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voice regularly. The first part in which I felt the bad 

 effects of that habit was in the organs of articulation. 

 After the act, the voice wanted tone, and there was a 

 disagreeable feeling about the throat which made 

 speaking a source of no pleasure to me as it had been. 

 By and by it became painful to speak after the act. 

 This arose from a feeling as if a morbid matter was 

 being secreted in the throat, so acrid that it sent tears 

 to the eyes when speaking, and would have taken away 

 the breath if not swallowed. This, however, passed 

 away in a day or two after the act. In the course of 

 years, when involuntary emissions began to impair the 

 constitution, this condition became permanent. The 

 throat always feels very delicate, and there is often 

 such irritability in it, along with this feeling of the 

 secretion of morbid matter, as to make it impossible to 

 speak without swallowing at every second or third 

 word. This is felt even in conversation, and there is a 

 great disinclination to attempt to speak at all. In many 

 instances, in which the throat has been supposed to 

 give way from other causes, I have known this to be 

 the real one. May it not be that the general irritation 

 always produced by the habit referred to, shows itself 

 also in this organ, and more fully in those who are 

 required habitually to exercise it!" 



Nervous Diseases.— There is no end to the nerv- 

 ous affections to which the sufferer from this vice is 

 subjected. Headaches, neuralgias, symptoms resem- 

 bling hysteria, sudden alternations of heat and cold, 

 irregular flushing of the face, and many other affec- 

 tions, some of the more important of which we will 

 mention in detail, are his constant companions. 



Epilepsy.— This disease has been traced to the vile 

 habit under consideration in so many cases that it is 



