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 SOLITARY VICE: 
 
 AN ADDRESS TO PARENTS AND THOSE WHO HAVE 
 THE CARE OF CHILDREN. 
 
 Dear Friends : 
 
 Permit one who shares responsibilities like 
 yours and who feels a deep interest in the welfare of 
 our children and youth, to present a few thoughts to 
 you on a subject which has of late claimed much at- 
 tention from the Medical Profession, and from those 
 who are desirous of doing their duty in the fear of 
 God for those committed to their care. Perhaps 
 many of you are not aware that there is a sin amongst 
 our children and youth, which is hid like a canker 
 worm in many a fair bud of promise ; a sin which 
 does its work of death for soul and body when no 
 eye but that of Omniscience beholds it. A sin which 
 is called solitary vice, because it is the sin of dark- 
 ness and secrecy ; for many a child has become the 
 victim of self pollution, who was carefully guarded 
 from social licentiousness. I would awaken the atten- 
 tion of Parents and teachers, and all those who have 
 the care of children, but especially of mothers to 
 this subject. I have abundant evidence that the 
 sin is very prevalent, and that it is productive of the 
 most fearful consequences to soul and body. In 
 these pages I shall lay before you facts that abund- 
 antly prove that these things are so. Those who 
 doubt, have but to investigate, to open their eyes to 
 what is around thera, and they will bo constrained to 
 
4 SOTITARY VICE. 
 
 believe and tremble for our children and youth. We 
 beseech you, O mothers ! by the love you bear your 
 offspring, by your desires for their temporal and eter- 
 nal well being, not to turn away from this subject till 
 you know facts respecting it, and till you have as- 
 certained what is your duty in the matter. If you 
 find unlooked for corruption, be not dismayed at the 
 greatness of the work before you. Remember you 
 have only to do what your hands find to do, and help 
 is laid on One who is mighty. There is One who 
 will assist us to bear all our burdens, and fulfil all 
 our duties. About eight years since my mind was 
 awakened to examine this subject, by the perusal of 
 a medical work that described the effects of the vice, 
 when practiced by females. This was the first inti- 
 mation I had that the vice prevailed amongst fe- 
 males. Since that time I have had much evidence 
 that it is fearfully common amongst females. 
 
 I have it from good authority, that among the in- 
 sane admitted into the Lunatic Hospitals, from this 
 cause, the proportion of females is nearly as large as 
 that of males. The reports of our Lunatic Asylums 
 furnish melancholy evidence of the prevalence and 
 increase of this vice. In the 5th Annual Report of 
 the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester, Mass. we 
 find the following : — " The number of cases of in- 
 sanity from masturbation [self pollution] has been 
 even greater than usual, the past year, and our ill 
 success in its treatment, the same. No good what- 
 ever arises in such cases, from remedial treatment, 
 unless such an impression can be made upon the 
 mind and moral feelings of the individual as to in- 
 duce him to abandon the habit. In this attempt, 
 
SOLITARY VICE, 9 
 
 even with the rational mind, we have to encounter 
 mistaken views, as well as active propensities. No 
 effectual means can be adopted to prevent the devas- 
 tation of mind and body, and the debasement of moral 
 principle from this cause, till the whole subject is 
 well understood and properly appreciated by parents 
 and instructors, as well as by the young themselves." 
 In the 6th Report of the same Institution, we find 
 the following: — "The cause of insanity, which ranks 
 as the third in point of power to deprive its victims 
 of reason, is perfectly within human control, and that 
 immediately. This form of insanity is suffered by the 
 young. It differs from other forms in two material 
 respects. Before it is incurred, the way of preven- 
 tion is perfectly certain. Afterwards its cure is al- 
 most impossible. No one need ever suffer it, unless 
 he so wills. It is not only most certain in its activi- 
 ty, but, above all other kinds of insanity, it stamps 
 its victims with every abhorrent and loathsome stigma 
 of degradation. Such is the nature of this dreadful 
 form of insanity, and the singleness and certainty of 
 the cause from which it proceeds, that we feel perfect- 
 ly authorised to say, if medical men, parents, and 
 teachers of youth, would do their duty on this one 
 subject to the rising generation, this frightful and 
 prolific cause, which stands the third upon the list in 
 point of destructive efficiency, would substantially 
 cease in a single year. It is the vice of ignorance, 
 not of depravity. The sufferers are personally less 
 offenders than victims ; but the welfare of the Hos- 
 pital, and the interests of humanity, imperatively 
 demand that something should be done to rescue the 
 most moral, conscientious, and sometimes the most 
 
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 promising youth of the Stale, from the mind-wasting 
 ravages of an indulgence, of whose terrible conse- 
 quences they never have been forewarned." 
 
