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DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM. 399
ing, their natural use, solitary indulgence is far more
exhausting than social. When two persons, loving each
other, and adapted to each other, come together in the
sexual embrace, nature has provided that a portion of
the nervous expenditure of each goes to strengthen the
other, and there is comparatively but little loss. In a
union without love, or where all the enjoyment is on
one side, the loss is greater, for there is less compensa
tion. A merely sensual union is destitute of spiritual
and magnetic compensations ; but where there is the
simple, artificial, and utterly unnatural excitement of
the orgasm, without reciprocity, compensation, or use,
the result is only evil.
The following are given by reputable
and scientific
medical writers as among the symptoms or effects of
this disease, and cause of diseases :
Loss of memory and mental power ; entire concen
tration of mind and imagination on one feeling and act;
a besotted, embarrassed, melancholy, and stupid look ;
loss of all presence of mind ; incapability of bearing the
of future
gaze of any one ; tremors and apprehensions
and the whole
misery; morbid appetite; indigestion
train of dyspeptic symptoms, constipation, foetid breath,
etc. ; pale, sallow, cadaverous, or dirty-looking, greasy
skin ; eruptions of over pimples the face, particularly
the forehead, and on the back between the shoulders;
hollowness and lack-luster of the eyes, with a dark
circle around them ; feebleness of the whole body ; in
disposition to make any active exertion ; weakness,
weariness, and dull pain in the small of the back ; creep
there comes in
ing sensation in the spine. Finally,
sanity or idiocy ; atrophy, and death by consumption,