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dimness of vision, and loss of appetite are only a few 

 of these. 



Are Occasional Emissions Necessary or Harm- 

 less?— That an individual may suffer for years an 

 involuntary seminal loss as often as once a month with- 

 out apparently suffering very great injury, seems to 

 be a settled fact with physicians of extensive experi- 

 ence, and is well confirmed by observation; yet there 

 are those who suffer severely from losses no more fre- 

 quent than this. But when seminal losses occur more 

 frequently than once a month, they will certainly ulti- 

 mate in great injury, even though immediate ill effects 

 are not noticed, as in exceptional cases they may not be. 

 If argument is necessary to sustain this position, as 

 it hardly seems to be, we would refer to the fact that 

 seminal losses rarely occur in those who are, and al- 

 ways have been, continent both mentally and phys- 

 ically. They occur the most infrequently in those who 

 most nearly approach the standard of perfect chas- 

 tity; so that whenever they occur, they may be taken 

 as evidence of ill-health or some form of sexual excess. 

 This fact clearly shows that losses of this kind are not 

 natural. 



Emissions Not Necessary to Health.— If it be 

 argued than an occasional emission is necessary to re- 

 lieve the overloaded seminal vesicles, we reply, The 

 same argument has been used as an apology for un- 

 chastity; but it is equally worthless in both instances. 

 It might be as well argued that vomiting is a necessary 

 physiological and healthful act, and should occur with 

 regularity, because a person may so overload his stom- 

 ach as to make the act necessary as a remedial measure. 

 Vomiting is a diseased action, a pathological process, 

 and is occasioned by a voluntary transgression of the 



