_In writing upon Inoculation, I had proposed to myself to propagate the method that I judged the properest to stop the ravages of that murderous distemper; and I have had the satisfaction of doing, at least, some good: in composing this Work, I have been encouraged by the hope of checking the progress of a corruption more rife, more destructive perhaps than the small-pox itself, and so much the more to be dreaded, for that its operations being carried on in the shades of secrecy and mystery, it undermines without noise, without even those, who are its victims, suspecting its malignity. It was of the greatest importance to make its dangers known. May that Power, to whom every thing is subordinate, vouchsafe to my views that blessing without which our best endeavours can be of no avail!_ PAUL plants, APOLLOS cultivates, but increase is from GOD alone. CONTENTS. _INTRODUCTION_, Page xiii. ARTICLE I. _The SYMPTOMS._ Sect. I. _Description drawn from the Works of Physicians_, P. 1. II. _Observations communicated_, 17. III. _Descriptions taken from the Book entitled ONANIA_, 20. IV. _The AUTHOR’s Observations_, 24. V. _Consequences of self-pollution to the female sex_, 46. ARTICLE II. _The CAUSES._ Sect. VI. _Importance of the seminal liquid_, 56. VII. _An examination of the circumstances which accompany the emission_, 68. VIII. _Causes of the dangers particular to self-pollution_, 86. ARTICLE III. CURATIVE INDICATIONS. Sect. IX. _Means of Cure proposed by other Physicians_, 106. X. _The AUTHOR’s Practice_, 122. _Air_, 126. _Aliments_, 131. _Sleep_, 151. _Motion_, 155. _Evacuations_, 157. _The Passions_, 160. _Remedies_. 163. ARTICLE IV. _Accessory, or Relative DISEASES._ Sect. XI. _Nocturnal Pollutions_, 195. XII. _The Gleet, or simple Gonorrhœa_, 218. INTRODUCTION.