will be the last, as I feel quite well. The last month’s 
medicine seemed to hit the spot, and, if you think best, 
would like the same for the final month. Have not had an 
emission at night nor during the day for more than two 
months.” 63 
Case 4)196, Book 9 
“I write to inform you that I am improving rapidly,, 
having- gamed twelve pounds in three months. My cough 
has entirely disappeared, also palpitation of heart, and all 
jF ssrrnPt°ms complained of when I consulted you. It is 
all due to your treatment and I am very thankful.” 
Case 13,291, Book 27, 
“Many thanks for your kind inquiry regarding my health 
I have not had any emissions of any kind since I 
continued your treatment and never felt better in my life, 
which is due to your advice and treatment.” 
Case 13,300, Book 27. 
Enclosed please find draft for the third months treat- 
*nent. lam getting along splendidly, and am satisfied that 
7-ouf will cure me. The syphilitic sores have en- 
irely disappeared, and my hair is rapidly returning.” 
Case 2,352, Book 6. 
“I have been under your treatment only six weeks, and 
now feel as sound and healthy as anybody.” 
Case 62,405, Book 125. 
‘‘Replying to yonr recent favor, I beg to state, thanks to 
your treatment, that I am feeling in perfect health. 1 
stopped taking medicine nearly eight months ago and have 
had no losses since, and my sexual organs are as strong 
as ever.” 
Casee 14,366, Book 29. 
‘‘l feel strong and well. The varicocele has not returned 
and my testicles are firm and large. I am not the same man 
J'ou saw a year ago. I have grown so stout I scarcely be 
ieve you would know me.” 
Case 27,000, Book 54. 
‘‘Enclosed find order for next month’s medicine. If 1 
improve as rapidly during the coming months as I have 
during the past I will not need any more medicine.” 
Case 51,100, Book 103. 
“The medicines have done me a great deal of good, as 1 
feel much better in every respect.” Case 16,341, Book 33. 
64 
“I am perfectly cured, and thank vou ever so much. S 
will recommend you everywhere.” 
Case 18,542, Book 38. 
‘‘Your medicines have acted like a charm, as I have not 
had an emission for over three months. My erections are 
strong and natural. My heart beats regularly and I have 
no more headaches. In fact, I feel perfectly well, and wish 
you would write me if I can get married next month.” 
Case 1,034, Book 39. 
“I am very thankful to you for having restored me to 
health so speedily, and will recommend all my friends to 
consult you.” 
Case 19,427, Book 39. 
“I feel much better since taking your medicine. I have 
had but one emission in six weeks. The dyspepsia has not 
troubled me for nearly a month, and my appetite is very 
good, and can eat everything without causing distress. 
I sleep well and have no more desire to masturbate. I ana 
now confident of your ability to cure me.” 
Case 46,111, Book 93. 
‘‘Nothing could have been more satisfactory than the 
result obtained from your treatment of my case. Your 
letters have afforded me great consolation, and I cousider 
that you have sayed my life.” 
Case 50,898, Book 102. 
“I have been taking your medicines but three weeks and 
have gained four pounds in weight. All my symptoms are 
much less troublesome, and if I keep on gaining as I have 
it cannot possibly take three months to cure me, as you 
estimated it would. My cousin, whom you cured of syphili* 
about two years ago, died last week from typhoid fever," BELLEVUE MEDICAL INSTITUTE 
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