are loss of nervous energy, dullness of the mental faculties, and
delight in obscene stories. The expression of the face becomes coarse,
and the movements slow; the eye is sunken, the face bloated and pale,
and the disposition is fretful and irritable; the appetite is
capricious, the throat irritated, and the patient makes frequent
attempts to clear it, in order to speak distinctly. There are pains in
the chest, wakefulness, and during the night lascivious thoughts and
desires. The relish for play or labor is gone, and a growing distaste
for business is apparent; there is a determination of blood to the head,
headache, noises and roaring sounds in the ears, the eyes may be
blood-shot and watery, weak or painful, the patient imagines bright
spots or flashes passing before them, and there may be partial
blindness. There is increasing stolidity of expression, the eye is
without sparkle, and the face becomes blotched and animal-like in its
expression. The victim is careless of his personal appearance, not
unscrupulously neat, and not unfrequently a rank odor exhales from the
body.
There are troublesome sensations, as of itching and crawling, in and
about the scrotum. Subsequently, there is obstinate constipation, and
all the symptoms of dyspepsia follow. Gradually the pallor deepens, the
patient becomes emaciated. There is a shortness of breath, palpitation
after even moderate exercise, trembling of the knees, and eruptions on
the skin. There may also be cough, hoarseness, stitch in the side, loss
of voice. The sleep is not refreshing, the patient has frequent
nightmare, or the dreams are lascivious, and the involuntary emissions
of semen become more frequent. The weakness increasing, the sufferer
experiences a weakness in his legs and staggers like a drunken man, his
hands tremble and he stammers.
[Illustration: Fig. 3.
Microscopic appearance of healthy semen.]
[Illustration: Fig. 4.
Microscopic appearance of semen which will not fecundate.]
The victim is unable to concentrate his thoughts, cannot remember what
he reads, and is mentally indolent. He begins to be suspicious of his
friends, has less confidence in others, and desires to be alone, is
despondent and has suicidal thoughts. He has pain in the back, does not
like to walk, and is inclined to lie down. The semen is prematurely
discharged upon attempting coition, and if there be offspring, it is apt
to be feeble or subject to scrofula, consumption, or convulsions. The
genital organs, especially the penis and testicles, diminish in size, as
the disease progresses, lose their energy, and the glands of the penis
become cold and flaccid. There is frequent desire to urinate, chronic
irritation in the neck of the bladder, and pain in the spermatic cord
and testicle, and sometimes in the end of the penis. The microscope
shows that semen involuntarily discharged may be devoid of spermatozoa,
or if present, they are defective, their heads being without tails. The
urine is loaded with mucus or bears up a filmy, membranous, transparent
matter, or it may be covered with a thin fluid having an oily
appearance, but in rare cases is clear. Again, it may hold substances in
solution, which are deposited in crystals or incrust the urine, or it
may precipitate a material having the appearance of brick-dust, and
sometimes semen tinged with blood. The dyspeptic symptoms when present
are followed by diarrhea. The limbs are cramped and rigid, the feet
bloated, and the patient becomes melancholy and relinquishes all hope of
recovery. As the disease progresses, the patient lacks firmness and is
absent-minded.
When the erections are imperfect and the semen is prematurely
discharged, or when a lengthy coition is required before the sperm can
be ejected, it is evident that the patient is rapidly becoming impotent;
the virile powers are vanishing and manhood is surrendering sway to a
merciless foe. We frequently witness this condition in men, even at the
age of thirty-five, when the summit of vigor and strength should only
have been reached. How often are we solicited to restore these lost
hopes and powers! To what tales of ignorance and recklessness, or
submission and remorse, do we repeatedly listen from these unfortunate
sufferers! In patients of this class, sexual intercourse prevents
spontaneous emissions, but it does not remove the functional and organic
derangements of the nerve-centres; hence, at a time when the victims of
this disease should be in the prime of life, they are impotent, and
epilepsy, apoplexy, paralysis, softening of the brain, or insanity,
frequently results.
EPILEPSY (OR FITS). This dread disease is one of the most common and
serious complications of the more advanced stages of spermatorrhea. The
injury done to the nerve-centres by the practice of masturbation is
manifested in epileptic convulsions, more or less frequent. If proper
treatment be early adopted, and faithfully pursued, the case is not yet
hopeless; though, in the majority of cases, the patient never recovers
after the disease assumes this phase.
PARALYSIS. Paralysis, or Palsy, when occurring as a complication of
spermatorrhea, may be preceded by an attack of apoplexy, in which the
patient loses consciousness, and lays in a condition of profound stupor
for a time, and on recovery from his unconscious state, finds himself
unable to use one or more of his limbs, or the disability and loss of
power, which may also be accompanied by more or less loss of sensation,
may come on gradually, without any premonition or marked manifestation
of its approach. In either case, its appearance is to be regarded as a
matter of serious importance. Paralysis, when occurring as a consequence
of masturbation or sexual excesses, is usually difficult of cure; yet,
now and then, cases are cured at our Institutions even after this grave
malady has appeared as a complication.
SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. This malady, although less common as a result of
masturbation than the complications mentioned in the preceding
paragraphs, is of sufficiently frequent occurrence to entitle it to a
passing notice here. This condition usually results ultimately in
complete dementia, or loss of reason. It is an incurable disease.
INSANITY. This deplorable malady is not a very uncommon result of
masturbation and its various resultant morbid conditions, as the records
of the many institutions for the unfortunate class of sufferers from
this disease bear abundant witness. Sometimes it manifests itself in the
milder forms of hallucination, or monomania, but in the majority of
cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many
times followed, sooner or later, by a raving mania.
In cases of monomania resulting from masturbation, the mental
derangement is often so slight as to escape detection by the patient's
friends, the peculiar freaks of disposition being regarded rather as
eccentricities of character than as symptoms of serious disease. Fits of
despondency are usually common with such sufferers. The mental
derangement is not always accompanied or preceded by spermatorrhea or
frequent seminal emissions, the injury done to the nervous system by the
practice of self-abuse, or sexual excesses, being first noticeable in
various phantasms or imaginings on the part of the patient. These are,
in different cases, so various, both in character and degree, as not to
admit of any classification, each case presenting phases peculiar to
itself. In many cases, the patient imagines that his best friends are
conspiring to injure him, or that some great calamity is about to befall
him. In most cases there is danger of the patient's committing suicide,
if not closely watched. Especially is this true of those who suffer from
fits of hypochondria.
Except in its milder forms, insanity resulting from masturbation and
sexual excesses, is rarely curable.
DON'T BE ALARMED. A nocturnal seminal emission now and then, or at long
intervals is not, in and of itself, evidence of the existence of
spermatorrhea or other serious disease. A full blooded, strong,
passionate man, in vigorous health, and who has never abused himself,
may now and then, at long intervals, if his sexual passions be not
gratified naturally, or if he permit his mind to run much upon
lascivious subjects, experience an emission while asleep and dreaming.
As to whether such occurrences are evidence of disease or not, in any
given case, depends upon their frequency, and as to whether they are the
result of a weakness of the organs and are followed by more or less
depression and debility, or are merely the overflow of a robust system,
or the outburst of restrained, pent-up, and ungratified passions. In the
latter case, and when only occurring at long intervals, the emissions
are not followed by any perceptible enervating or weakening effects.
QUACKERY RAMPANT. This country is flooded with cheap circulars and
pamphlets, circulated openly and broadcast, wherein ignorant,
pretentious, blatant quacks endeavor to frighten young men who may never
have practiced self-abuse, or been guilty of excesses in any way, and
yet who experience, now and then at long intervals, nocturnal seminal
emissions. In such cases, it is the duty of the conscientious, honest,
and sympathetic practitioner of the healing art to give assurance, and
not to unnecessarily alarm those who experience nothing inconsistent
with a state of fairly good health. To frighten such young men into
believing themselves diseased, when in reality they experience nothing
but what may occasionally occur in the experiences of any robust,
healthy man, is the most detestable, downright quackery.
TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE. Not only are many men subjected to useless
treatment by general practitioners who overlook the real disease, caused
by pernicious youthful habits pursued in solitude, or later excesses in
venery, but the female sex are also quite as often subjected to
treatment for diseases which do not exist, the real trouble being
nervous debility and other weaknesses that have resulted from the
youthful pernicious practices common to both sexes, or later excesses in
marital pleasures.
MORAL CONSIDERATIONS. Masturbation is a habit which tyrannizes over the
mind, perverts the imagination, and forces upon the victim venereal
desires, even while he is forming the strongest resolutions to reform.
It constrains into its service the higher faculties, such as friendship,
confidence, love, reason, and imagination, to make its ideal graceful
and beautiful.