 I shall continue to bring before you evidence that 
 this sin is exceedingly common, that it often produ- 
 ces insanity and idiocy, and that when these do not 
 result, a variety of diseases are produced by indul- 
 gence in the vice, and the general condition of the 
 individual is always more or less wretched in pro- 
 portion to the degree of indulgence. There is hard- 
 ly an end to the diseases produced by this vice. 
 Dyspepsia, spinal disease, headache, epilepsy, and 
 various kinds of fits, which differ in their character 
 according to the degree of the abuse and consequent 
 disease of the nervous system. Impaired eye-sight, 
 palpitation of the heart, pain in the side, and bleed- 
 ing at the lungs, spasm of the heart and lungs, and 
 sometimes sudden death, are caused by indulgence in 
 this vice. Diabetes, or incontinence of urine, fluor 
 albus, or whites, and inflammation of the urinary or- 
 gans, are induced by indulgence in this loathsome 
 and wicked habit. Indeed, this habit so diseases the 
 nervous system, and through that the stomach and 
 the whole body, that almost every form of disease 
 may be produced by it ; so that though these disor- 
 ders may arise from other causes, and may afxlict 
 those who never indulged in this habit, some who 
 have been in a degree enlightened on these subjects, 
 have feared to have others enlightened lest it should 
 increase the evil. They say there is safety in igno- 
 rance. I answer, the silent course has been tried till 
 our world has become one vast pit of corruption. 
 Has the world been safe in its ignorance ? If not, 
 

 SOLITARY VIC 
 
 I will it be so hereafter? Should we strive to keep 
 our children in ignorance of the crime of theft, and 
 
 . its penalty ? Shall we blot out the commandments 
 of the holy scriptures against lust and sensuality, 
 lest they should induce people to become sensual ? I 
 have made many efforts, and many sacrifices, to 
 spread light on this subject, and hitherto I have every 
 reason to believe with the happiest effects. Our 
 safety, the safety of our children and youth, is in 
 light, and not in darkness. 
 
 To quote again the language of the Report of the 
 Lunatic Hospital : — " The interests of humanity im- 
 peratively demand that something should be done to 
 rescue the most moral, conscientious, and sometimes 
 
 ! the most promising youth of the State, from the mind- 
 wasting ravages of an indulgence of whose terrible 
 consequences they have never been forewarned." 
 
 I have known the most conscientious persons, in 
 other respects, who were the victims of self-pollution : 
 Though, like other sins, its general tendency is to 
 harden and sear the conscience, and often there is a 
 
 ; lamentable want of moral principle in those who in- 
 dulge in the vice. 
 
 That the world is exceedingly corrupt, is acknowl- 
 edged on every hand ; but when we descend to 
 particulars, and expose its manifold corruptions, 
 many shrink back and are unwilling to see things as 
 they really are. I have been exceedingly unwilling 
 to believe that such things are, as are detailed in the 
 following pages. 
 It seems to me a work of mercy to inform mothers 
 
 I of the evils that exist, and to which children are expo- 
 sod. By timely warning, moral instruction, and cor- 
 
8 SOLITARY VICE. 
 
 rect training, with regard to diet and regimen, mothers 
 can, in a great measure, prevent the formation of 
 those vicious habits that ruin soul and body. If 
 christian mothers could see the length and breath of 
 this subject; if they could see why so many promis- 
 ing children fade away and die in early years ; if 
 they could know why so many pulmonary consump- 
 tions are induced, which cut off so many of our 
 young persons in their first years of youth and fresh- 
 ness, and but for this worm in the bud, years of use- 
 fulness too, they would not oppose any one in the 
 blessed work of spreading light on this appalling 
 subject. Pulmonary and other kinds of consumption 
 are often produced by this cause, though many cau- 
 ses are steadily at work to produce consumptions. 
 
