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Excerpt from Life: How to Enjoy It and How to Prolong It
Ago, and his science was incapable of making of his pupil, Alexander the Great, more than a debauchee and a monster in human form: that is, measured by the standard of perfect manhood. Anyone who has had the opportunity of studying the characters and habits of medical students, in New York and other large cities, must have asked himself the question are these the men who are to enlighten the youth of the land and warn them of the terrible consequences of trifling with their manhood? If so, God pity the youth. We naturally look to the family physician for counsel and advice; but, the family physician has left us in ignorance as to the laws of health, and reaps a rich harvest for the services that are in such good demand in consequence of the gross ignorance that prevails. This state of things has invited to the field a horde of Specialists, for the most part unscrupulous adventurers - men without attainments, except that they have graduated with high honors from the school of swindlers. These creatures flood the country with their pamphlets and circulars, in which they give you a vast amount of information -free gratis prompted by a benevolent desire to warn young men of the terrible con sequences of self abuse, and get their money. All these harpies are thoroughly competent to warn others - for have they not been guilty of the sin themselves? And therefore know all about it? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
