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cases of this kind, allow the child little drink in the 

 latter portion of the day. See that the bladder is 

 emptied just before he goes to bed. Wake him once 

 or twice during the night, and have him urinate. Use 

 all possible means to remove the cause of irritation by 

 giving him plenty of out-of-door exercise and a very 

 simple, though nutritious, diet. Avoid meat, eggs, and 

 condiments. 



Leucorrliea is a cause as well as a result of unchas- 

 tity in females. The discharge produces abnormal ex- 

 citement, and attracts the attention of the individual 

 to the i^arts, causing relief to be sought by rubbing, 

 and thus still further excitement is provoked, and an 

 evil practice begun. 



Modern Modes of Life.— Aside from all the causes 

 already enumerated, there are many other conditions 

 and circumstances, the result of modern habits of liv- 

 ing, that tend directly toward the excitement of sensu- 

 ality. Superheated rooms, sedentary employments, 

 the development of the mental and n,ervous organiza- 

 tions at the expense of the muscular, the cramming sys- 

 tem in schools, too long confinement of school-children 

 in a sitting position, the allowance of too great free- 

 dom between the sexes in the young, the demoralizing 

 influence of many varieties of public amusement, balls, 

 church fairs, and other like influences too numerous to 

 mention, all tend in the one direction, that of abnormal 

 excitation and precocious development of the sexual 

 functions. 



It is not an exaggeration to say that for one conform- 

 ing to modern modes of living, eating, sleeping, and 

 drinking, absolute chastity is next to an absolute im- 

 possibility. This would certainly be true without a 

 special interposition of Providence; but Providence 