 The following is a copy of a note, sent, by a pious 
 young woman, who was induced by a sense of duty 
 to confess her sin to M. S. Gove, the Lecturer on An- 
 atomy and Physiology, after hearing her lecture on 
 uses and abuses of the nervous system. 
 
 "My Dear Mrs. G. — You are dear to my heart. 
 
 that I had found a friend like you years ago. I 
 feel it my duty to warn others of the rock on which 
 
 1 have lost my health ; yes, lost it forever. O, warn 
 young girls ; tell them of the vice, that they may 
 not in ignorance commit it and ruin soul and body. 
 I knew not that a person in the world ever committed 
 this sin but myself, till I heard your lecture. Igno- 
 rance causeth much suffering. I have suffered — O, I 
 have suffered every thing but death, and soon must 
 meet that. I have often thought how hard and 
 strange it was that one so young and so healthy 
 should be brought to a mass of suffering and disease* 
 
SOLITARY VICE. y 
 
 ignorant I have done it. O, be faithful and warn 
 others of this snare." 
 
 A minister's wife, a pious and exemplary woman, 
 after hearing the above mentioned lectures, felt it her 
 duty to converse with a little girl of ten years of age 
 who lived with her, on the subject of solitary vice. 
 After reading the scriptures and prayer, she broke the 
 subject. The child told her she had been practising 
 the vice for a considerable length of time. She na- 
 med the person who taught her. This individual 
 was an intimate acquaintance of the lady. She also 
 ascertained that this person was taught the sin by 
 another of her intimates ! ! Where, I ask, is a place 
 of safety to be found for children, when such facts are 
 around us ? Shall we not warn and instruct them, 
 and by temperance and proper regimen keep their 
 passions in check as much as possible ? 
 
 Another lady, who was awakened to a sense of this 
 evil by attending M. S. Gove's lectures, not long af- 
 terward found an opportunity, in her own family, of 
 testing the value of her information. Her little son, 
 about ten years of age, was attacked with phimosis 
 (a o#B3trltetion*€8» stricture of the prepuce) so that no 
 water can be passed. This disorder is rather a com- 
 mon result of self-pollution. The lady took her lit- 
 tle son alone, and tenderly talked with him. He 
 confessed that he had been practising thi3 vice, and 
 said it had been recently taught him by a lad who 
 had paid him a visit from another town. The mother 
 succeeded, by faithfully bathing the child, and espe- 
 cially the parts, in warm water, in overcoming the 
 phimosis. She warned and instructed her child, as 
 every mother should, and he begged her to let him 
 
10 SOLITARY VICE. 
 
 go immediately to the lad who had taught him the 
 sin, and warn him. Thus a little information, obtain- 
 ed by one mother and rightly used, may be the 
 means of saving both these children from untold an- 
 guish, and perhaps the loss of reason. These con- 
 clusions might be regarded as visionary, had we not 
 so many in our Lunatic Hospitals who are truly aw- 
 ful beacons of warning, admonishing us to care for 
 our children and save them from such a fearful fate. 
 But where reason is not overthrown, disease and 
 weakness, and suffering, which are not to be describ- 
 ed, are endured by the miserable victim. Doubtless 
 very many have been driven to commit suicide, to 
 escape from the burden and torture of a diseased bo- 
 dy and deranged mind, when they were wholly un- 
 conscious what caused their sad state. They had 
 never been warned ; they did not know they were 
 ruining soul and body by their indulgence. And 
 shall not light be poured upon the benighted mind ? 
 Shall numbers suffer more than to die a thousand 
 deaths, through ignorance ? 
 
