He who has become prematurely impotent is one Of the most unfortunate creatures, his misfortune being the greater as he mostly is ashamed of it, thinks he must conceal it, is pitied by no one, but scorned, and, alas, not always can he hope for recovery. I venture to assert that in many cases it is a better deed to restore to an impotent man the power, so precious to every individual, than to preserve a dangerously sick person from death, for in many cases death is preferable to impotence.