3.  ANYTHING DEBILITATING—­such as Overwork, Confinement, Sedentary Occupations, Worry, Care, Excitement, &c., &c.—­These are much more common causes of Sexual and Generative Diseases than is generally supposed, and usually very obstinate and difficult to treat, because the system is so run down that there is very little stamina or vitality to rely upon.  Clerks, business men, lawyers, bankers, ministers and students are very subject to this form of impaired vital and sexual power.  Theological students are very prone to it.  Many do not have any idea as to what their real trouble is, and lose much valuable time in doctoring for Dyspepsia, Consumption, Neurasthenia and the like, when really their very life and vitality are oozing away from them in their urine or otherwise.

4.  WOMEN’S (OR VENEREAL) DISEASES.—­Gonorrhoea (clap), Gleet, Stricture, Injury to the Urine Canal from the rough use of sounds, bougies, catheters, &c., &c.  Any one or all of these, by extending the inflammation backward to the seminal ducts and neck of the bladder, may cause either Spermatorrhoea or Impotency.  Indeed, Stricture (often caused by Self-Abuse) is one of the most common causes of these complaints.  It was here that +Lallemand+ and +Civiale+ found the key-note of the true treatment of these diseases.

5.  VARICOCELE, or a wormy, swollen or twisted state of the veins in the bag, and of those that run down to the testicles, is a very common cause of both Spermatorrhoea, Impotency and Debility. (For full description of this very common and often unexpected disease, send for our illustrated pamphlet on the subject, or see Chapter XI, page 44 of this book.) No man or boy with Varicocele, no matter how it was produced, can be perfectly sound and strong in his Sexual Organs.

6.  UNDEVELOPED, WASTED OR MISSHAPEN PARTS.—­A failure to have perfectly developed organs sometimes dates from birth, but in most cases it is caused by self-abuse at a time when the person is growing.  In any case, Seminal weakness and Wasted or Misshapen Parts go together as both cause and effect, and the one, when found, will usually very soon lead to the other. Twisting or Curving is one of the most positive signs of previous inflammation, stricture and twisting or distortion of the seminal ducts, and hence sterility or barrenness.  In such especially are the remarkable effects of the +Civiale Treatment+ the most noticeable.  We can say with positiveness, and prove it by case after case, that by no other method can such rapid and perfect restoration of the organs to a natural and healthy state be obtained as by this.  Some of the very worst and apparently most hopeless cases that we have had—­cases that have gone from one physician to another without the slightest improvement—­have yielded effectually to the +Civiale Remedies+.  In some of them the persons thus afflicted would have been totally unfitted for marriage had they failed to find relief.  Their children—­healthy, happy and finely developed—­speak volumes for what our treatment has done for them. (For Treatment refer to page +42+ of this book.)