SENSUAL LUST. The fancy creates an attractive partner, possessed of
girlish beauty, a perfect type of goodness, blended with sexuality, and
whom the subject worships with all the ardor of passion. Around this
_beau ideal_ all his affections are clustered; to her the purest of his
blood is offered in sacrifice, and it is no wonder that female
associates seem tame and unattractive when such imaginary and consummate
divinity is courted. In the sensual delirium is conceived an elysium of
carnal bliss, where half-nude nymphs display their charms and invite to
sensual enjoyments. Thus we see how this habit makes the spiritual
faculties subservient to morbid passion, and by what means elevating
influences are prostituted to vulgar and base-born creations.
SYMPTOMS VARY IN DIFFERENT CASES. We can only partially delineate the
terrible effects resulting from the abuse of the sexual organs. The
symptoms are multitudinous, but, as we have before stated, no two
persons are similarly influenced by this disease. The symptoms will vary
according to the severity of the affection, the age of the patient, and
his constitutional peculiarities. The presence of only a few of the
symptoms which we have enumerated is evidence of abnormal weakness,
which demands treatment.
Montaigne says: "We must see and get acquainted with our sins if we
expect to correct them." Virtue presupposes trials just as much as
victory implies warfare. The triumph of virtue is to defeat morbid or
excessive passion, for virtue is only realized when it is a conquering
force. Innocence is passive but virtue is an active quality, purified in
the fiery furnace of temptation. As men have in all ages been influenced
by passions, so temptation has ever found its victims. It is an
obligation that one owes to himself to overcome every evil passion or
weakness to which he is subject, and the discharge of this personal duty
requires moral courage.
THE REWARD OF VIRTUE. Our Saviour invited all erring mortals to enter
upon a higher life when He said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The invitation is
accompanied with a promise. To all who are weary of excess and bowed
down by passion, rest and restoration are promised, if they will but
reform and employ proper means to that end.
THE SUFFERERS MUST REFORM. Just as there is no spiritual restoration
without obeying the Saviour, so there can be no physical restoration
unless we fulfill nature's imposed conditions. There can be no salvation
unless sin be discarded, and so there can be no redemption from the bad
effects of a practice, so long as it is continued. It is no easy task to
master a despotic passion. Appetite is often stronger than the will. The
treatment must begin with moral reformation. Every manly impulse, and
all the higher qualities of the patient's nature, must be enlisted in
the struggle for virtue and health.
If the passions are restrained, then the capital of health increases,
for the saving of the vital secretions is equal to compound interest.
This illustrates the truth of the Latin proverb: "_No gain is so certain
as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you have"!_ The
patient actually acquires confidence and manly courage by the retention
of the seminal fluid, which directly increases his virile powers.
HYGIENIC ADVICE TO PATIENTS. Daily physical exercise and regular habits
must be established. It is important that the mind, as well as the
physical powers, be directed into active and wholesome channels. There
must be restraint and discipline. It is useless to begin medical
treatment while the patient continues to read exciting, amorous stories
and obscene books, which are suggestive of lewd thoughts. Something
practical ought to occupy the thoughts and engage the hands.
Regular and vigorous physical exercise is necessary to assist the
circulation of the blood, and compel its determination into the minute
and extreme parts of the vascular system. When the blood is thus
directed, nutrition is more vigorous and the activity of all the
functions is augmented.
Not only should there be regularity in eating, but sound discretion
should be exercised in selecting a plain, wholesome diet, consisting of
such articles of food as best favor a daily and free evacuation of the
bowels. Avoid the use of those articles of food which produce excessive
acidity of the stomach. Hearty or late suppers are not allowable. The
patient should use no alcoholic beverages, and should abstain from such
stimulants as tea, coffee, beer, wine, and tobacco. We cannot even
recommend their _moderate_ use, for total abstinence is the better plan.
The patient should sleep in a well-ventilated room, on a hard bed, and
have only sufficient covering for warmth and comfort. He should not lie
upon the back, because in this position nightly emissions are more
likely to occur. The patient should go to bed when he feels sleepy, and
not resist the inclination until wakefulness is induced.
He should rise early in the morning and immediately take a cold hand
bath. For this purpose a quart or two of water and a common hand towel
only are required. After bathing, rub the surface of the body with the
dry hand or a crash towel, and continue the friction until the skin is
red and a reaction is established. Do not excuse yourself from following
these hygienic suggestions. A refreshing bath changes the morbid
sensibilities to a more healthful state by the reaction of the nervous
system.
It is beneficial to apply a towel saturated with cold water to the
genital organs fifteen minutes before leaving the bed. Douching, or
showering the genital organs with cold water once or twice a day will
also be beneficial. It should not be practiced, however, just before
going to bed. It is well to bathe the head with cold water, and this can
be done much better if the hair be kept closely cut.
Horseback riding, climbing, and all exercises which rub, chafe, or
excite the genital organs, should be avoided. Even the clothing should
be loose, so that walking will not produce friction or cause any
excitement of these organs. The calls of nature should receive prompt
attention, and the urine be voided at any time (especially during the
night) when there is an inclination. If there be irritation of the
bladder and lower bowels, the patient will receive decided benefit from
the daily use of an injection of cold water into the bowels. From a half
pint to a pint of cold water may be used at one time, and the injection
should be retained for a few minutes before going to bed. The bowels
will thus be relieved, the heat and irritation subdued, and the
liability to seminal emissions lessened.
Patients afflicted with spermatorrhea should not allow their thoughts to
dwell upon their ailments, for they are apt to become moody,
self-deceived, and even insane upon this subject. To avoid this,
harmless amusements should be indulged in, and good moral company
cultivated. They become suspicious, skeptical, and believe that they are
victims of imposture. When they lose self-reliance, their faith and
trust in others begins to waver, especially if their health does not
improve so rapidly as they had anticipated: As much depends upon the
faithful observance of the hygienic rules as upon the constant and
proper use of medicines. The rapidity of recovery depends upon the
constitutional energies and the vigor of the vital resources. If the
blood be greatly impoverished, or the nervous system much impaired,
recovery will be necessarily slow. Time, patience, and perseverance, are
just as essential to a recovery from the effects of these abuses as the
best medical treatment that can be employed.
THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF SPERMATORRHEA AND IMPOTENCY. Few diseases
require so many modifications of treatment, to suit the peculiarities of
individual cases as spermatorrhea, because it is attended with so many
complications and morbid functional and structural changes. Every
complication must be considered, and great judgment exercised in the
selection of remedies. As this selection must depend upon the
peculiarities of the case involved, it is impossible to impart to the
non-professional readers sufficient medical knowledge to enable them to
choose the appropriate remedies for these intricate disorders. Hence it
would be useless to specify the various medicines which our specialists
employ in treating them. It would only lead to many fruitless
experiments, which might result in great harm to the afflicted. For
remedies powerful enough to effect cures of spermatorrhea and impotency
are capable, when improperly employed, of doing great harm. Especially
should all ready-made, proprietary or put-up medicines, such as are sold
in drug stores and chemists' shops, be avoided, for reasons already
mentioned. Great harm, also, often results from the employment of
"galvanic belts," "galvanic batteries and pads," and other catch-penny
devices, with which the too confiding are not only duped and swindled,
but terribly injured. They are all worse than useless, and often render
the mildest case very difficult to cure by inducing serious
complications. It is better to take no medical treatment, but rely
solely on the hygienic advice we have given, rather than to resort to
any of the so-called "_specifics"_ found in the drug shops, or to any
such silly, good-for-nothing trash as the various "Pastilles,"
"Boluses," "Curative Rings," "Voltaic Belts," or other quackish
medicines and contrivances.
IMPORTANCE OF HYGIENIC DISCIPLINE. The invalid should restrict his
attention to hygiene, and learn that patient endurance and heroic
perseverance are necessary, even when taking the most efficient
remedies. His entire system having gradually become deranged, corrective
medicines must necessarily be _chronic_ in their operations; in other
words, they must act insensibly, slowly, and progressively. Some of the
symptoms of sexual weakness will, under proper hygienic and medical
treatment, generally begin to disappear within a month. If the nervous
system be very much impaired, however, a longer time will elapse before
the restorative effects of treatment will be observed. Neither the
physician nor the patient should expect that a broken-down constitution
can be immediately repaired. The day of miracles is past. The most
rational method of treating the sick promises nothing supernatural,
nothing which is not in accordance with science. Diseases of this
character are always slow in their inception, or development and
progress, and must be cured in like manner, step by step. Nature never
hurries; atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
OUR IMPROVED TREATMENT. Tears ago our specialists resolved to pay
particular attention to the investigation and treatment of these
diseases, which are not only alarmingly prevalent, but sadly neglected
and mistreated by the general practitioner of medicine.
