Treatise on Spermatorrhea, Impotence, and Sterility I #252489

Nocturnal emissions, or first stage: That a man can have nocturnal emissions and yet be perfectly healthy is a well-known fact. One of the-principal questions arising in a physician's mind when con sulted for nocturnal emissions, is whether the condi tion is physiological or pathological. Undoubtedly many a man has gone through various courses of treatment and suffered mental torment, which has also weakened him physically, for nocturnal emis sions that have been physiological. On the other hand, I believe much harm has been done by the assurance that emissions were physiological when such was not the case.