A Solemn Appeal - James White

It inflames the whole system
"But, great as is the evil, especially to growing
youth, consequent on this drain of vitality, that
inflammation, always and necessarily consequent
on excessive indulgence in all its forms, is much
more prolific of both disease and suffering.
Whoever indulges often, and weekly is often, in
wedlock or out of it, will experience an unnatural
heat, tension, tenderness, irritation, swelling,
perhaps soreness, in these organs, of course
resulting from their inflammation.
"The immediate cause of this inflammation is
twofold. First, intense action, in its very nature,
engenders inflammation, and what action more
intense and inflammatory than this? Secondly, in
order to insure intense action in this function, so as
thereby highly to endow its product, a larger
amount of nervous tissue is found ramified upon
those parts of this apparatus more immediately
brought into action, than upon almost any other
portion of the body. This contrivance is
indispensable to pleasure, and this, to the
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