A Solemn Appeal - James White

premature death, for this foul cause alone--some,
while in the halls of education, and others, soon
after leaving college, adorned with its higher
honors."
We have already heard Mrs. Grove say, "There
is hardly an end to these diseases" (diseases caused
by this vice). She enumerates "dyspepsia, spinal
complaint, headache, epilepsy, impaired eyesight,
palpitation of the heart, pain in the side, bleeding at
the lungs, spasms of the heart and lungs, diabetes,
or incontinence of urine, fluor albus, or whites,
inflammation of the urinary organs." Dr.
Deslandes, besides many of these, instances
rheumatism, affected perspiration, consumption,
asthma, catarrh, polypus of the heart, affection of
the bones, fevers, priapism strangury, polypus
uteri, blood discharges, etc., etc.
The following startling case occurred but a few
miles from the residence of the writer. It is
received on credible information. A boy, about four
years old, was afflicted with weakness and stiffness
of limbs. (The exact symptoms the writer has not
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