 There is reason to believe that in nine cases out of 
 ten, those unhappy females who are the tenants 
 of houses of ill fame, have been the victims of this 
 vice in the first place. Were this the peculiar vice 
 of the low and vulgar, there might be more excuse 
 for the apathy and false delicacy that pervade the 
 community respecting it. But ife invades all ranks. 
 Professed christians are often among its victims. 
 Sometime since I became acquainted with a lovely 
 and intellectual young man, who was a student in one 
 of our Theological Seminaries. His health became so 
 poor that he was obliged to leave the Seminary and 
 
SOLITARY VICE. 11 
 
 return to his friends. I saw him lose his reason, and 
 become a maniac. I was satisfied from all the symp- 
 toms in the case, that this sin was the cause of his 
 wretched condition. He died without recovering his 
 reason, and a friend of his, who was in the Seminary 
 with him, told me after his decease that he was in- 
 deed a victim of solitary vice. 
 
 Dr. Woodward, the amiable and efficient principal 
 of the Insane Hospital at Worcester, says in his 
 " Hints for the Young," after stating a variety of ca- 
 ses, " I have purposely selected a class of most res- 
 pectable individuals who have been the victims of 
 this vice ; because I believe that in our high schools, 
 academies, and colleges, the evil is as alarming, or 
 more so, than amongst an equal number of young 
 men in any of the humble walks of life. I am con- 
 fident that the sedentary and inactive are more com- 
 monly its victims than the laborious and active. # * * 
 I am aware that full credence is not given by all to 
 the extent of the evil that results from this cause. 
 My own knowledge is almost exclusively derived 
 from observation. I was not sensible of the extent 
 and frequency of the practice, nor of the disastrous 
 effects which followed it, till circumstances placed 
 me in the way of extensive experience. I was 
 obliged to believe, however' reluctantly, what was 
 constantly before my eyes. For the last four years 
 it has fallen to my lot to witness, examine and mark 
 the progress of from ten to twenty-five cases daily, 
 who have been the victims of this debasing habit ; 
 and I aver that no cause whatever, which operates 
 upon the human system, prostrates all its energies, 
 mental, moral, and physical, to an equal extent. I 
 
12 SOLITARY VICE. 
 
 have seen more cases of idiocy from this cause alone 
 than from all the other causes of insanity. If insan- 
 ity and idiocy do not result, other diseases, irremedi- 
 able and hopeless follow in its train; or such a de- 
 gree of imbecility marks its ravages upon body and 
 mind as to destroy all the happiness of life, and make 
 existence itself wretched and miserable in the ex- 
 treme." 
 
 When I commenced my invsetigations on this sub- 
 ject, I was not at all prepared for the state of things 
 that met my view. I was not prepared to believe 
 that the vice was at all common among females. 
 But I have been obliged to believe what numbers 
 have told me of themselves. Some of the most love- 
 ly and conscientious females I have ever met, have 
 confessed to me that they had been victims of this 
 habit. They were ignorant of its turpitude, of its 
 moral and physical effects. Information was alone 
 wanting to save these individuals from a state 
 of health which made life itself a burden. Again 
 I ask, shall we withhold correct information from 
 our children, and leave them to the teaching 
 of the enemy of all good and their own depraved 
 passions ? 
 
 A christian female has given me the following con- 
 fession, which she permits me to use as I deem best 
 for the good of her sex ': 
 
 Dear Mrs. G. — I believe you are engaged in an 
 important and holy work, and my heart's desire and 
 prayer to God is that you may long be spared to 
 prosecute it. It has been neglected till the world is 
 filled with misery and crime. An imperative sense 
 of duty constrains me to communicate some facts 
 
SOLITARY VLCV. 13 
 
 that may tend to encourage you, to convince the 
 skeptical, and to arouse those who have the supervi- 
 sion of youth to greater faithfulness and assiduity. 
 When very young I became addicted to self pollu- 
 tion, and continued it for several years, and but for 
 a merciful Providence that made me a subject of 
 converting grace, and an early marriage, I might now 
 be suffering all its concomitant evils.* Allow me to 
 offer a few thoughts respecting the vice, I believe 
 it is very prevalent, though for many years I supposed 
 j it confined to myself. Recent facts have fearfully de- 
 ! monstrated the reverse. # # I was most religious- 
 ly educated. My parents endeavored to make me 
 ifeel the holiness of the lav/ and its obligations. But 
 j the seventh commandment was overlooked. Thus 
 was I left, the untaught child of nature, exposed to 
 the unchecked dictates of a depraved heart and cor- 
 rupt associates. It was unsuspected by my parents. 
 I suppose if I were now to state these facts to them 
 they would hardly credit them. I always supposed I 
 ! contracted this practice instinctively, till recently, a 
 i friend who is several years older than myself, inform- 
 ed me that at the age of four years she taught me.f 
 This lady goes onto make some farther statements 
 respecting the prevalence of iho practice, which go 
 to confirm the truth of the preceding pages. Almost 
 all those who have confessed to me, that they had 
 been guilty of this practice, who had not been 
 tair .it the vice, say they thought they were the only 
 
