(These letters are published at the patient's own request, and he will
be most happy to correspond with any earnest and honest inquirer).
"TIRED OF HUMBUGGING."
"ISLIP, Suffolk County, N.Y.
"_Manager of the Civiale Remedial Agency,_
"174 Fulton street, New York.
"_Dear Sir:_--My attention has been several times called to your method
of curing Varicocele of the Bag without any cutting or tying, and I am
now going to describe my case to you, and get your idea whether you can
cure me or not. I would have done this long ago if I hadn't been afraid
of being humbugged, as I often have been by doctors and men who said
they could cure me right off without any pain or trouble. But they all
fooled me out of my money, and that's all. But I'm going to try once
more, and please tell me if you think my case is too bad for your
Compress and Cradle.
"I'm pretty badly off I know, but it seems to me that this thing ought
to be able to be cured by some one. This is how mine was. Eight or nine
years ago I fell from the rigging of a schooner, and was laid up for
nearly sixteen weeks with a broken thigh. I also had both testicles
terribly sore and swollen, and it was a long time after my leg got well
before I was able to walk, the pain in the groin, testicles and small of
my back was so bad. Sometimes, even when I was sitting quiet, it would
cut me like the stab of a knife. The first I noticed of the Varicocele
was one day when I was taking a bath I saw there was a sort of bulging
there, and come to notice it closer, it felt just like a bunch of
angle worms all twisted together. I tried cold water to it and wore a
suspension bag for a long time, but it didn't do much good. At first it
didn't trouble me much in winter, but was bad in summer. Now it's bad
all the time, and I don't believe I could walk half a mile without I
wore a supporter.
"I have tried most everything I ever heard of, but it's no use. Some of
the things helped me for a while, but they didn't last, and now I'm
pretty well discouraged, for I don't dare have it operated on; not so
much that I'm afraid of the pain, but because a young man I knew went to
a hospital in New York to be operated on, and died, because the veins
got inflamed from the cutting and tying.
"I am willing to pay any one a fair price for curing me, because as I
am now I can't do a fair day's work, and my testes are wasting away very
fast. But I don't want any more humbugging, and if you treat me, you
have got to give me good proofs that you can do as you say."
"Truly yours, D. L. B.
"I forgot to say that my Varicocele is on _both_ sides, but the left
side is much the worse. It is twice as bulgy as the other."
"JUST AS REPRESENTED."
"ISLIP, N.Y.
"_Dear Sir:_--I went to the depot night before last and got the package
all right, and when I got up yesterday morning, bathed as the circular
said, and put the Cradle and Compressor on me. I write to tell you how
pleased I am. I always felt sure some one would find a cure for this
thing, and believe I've got hold of the right thing at last, though I'm
not going to crow this time till I'm part way out of the woods at least.
"Any way, I'm satisfied so far. The appliance is just what it was
represented, and I find that it fits me to a t, and is the most easy and
comfortable thing I ever wore. I haven't had a bit of pain since I put
it on yesterday morning, and I have done some hard work these two days,
purposely twisting and wrenching my body about to see if I would get it
out of place.
"So far it is all right, and I am very thankful to you, for if it never
cured me it would be a God-send to wear for relief of that horrid dead
ache and dragging pain in my groin and back. I shall want some of your
Crayons soon, and will write again in a few weeks. Please tell me how
long the wash ought to stand before it is strained, and whether it would
hurt me to use it _twice_ a day instead of once.
"Very respectfully, D. L. B."
"PERFECTLY CURED."
"ISLIP, Suffolk County, N.Y., February 13, 1884.
"_Dear Sir:_--It is now over two months since I quit wearing the
Cradle-Compressor, and I seat myself to tell you that the Varicocele
seems to be entirely well. The left side is a trifle larger than the
right, but the veins are not wormy as they used to be, and the blood
don't stagnate in them any more. The dragging pain is all gone away,
and the small of my back hasn't pained me for a long time. When I came
to see you in New York, your doctor told me I musn't feel sure that I
was cured until every bit of worminess was gone and the canal was free
of swelled veins. You can tell him that this is so now, and that the
testicles aren't shrunk and wasted the way they used to be.
"Our doctor here, who told me I couldn't be cured unless I had it
operated on, says it's the most remarkable thing he ever saw. Those are
his very words. He didn't seem any too chipper to find out he was wrong
about having to get cut.
"I am a thousand times grateful to you. You have made me a man again,
and I shall not forget it. I am ashamed to think how mean a letter I
wrote you last summer about humbugging and the like, but I apologize
now, and if you find any other people that don't feel sure you can cure
them, send them this letter or get them to write to me.
"I shall remember all you wrote in your last letter about not 'presuming
too much on my improvement,' and to be careful about jumping, straining
and lifting hard, and the like. The Crayons did their work just as well
as the Compress Instrument, and I never can tell you how grateful I am
to you. There's several men I know here that are going to write you
about their cases. One of them, ---- ----, is going down on the train
to-morrow, and will bring this letter with him, he says, for
introduction. Good bye.