THE CIVIALE PERFECTED AND COMBINED TREATMENT.

How senseless, then, to endeavor to cure such conditions with stomach medicines. Still, the CIVIALE method does not wholly discard them.

They have their place and their purpose, and served it well. It was his practice in many cases to use +Nervines+ and +Tonics+, as well as +Digestives+ and +Laxatives+, by the stomach, and with excellent results, for in many of these cases the +digestion was poor+, the +liver torpid+, the +bowels sluggish+ and +constipated+, and +filled with wind+, the +appet.i.te capricious+ and +uneven+. +Crayons+ in the urethra could not wholly cure these symptoms, although they stopped the drain that originally caused them. Combined with the +Tonic-Regulator+, the results were prompt and satisfactory.

+Many patients began to recuperate the moment the inflammation, stricture, ulceration and accompanying losses of vital fluid were stopped, and were soon in robust health again+. In others, however, he found it best, +at the same time that he was healing the diseased+ urethra, to +clear and invigorate the debilitated nerves and weary minds, to tone up the stomach and bowels, set the liver gently working, start the kidneys+ (nearly always congested), +and infuse new life, strength and vigorous impulses into the whole system by means of his Tonic-Regulator+, which is a pleasant and most efficacious combination of +tonics+, +laxatives+ (not purgatives), and +deobstruents+. +Skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, mind, nerves, stomach, liver and bowels, were all set to working right+. And, as a consequence, aided by the urethral remedies, the +losses ceased+, erectile power and +s.e.xual vigor returned, the step became buoyant and elastic, the mind clear, the memory retentive, the eyes clear and bright, the lips and cheeks ruddy with healthful color; the whole system, indeed, renovated, refreshed and re-invigorated.+

_CHAPTER VII._

THE DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND FAILURES IN AND OF MARRIED LIFE.

What more perfect or pleasing picture than that of happy married life.

Yet how little of it we see! How the newspapers dish up to us in strong words the misery, despair, wretchedness, infidelity and deceit of the divorce court. How it stares at us from the desolate fireside of friend and acquaintance; is hinted at or suppressed by the records of the Coroner's office; leers at us from the sumptuous mansion of the affluent; lurks in the humble cottage of the mechanic. How sad the contrast between the home where nestle happiness, love, contentment, offspring; and the abode of suspicion, deceit, infidelity or barrenness.

And yet men and women are being married every day, every hour--ay, every minute. Men and women incompatible physically, mentally, morally--urged on by l.u.s.t, cupidity, love; to escape unhappy homes; to hide sad sins--for a thousand reasons, some good, many bad--are constantly marrying.

A man selects a wife less carefully than he would a horse; a woman yields herself, her life, her happiness, blindly, unreasoningly, to a man of whom she knows nothing. A man better fitted for the hospital, the infirmary, or the insane asylum, enters the bonds of wedlock with never a thought of the consequences; with never a care as to whether he will wreck his own life and happiness or that of the innocent girl he is deceiving; with never a heed of the ill-starred, diseased, puny or idiotic progeny his act may bring into being, a burden to the community, a curse to himself and a constant reminder of the parent's foolhardiness--ay, even crime!

No man who is affected with any form of s.e.xual or Venereal Disease should for a single instant even think of +marriage+ until every +trace+ of his +weakness+ or +disease+ has disappeared. In these days of medical advance in this special field, there is no excuse for such action. There are few--very few--cases of Seminal Weakness and Impotency that cannot now be cured. Of course, here as elsewhere, there are traps and humbugs, quacks and charlatans, false theories and empty moralizing; but there is also truth and knowledge, hope and certainty for such as are sufficiently in earnest to search for them. Prof. Civiale, by his indomitable perseverance, thorough study and experiment, and final conclusions and discoveries, has placed the means of a perfect restoration to full mental, bodily and s.e.xual vigor within the reach of all, and no man has any right now to enter either blindly or wilfully into so sacred and important a relationship as marriage, and to lower and stultify its ends by blighting the happiness of a fair young wife, exhausting his own vitality in the vain attempt to have offspring, or in having such as shall be a curse to him through life.