 * She had suffered much, but owing- to her early abandonment of the practice 
 ito had obtained tolerable ae 
 
 t This friend has continued the pracuc?, in sing-Ie and married life, until she had 
 wreoked her constitution and made lite a burden; and a burden which she mu»t 
 I feoon lav clown. 
 
14 SOLITARY VICE; 
 
 individuals in the world who practiced it. I think a 
 majority of those who have communicated with me 
 on this subject had not been taught the vice, and 
 knew not that any other person practised it. Doubt- 
 less their parents considered them both ignorant and 
 innocent. Perhaps they thought the safety of these 
 very children consisted in keeping them ignorant. I 
 was once conversing with a mother on these subjects 
 and striving to awaken an interest in her mind, when 
 she remarked with much earnestness, " I believe my 
 child is pure." I had that very child's confession at 
 that time, and knew that she had practised the sin 
 for years, and nearly lost her life by it; and yet her 
 mother believed her pure, and no doubt had felt that 
 it would have corrupted her daughter to communi- 
 cate this information to her. 
 
 Parents are prone to put this evil afar off: to say, 
 my child is pure. But let every mother warn her 
 children, and instruct them faithfully ; let her rest as- 
 sured that no harm can result from it, and in almost 
 every instance it will do good, either by saving the 
 children from falling, or through their means saving 
 others. I knew a young woman who had got some 
 information on this subject, by reading the best book 
 on the subjeet ever published, viz. Graham's Lecture 
 to young men, ana she resolved to inform her only 
 brother. She put the book into his hands. He had 
 prejudices against Graham, and at first refused to 
 read it. The sister entreated, and after a time he 
 read the book. It doubtless saved him from becom- 
 ing a victim to the habit, for he afterwards told his 
 sister that he previously had practised the vice. This 
 young man had a friend about his own age, who was 
 
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 afflicted with terrible fits, which affected his rea- 
 son for a time after each recurrence of them. With 
 the light he had obtained from Graham's Lecture he 
 was convinced they were caused by solitary vice. 
 He conversed with his friend, who confessed his hab- 
 it, and on being informed of the effects of the vice, 
 promised to leave it. He did so, and his fits left him. 
 In one of the reports of the Massachusetts Lunatic 
 Hospital, a case of epilepsy and insanity is mention- 
 tioned, caused by masturbation. On leaving 1 the 
 habit, the epilepsy and insanity both left the patient. 
 And yet people will drug and doctor years for epilep- 
 sy, without once enquiring about the habits of the 
 patient. But light has dawned upon us, and we 
 should be thankful for the blessing. 
 
 Whilst we rejoice in the establishment of Luna- 
 tic Hospitals, where the insane can be properly treat- 
 ed on rational principles, how much more ought we 
 to rejoice, that light is spreading, and that people are 
 learning how to prevent insanity. And yet those 
 1 who from love to their fellow creatures have endea- 
 vored to spread information on these subjects, have 
 had their names cast out as evil ; have been reviled 
 and persecuted, and have had all manner of evil said 
 of them falsely. But there is a noble band, to whom 
 these truths come not in vain. But for these the 
 truth would fall in our streets, and our world would 
 miserably perish. 
 
