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A Solemn Appeal - James White

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epeated, the nervous power is completely drained<br />

away. 'All the vitality of the system goes to supply<br />

the immature but already exhausted organs of<br />

sexuality, both in body and in brain. The<br />

manufactory of the mind is robbed, and the victim<br />

loses sense and memory; the digestive apparatus is<br />

robbed, and dyspepsia and decay follow,'<br />

accompanied by the many nervous diseases with<br />

which we are only too familiar.<br />

"The loss of vital power by means of this drain<br />

renders man less able to resist the effects of change<br />

of climate and of malarial poisons and miasms. It<br />

impoverishes the blood, and induces consumption,<br />

dyspepsia, nervous diseases, and mental<br />

derangements, with the long train of sequences<br />

which follow in their wake."<br />

"And this loss affects not only the loser, but all<br />

who come after him; for the weakened and diluted<br />

semen can never impart life-force to a new being<br />

which it does not itself possess; from healthy blood<br />

is formed healthy tissue, full of force and power;<br />

healthy semen, that will impart a strong and<br />

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