"It strikes at the very foundation of our inmost life.

It deals with the reproductory part of our natures, and must have a deep hereditary influence.

It is a natural result of the foolish false modesty shown regarding all sex instruction.
Every boy should be taught the simple physiological facts before his life is forever blighted by this cause." Lancaster has had in his hands one thousand letters, mostly written by young people, who were usually normal, and addressed to quacks who were duping them.

From time to time the suicides of youths from this cause are reported, and in many mysterious suicides this has undoubtedly been the real cause.

"Week after week," writes the _British Medical Journal_ in an editorial ("Dangerous Quack Literature: The Moral of a Recent Suicide," Oct.