A Solemn Appeal - James White

" 'That it is an evil of vast magnitude, no
physician who has been in the habit of tracing
effects to causes, can for a moment doubt. I, sir,
could tell of hundreds who labor under incurable
maladies, produced by this practice; and I do not
believe that I have a better faculty for obtaining
such information than many others who are, and
will be, dumb on this subject.'
"Another physician writes that 'seven-eighths
of all the bodily ills and diseases of the people are
caused, or greatly aggravated, by self-abuse, or
excessive legal indulgence.'
"Nor is this all, nor the worst. The loss of this
secretion is the loss of vitality itself. As must
readily be apparent, it embodies the very
quintessence of parentage, in order thereby to
impart this quintessence of parents to offspring. To
dwell on this point, however important, is
unnecessary because so evident. Now it is a wellknown
principle of physiology, that when any
organ is especially overtaxed, it robs the other parts
of the system of vitality to supply its own taxation.
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