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54 ejecting excretions how utterly disgusting!"—Prof. O. S. Fowler.

The writer has seen many a strong, fine athletic man brought down to a physical wreck by these terrible diseases. Even gonorrhea, which is usually apparently cured in a short time, often brings on complications and results in serious loss of physical and sexual power.

"If men whose abnormal desires lead them into the ways of promiscuous intercourse could but see some one or more of the victims to be found at all times in any of the large hospitals—the foul, loathsome ulcer; the poison eating away gradually, slowly, but surely, the flesh; the eyes gone, the nose destroyed, giving the face a most hideous aspect; the bones of the skull eaten, exposing the brain; the mark of manhood obliterated altogether, a loathsome, living death—they would think twice before venturing into the meshes of her whose 'feet take hold on hell.'