(For once we transgress our rule--never to put a debility patient's
letter in print unless the patient urges us to do so--and do it at the
request of our Medical Chief of Staff, and with the patient's full
consent. The name, however, we omit, simply stating that should any
intending patient desire to come and see or send some friend living in
the city, to see and verify that letter and many more like it, we shall
be most happy to oblige them.)
RODNEY, MISS., August 14, 1884.
_Dear Sirs:_--My course of treatment being almost all used, I feel it
my duty to state to you my present condition, and I can say without
hesitation that I am almost a new man, and I thank God that improvement
has been so thorough and rapid, may it be but lasting. Sexual desire is
now perfect, erections are perfect, emissions come at the right time,
oozing of vital fluid at stools and in the urine has stopped, I rest
well at night with the exception I shall state further on, appetite
is good and digestion almost perfect. I can now approach the presence
of the opposite sex with some satisfaction to myself; ambition is
returning, and in fact a whole new lease of life seems suddenly to have
been allotted to me. The varicocele has almost disappeared. I cannot say
enough in praise for this beautiful little appliance, "the Cradle
Compressor." Now, if it were not for the urinary disorder which still
remains, I should call myself well; that this remains, however, is no
fault of the crayons, and could the Course No. 3 have reached me
undamaged by heat, as did the Course No. 2, I have not the least doubt I
should now be well. The symptoms of this disorder, still present, are
dreams at night, not nervous ones as before, but still unpleasant;
mucous oozing after straining, also in the morning on rising I find the
lips of organ glued, and on forcing apart a drop of this mucous fluid
makes its appearance. I have no doubt whatever that had crayons reached
me perfectly, this disorder would have been conquered same as the other.
Now, in your little circular you guarantee a cure "in all cases wherein
your Medical Examiner decides a cure is possible." Now this certainly
holds good in my case. Please let me know what you are willing to do
about the matter, for I certainly need another course of No. 3 crayons,
and if you would furnish them in place of the ones destroyed in transit,
I should consider your guarantee fulfilled. The course you sent me last
could not be used at all; they were ten times worse than the first ones,
and I only wasted them in trying to use same. However, do not send any
crayons till you hear from me, and I think the weather cool enough, as
they would only be wasted again. Could you furnish me, and at what
price, a suspensory, such as you would recommend, if not, where could
I get one? I think it advisable to wear one after laying aside the
Compressor, as I have to be on my feet all the time.
Please excuse encroachment on your time and believe me ever,
Yours very truly, ---- SINGER.