UNFAILING REMEDIES. Having successfully treated many thousands of cases,
we can safely say of our remedies that they are very positive in their
remedial effects. The great success which has attended the employment of
these remedies has led us to rely upon them with implicit faith. By
their persistent use, spermatorrhea and threatened impotency can be
cured as readily as other chronic or lingering diseases. We particularly
solicit those cases which have heretofore been regarded as incurable.
The patient is subjected to no surgical operation, and he can safely and
accurately follow the directions given, while the treatment does not
interfere with any ordinary occupation in which he may be engaged. These
delicate diseases should not be intrusted to physicians who advertise
under fictitious names, or to those of ordinary qualifications. The
general practitioner may be thoroughly read in these diseases, but he
cannot acquire the skill of a specialist who annually treats thousands
of cases, while the former seldom, if ever, has occasion to prescribe
for them.
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT WHEN UNDER TREATMENT. Under our peculiar and
improved system of treatment, gradual improvement in the patient's
condition will be manifested. The eye becomes more brilliant and
sparkling, the patient is less morose, his digestion improves, he is
less listless and despondent, takes more interest in business and other
affairs, his sleep is less disturbed and more refreshing, the strength
improves, and, if the sexual organs had become wasted in size, weak in
function, and flaccid and soft, they begin, by and by, to have more tone
and firmness, and to develope and increase in size, as their nutrition
is restored, by the checking of the exhausting drain which they have
sustained. If nocturnal emissions occur occasionally, the discharge
will, under the microscope, be found to be less watery, and to contain
increased numbers of _spermatozoa_, with heads and filaments perfect.
The patient now begins to gain in self-confidence, courage, and other
manly attributes, and, instead of the bashful, retiring, nervous,
languid hypochondriac, we see a man of ambition and energy, competent to
battle with the adversities of life. Who can estimate the value of such
a transformation from nervousness and despondency to vigorous manhood?
Who would begrudge all their earthly goods and treasures when thus
afflicted, to be so restored to health and enjoyment for of what avail
are the greatest riches when health and manhood itself are lost?
OUR TERMS BUSINESS-LIKE AND FAIR. Occasionally persona solicit us to
undertake the cure of these ailments, and, in case of failure, receive
no compensation. They write: "If you will _warrant_ that your
prescriptions will result in a _perfect restoration to health_, we will
gladly pay the fees that you ask." The absurdity of such a request is
apparent, and therefore we answer: "We cannot _warrant_ that you will
live even for the next twenty-four hours. We do not bet, play for
stakes, or wager our skill for money. Personal responsibility cannot be
shifted or evaded, and life and health, with all their momentous
considerations, are necessarily individual affairs. Therefore a proposal
to make the conditions of health a subject of speculation is a challenge
to gamble." The patient may not comply with the specified conditions,
and the physician's success depends upon a faithful application of the
prescribed treatment. For these reasons only a quack will be a party to
any such transaction. Ours is not a trading, hazardously speculative
profession. Besides, thousands of our patients reside long distances
away and we cannot know of their responsibility or honesty, nor spend
time inquiring after their financial standing.
EVIDENCES OF THE CURABILITY OF SPERMATORRHEA AND IMPOTENCY. Many
individuals afflicted with spermatorrhea and impotency, particularly
those who have been swindled by some of the many charlatans who are to
be found in nearly every city, are incredulous, and doubt our ability to
cure these maladies. Others are skeptical, because their physician, who
may be a very skillful general practitioner, but who has had very little
or no experience in treating these delicate maladies, has failed to
relieve them, and, perhaps, has told them the disease is incurable.
We therefore beg the indulgence of our readers for here offering some
indisputable evidence of the extraordinary success which we have
achieved, by our peculiar methods of treating these affections, as
pursued at the World's Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute.
This evidence is introduced for the encouragement of an unfortunate
class of invalids, for many of whom existence has ceased to possess any
charms. The grateful manifestations which we have received from this
class of sufferers have afforded us one of the greatest pleasures of our
lives, and have alone been a rich remuneration for the diligent study
and arduous labors devoted to the investigation of these diseases and to
the perfecting of our peculiar and successful methods of treating them.
SACREDLY CONFIDENTIAL. In introducing the following extracts from our
extensive files of letters, the names of the writers will be omitted, as
we regard all such correspondence, as well as facts communicated to us
in personal consultations, as _sacredly confidential._
Lack of space and fear of wearying the reader, prevent us from
introducing more than a few extracts; but these are only fair samples of
_thousands_ that have been received. Those given, present cases in
almost every stage of treatment, some soon after commencing, others
further advanced, and still others which are cured. If we could devote
the space, and had we time to select them, we could insert an almost
unlimited number of those received from patients who have been perfectly
cured; but we think the reader will be more interested in expressions
coming from patients in all stages of treatment, as they are daily
received. Therefore, without regard for literary excellence, we append a
number chosen miscellaneously, and given _verbatim_. They express the
sentiments of persons in all stages of life, and illustrate the views
and feelings generally entertained by those whom we have been called
upon to treat.
The following extracts are spontaneous acknowledgments, and are,
therefore, more valuable and truthful than if obtained by solicitation,
a practice contrary to our sense of propriety, and, hence, one in which
we never indulge. Although ofttimes less expressive of satisfaction and
gratitude than if the communication were presented in full, yet only
sufficient space can be spared for a brief quotation from each letter.
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TESTIMONIALS
CASE 175,827. IMPOTENCY, CONSTIPATION, AND SEMINAL LOSS AT STOOL AND
WITH THE URINE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--Since I have taken
the remainder of a third month's treatment that you gave me I have been
relieved of my trouble. The emissions have ceased and the losses at
stool and in the water have left me. Eighteen months ago I was almost a
complete wreck; now I take an Interest in business and am in excellent
health.
Respectfully, S., Waveland, Ind.
CASE 177,068. SPERMATORRHEA. LOSS OF VITAL STRENGTH. CARED WITH SEVEN
MONTHS' TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--You have
undoubtedly wondered at my long silence. Since last I wrote you there
has been a marked change in my life (of which I will speak further on),
under your skillful treatment. I improved so rapidly, notwithstanding
the many interruptions which misfortune on my part occasioned, that six
months ago I considered myself cured. I have been married three months
and a half to a worthy woman, who should have gained for herself a
husband who never deviated from a virtuous path as much as I; but the
attachment formed was so strong that no misfortune seemed powerful
enough to sever it. The barrier which seemed insurmountable, and which I
had erected myself by early indiscretions and excesses, has given way,
thanks to your superior medical knowledge and skillful treatment. Again
I can hold up my head and say, "I am a man. I never fail to call the
attention of my friends to your Institution as the best in the world,
for I have reason to know that it is truly so. I have recommended two
friends of mine to you, who are under your treatment, and are getting
well. One has tried all the local physicians, and many firms, but with
no success. May God bless you, and may your Institution meet with all
the success it so richly deserves, is the prayer and wish of one you
have caved. J., Leadville, Colo.
CASE 178,666. EMISSIONS, AND LOSS OF WEIGHT AND STRENGTH.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I have had no
emissions now for some time, and feel well in every way. I am gaining in
strength and weight, and find I shall not need further medical
treatment. The four months' medicines that you have sent me have
effected a radical regeneration in my health, and I thank you for it.
M., Hartford, Conn.
CASE 111,477. SPERMATORRHEA AND IRRITABLE BLADDER; CURED BY TWO MONTHS'
TREATMENT.
This was a badly complicated case of spermatorrhea, the patient being
also troubled with frequent urination, partial impotency, mucous
discharges from the urethra, and a burning sensation in the testicle and
groin.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--I
took the two months' treatment sent me by you as directed. After taking
the first month's treatment the emissions ceased entirely, my appetite
increased, and I slept much better. Eight months ago I finished the
second month's treatment and have since been in perfect health. I am
fully convinced that you do every thing that you promise. I am,
gentlemen, yours respectfully,
R., Fort Totten, Dakota.
CASE 266,080. SPERMATORRHEA. THREATENED IMPOTENCY. A SEVERE CASE, CURED
BY SIX MONTHS' TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I have received the
last medicine sent me, and have taken all with the best results. I have
so improved in health that I think it unnecessary for me to take any
more medicine. It is now several days since I took the last of the
medicine, and have not had any return of the disease. The desire to
masturbate seems to have left me, and I feel well, happy and strong.
