A Solemn Appeal - James White

have been affected by the indulgence.
" 'No cause is more influential in producing
insanity. The records of the institutions give an
appalling catalogue of cases attributed to it.'
"A doctor in Brooklyn thus writes to the author
of 'Facts, etc., to Young Men':
" 'Brooklyn, Dec. 19, 1840.
" 'In my own practice, I think I have seen the
following results of masturbation: involuntary
emissions, prostration of strength, paralysis of the
limbs, hysteria, epilepsy, strange nervous
affections, dyspepsia, hypochondria, spinal disease,
pain and weakness in the back and limbs,
costiveness--and, in fine, the long and dismal array
of gastric, enteric, nervous, and spinal, affections,
that are so complicated and difficult to manage.'
"Dr. J. A. Brown, of Providence, writes to the
same source as follows:
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