A Solemn Appeal - James White

learned.) His parents at length carried him to a
distant physician. The physician, after sufficient
inquiry, told them that the child "handled himself
too much." They returned, doubting what this
could mean. Suggesting the matter to some of their
neighbors, their eyes were opened. "Well," said
they, "we will stop that." And they did stop it, by
bandaging the genitals. And lo! the child soon
stopped being feeble and lame. He is now a healthy
boy.
Dr. Goupil, as quoted by Deslandes, gives a full
and particular account of a little boy who at two
years old was epileptic, from this cause. The vice
was taught him by his nurse. We say taught him--
perhaps we should say fastened upon him at early
infancy only as a notion. A notion, however, which
hurried on excitement and rendered him paralytic.
By the most vigilant use of mechanical means for
confining the hands, covering the genitals, etc., the
child was at length cured; he now enjoys good
health, "and, with the exception of a remarkable
loss of memory, retains no trace of his former
indiscretions."
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