The _CAUSES_ of Prostat.i.tis or Prostatorrhoea are many and diverse.

The most prominent are:

_Gonorrhoea or Gleet_, running backward and settling in the gland or neck of the bladder;

_Stricture_, deep in the ca.n.a.l, causing congestion and inflammation;

_Masturbation_, by keeping the gland excited, congested and irritated, often causes it;

_Exposure to cold and wet_, especially sitting on a cold door-step or damp seat;

_Blows and Injuries_ of any kind;

_Strong Injections_, and rough jabbing with steel sounds or rough bougies;

_Eating Hot Condiments_, or too free indulgence in alcoholic beverages.

VARIOUS COMPLICATIONS.

If the inflammation extends to the neck of the +bladder+, he has an attack of +cyst.i.tis+. If it goes down along the seminal ducts, it produces +swelled t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e+, +clogged duct+, +chronic enlargement+, +cancer+, +cysts+ and hopeless wasting of the +t.e.s.t.i.c.l.es+. If it extends up the +ureters+, it causes +Bright's Disease+, +abscess+ of the +kidneys+, or +lumbar fistula+. If it runs forward along the urine ca.n.a.l, it produces so-called +gleet+. If it settles in the +prostate gland+ and becomes chronic, it may cause +abscess of the gland+, +retention of the urine+, and certainly either or both +Spermatorrhoea+ or +Impotency+.

It may thus be seen how exceedingly dangerous a disease this +Prostat.i.tis+ is, and how very important it becomes to check it at the earliest possible moment.

SYMPTOMS.--We have s.p.a.ce for but the most prominent and frequent ones: a +dull, aching, dragging+ or +throbbing pain+ between the legs, made worse by +standing, walking, jolting+, &c., and sometimes relieved by hard pressure, or lying down with one's feet higher than their head; pain, burning or smarting on pa.s.sing urine; +twisting+ of the stream; the oozing of a thin, glairy fluid; +sticking+ together of the lips of the mouth of the urinal ca.n.a.l; +soreness, aching or tenderness+ of one or both +t.e.s.t.i.c.l.es+; dull pain or ache in +the small of the back+ or +b.u.t.tocks+; +dizziness, sudden fits of exhaustion, convulsions, coma and death+. A +microscopical examination+ of the urine will reveal the nature of the difficulty in a moment. There also will be found evidences of great +nervous wear and tear, and seminal losses+, more or less constant.

{Ill.u.s.tration: L'ECOLE DE MEDICINE, PARIS.

The most celebrated Medical College in France, in which both +Civiale+ and +Lallemand+ were Professors.}

GLEET AND STRICTURE AS A CAUSE OF SPERMATORRHOEA AND IMPOTENCY.

These two diseases are probably less understood than almost any other equally common. It is safe to say that at least one man out of every ten has, has had, or will have one or both. Neglected gleet often causes stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and keeps up a gleet.

Another set of statements, equally sweeping and based upon the best of medical evidence, may be made, _i.e._, more cases of gleet and stricture are caused by Self-Abuse (masturbation, Onanism), and s.e.xual excesses than by gonorrhoea--formerly and ignorantly supposed to be about the only cause.

Furthermore, the main cause of both Spermatorrhoea and Impotence is Stricture (whether caused by self-abuse, gonorrhoea [clap], or any other excess). It was this very important point that +Lallemand+ guessed at, and that +Civiale+ definitely ascertained to be a fact--proved it by examinations of both living and dead subjects, and demonstrated it before the eyes of every member of the French Academy of Medicine, the most learned body of medical men in the world. Upon this discovery is based the now world-famed +Urethral Crayon Treatment+. It cures--absolutely, thoroughly and +Permanently+ cures--because it is based on truth; because the proper remedies are placed upon the very seat and fountain-head of the disease; where quickly and thoroughly it stamps out the fire (inflammation, from the Latin _in_, and _flamma_, to burn, to be a-fire) and eradicates the cause, at the same time healing the abrasions, releasing and invigorating the nerves, cleansing and unclogging the ducts, strengthening the erectile muscles--in a word restoring the whole s.e.xual Apparatus to its natural tone and strength; not harshly or violently, but gently, kindly, soothingly. Indeed it is a heavy debt of grat.i.tude the sufferers from s.e.xual Disease and Weakness owe to +Professor Jean Civiale+--greatest of all French savants!!

