Chapter VII
TOBACCO—ITS DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT ON SEXUAL POWERS.
SOMETIMES DIRECT CAUSE OF IMPOTENCE.
There is a uniformity of opinion among all writers on this subject as to the effects of tobacco on sexual powers. The writer has heard of numerous cases where it has actually been the direct cause of impotence. One particular case is remembered where a patient was being treated for entire loss of power in this way. The physician had prescribed the usual remedies, and had been treating the patient for some time without any sign of improvement. One day while reading a work on the evil results of smoking, he was quite surprised to note the special injury which the author of the work claimed that smoking produced on the sexual powers. He, of course, naturally realized that the influence of smoking was far from desirable, but did not consider it as injurious
