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Chapter VIII.


THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER STIMULANTS


HEALTH AND SEXUAL VIGOR CO-EXISTENT.

"Along with sexual health and calmness go good general health and general quietness of the nerves. Nothing is so detrimental to this condition as the use of stimulants and narcotics"—Prof. O. S. Fowler.

Next to sexual excess or kindred unnatural drains the greatest cause of impotence is unquestionably the use of alcohol and other stimulants, which act like a spur on every organ of the body.

No true strength can ever be produced by any stimulant. It is always false strength, and is created at the expense of vital power, and really assists just that much in lessening the true strength of all parts of the body.

ALCOHOL LESSENS SEXUAL POWER.

"It is scarcely necessary that we should say anything about the injurious effects of