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420 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
There is no more potent cause than tobacco ; and the
whole class of nervous stimulants favor this action. It
is only a particular
ness.
direction of what we call nervous
The causes are generally evident enough. They
may date back of birth ; and are important to know
only that they may be avoided, both for prevention and
cure.
In regard to the cure, I have but two or three direc
tions to give besides those given
for the cure of mastur
bation. Let the patient, in all respects, as far as pos
sible place
himself in the conditions of health. Let
him regulate his food by his digestion, carefully evacu
ate his bowels every night, sleep cool, and before going
to bed take a sitz-bath, beginning at a temperature of
90 degrees. Day after day, cool gradually, at the rate
of a degree a day. I wish to moderate the action of
the parts, and allay the irritability. Cold water may be
applied night and morning to the cerebellum. In the
morning take a full bath of cold water, and a thorough
rubbing. As the cure progresses, the patient will have
his sitz-bath colder, and may apply other means of in
vigoration, as dashing cold water upon the genitals, the
rising douche, etc. When the system has attained to
some proper degree of vigor, and this diseased action ia
conquered, it may be advisable to —but marry it may
not be advisable to have children until health is fully
established. These are contingencies I am not called
upon to provide for. There are quacks in the city who
prescribe intercourse with some prostitute. Doubtless
that large class of our female population must contain
many wise, kind, judicious women, who would do the