DISEASES PECULIAR TO MEN 635 



ears, specks before the eyes, tenderness of the eyeballs 

 and sensitiveness of the eyes to light, dark rings under 

 the eyes, muscular twitching, wandering pains in vari- 

 ous parts of the body, numbness and other peculiar 

 sensations in the arms and legs, symptoms of indiges- 

 tion, constipation of the bowels, sediment in the urine, 

 irregularity of the urinary excretion as to quantity, 

 great sexual excitability or sexual apathy, seminal 

 losses occurring during sleep either with or without 

 dreams, smarting and burning of the urethra during 

 or after urinating, dribbling after urination, sense of 

 weight, pain, or uneasiness in the testicles, tenderness 

 or dull pains in the perineum or fork of the thighs, 

 and various other symptoms too numerous to mention. 

 It should be stated, however, in this connection, that 

 not infrequently the patient attributes to this disorder 

 many symptoms which are wholly foreign to it, and 

 which arise from other diseases that happen to be 

 present with it. The patient is quite certain to make 

 close and frequent examinations of the sexual organs, 

 and to notice the slightest deviations from what he 

 considers to be the standard of health, as the result 

 of which he not infrequently becomes unnecessarily 

 alarmed, imagining that there is wasting of the parts, 

 or other abnormal conditions which do not really exist. 

 This tendency is greatly encouraged by the quackish 

 advertisements found in the newspapers and scattered 

 about the country in lying circulars, sent out by mer- 

 cenary charlatans, in which are to be found grossly 

 exaggerated descriptions of the disease and its effects, 

 which are well calculated to excite in the highest de- 

 gree, ignorant and suscei^tible young men who may 

 be suffering with any of the symptoms of this dis- 

 ease. 