When I look back to the time before I commenced to take your medicine,
the change that has taken place seems wonderful. I had lost all hope of
being restored from the ruinous habit I had practiced for many years
without knowing how fatal it was to health. I tried hard to stop the
practice, but it had grown so strong on me that I would always practice
it again, and was fast becoming impotent. Had emissions at night; was
nervous, downhearted; and I lost flesh, and felt miserable in many ways
too numerous to mention. But now I feel healthy and well. If I had been
more careful, and had not stopped treatment so soon before, I might have
been cured in four or five months. Nevertheless, I am well satisfied,
and thankful that I am restored to health in six months; and I wish to
express my sincere thanks to you and your Institution, for I owe my
restoration to health and happiness to you. If in the future I need any
medical skill, I shall always apply to your Institution, being certain
of receiving the best attention. Yours thankfully, S., Pittsburgh, Pa.
CASE 62,365. VERY BAD CASE OF SPERMATORRHEA AND IMPOTENCY. CURED WITH
SIX MONTHS' TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--It has now been
nine months since I stopped your treatment, and as there has been no
return of former symptoms, I judge there can be no doubt as to my cure
being permanent. I must confess that, having been duped and swindled by
so many previous to visiting you, I had not much confidence when I went
to Buffalo to see you. But your specialists, and your Manager, seemed to
talk so straightforwardly and without making any of those extravagant
promises that I have become so used to, that I became convinced of your
skill before I had been long in your wonderful Institution. I think
almost any invalid who will visit your Hotel, and see for themselves the
wonderful appliances that you have accumulated for the cure of disease,
must soon become convinced that if there can be any hope of relief it
can be secured there, if anywhere. There I saw those who told me they
had been brought there on beds or couches for hundreds of miles, and
that they had not been able to walk for two to four years, and yet with
two or three months' treatment were able to go about everywhere, and
were about ready to return home. Such experiences as these established
my confidence, and to-day I bless the day I first visited the Invalids'
Hotel. True, it took six months to cure me, but I presume you seldom
have cases to equal in severity the condition I was in when I applied to
you. I was so bad, as you will remember, though I do not suppose you
rely upon any thing but your records in referring to cases, having so
many under treatment at all times, at all events, if you will turn to
the record of my case, which is "File No. 62,365," you will see that I
had discharges of semen every time my bowels moved and without
erections. In fact, I was completely impotent. I am now as strong and
vigorous as any man. You told me it would probably take a year to cure
me, but as you accomplished it in five months, though I continued to
take medicine a month longer to insure against a relapse, I think myself
very fortunate. Should any of your staff have occasion to come this way,
I should be only to glad to do any thing I can to entertain them.
Gratefully yours,
C., St. Louis, Mo.
CASE 183,998. GENERAL DEBILITY. EMISSIONS AND LOSS OF ENERGY. URINARY
IRRITATION.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--The reason for my
not continuing treatment further than the fourth month, is the fact that
my health is so much improved that I do not need it. I feel like a new
being. All of my bad symptoms are gone, and I feel that I am cured. For
eight months my health has continued to improve all the time. I owe you
and your staff a debt of gratitude that I can never pay.
Yours with thanks, H., Johnson's Bayou, La.
CASE 152,504. SPERMATORRHEA.
Mr. S., of Bagwell, Texas, writes as follows: "language fails to express
my gratitude for what your treatment has done for me. I have gained
forty-two pounds since coming under your care. My cure is perfect."
CASE 174,628. SPERMATORRHEA. EXTREMELY BAD CASE. LOSS OF VOICE;
THREATENED WITH CONSUMPTION.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am thankful to
say that as a result of eight months' treatment you have given me, the
symptoms of my disease have been entirely removed. My voice has got
strong and clear, and my breathing is easy and natural. My weight is
increased, and in every way I am feeling well. I cannot refrain from
penning a few lines.
H., Port Hope, Ont.
CASE 113,274. SPERMATORRHEA.
Mr. K., of Kalamazoo, Mich., writes: "I feel that you have proven to be
the best friend I have on earth. It is about three weeks now since I
finished the last month's medicines, and I feel as strong as I ever did
in my life. When I commenced taking your medicines I only weighed 155
pounds, but now I weigh 170 pounds. I feel strong and rugged; my step is
firm and bold; and I feel altogether a new man, for which I return you
my sincere thanks."
CASE 173,399. EMISSIONS. LOSS OF WEIGHT AND APPETITE; DYSPEPSIA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--I write to let you
know that my health is improved, and to thank you for the same. The
emissions occur only at intervals of several months, and I do not have
any more polluting dreams. I am better in every way. My appetite is
improved, and my digestion is perfect. Have gained in weight, and sleep
well. I have not required all of the last supply of medicine, the sixth
month, and I think I will pull through all right. Please accept my
thanks for the benefit effected.
D., Valparaiso, Ind.
CASE 45,757. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--Received yours
dated Oct. 27th, and am happy to say that I have so far recovered as to
believe further treatment unnecessary. I feel like a new man; am able to
do a full day's work without pain or laziness. I am very thankful for
the benefits I have received through your skill, and should I think it
necessary at any time for me to renew the treatment, I will be glad to
call on you.
Yours with great respect. A., Zanesville, O.
CASE 175,315. SPERMATORRHEA; DIZZINESS AND BILIOUSNESS; DYSPEPSIA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am in good
health, and can say that I am cured. The emissions have stopped, and I
have no unnatural discharges, nor dizziness in the head. My health is
good in general, and I work hard every day. Physically, I have a good
appetite and digestion, which is a great change from what it was when
you first treated me. Although I continued the treatment for eight
months, owing to the complications and severity of my case, yet I am
thankful for the great relief.
D., Newport, Ark.
CASE 39,625. SEMINAL AND NERVOUS DEBILITY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--My case was one of
long standing, and had brought me to think and meditate more of dying a
consumptive's death, than living. The ill success I had met in trying to
recover my lost manhood, had put me in such a constantly low-spirited
condition, that nothing was interesting or pleasurable. I am highly
pleased to report the improvement in my condition. My voice, weak and
hoarse when I commenced treatment, is now strong and masculine. Hope and
self-confidence have returned, and my countenance is firm and resolute.
The dull, heavy, pressing pain under my left shoulder, is entirely gone,
long ago. The pain and weakness in hips, back, and side, are never felt.
I am in every way fully restored to perfect health and manhood.
Yours sincerely, O. Sheboygan, Mich.
CASE 67,546. SPERMATORRHEA. CURED IN FOUR MONTHS.
[EXTRACT FROM LETTER.]
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--It is with great
pleasure that I write you. I have taken but one month's treatment from
you, and if I should just give you a full history of my case before and
since I have taken your medicine, you would not believe the improvement
could be true. I feel better every way. I am without language to express
my thanks to you for the great work you have done for me.
Your ever true friend,
B., Blountville, Sullivan Co., Tenn.
CASE 22,511. IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--Accept my thanks
for the great benefit received from your treatment. I never thought I
could be so fully restored.
G., Peru, Ind.
CASE 450,422. SPERMATORRHEA, SEMINAL DEBILITY, MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.
CURED WITH SIX MONTHS' TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am thankful to
say that, as the result of the six months' treatment you have given me,
that I am cured of my trouble. Since the beginning of the treatment the
losses became less and less frequent, and now I am entirely relieved,
and desire to return my sincerest thanks to you for the good you have
done and the kind attention that you gave me.
Sincerely yours, G., Milverton, Ont.
CASE 48,927. NERVOUS DEBILITY AND IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--My head is clear
and I feel like myself again, and now only wish that the money I spent
for useless medicines and experimenting doctors, had at once found its
way to you. By recommending you to others suffering as I did, I hope to
assist in your honorable work. For my restoration to health and manhood,
I am deeply grateful.
Truly yours, B., Philadelphia, Pa.
CASE 154,136. SEMINAL WEAKNESS.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--I
see no further use in continuing your medicines, as I now feel perfectly
well and the emissions have stopped entirely. I used to feel dizzy,
exhausted, and irritable on arising in the morning, but now I feel
nothing of the kind.
Respectfully, K., Johnstown, Pa.
CASE 175,391. SPERMATORRHEA, WITH SYMPTOMS OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE AND
TORPID LIVER.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--When I applied to
you for treatment, although a man of apparently perfect health, yet I
was subject to an exhausting drain, and felt myself gradually declining
in vigor of intellect and constitution. The five months' treatment that
you have sent me has effected a very remarkable change in my health. My
kidneys (which had troubled me so that I feared Bright's disease) and
torpid liver have become natural, and I feel like a new man. The only
precaution I now take is not to sleep on my back; and I feel that I am
cured. I send you the names of some other patients, and close by saying
that I thank you sincerely for the cure, and the great benefit in my
health that has resulted from your treatment.
