To diverge, and at the same time to conclude this part of the subject, I have only to offer a few remarks relative to the medical and therapeutic treatment of those cases of impuissance, that age, disorganization, and total incapacity, do not exclude from consideration. I have already expressed my belief that generative imbecility is consecutive to general debility; hence, whatever tends to improve the latter, tends also to remove the former. The diet, therefore, should be full and generous, with a liberal proportion of spices; but all stimulating liquids, such as wine, brandy, and the rest, should be avoided. Bathing, in its various forms, constitutes no unimportant feature in the treatment; the cold plunging, the tepid shower, the douche, the warm and the vapor baths, possess their several influences. The various medicines that come under the denomination of aphrodisiacs, are not wholly uninfluential, such as stomachics, aromatics, gums and balsams, oils, musk, opium, cantharides, strychnine, and others; but as their administration can only be permitted under professional direction, no real utility can follow any specification or formulary of their proportions. OTHER FORMS OF SEXUAL DEBILITY. INVOLUNTARY seminal emissions are oftentimes very serious, distressing, and intractable. They may be produced in two ways—from continence, or by a high degree of morbid irritability or weakness. The latter is by far the more frequent; for the treatment of the former is obvious, and generally effectual. The difference between seminal discharges in persons of full health, and those morbidly weak, is very opposite: in the former it is consequent upon an erection, followed by an act of coitus; while in the latter both are absent. The general debility in the generative system, inseparable from morbid irritability, occasions both a failure in the erection of the penis, and an inability to retain the fluid in the secreting organs. There is no doubt that this disposition to seminal emissions, conjoined as it generally is with more or less deficiency of the _vis virilis_, is too often owing to the habit of self-abuse in early age. The testes usually wither in these cases, and the patient becomes nearly, if not entirely, impuissant. Sometimes these cases are attended by an excessive irritability of the bladder, accompanied by pains in the loins, kidneys, &c. Their treatment consists in taking nutritious and digestible food, to impart strength and invigorate the constitution. Stimulants are at the same time to be carefully avoided, except where great languor and lassitude prevail. Abstemiousness in liquids is to be enjoined. Habits of a relaxing nature should be avoided; the patient, instead of sleeping on a soft, downy bed, should lie on a firm mattress; the air of the room should be preserved at a moderate temperature, and but few hours should be allotted to sleep; he should pass much of his time in the