Chapter V.
NIGHT LOSSES AND OTHER DRAINS UPON VITAL POWERS.
ERRONEOUS BELIEF IN REFERENCE TO THIS.
One of the most deplorable errors that the average young man has to contend with at the present time is the belief that night losses are always productive of serious ailments, that they are a sign of approaching senility, or presage insanity and other serious results. Nothing could be further from the truth. It would be difficult to find a well-sexed man who had not in one time in his life had losses of semen in this way. Under normal conditions the emission is simply a vent for the discharge of surplus semen and should in no way produce any deleterious consequences.
A PHYSICIAN'S WORDS.
"Great alarm is often expressed by patients who suffer in this way; but I am enabled to give them much relief when I mention that