M., Manhattan, Kans.
CASE 110,837, STRICTURE AND SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--My seminal trouble
was cured long since, and I had forgotten it. Your medicines relieved me
of that in a short time, and I am satisfied that it will cure the worst
cases in a few weeks. I am also satisfied that you and your faculty
accomplish more in the healing art than any other in the country, and I
cannot say too much in recommendation of your institution. I have tried
your institution, and have found your words true in every sense, and
take pleasure in authorizing you to use my name in any way to suit
yourself. My appetite is good, and I have no pain or trouble whatever.
The neuralgia in the lungs, the tough phlegm, weakness, etc., have all
disappeared.
A.
CASE 111,571. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
_Gentlemen_--Under the influence of your last course of medicine my
health has improved so greatly that I feel any further treatment to be
unnecessary. My health is better now than at any other period for years.
The night emissions have ceased entirely, I not having had one now for
many months. I feel better in every way.
Respectfully,
P. Pittsburgh, Pa.
CASE 57,757. LOST SEXUAL POWER REGAINED.
[EXTRACT FROM LETTER.]
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--While taking your
medicine I labored physically. I am cheerful, hopeful, joyous, glad, and
grateful for my restoration to sound and vigorous health. My friends
daily express surprise at the great change in my personal appearance,
and declare that I appear younger than I did fifteen years ago. I always
reply that I obtained my new lease of life from the World's Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y.
With sincere gratitude and great respect, I subscribe myself W., Canyon
City, Grant Co., Oregon.
CASE 3,508. SEMINAL AND NERVOUS DEBILITY OF THIRTY YEARS' STANDING.
CURED IN TWO MOUTHS.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _My kind Benefactors_--Inclosed
find the case of my daughter-in-law, whom I desire you to treat,
believing that you can cure her. I feel assured that if you fail in the
cure of her case, now so chronic, that no human skill will be of
benefit.
Some four or five years ago you treated me for general debility and
premature decay, with severe attacks of vertigo. The first month's
medicines, which were sent by express, effected a relief of my case.
Owing to the long standing of my trouble (twenty-five or thirty years),
I concluded to continue the treatment another month. My order was
promptly filled by mail. By these two months' treatment I was perfectly
cured, my whole system renovated and invigorated. I have been repeatedly
asked what I had been doing to cause such an improvement in my personal
appearance, and activity, for an old man. With profound gratitude,
adding love,
I am your obedient servant,
W., Rusk, Texas.
CASE 250,336. SPERMATORRHEA; LOSS OF STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF MEMORY.
CURED WITH SEVEN MONTHS' TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I have not taken
any medicine since last December, at which time I had closed the seventh
months' treatment. I am happy to say that, as a result, my mind is clear
and easy. I am steadily gaining in strength, and feel better than I have
for many years, and owe it all to your treatment and advice. I hope you
will live long and prosper, and continue to dispense a balm for
suffering humanity. I will close by giving your faculty my greatest
devotion and sincere thanks, and hope success will crown your business.
W., Pickens, Miss.
CASE 82,127. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--Your
last month's treatment has entirely cured me. I have been married three
weeks and am happy, thanks to your unexampled skill.
B., Blackberry, Kane Co., Ill.
CASE 88,736. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--Sure
enough I am well, and I desire to thank you for your medical skill. My
strength is very greatly increased, my digestion and appetite are
perfect. I sleep well and awake refreshed, and, in fact, feel better
every way. My eyesight, which was weak, is wonderfully improved, and my
physical condition is now perfect in every way. All the emissions have
ceased.
Respectfully,
B., Fayette, Howard Co., Mo.
CASE 144,241. SEMINAL DEBILITY. CURED WITH FOUR MONTHS' TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am happy to say
that your treatment, which I have taken four months, has effected a
radical cure of my trouble, and you are at liberty to use my name and
address as a reference. Your treatment has effected a cure in my case.
Very truly yours,
M., Trout Creek, N.Y.
CASE 71,250. SPERMATORRHEA OF THIRTEEN YEARS' STANDING.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--I
can honestly say, as the result of your treatment, that I feel better
now than at any time previous for years. My disease is under complete
control, and I have no fear of any further trouble in that direction. In
a word, I feel that I am cured and well; and you may rest assured that I
shall take great pains to avoid in the future the cause that brought me
to my former condition. I am, indeed, thankful to you, as your treatment
has made it possible for me to lead a better life, and effectually to
resist those passions which so long dominated over me.
I remain, very respectfully yours,
H, Council Bluffs, Iowa
CASE 142,842. SPERMATORRHEA CURED.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--it
is with great thankfulness to you that I pen these few lines. I am
to-day a strong and healthy man, which I never would have been but for
your kind and skillful attention. My health was completely broken down
by the effects of self-abuse, and I doctored with other physicians for
two years, but with no success. However, after a few months of your
treatment I find my health fully restored. I am now in a condition to
enjoy the world and take comfort wherever I am; in a word, I am "a man
among men." I most cordially invite all persons requiring skillful
medical treatment to apply to the World's Dispensary.
M., Fredericville, Mich.
CASE 174,937. SPERMATOZOA. THREATENED WITH IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I finished your
three months' course of treatment some weeks ago, and am glad to say
that I am a well man. A thousand thanks to you.
K., Warm Springs, Mont. Ter.
CASE 52,272. SEMINAL DEBILITY. LOSS OF MANHOOD. GENERAL WEAKNESS FROM
EXCESSES.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--I took your
medicines according to directions, and I feel that I am fully restored
to health and the enjoyment of my manly powers. My health is better than
it has been for years, and is improving all the time. The headache and
dizziness have entirely left me. You have my honest recommendations to
all sufferers.
Thankfully yours, M., Hudson, N.Y.
CASE 44,573. IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--As a result of your
three months' treatment, I am feeling better than I have for twenty
years,--more of a man in every way.
S., Prairie Star, Neb.
CASE 56,811. NERVOUS DEBILITY. AFFECTION OF SEVERAL YEARS' STANDING,
PERMANENTLY CURED BY ONE MONTH'S TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--Five years have
elapsed since my case was cured by you with one month's treatment. Since
that time I have not had the first symptom of the disease. I know I am
cured.
Yours with thanks, C., Kalamazoo, Mich.
CASE 175,579. EMISSIONS, YELLOW COMPLEXION, BLACK HEADS AND ERUPTIONS ON
THE FACE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION:, _Gentlemen_--I am happy to say
that I have not used all of the last month's medicine. The five months'
treatment that I have had from you has effected my entire cure. I have
had no losses for many weeks, and my complexion is restored to its
natural clearness and purity. The black heads and pimples have all
disappeared.
K., Neillsville, Wis.
CASE 21,437. IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--I have, as a result
of your treatment, been more of a man than before in six years. I have
felt, worked, and eaten better than ever before. My strength is in every
way fully restored.
C., Jordanville, N.Y.
CASE 38,005. IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--When I first wrote
you I had given up all hope of ever getting well. I had not worked for
two years. I had not been under your treatment three months before I
went to work, and have been at it ever since. I gain every day.
C., Hinsdale, N.H.
CASE 53,578. SPERMATORRHEA. GREAT LOSS OF STRENGTH AND FLESH, APPETITE
REGULAR, SOMETIMES RAVENOUS AND THEN VERY POOR. INTELLECT AND MEMORY
MUCH ENFEEBLED, THE RESULT OF LOSSES THROUGH THE URINE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--The condition of my
health is highly satisfactory, thank Heaven and you as the instrument.
It has often been a cause of astonishment to me, to think now admirably
your medicines controlled my cage; it seems wonderful even now. I say,
with all my heart, God bless your noble work, for the cure of my disease
and perfect restoration of my health and strength.
A., Shongo, Allegany Co., N.Y.
CASE 52,920. SPERMATORRHEA, RESULTING IN DYSPEPSIA AND HEART DISEASE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am gratified to
be able to report my cure. My case was a severe one, the insidious drain
upon my system producing general debility, attacks of severe palpitation
of the heart, and obstinate dyspepsia. Since using your medicines, I
have been cured of these troubles. I have no palpitation, digestion
good, not easily worried, able to work hard without undue fatigue,
strength greatly increased. My weight is now 163. I am thankful to God
and to you for the evidence of my final cure.
Yours devotedly,
R.
CASE 51,002. SPERMATORRHEA. RHEUMATIC PAINS, GENERAL LOSS OF MEMORY,
STRENGTH, MANLINESS, AND INTELLECTUAL POWER.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--When I sent to you
for medicines, I little expected the remarkable benefit that has
resulted. The rheumatic pains that have so long troubled me, ceased
within a week. I am now able to attend to my business with my former
ability and energy. You have my gratitude for the cure effected in my
case.
