PART III

The consequences in boys of the abuse of the reproductive organs--Need of proper information--The moral effects first to manifest themselves--How secret sin affects the character of boys--Effects upon the body and the nerves--Effects upon the brain and mind--The physical effects that follow.

PARTS IV and V

How boys may preserve their bodies in purity and strength--Our duty to aid others to avoid pernicious habits, and to retain or regain their purity and strength.

PARTS VI and VII

How purity and strength may be measurably regained--The age of adolescence or puberty and its attendant changes--Its significance and its dangers.

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"What a Young Boy Ought to Know"

For Boys under Sixteen Years of Age

WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY

Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D.

"'What a Young Boy Ought to Know' ought to be in every home where there is a boy."

Lady Henry Somerset

"Calculated to do an immense amount of good. I sincerely hope it may find its way to many homes."

Joseph Cook, D.D., LL.D.

"It is everywhere suggestive, inspiring and strategic in a degree, as I think, not hitherto matched in literature of its class."

Charles L. Thompson, D.D.

"Why was not this book written centuries ago?"

Anthony Comstock

"It lifts the mind and thoughts upon a high and lofty plane upon delicate subjects."

Edward W. Bok

"It has appealed to me in a way which no other book of its kind has."

Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D.

"You have handled with great delicacy and wisdom an exceedingly difficult subject."

John Willis Baer

"I feel confident that it can do great good, and I mean that my boys shall have the contents placed before them."

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, LL.D.

"Full of physiological truths, which all children ought to know, at a proper age; will be read by boys without awakening a prurient thought."

Josiah Strong, D.D.

"A foolish and culpable silence on the part of most parents leaves their children to learn, too often from vicious companions, sacred truth in an unhallowed way."

"What a Young Man Ought to Know."

BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.

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STRENGTH

The value of physical strength--the weak man handicapped--Threefold nature of man--Relation of the physical, intellectual and moral--Impair one, you injure all--The physical foundation--Man's strong sexual nature--Sexuality strongly marked in all great men--Importance of manly mastery of sexual nature--Personal purity--Only one moral standard for men and women.

WEAKNESS

Inherited weakness--How overcome--Acquired weakness--How produced--The effects of secret vice--What should be done--Losses in sleep--When to consult a physician--Danger from quacks and charlatans--What are normal and abnormal losses--Medical authorities quoted--Subject illustrated--Important directions.

SOCIAL VICE

Alarming ignorance concerning the diseases which accompany vice--Why physicians do not acquaint their patients with the nature of these diseases--The prevalence--All forms of venereal diseases leave terrible results--Character and consequences of gonorrhA"a--Later complications--Chordee, stricture, blindness, etc.--How healthy brides become early and permanent invalids--Chancroid and chancre--The primary, secondary and tertiary forms of syphilis--The beginning, progress and end--Can it ever be cured--May the man ever marry--Effects upon wife and children.

THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS

Their purpose and prostitution--Marriage a great blessing--Difference between creation and procreation--All life from the seed or the egg--The reproduction of plants, fishes, birds and animals contrasted--An interesting study.

MAN'S RELATION TO WOMAN

Importance of a right relation to women--The nature of marriage--The friends and foes of marriage--Who should not marry--The selection of a wife--Some general rules--Importance of great caution--Causes of unhappiness in married life--Early and late marriages.

HINDRANCES AND HELPS

The choice of companions, books, pictures, amusements, recreations--Liquors and tobacco--Self-mastery--Right aim in life--Industry, early rising--The influence of an ennobling affection--Education--The Sabbath, the Church and the Bible.

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What Eminent People Say:

Francis E. Clark, D. D.

"Of exceeding value to every youth just entering upon manhood. It is written reverently but very plainly, and I believe will save a multitude of young men from evils unspeakable."

John Clifford, D. D.

"One of the best books for dawning manhood that has fallen into my hands. It goes to the roots of human living. It is thoroughly manly. Dr. Stall has laid the rising generation under an immense obligation."

J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.

"I bear willing testimony that I believe this book ought to be in the hands of every young man in this country."

Paul F. Munde, M. D., LL. D.

Professor of GynA|cology in the New York Polyclinic and at Dartmouth College, says:

"I most heartily commend not only the principle but the execution of what it aims to teach."

Eugene H. Porter, M. D., LL. D.

President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York; Professor Materia Medica, New York Homeopathic Medical College, etc., says:

"We should especially commend the volume for its reliability in statement, and, as a medical man, I highly indorse the medical teachings of the book. It is trustworthy and sound. It is a work which should be in the hands of every young man."

"What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know."

BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.

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