Chapter IV.
SEXUAL EXCESS.
ENERVATING EFFECTS.
Many men appear to think and act as though their sexual powers were limitless. Week after week, month after month, and often year after year, they indulge in this way to the extreme limit. The ultimate result is always serious. The body is like a chain which is as strong as its weakest link, and when excess of this character becomes continuous the general vigor is gradually undermined. The muscles lose some of their elasticity, firmness and symmetry; the various vital organs—stomach, heart, lungs—become gradually weaker, and if there is any physical defect or a tendency towards any disease, the general weakened condition of the body enables it easily to develop. Thousands of men have died and are still dying of consumption and other wasting diseases which are made possible because of