Very respectfully,
P., Bloomington, Ill.
CASE 146,406. SPERMATORRHEA, WITH DYSPEPSIA, CATARRH, AND BACKACHE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am happy to say
that as a result of five months' treatment, the weakness of my urinary
and generative organs has been entirely relieved. My catarrh is so much
better. The difficulty in the head is now gone, and I have no
discomfort. The weakness in the back, and pain in the kidneys, has all
left me, and I rest well at night. There are now no unnatural
discharges, and I am happy to say that your medicines have effected such
a change in my condition that now I continue to improve all the time.
D.,
Medusa, N.Y.
CASE 52,121. SPERMATORRHEA. SYMPTOMS: DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS,
LOSS OF SEXUAL POWER AND WASTING OF THE ORGANS, GENERAL DEPRESSION AND
EMACIATION. MOST SEVERE FORM OF THE DISEASE. CURE WITH THREE MONTHS'
TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--I have waited
several months and find my cure perfect and permanent. Thanks to you my
health and manhood have been perfectly restored, and I am as fat as a
bullock.
S.,
Millbrook, Ont.
CASE 4,100. SPERMATORRHEA. ENTIRELY BROKEN DOWN.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--Over eight years
ago I visited you at your office this present month, very melancholy and
thinking perhaps that in six months I would be lying in my cold and
silent grave, and now I am strong and healthy. I never was so healthy in
my life. Am married, and we have two of the nicest children you ever
saw. I am the happiest man in town, and hope to ever be so. My sickness
was contracted through ignorance and self-abuse. I am glad to say that I
have had a permanent cure, and thank God. I feel grateful to you and
thank you kindly.
Yours very truly,
L., Barnes' Corners, N.Y.
CASE 52,004. EMISSIONS. LOSS OF WEIGHT, STRENGTH, AND MENTAL POWER.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL, ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--I received the
month's treatment sent for, and took it. It worked like a charm. I have
no more emissions, and my weight, energy and strength, are fully
restored.
R.,
Fort Collins, Colo.
CASE 53,859. SPERMATORRHEA. FIVE YEARS' STANDING. SYMPTOMS: FREQUENT
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, LOSS OF MEMORY, NERVOUS, NO ENERGY OR STRENGTH.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--Pardon me for not
sending you a report of my condition before this. Have been waiting to
see if there would be any relapse. I am assured that my cure is complete
and perfect. None of the symptoms of the disease remain. Your medicines
I can recommend as the most powerful and direct to accomplish good I
have ever taken. I feel it my duty now to give you my heart-felt
acknowledgment for the good done me.
Respectfully,
H. Goshen N.Y.
CASE 38,973. SPERMATORRHEA. EXTREMELY BAD CASE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--You have cured me
sound and well of the terrible effects of early indiscretion. My case
was worse than any I have ever read, and I never expected to get well.
With eight months treatment taken at my home, I have been fully
restored. You have my sincere and hearty thanks. C., Halifax, N.S.
CASE 70,648. SPERMATORRHEA AND THREATENED IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _My Dear Benefactors_--Please
accept my sincere thanks. Words at my command are inadequate to express
my feelings when I realize the great beneficial features of your most
excellent remedy. I have spoken to several of my most intimate friends
who are similarly affected, and after I took the first dose I was
completely relieved, and the flesh I gained was in such abundance that I
was scarcely identified by them. I gave part of your _par excellence_
medicine to a bosom companion of mine, named ----. He became
convalescent, but desires another bottle. Write to him at once. Your
name will be held in the highest esteem by these invalids, and by
Yours respectfully, H., Cincinnati, Ohio.
CASE 143,838. SPERMATORRHEA, WITH PARALYSIS AND DYSPEPSIA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Sirs_--Your treatment worked
like a charm with me. Before I sent to you I consulted my family doctor,
and asked him what he thought of my case. To give you his own words, he
said. "J., I think you will be an entire cripple." I then thought I
would write to you. I had not taken more than three months' medicine
when I was out in the harvest field. I sleep all night, have a good
appetite, my back has got well, and I can lay all night. My limbs are
stronger, and my nerves are again all right. Upon the whole I am a new
man, and my mental powers are much relieved. In eighteen months from the
time I placed my case under your treatment, I was better than I had been
in ten years, and feel like myself.
Yours truly, J., Peru Mills, Pa.
CASE 93,264. SEMINAL WEAKNESS.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
_Gentlemen_--Allow me most sincerely to thank you for the great benefit
I have derived from your two months' treatment. When I first wrote to
you I felt as if my life on earth was short, indeed; but, thank God,
through His help and yours, I have been saved from filling an early
grave as the results of self-abuse. Before I began treatment I was pale
and sickly; I had palpitation of the heart so bad that I often expected
to drop dead in the street; I had loss of voice; always felt tired; I
had involuntary emissions of semen in the night, which always made me
feel weak through the next day; whilst quite often my mind was filled
with suicidal thoughts. Such was the price I was compelled to pay for
violating the laws of God and nature. Now every thing is changed. I
thank you a thousand times, Doctor, for the great good you nave done me.
May God bless you. I shall always be pleased to recommend your treatment
to everybody, and I will cheerfully answer any communication that I may
receive in relation to this. W., Lynn, Mass.
CASE 140,948. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Dear Sirs_--I
believe myself to be free of the trouble for which you have been
treating me. It seems too good to be true, yet I feel satisfied that I
am more of a man than ever before in my life. I have not the time nor
ability to thank you in the high-flown language peculiar to testimonial
writers, but suffice it to say that I am.
Most gratefully yours, S.
CASE 44,464. NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
This gentleman, engaged as the head of a large academy, suffered
severely from mental depression, weakened memory, nervous exhaustion,
and lack of intellectual power, the result of the delicate drain upon
the nervous system and his severe labors. We append his letter after
four months' treatment:
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--My friends all
notice and speak of my decided improvement. My health and faculties are
again as they were years ago. Yours, H., Philadelphia, Penn'a.
CASE 33,928. SPERMATORRHEA, RESULTING IN CONSUMPTION.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--I would have been
beyond the reach of aid now but for your treatment. I am now enjoying
perfect health. Yours gratefully. H., Gillie's Hill Ont.
CASE 42,921. SPERMATORRHEA, RESULTING IN DYSPEPSIA AND DECIDED LOSS OF
STRENGTH.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am deeply
indebted to you. The disagreeable head symptoms, dyspepsia and weakness
are all gone. I can now eat and digest as hearty a meal as any one, and
feel well, healthful and energetic. Never have any losses. I was very
sick when I commenced treatment, but was speedily relieved.
Yours truly,
S., Charles River Village, Mass.
CASE 44,866. SPERMATORRHEA, WITH MARKED LOSS OF MEMORY, HEALTH, AND TONE
OF SYSTEM.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I took treatment of
you last summer. The improvement was marked, and I have continued to
grow healthier and stronger, notwithstanding I have been busy all the
time and nave studied very hard. Do not get fatigued as before. I read
six orations of CICERO in seven weeks and passed with honor a very close
examination. My limbs are solid and strong, whereas before I was weak,
and my flesh cold, soft, and clammy. I am in college working hard.
Truly, P.
CASE 147,411. APPROACHING IMPOTENCY. RENEWED HEALTH AFTER FIVE MONTHS'
TREATMENT.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I can gratefully
say I am feeling like a new man since taking your prescription for
seminal weakness. While I was in the West two months, my wife received
two months' treatment from you, and on my return home, to my greatest
satisfaction, her cheeks were as red as roses and her health greatly
improved, for which accept our profound thanks. May your honored
President live long and do good unto the sons and daughters of afflicted
humanity, is our prayer. W., Aral, Va.
CASE 44,198. NERVOUS PROSTRATION, CAUSED BY SELF-ABUSE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--Your kindness to me
I can never forget. I cannot express half my feelings of gratefulness to
you. I had despaired of ever getting well. Thanks to your skill I am now
a new being. Yours very truly, B., Steuben County, N.Y.
CASE 53,816. NERVOUS DEBILITY, CAUSED BY SELF-ABUSE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--My health has
improved so that I no longer need treatment. You have my heart-felt
thanks for the good you have done me, and may you have as good success
in treating the hundreds of others as you have had in mine. I remain
yours very truly, K., Hartford, Conn.
CASE 53,913. NERVOUS DEBILITY AND IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I shall ever
remember you with gratitude. My relief is perfect and permanent. I feel
_so_ much better. I remain yours truly, J., Jacksonville, Ill.
