After the cause, location, sensations-with the appropriate arranging of their modalities, and their concomitants were taken, in that order, and worked out as follows, taking one and two together
1. Consumption-150.
2. Upper chest-125.
3. Right side-127.
4. Dry cough-115.
5. Convulsive-116.
6. Expect., tenacious (viscid)-118.
7. Agg. cold weather (dry cold-275.
8. Agg.cold food-282.
9. Agg. wet weather-309.
10. Larynx-120.
11. Hoarseness-122.
12. Soreness internally-181.
13. Agg. morning-269.
14. Amel. after breakfast-278.
15. Urination frequent-99.
16. Agg. night-270.
17. Menses late-108.
18. Menses scanty-108.
19. Feet-138.
20. Puffiness-187.
21. Inclined to sweat (lower parts)-263.
22. Agg. morning-269.
23. Numbness externally-168
really weak and anaemic, gets indigestion and constipation with headaches and does not sleep well at night. He becomes shy and is afraid to face people and frequently thinks that he is important and that his penis is small. He does not like to marry, shirks society and friends and lives a lonely life of repentance and worry. A large number of pale pale young students that we see frequently, shy, reticent and sensitive, with cultured faces and a timid bearing, are sufferers from this masturbation-guilt.
They face life with a fear, most of which can be traced to early masturbation guilt. The quack literature fan it, the medical men to whom he goes to seek relief and most, if not all, of who have the same kind of beliefs themselves, scold him and harry him, the religious books to which he turns to seek guidance, terrify him and curse him and threaten to send him to hell. Everything that he turns to for seeking relief is hostile to him. The combined effects of all these hostile propaganda create a vicious circle of misery across which he cannot struggle and swim out. He gets drowned and falls ill.
I have seen innumerable bright young students, charming and cultured boys, struggling to get free from the superstition of the ill effects of masturbation. These poor chaps wear their minds and bodies out from worry and misery due to this petty cause which is no more an important thing than taking a cup of tea.
One of my medical friends who happened to read my previous article in which I discussed the mechanism of masturbation, complained to me with a slight feeling of horror that I have compared sex-urge (including masturbation) with hunger, which I have really done more than once. By that he probably hinted that I recommend masturbation. I do not. What I do recommend and request is this, “Please do not make a mountain of a mole-hill.” If you see an earth-worm and think it to be a snake and run for your life, surely I am not to blame for your conduct if I say, “It is only earth-worm”.
The ill-effects of masturbation on health that we see is not due to the loss of a few C. C.s of semen, but to the continuous worry occasioned by superstitious belief as to its bad effects.
