The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Nature has very severe methods OF
punishment for those who violate
her laws. Sometimes she is patient
and long suffering, but this IN the
end usually means that her punish
ment is the more severe. The boys
who disregard her rules and her
warnings may pass into early man
hood with no strongly marked symp-
tons of disease or decay, but before
they are thirty, they begin to feel
aged, and at forty, if they are alive,
they are broken-dOwn, old men, full
of WEAKNESS and apprehension, I'M
fit for productive thought or labor
self-made Outcasts from society,
without hope, or ambition or capac-
ity for enjoyment.
This is no Overdrawn picture.
Look about you and see the scores
of men-hardly more than boys in
years-who are simply living wrecks
of what manhood should be, and all
the result of their own folly?
What are the symptoms? You
know them, or many of them, if you
are one to whom I am appealing, and
one whom l Am willing and able to
help: There is the inability to carry
out a clear, consecutive line Of
thought, a weakened memory, an in
decision of mind, a dread of mental
effort, a feeling of gradual loss of
mental faculties and mental control.
There are illusions, suspicious and
unfOunded dread. There is great ir-
ritability and extreme nervousness,
with restless nights and wearying
days. There are the shifty eyes,
the pallid sunken cheeks, the drawn
features, the halting, stumbling gait,
the fabby muscles, the rapid pulse,
the futtering of the heart, the tickle
appetite, the feeting pains and the
almost constant feeling of great de-
preston.
The kidneys become deranged Or
diseased, the liver, heart, stomach
and bladder are affected, v~aricOcele
adds it's misery, and finally the
brain, and nerve tissue dry up or de-
cay, and the end, if all this is un-
checked, is either the asylum or the
grave, at the time when the man
should be at his prime-an active,
useful force in the affairs Of the
wOrld-a loving and beloved hus-
band and happy father.
Nature makes no exception sooner
or later all must pay the penalties
for their sins against her, unless they
stop before it is too late and repair
the damage which has been done.
It is needless to tell any boy or any
man what is the cause of this terri
rible condition which has ruined and
is running the lives of SO many.
For more than 20 years l have
made a deep study of this, which is
among the greatest of all problems
in medical and social science. To
day the only problem with me is how
best~tO reach, warn and aid these n
fortunate5. Many years agOI demon
strated that [ could give them back
their manhood and their strength
and health. I can number by the
thousands those whom [ have saved,
and there is not n of them who
would not give all he possesses rath-
er than be again as he was when he
came to me. Their gratitude is my
greatest happiness, for I feel that in
many cases I have saved their souls,
we'll as their bodies.
To the parents of boys, I especially
appeal and ask for consultation. All
condolences are sacred with me Ny
standing as a~physician and a special
ist depends upon this, my record of
20 years proves that such confidence
has never been violated. A parent,