CASE 254,484. SPERMATORRHEA; GENERAL DEBILITY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am happy to say
that your medicines and treatment are always ahead of what they are
represented, and I hope you will accept my deep and sincere thanks for
the good you have done me. My weakness and debility have entirely
disappeared, and I can say that the expense of the six months' treatment
I received from you, has been repaid a hundredfold, by the benefits it
has effected in my condition. F., Starkey, N.Y.
CASE 54,803. NERVOUS DEBILITY AND IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I have taken the
last of the medicine which you sent me, and feel satisfied it has
entirely cured me. I return my thanks to you for the good you have done
me. F., East Liverpool, Ohio.
CASE 69,116. SEMINAL WEAKNESS, WITH CANCEROUS TESTICLE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--It has now been
over two years since you treated me and found it necessary to remove one
testicle on account of cancerous disease, that must soon have destroyed
life had the operation not been performed. T feel myself a strong,
healthy man, having had no symptoms of the seminal weakness for months
past. Yours, P., Pittsburgh. Penn's.
CASE 51,417. IMPOTENCY.
I am getting along so well with the medicine that I am a standing wonder
to my friends, and I shall not cease, while life lasts, to praise the
skill that has brought about such miraculous results.
Yours truly,
K., Chillicothe, Ohio.
CASE 67,004. IMPOTENCY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am only too happy
to say that I have fully recovered my powers in every particular since
placing myself under your treatment. I would not take $5,000 for the
good you have done me. I am only sorry that I did not go to you before
wasting time and money on the quacks connected with that "Museum of
Anatomy" in New York.
T., Philadelphia, Penn'a.
CASE 67,208. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--When placing myself
under your treatment, I was told that my case being an exceedingly bad
one, it would probably require six months in which to effect a perfect
cure. After taking your remedies four months I found myself in perfect
health, and have remained so ever since. I cannot express the gratitude
I feel for you, and can never half repay the debt of gratitude I owe
you. I have given your pamphlet,-"Abuse of the Male Generative Organs
and the Diseases to which it Gives Rise," to quite a number of young men
whom I had reason to suspect it might benefit.
Gratefully yours, T., Norfolk, Virginia.
CASE 67,070. SPERMATORRHEA.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I have now returned
home a now man, after four months' treatment from you. I need no more
medicines now. I would urge all suffering to go to you for help.
Thanking you for your services,
I remain yours truly,
R., Bunch, Iowa.
CASE 431,637. IMPOTENCY, WITH NERVOUS DEBILITY AND LIVER DISEASE.
This gentleman applied for the relief of the following symptoms:
Exhausting and frequent seminal emissions, losses in the urine, want of
manly strength, nervous prostration, indigestion, torpid condition of
the liver, headache, nausea, and constipation. After a course of five
months' treatment he writes:
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I am very grateful
to you for the good you have done me, and I feel like a man now. It is
sometime since I left off medicine. I have continued to improve, and I
feel better than I have for years before treatment. I am happy at the
restoration of my health and vigor. I shall recommend you to all
sufferers. Hoping you will continue to be successful.
I remain,
Yours truly,
P., Canaan, Conn.
CASE 111,489. SEMINAL EMISSIONS, LOSS OF MEMORY AND GENERAL DECLINE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
_Gentlemen_--Inclosed please find money for my last supply of medicines.
You seem to understand my condition thoroughly. My color, appetite, and
strength have improved wonderfully, and my sleep is sound, undisturbed
and refreshing. Under the influence of your medicines I have completely
recovered my mental and physical powers, and I feel that I am able to
discontinue further treatment. The emissions have become less and less
frequent until now they do not trouble me at all.
I remain, yours truly, H., Eagle Springs, Coryell Co., Tex.
CASE 51,203. SPERMATORRHEA. PERFECT CURE. HIS LETTER BEFORE TREATMENT,
AND AFTER.
(First letter.)
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Dear Sirs_--It was my pleasant
privilege to read concerning your skill in the treatment of all kinds of
diseases, and concerning your reputation, which is most justly merited.
Encouraged by these facts to place explicit confidence in you. I beg
leave to state my own case as clearly as I may be able. It is as sad as
it is fatal if no thorough cure can be effected. I have from my twelfth
year onward been practicing, though not excessively, the evil,
_self-abuse._ Although I have been led to abandon the pernicious habit
for several years, my age being twenty-four, the horrible effects have
not disappeared. The serious result is that I am suffering from
spermatorrhea. An involuntary discharge of the seminal fluid occurs
invariably once, not infrequently twice, every week during sleep. The
genital organs have become diminished in size. I will proceed to state
the symptoms which I have been able to observe. They are--disposition to
solitude, inaptitude for study, indolence, forgetfulness, melancholy,
weakness in the back (especially perceptible after standing), a lack of
confidence in my own ability, want of energy, sometimes pain in the
chest, elbow, arm, knees, and loins. Uneasy nights, disturbed and highly
disagreeable dreams becoming more and more irritating as the time for
the discharge of the seminal fluid draws nearer, also a desire to lie
longer in bed in the morning.
Now, dear Doctors, permit me to ask your kind advice as to what means
are to be taken. I have tried numerous remedies for more than a year,
but to no effect. My suffering grows severer. Please reply as speedily
as you may be able. If you be so kind as to honor me with an answer,
please state the amount of money needed for your services, which shall
be forwarded at once. Please find inclosed one dollar, remuneration for
your kind services.
Very respectfully,
M., Wheeling, Cook Co., Ill.
(At the close of treatment.)
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--I have finished the
eight months' treatment; had I been able to follow the directions more
closely, three months' treatment would have effected a permanent cure of
my case. Now I am well, body strengthened, mind invigorated, memory
revived, energy to work restored, cheerfulness and bright hopes, once
altogether lost, are now fully regained. Indeed, I feel like a new
being. And now, dear Doctors, in closing our important correspondence,
permit me to render my heart-felt thanks for your kindness to me, and
for the benefit received from your invaluable treatment. Adieu; may God
grant you a long life, that you may benefit many an afflicted one.
Very truly yours, M., Wheeling, Cook Co., Ill
CASE 464,255. MASTURBATION. LOSS OF FLESH AND MENTAL POWER.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--After three months
of your treatment, I find myself cured of one of the worst habits that
it has ever been the lot of man to fall into. My whole system is
invigorated; I have no more weak back nor legs; no more emissions; my
strength is greatly increased, and my weight is more than it has ever
been before. The dull, heavy feeling in my head is entirely past, and I
can truly say that I feel like a new man. Hoping you will do as much
good in the future as you have in the past, is the wish of, Yours truly,
B., Holyoke, Mass.
CASE 91,656. SPERMATORRHEA. OBSTINATE CASE OF EIGHT YEARS' STANDING.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--I
have taken seven months' treatment from you, and to-day I am a well man.
My friends are surprised at the great change which has taken place in
me. The emissions have ceased entirely, and I am strong and well. I am a
thousand times obliged to you for the good your treatment has done for
me.
Respectfully yours, U., Topeka, Kansas.
CASE 461,306. ONANISM. MELANCHOLIA; CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--Having waited
several weeks after finishing the last medicine, to see if there would
be any relapse, I now send you a report of treatment. I believe I am
thoroughly cured, not only of poor health, but of all desire to abuse
myself. I have regained health, spirits, and confidence. Am married,
something I have long desired, but never before dared to attempt. Please
accept my sincere thanks, gentlemen. Your medicine has saved me from a
suicide's grave.
H., Denver, Col.
CASE 110,838. SEMINAL WEAKNESS AND FISTULA IN ANO.
A case of anal fistula that had been unsuccessfully treated by
Prof. ----, of Nashville, who had operated with the knife. He had also
been unsuccessfully treated by several home physicians who stated that
his symptoms of spermatorrhea were all that could be described, and more
too. The sensations of crawling and itching in the rectum were very
severe, and as a result of weakness there was a serious palpitation of
the heart, and general debility. The generative organs were unduly
excitable and weak. He complained of weakness in the rectum and loins,
with irregularity of the bowels, trembling and weakness of the entire
system. There was profuse discharge from the fistula and also from the
urethra. We undertook his case without making any promises of a radical
cure, as it seemed that the disease had progressed so that it would be
impossible to effect more than satisfactory improvement in his general
condition, and a palliation of the symptoms of disease. At the end of
seven months' treatment he writes as follows:
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: _Gentlemen_--The result of the
treatment you have sent me is a permanent cure of the fistula beyond a
doubt, and in a magical manner. My heart is very much improved, so that
it does not trouble me in the least. My health is perfect in every way.
