We wish it distinctly understood that +this treatise is intended solely for persons suffering from Genito-Urinary Diseases+, and that it is +never mailed to any person who has not voluntarily requested us to send it+, and then +not to boys+ or to members of the +opposite sex+. (Our application books show a large number of such refusals.)

We look upon our special mission in the field of medicine as +distinct+, +laudable+ and +holy+.  There are those who look down upon this special branch of medicine, and some ignoramuses who assert that such diseases only exist in the imaginations of such patients as a result of reading the pamphlets of quacks who paint frightful pictures of insanity, idiocy, etc.  To such men as these we have only this to say:  Consult the works of Hammond, Black, Acton, Wilson, Lallemand, Civiale, Courtenay, Lee etc., etc., the authors of which have world-wide reputations, not only as physicians, but as truthful, honest and moral men.  They will then see how really grave are such affections and how needful of aid.

God knows that the misery, despondency and actual organic disease, as a result of early vices, are prevalent enough even to-day to make a lover of his fellow men sincerely pity and desire to help them.  And we claim (and every honest man cannot but admit) that it is only by the +widespread dissemination of a knowledge of certain facts+ to young and old, especially the former, that such vice and its consequences can be met and overcome.  We are daily spreading such knowledge throughout the length and breadth of this land, not only warning and advising the young and cautioning the older, but also pointing out to all such as need it a perfect and easy means of cure and restoration to health and vigor.

Our mission is as real, noble and important as that of preaching the Gospel, and aside from its bearing on the enlightenment of those who would otherwise go astray, and offering the means of relief to those who have already sinned against Nature, it is of a broader and even more sweeping importance.  As every whole must needs be the sum total of its integrals, so +each nation+ and +people must+—­in mental, moral and physical traits—­+be that which its individual members make it+.  Hence, if perfect general health, full procreative ability and healthy offspring mark the majority of the individuals, so naturally must the health, vigor, populousness and power of the nation be accordingly. +As secret vice diminishes, public virtue and morality become greater.+ Diseases of the Prostate Gland, Urinary Organs and Sexual Apparatus are as +real, as embarassing+ and +as needful of cure+ as those of the lungs, heart, stomach, or any other organ—­indeed, more important, for the latter only affect the life or health of the individual immediately concerned, while the former concern not only the person affected, but his offspring also.