There are those (let it be hoped they are really honest in their ignorance) who look upon marriage as the only real cure for Seminal Weaknesses. Even if it were a fact that the marital relations did accomplish such a result (and they never do, as bear witness the thousands who are to-day weak, exhausted, ex-sanguinated, unhappy, nerveless, hopeless wrecks, who are cursing the ignorant pretenders who gave this false--this fatal advice); even if such a result was a certainty, what right has any man to besmirch and soil the purity of a happy and innocent maiden for such a purpose? By what law of humanity are woman's hopes and happiness to be hazarded on so fragile a basis, her bark of life to be launched into a pool of such sickening b.e.s.t.i.a.lity? Such marriages bear and are bearing deadly fruit before our eyes day by day, in infidelity, abandonment, suicide, insanity, crime and prost.i.tution--in disease and misery, even to the third and fourth generation.

A SPECIAL SET OF PRE-MARITAL (Before Marriage) REMEDIES.

No more delicate or wonderful piece of mechanism, no more grandly conceived and wonderfully perfected bit of G.o.d's handicraft is to be found than the Male and Female s.e.xual Organs. It is a wonder to those who have made these parts (with their elastic vessels, cavernous sinuses, network of nervous ganglia and fibrillae, chain of lymphatics, periodical ovulation, timed p.u.b.escence, and perfected, co-ordinate functions) a study, that they stand abuse and excess so well; that the fierce blasts of l.u.s.t and pa.s.sion that sear and scorch them and well-nigh dry up their fountain springs of vitality and fecundity, do not wholly destroy or hopelessly disarrange their delicate tissues and functions.

The first few years of married life, even to a healthy man, are fraught with dangers he knows nothing of. How much more then is the sufferer from a present or even a former Seminal Weakness in danger.

No man, be he ever so healthy, ever so conscious of purity and freedom from abuse, should enter the marital state without preparing for the strain naturally to be expected. As the voice, skin, hair, manner and morals of the youth change at the period of p.u.b.erty (when the s.e.xual power is first developed--when he first becomes a man), so does the system, mental and moral, change when he enters the bonds of matrimony.

If at p.u.b.erty new diseases are p.r.o.ne to show themselves and old ones to be outgrown, so at marriage a like change must be at least expected, and he who blindly or thoughtlessly hazards a leap in the dark is foolish, or rather foolhardy.

A SPECIAL COURSE OF NERVE AND s.e.xUAL TONICS.

Especially for the use of young men who have endangered or injured their s.e.xual power by abuse in early years, and for older men who have exhausted themselves by later excesses. +Prof. Civiale+ was wont (very wisely, we know from actual experience) to prescribe, for a few months before marriage, a +Special Tonic and Strengthening Marital Course of Remedies+, having three distinct ends in view, viz.:

(a) The strengthening, toning up and fortifying of the general system, nerves and brain, against the unusual call soon to be made upon them;

(b) The strengthening, toning up and fortifying of the s.e.xual Nerves, Ducts, Ganglia, Vesicles and Testes, against the strain soon to be applied to them, and by this and the preceding means putting the individual in the very best and most favorable condition for the production of strong, healthy, robust and creditable offspring; and

(c) The steady and perfect eradication from the system, by every pore and viaduct, of all poisonous, contagious, venereal or other material that might in any way endanger the perfectly normal (healthy and strong) condition of parent or offspring above spoken of. Through early abuse, excesses, exposure, neglect, carelessness, imperfect sanitary conditions, wrong methods of living, immoral practices, etc., the blood and liver are liable, even though the skin be clear and the cheeks rosy, to harbor some poisonous humors that might be transmitted to the wife or offspring--poor innocents, too often made to suffer pitiably for the vices or thoughtlessness of the father.

Every man about to marry owes this cleansing, purification and strengthening of the system general and the system s.e.xual, to his wife, his fellow men and to himself.

_CHAPTER VIII._

THE CIVIALE URETHRAL TREATMENT.

For the Radical and Lasting Cure of all Diseases of the s.e.xual and Urinary Organs. Its Mode of Operation, Application and Advantages.

