The Cause. 



million, or 179 per cent. . . . The death rate 

 from apoplexy has risen from 535 to 577, an in- 

 crease of 42 per million, or nearly 8 per cent. 

 . . . . Valvular disease of the heart from 

 2 35 to 360 an increase of 125 per million, or 60 

 per cent. Bright's Disease, from 222 to 278, in- 

 crease of 56 per million, or 20 per cent. Urinary 

 diseases from 246 to 468 per million, or nearly 

 doubled." 



These are all very important diseases, and they 

 are all affected by the vices alluded to. If they 

 are incurable, they are at least preventable, and 

 this shows where the efforts of medical men are 

 misapplied. They have been so absorbed with 

 the patching up of broken constitutions, that they 

 have not allowed themselves sufficient time to 

 study natural processes. 



Those who have carried their enquiries into 

 the study of generation, and the influence of the 

 sexual act on the nervous system, have been 

 more successful, and to them suffering is no 

 longer the mystery that it is to those whose efforts 

 have been expended in the patching up business, 

 and they are now able to trace at least all de- 

 generative diseases to over-indulgence in, or 

 violations of, that act. 



Dr. Curschman has told us, " by far the most 

 important influence of sexual excess is upon the 

 nervous system ; " therefore if the nervous system 

 become disorganised, as it must with over- 

 indulgence, all organs of the body which are 

 regulated by the nervous system, must fail more 

 or less in the performance of their functions ; 

 the heart flags, the circulation of the blood is 



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