 The hope of society is in the youth, and our hope 
 for our youth is, under God, in a correct course of 
 training, as respects diet and regimen, instruction 
 and warning. Parents should do all in their power, 
 by education, to form right habits, and to prevent the 
 
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 formation of wrong habits. Grace alone can reno- 
 vate the heart. The present unhealthy and stimu- 
 lating method of living, prematurely developes the 
 passions, and continually urges to their gratification. 
 Almost all the present habits of civil life are calcu- 
 lated to produce such results. The neglect of bath- 
 ing, of exercise, the use of soft feather beds, and 
 often the too great abundance of clothing — the use 
 of condiments, pepper, spice, and indeed all heating 
 and stimulating substances, whether solid or fluid ; 
 the habitual want of confidence between parents and 
 children ; the false delicacy almost every where culti- 
 vated — all have their influence in bringing about 
 this lamentable state of things. Generally speaking, 
 schools are nurseries of vice. 
 
 A short time since, two sisters, ladies of the first 
 respectability, informed me that when very young 
 they were put to a Female Boarding School, where 
 this vice prevailed, and the practice was explained to 
 them. They were blessed with parents who were 
 willing to converse with and warn their children, and 
 they escaped the contamination. The best way to 
 guard our children from this vice, is to make their 
 diet plain from the cradle ; to exclude all rich and 
 high-seasoned food, meats, pastry, confectionary, &c. 
 from their diet ; bathe them thoroughly every day in 
 cold water, or if they be very delicate, in slightly 
 warm water; let them sleep on a matress, or straw, 
 but in no case on feathers. Let them exercise daily 
 in the open air; clothe them properly, but not with 
 flannel next the skin, unless in cases of disease, 
 when recommended by a Physician. Instruct and 
 warn them ; cultivate a spirit of kindness and confix 
 
SOLITARY VICE. 17 
 
 dence toward them ; listen to their little complaints 
 of what they meet from their mates. I have heard 
 the most disgusting conversation, when a child, from 
 school children, and yet I dared not tell my mother. 
 Many parents will not hear a word of complaint from 
 their children. " Don't tell me tales," say they. The 
 poor child must bear all in silence. Judicious 
 confidence will never foster a spirit of tale-telling. 
 
 We have been unjust to children long enough. 
 It is time we act efficiently for their benefit, if we 
 would save our children. 
 
 In writing this little tract to those who have the 
 care of children, I am necessarily restricted within 
 narrow limits. But if others are but awakened to 
 investigation and action, I shall not have labored in 
 vain. A little enquiry will satisfy any one that this 
 vice has increased very much within the last few 
 years, and is still increasing. If we ask the cause, 
 we may find it in the increased and increasing luxu- 
 ry and effeminacy of the people ; and unless a radical 
 change is effected in the dietetic and other habits of 
 the people we must expect this loathsome vice to go 
 on multiplying victims. Mothers must not put this 
 evil afar off. They must not say " my child is pure." 
 Remember it is in secrecy that the sin is committed. 
 Children should be faithfully warned and instructed, 
 and at the same time the dietetic habits should be 
 made correct ; for the present unhealthy and stimu- 
 lating method of living is in great measure the root 
 of this awful evil ; an evil whose deadly influences 
 upon individuals and society can hardly be overrated. 
 Surely mothers, when once they become sensible of 
 these truths, will hesitate at no sacrifice. They 
 
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 will do all in their power to save their children from 
 the destroyer. When once weakness and disease 
 have been induced by indulgence in this sin, no rem- 
 edial means will avail without an entire change of 
 
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 habits. 
 
 In the entire abandonment of the unclean practice 
 and a vigorous course of temperance, there is hope, 
 and there is hope in this course ALONE. 
 
 Drugging should never be resorted to for the cure 
 of disease induced by solitary vice. It will but ag- 
 gravate the evil. 
 
 Mothers, let me entreat you by every thing that is 
 dear and precious to you, by one of the strongest of 
 all earthly loves, a mother's love, to see to your chil- 
 dren. Make their regimen correct ; instruct and 
 warn them. Be not guilty of the blood of your 
 children. If you have older children to whom you 
 cannot speak, you can put Graham's Lecture to Young 
 Men into their hands. This is a truly scientific, and 
 at the same time a practical and.Christian work. No 
 one can be made worse, and many will be made 
 better by its perusal. O ! that females may be arous- 
 ed to right exertion in what may be emphatically 
 called the cause of humanity-- and may the Lord 
 bless all our efforts to promote purity in the earth. 
 
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