Were any further proofs necessary, the following facts, the results of recent experimental investigations by such men as ACTON,{1} BLACK,{2} GROSS,{3} HAMMOND,{4} BARTHOLOW,{5} DUPUYTREN,{6} ECKHARD,{7} LOVEN,{8} GALTZ,{9} OLLIVIER,{10} TROUSSEAU,{11} ERB,{12} OTIS,{13} WADE,{14} SIR EVERARD HOME,{15} LIEGEOIS,{16} TERRILLON,{17} FLEISCHMANN,{18} BEARD,{19} GRUNFELD,{20} GUYON,{21} ROSENTHAL,{22} LANDON CARTER GRAY,{23} and many others, could be cited in its favor.

{Footnote 1: Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1876.}

{Footnote 2: Renal, Urinary and Reproductive Organs, Phila., 1872.}

{Footnote 3: Disorders of the Male s.e.xual Organs, Phila., 1883.}

{Footnote 4: Impotence in the Male, New York, 1833.}

{Footnote 5: Spermatorrhoea, Phila., 1880.}

{Footnote 6: Dictionaire des Sciences, tom. viii, Paris, 1856.}

{Footnote 7: Beltrage zur anat-uns Phys., Bd. iv. and Bd. vii.}

{Footnote 8: Arbeiten aus der Phys. Austatt, zu Leipsig, 1866.}

{Footnote 9: Pflueger's Archlv, Bd. viii.}

{Footnote 10: Traite des Maladies de la Moelle Epiniere.}

{Footnote 11: Chu. Med. de l'Hotel-Dieu de Paris.}

{Footnote 12: Ziemssen's Cycloped., Amer. Edit., 1876.}

{Footnote 13: Stricture of the Male Urethra.}

{Footnote 14: Stricture of the Urethra; its Complications and Effects.}

{Footnote 15: Practical Observations, &c., &c.}

{Footnote 16: Medical Circular and Gazette, 1869, page 381.}

{Footnote 17: Annal. de Dermatol, et Syphiligraph.}

{Footnote 18: Wiener Med. Presse, 1878.}

{Footnote 19: Medical Record, 1879, page 184.}

{Footnote 20: Endoskopische Befunde bei Erkrankungen des Samenhugels Wein, 1880.}

{Footnote 21: Bulletin Generales de Therapie, 1867, page 501.}

{Footnote 22: Wiener Klinik, May, 1880.}

{Footnote 23: Archives of Medicine, October, 1880, page 191.}

STRICTURE THE RESULT OF MASTURBATION, AND THE CAUSE OF WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE.

In brief it may be stated that +Masturbation+ in early life, and s.e.xual excesses at a later period, may, and do produce +congestion+, +inflammation+, +spasm+, +ulceration+, +granulations+, +ulcers+, and both +spasmodic and organic strictures+ of the urethra; that +Spermatorrhoea+ and +Impotence+ are due to this condition, and that the only really rational treatment is that which directly medicates and heals these parts. This, +Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons+ do, better and quicker than anything else. Prof. GROSS,{24} for instance, says: "Exclusive of these cases, my notes show that 13 out of every 100 cases of stricture are due to Onanism;" and OTIS{25} says: "9 per cent. of all cases are traceable to that practice." REEVES, HENRY SMITH, GOULET, PHYSIC and LEROY give masturbation as a cause of stricture. BLACK states a like case leading to s.e.xual incapacity, as a result of the stricture.

WADE says: "In several instances of the kind, +where there had been no s.e.xual intercourse+, the strictures, which were at the bulb, proved more than usually refractory from the extreme morbid sensitiveness of the whole urethral ca.n.a.l."

Gross goes on to say, that in at least eight out of every ten cases of +Spermatorrhoea+ or +Impotence+, stricture of the urethra is the cause of the trouble, whether the stricture is due to gonorrhoea, gleet, etc., or to +masturbation or excesses+.

{Footnote 24 _Op cit., page 25._}

{Footnote 25: _Op cit._}