Woodward, as do many of the doctors writing these anti-masturbation texts, includes a series of case studies of men (and a few women) he has met and "cured" of the "disease."   The following is a representative example.   Notice how, according to Woodward, masturbation made this man temporarily lose his "respectable social standing" and how it prevented him from socializing with other men.   Notice also the very real "criminal" consequences of his "disease":

Case 13.  Is a respectable young man from one of the colleges in New England.  While in the seminary, he became jealous of his friends, and suspicious of all around him, and left the institution.  He had been in the practice of masturbation till his health had become delicate, and his nervous system very susceptible.  He became convinced of the pernicious influence of this practice, and abandoned it; but alas! it was too late.  His mind became alienated, partly perhaps in consequence of the continuance of nocturnal pollution, after the voluntary practice had been abandoned.  In this state of mind, he made a serious assault upon the person of a friend, to revenge some imaginary insult, or supposed injury. In consequence of this he was thrown into prison.   After a while, he came under my care.  He had mind and feelings the most acute and sensitive; he was conscious of the cause of his calamity, and very anxious to be cured; such was the excessive irritability of his system, and the excitability of his feelings, that the occurrence of this spontaneous emission would render him almost frantic; he was jealous of every body around him, suspected all his associates of plots to injure, and of words and gestures to insult and abuse him; in more than one instance, he rushed from his room, and made an assault upon the most innocent individual of his associates; he even suspected me, from some smile or hint, of plotting mischief to ensnare him.  Such was the state of his mind at one time, and so frequently did he make these assaults, that we were constrained to confine him for a short period.  He was constantly sensible of the cause of his condition, and very solicitous for the removal of it; he was even desirous to be emasculated, believing that this would terminate his misery and afford him an opportunity of usefulness again.