There are some persons who, from having used various forms of medicated
bougies--having had sounds, catheters and bougies roughly passed upon
them by unskillful persons--or merely from an indistinct belief, based
upon hearsay or tradition, feel some hesitancy about passing anything
into the organ for fear that it may do harm, cause pain, or give rise to
stricture.
The majority of these timid people have got this idea from hearing
it said that stricture and inflammation have often been caused by
gonorrhoea (clap) injections, and they therefore have the idea that
anything put into the urethra will do harm. There is not the slightest
doubt but that strong injections of nitrate of silver, zinc, copper,
carbolic acid and the like (of which these injections are usually made)
have, in many instances, caused severe inflammation and, eventually,
stricture.
But that is no reason why proper and absolutely unirritating and bland
medicines, such as those in the +Civiale Crayons+, should do this--and
they don't do it. Make up a strong injection of zinc, copper, &c., and
take a swallow of it. It will burn and pain your mouth and throat, make
you hoarse, and for days afterward you will find it painful to swallow.
Put a troche or lozenge, properly medicated for the purpose, into your
mouth, and, instead of causing pain, irritation and difficulty in
swallowing, it will relieve these symptoms if they exist, cool and calm
the membrane, soothe the irritation, and give tone and strength to the
vocal chords.
So it is with the CIVIALE SOLUBLE CRAYONS.
(1.) They are wholly unlike any caustic, metallic or irritating
injection.
(2.) They do not contain a grain of any mineral, caustic or irritant of
any kind.
(3.) Their ingredients are purely vegetable.
(4.) They soothe, calm and allay irritation, and give strength and tone
to the mucous membrane, Seminal Ducts, Generative Nerves and Prostate
Gland.
(5.) They do not cause stricture, but they cure it if it exists.
(6.) Allow one to dissolve in the mouth, eye, ear, nose, or, in fact
anywhere. and they will be found to possess only soothing and healing
properties.
(7.) They can be inserted into the penis without the slightest trouble,
and, melting rapidly and easily, flow down in a bland, soothing, healing
and strength and life-giving stream, over the diseased parts.
These Crayons have been in constant use in Paris for the past 25
years, and have never yet, and never will, cause the slightest pain or
irritation. Patients may rest assured, therefore, that in using these
standard French Remedies they are absolutely protected, and need not
feel the slightest degree of fear. Indeed, so well established is this
fact that we are willing to pay $1,000 (one thousand dollars) to any
person or persons who can cite a single instance when the Civiale
Crayons have ever done the slightest harm.
The disease is in the Urethra or Urine Channel, whether it be
Spermatorrhoe, Impotence, Prostatitis or gleet, and in order to effect
a lasting cure, the remedies must be applied directly to the diseased
membrane. In nine cases out of ten, Spasmodic Stricture already exists
and must be cured before the person can get well, and the only way to
cure it is to apply the medicines directly to it.
It would be as silly for a man with an ulcer on his leg, or a crushed
finger, to expect to cure it by taking drugs by the stomach and not
applying proper lotions and salves directly to it, as to try to cure
seminal disease or weakness without going right to the spot, as can be
done by the use of the elegant and harmless Crayons of Civiale.
It was by establishing the fact of local disease and a local remedy
clearly and distinctly, upon both physiological and pathological
grounds and data, that +Lallemand+ and +Civiale+ gained such world-wide
reputation. And it was the discovery of not only the proper remedies,
but an elegant and perfect means of applying them directly to the very
seat and root of the disease, that has made the Civiale Method so justly
famous, and has crowned its use with such undoubted success in this
country, even in cases where every other plan and agent had failed.