A Solemn Appeal - James White

unavailing. Upon inquiring of the patient, I found
that she had been the victim of self-pollution. I
cautioned her to abandon the practice, prescribed
some remedies, and saw her no more.
" 'More than a year from the time of seeing her,
I heard directly from her parent, who sent me word
that she had entirely recovered her health and
energy of mind; and that my prescriptions had
entirely cured her.'
It impairs digestion and circulation
"It thus robs the system of its required
nourishment. Vertigo and heaviness about the
stomach, etc., necessarily follow this excess,
because it robs the digestive apparatus of the
energy required to carry forward this function. It
produces a gnawing, fainting, distressed, sunken,
gone sensation, along the whole elementary canal,
as a frightful cause of dyspepsia, heartburn, etc.,
and thus robs the system of its very life and soul.
"An isolated example: Many years ago, an
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