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418 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
of very particular notice. Women have no such dis
ease ; but they suffer equally, perhaps, from two causes
— menstruation and leucorrhoea.
profuse
There are few diseases whose victims are in a more
pitiable condition than those who suffer from seminal
losses. I have had many cases, and believe that my
advice, when faithfully followed, has been attended
with benefit.
The general trouble, loss of semen, and consequent
exhaustion, takes place under several different circum
stances. In some cases, the seminal loss is attended by
a voluptuous dream. Such dreams occur to passionate
persons of both sexes. We dream of love, as of other
passions, and on go to its consummation with some be
loved or attractive object. We pass through the ex
citement of sexual connection, and experience the
orgasm. Waking, the male finds a flow of semen ; the
female a quantity of mucous, secreted by the glands of
the vagina. Where this action occurs but seldom, and
in consequence of the accumulation of vital power in
this part of the organism, it can not be a source of any
great mischief, though a poor substitute for the natural
gratification of amative desire. It is something between
that and masturbation, and is without the compensations
of a pure and proper coition.
But in men, in certain states of the system, there
comes on an excessive excitability or irritability of the
organs, which makes these dreams occur with exhaust
ing frequency. The semen is continually voided, with
a ruinous expenditure of nervous power. The seminal
vesicles are irritated by the presence of the smallest
quantity of the fluid; the nervous action is excited, aud