A Solemn Appeal - James White

Excessive indulgence, of whatever kind,
necessarily inflames, and therefore weakens and
diseases the sexual apparatus; and hence that
falling of the womb, fluor albus, and other
common female complaints, as well as prostration,
or pendency, or irritation, or priapism, or
gonorrhoea, etc., of males, which excessive
indulgence always and necessarily creates. Nor,
once effectually impaired, does this apparatus ever
fully regain its former tone and power. As with a
dislocated joint, or affection of the stomach, or
lungs, slighter, and still slighter, occasions of
disease renew the chronic complaint, so
indulgence, otherwise not injurious, now renews
the disease, and re-impairs the health, besides
enfeebling both this function and its product.
"Allow here a single remark relative to the
effect of indulgence, whether promiscuous,
matrimonial, or solitary, upon offspring. It has
been seen that power of sexual passion contributes
to the endowment of offspring, and its feebleness
leaves them proportionally the less endowed. Now
nature has provided for the retention of this
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