The Civiale Treatment, by means of quickly melting _medicated_ Crayons that are _easily_ and _painlessly_ inserted into the urethra (or urine channel), and thus melt and run down over the irritated, inflamed or strictured parts, the congested Prostate Gland, and into the orifices of the Seminal Ducts, is the most successful treatment ever brought forward for these diseases, and it has met with just appreciation, for it has performed radical cures in some of the most serious and distressing cases. Some of the advantages may be briefly summed up as follows:

1. It combines local and direct medication of the diseased parts of the urethra, seminal ducts and vesicles, as well as of the Generative Nerves, by means of Urethral Crayons, with judicious invigoration of the general Digestive, Nervous, Mental and Circulatory Systems, by means of Stomach Remedies, thus attacking the complaint from all sides.

2. The Civiale Urethral Crayons are easily introduced, melt rapidly, medicate the entire ca.n.a.l, never give the slightest pain, never stain the clothing, are rapid, pleasant and cleanly in their action, could be used by a child without danger of injury, are perfectly soft and flexible, and give uniform satisfaction.

3. They need be used but once, or, at the most, twice daily.

4. The good results of the treatment are apparent within the first five or ten days.

5. Their price is so reasonable as to place them within the reach of all.

6. They may be used to cure gleet, stricture and prostat.i.tis, when complicating Spermatorrhoea or Impotence.

7. They never decompose or lose their strength.

8. They are absolutely free from minerals, mercurials, caustics or irritants.

9. They will do precisely what and all that is claimed for them.

+Civiale's+ knowledge of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the Genito-Urinary (s.e.xual and Urinary) organs, especially fitted him to study and investigate this subject. It did not take him long to perceive that +Lallemand's+ idea that the deep urethra, where the seminal ducts open into it, was the real seat of the disease in both +Spermatorrhoea+ and +Impotence+, was the true and correct one, and therefore, that any plan of treatment, to be successful, must look to allaying and healing the inflammation, congestion or ulceration of the urethra at the neck of the bladder, and stopping the losses.

He reasoned that when the inflammation, irritation and spasm of these parts, and of the seminal ducts, was relieved, the drain of the vital fluid would cease, the dilated mouths of the ducts contract, the vital fluid become thicker and healthier, the organs increase to natural size, and the distressing nervous symptoms, oftentimes dangerous to life or reason, cease to trouble the patient.

{Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 7.

Exact Size and Shape of a +Civiale Soluble Urethral Crayon+.

(Inserted into ca.n.a.l of organ.)}

These Crayons shown here are small, soft, smooth, perfectly flexible, and dissolve as soon as they are pushed into the urethral ca.n.a.l, thus bringing the remedies directly in contact with the ulcerated and eroded parts, it even running down the ducts into the seminal vesicles themselves.

The growth, vigor and future prosperity of every nation depend upon the strength and energy of its young men, and if the places of the robust and healthy are to be filled by effeminate, weakened, nervous and physically drained youths, such as the terrible vice of masturbation is yearly giving us, the results cannot be other than disastrous. The advice, warning and guidance of parents and guardians must be looked to for prevention; the method and remedies of +Lallemand+ and +Civiale+ for a cure.

A GUARANTEED a.s.sURANCE.

There are some persons who, from having used various forms of medicated bougies--having had sounds, catheters and bougies roughly pa.s.sed upon them by unskillful persons--or merely from an indistinct belief, based upon hearsay or tradition, feel some hesitancy about pa.s.sing anything into the organ for fear that it may do harm, cause pain, or give rise to stricture.

The majority of these timid people have got this idea from hearing it said that stricture and inflammation have often been caused by gonorrhoea (clap) injections, and they therefore have the idea that anything put into the urethra will do harm. There is not the slightest doubt but that strong injections of nitrate of silver, zinc, copper, carbolic acid and the like (of which these injections are usually made) have, in many instances, caused severe inflammation and, eventually, stricture.

But that is no reason why proper and absolutely unirritating and bland medicines, such as those in the +Civiale Crayons+, should do this--and they don't do it. Make up a strong injection of zinc, copper, &c., and take a swallow of it. It will burn and pain your mouth and throat, make you hoa.r.s.e, and for days afterward you will find it painful to swallow.