The Spermatorrhoea Panic

Here's a newspaper advertisement your ancestors would have seen back in the 19th century...

Source: Exeter Times, 1 April 1880, page 7.

SPERMATORINE. The new French Medicine cures Spermatorrhoea, IMPOTENCE, and all nervous complaints resulting in Loss of Memory, serious impediments to marriage, great depression, etc. 

This poor fellow looks like he's already succumbed...

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If you have to ask what Spermatorrhoea is, I'm afraid I'm not going to tell you. You'll have to click here.