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408 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
with passion. When the disease-is a little further ad
vanced, they lose all sense of decency ; men inviting to
sexual commerce by words and gestures, and with pas
sionate tears. Under these influences women hnve
committed excesses of which men are not capable. It
is true that a man may be affected with a protracted
which no amount ol
priapism, or erection of the penis,
sexual intercourse may relieve, but he is not capable of
a great number of successive orgasms, nor can the tes
ticles form a continuous supply of the spermatic fluid.
But in women, when all the force of their natures is
turned in this direction, there is a capacity for enjoy
ment far exceeding that of men ; and women have
been known to receive and exhaust a large number of
men in rapid succession, without being
satisfied. In
either sex, this disease may go on to a permanent in
sanity, and a death as horrible as the imagination can
conceive.
The processes of water-cure us give the means of
controlling this disease to a remarkable degree. A
spare and entirely unstimulating diet, the sitz-bath, the
cold douche, or ice-water to the cerebellum, are
indicated. The vagina syringe helps
to over
come the inflammation of the womb, and the wet
bandage, often renewed, should be worn around the
loins by women, and should cover the genital organs in
men. The treatment is, in fact, very similar to that
for masturbation or inflammation of any other part of
the system.
Amative diseases and irregularities lead to S{criltiy
and Impotence in men, and Barrenness in women.
These are sad afflictions; for nature, with an ever-