There are many men who are affected more or less seriously with Diseases
of the Sexual Organs who are constantly on the look-out for so-called
cheap remedies, and in the course of a few years manage to spend upon
these cheap and trashy medicines and appliances twice or three times as
much money as would have been necessary to thoroughly cure them. And
what have they got to show for it? Nothing--absolutely nothing, aye,
even worse than nothing, _i.e._, positive injury to the organs, for,
in nine cases out of ten, these cheap, clap-trap potions, by over
stimulating, imitating and often inflaming the organs, do them actual
harm, hasten and aggravate the disease and leave the patient in a much
worse condition than if he had taken no treatment at all.
How often have we had cases referred to us for diagnosis and treatment,
where irreparable injury had been done by wrong treatment. Some were in
such a state that no treatment, however excellent, could possibly help
them; in others we have had to labor for months to eliminate these
poisonous medicines from the system and get the Sexual Organs into
proper condition to admit of a restorative treatment; and in still
others the effect of our usually quick and thorough-going remedies were
delayed and interfered with by the ignorance or botchwork of some quack
or bungler, or the well-meant but stupid doctoring of some "family
physician" who thinks himself competent to treat these diseases.
No more delicate, complicated or easily injured or disarranged piece of
mechanism than the Sexual Organs exists. In health, they must be treated
with care and reason--in disease, with the utmost circumspection. This
branch of medicine, least of all, should be the parade ground of
ignorance, carelessness or false economy. A man's very health, life,
happiness and vigor, his power to procreate his species, to perpetuate
his name, his ability to make his wife happy and his children strong and
vigorous, all depend upon the treatment he selects. What is worth doing
at all is worth doing well, and he who jeopardizes health and happiness,
present and future, on the mistaken basis of false economy, is far from
wise.
Everything has a value. If a man offers to sell to another a gold watch
worth $150 for $5, you would at once set him down as an impostor, and
the watch as injured or worthless or fraudulent. Yet there are thousands
of men who try to find for a few dollars a remedy for a most serious and
complicated disease. In medicine, as elsewhere, Common Sense plays an
important part. Such remedies cannot possibly do what is claimed for
them. Reputable, honest men, educated and skilled physicians who have
spent thousands of dollars in obtaining a proper medical education,
cannot afford to waste their time for such slight remuneration. Hence,
unscrupulous scoundrels, who have no reputations either to make or lose,
who make most glaring promises in their printed matter, who are willing
to guarantee anything to anybody, infest this field. They know how great
is man's cupidity, and trade upon it willingly, caring nothing for the
consequences.