It is unnecessary for me to order any more medicines, but should I think
at any time that a little is required to keep me in good health, I will
order at once. I think that I am entirely through with the fistula and
sympathetic weakness, and I can truly say that your remedies delivered
me from the jaws of death. With sincere thanks to you, I am, yours for
ever. D.
CASE 140,056. SPERMATORRHEA.
The following long-standing and aggravated case of seminal debility
began to yield at once under the specific influence of our medicines.
Frequent nocturnal emissions were present, and the semen also passed
off, unobserved and unsuspected, in the urine; of course a ceaseless
vital drain of this character began quickly and profoundly to impress
the constitution, so that when the patient under consideration applied
to us for relief, the most unmistakable symptoms of commencing organic
disease of the heart and lungs had plainly declared themselves to be
present. Like many hundreds, of similar cases which we cure annually,
the disease yielded promptly and perfectly to the well-directed efforts
of our specialist in this important branch of practice; indeed, so easy,
swift and perfect was the cure that the patient failed to realize the
necessity of continuing the treatment a few weeks in order to insure
himself against the possibility of a relapse, and discontinued his
correspondence with us, whereas it is in precisely such cases that we
recommend the treatment to be not too abruptly discontinued.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: _Gentlemen_--Your
kind favor, thoughtfully inquiring after my health, came duly to hand.
In answer, permit me to say that it was not my intention to take further
treatment as I considered my cure to be perfect, all local and general
symptoms having wholly subsided before I had finished the month's
course, and thus far manifesting no disposition to return. However, in
the light of your wisdom and experience, I have reconsidered the matter
and now believe with you that another month's course of treatment is
advisable, in order effectually to guard against the possibility of a
relapse. I accordingly inclose you the price of the additional month's
course. The second morning after commencing the use of your medicines I
awoke refreshed in body and mind, and this experience has been repeated
every morning since. The emissions were arrested at once, and I have not
had a single unnatural discharge since, except once when I experienced a
slight nocturnal emission, which, however, was followed by no depressing
after-effects, but altogether the reverse. I feel so much stronger and
better in all respects that It is a positive pleasure for me to do a
hard day's work now.
Respectfully, B., Crystal Lake, Wis.
CASE 86,291.
This gentleman had suffered during eleven years from seminal weakness as
the result of indiscretions in youth; nocturnal emissions were present,
and there was also a seminal loss with the urine, and at stool; the
patient's memory was greatly impaired and his mind otherwise affected
from the vital drain; he was dyspeptic, his bowels were costive, and
threatening symptoms of consumption had already begun to manifest
themselves when he came under our care. Two months of our special
treatment, at the patient's home, effected a perfect and permanent cure,
and completely arrested all abnormal seminal losses. The following
grateful letter is from the gentleman in question:
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
_Gentlemen_--Permit me to say that, six months after having discontinued
your treatment, my cure remains perfect. This great permanent and
enduring benefit was secured to me through only two months of your
skillful treatment and careful management of my case. Your medicines had
a wonderful control over my disease, driving away its terrible symptoms
as if by magic; they imparted to me a new power, filled my body and mind
with unusual vigor, and transformed me from one racked with pain and
living death or worse, to a full measure of health and happiness. I feel
that if I had not been opportunely and successfully treated by you, that
my life would have been permanently blighted, and that the happy and
contented mind that now inspires these lines would ere this have been
dethroned of reason. I feel that you have been my savior. I have not had
a single nocturnal emission since leaving your treatment, six months
ago. Thanking you, gentlemen, from the depths of a grateful heart, I
remain.
Your obedient servant, G., Cayuta, Schuyler Co., N.Y.
* * * * *
Did the interest of our readers demand it, we could add to the preceding
list an almost endless number of extracts from letters written by
grateful patients, expressing their heart-felt thanks for having been
cured of spermatorrhea and impotency by our treatment. But we have we
trust given sufficient to illustrate our great success in dealing with
these maladies.
A CAUTION TO THE AFFLICTED. We are daily consulted by persons suffering
from spermatorrhea and impotency who have been victimized by ignorant
charlatans. Some seek to dupe and swindle the unwary by claiming to have
themselves been cured of spermatorrhea or impotency by some
prescription, which they offer to send free to any sufferer. When the
prescription is obtained it is found to consist of a few articles
well-known to every druggist, coupled with certain arbitrary and
fictitious terms, unknown to everybody and not to be found in any
medical work extant. Following the prescription is a modest suggestion
that if it cannot be filled by the home druggist, the
benevolently-disposed party furnishing the prescription will be pleased
to send the medicine, already prepared, for from three to five dollars.
Of course, the whole scheme from beginning to end being a swindle, when
the "medicine" is obtained and taken it proves entirely useless. Skill
and genuine merit do not go begging. Men who spend hundreds of dollars
for the publication of advertisements offering to give away valuable
information can always be safely set down as swindlers.
In the public prints will be found advertised various ready prepared,
"put-up," or proprietary, so-called "remedies," "Specifics," "Boluses,"
"Pastiles," "Rectal Pearls," "Urethral Crayons," "Voltaic Belts,"
"Galvanic Belts," "Batteries," and "Pads," all recommended as infallible
remedies for spermatorrhea and impotency.
A vast experience in the treatment of these affections has satisfied us
that each case must be studied and treated according to the symptoms
manifested, and that medicines that are adapted to one stage of the
disease are entirely unsuited to other stages of the same case. No "Pad"
or "Battery and Pad," "Galvanic" or "Voltaic Belts," "Battery," "Bolus,"
or "Soluble Crayon," ever did or can help a case of this disease, except
it be in the imagination. Although the proprietors of the most popular
proprietary medicines in the market, medicines carefully adapted to the
cure of the diseases for which they are recommended, yet, should we
attempt to get up a general remedy to cure spermatorrhea and kindred
maladies, we are certain it would be an utter failure, and this is
entirely true of all such preparations now and heretofore offered for
sale, and, from the very nature of the diseases they are recommended to
cure, ever must be. Each case must have medicines carefully prepared to
meet the conditions present, and when these conditions, from the effects
of treatment or other causes, change, the treatment must be varied
accordingly.
POSITIVE INJURY instead of benefit often results from the employment of
some of the nostrums advertised for the cure of spermatorrhea, impotency
and kindred affections. Especially have we found that the use of
"Soluble Urethral Crayons," "Boluses," "Pastiles", and kindred
contrivances, which are so extensively advertised, are exceedingly
injurious, and often render otherwise moderate and simple cases,
complicated and incurable.
Although of pretended French origin, they are evidently the invention of
an ignoramus, who knows nothing of the delicate anatomy of the
generative organs or of the proper treatment of the diseases incident
thereto, for none other would have thought of such a preposterous plan
of treatment. No man should insert such absurdly devised and mischief
breeding contrivances into his urethra (urinary canal), for thereby he
is almost sure to do himself a permanent injury. So far from having been
invented by an eminent French surgeon, as claimed, such treatment is
entirely unknown in France, and ever has been, as the writer well knows
from personal observation and enquiry while sojourning in that country
and visiting its most noted hospitals and medical institutions.
All the various "Troches," "Boluses," "Wafers," "Suppositories,"
"Pearls," "Rectal Pearls," "Rectal Capsules," and other contrivances
which are recommended for the cure of Spermatorrhea and kindred
weaknesses, and which are designed to be employed by inserting them into
the lower bowel (rectum), and there permitting them to dissolve, are
only so many irrational and filthy devices for duping the ignorant and
innocent sufferers from these maladies.
AN ALLURING SWINDLE. A still more enticing, and hence more dangerous,
device for swindling unfortunate sufferers, is the widely advertised
"Vacuum Treatment" or "appliance" so loudly and plausibly recommended
for "Developing weak and wasted organs." A simple, little, brass air
pump, connected with a glass tube, or cylinder, fitted with a valve at
one end, which costs not to exceed one dollar and a half, is the
worthless device palmed off on the confiding ones _at from fifteen to
thirty dollars_. This is done under the _false pretense_ that its daily
use to pump blood into the weak or wasted organs, will cause their
development and growth.
Thousands have invested their hard earned cash in this worse than
worthless, injurious, contrivance. In fact the head of the concern
putting out this alluring device is said to have amassed a fortune out
of the nefarious business.
So far from benefiting any one, out of several hundreds of cases that
have come under our personal observation, in which this apparatus has
been faithfully used for a long period of time, we have never met with a
single case that had derived the slightest benefit therefrom. On the
contrary, we have been called upon to examine many who had been
_seriously injured_ by its use.
The sudden congestion or filling and over-distention of the delicate
blood-vessels of the organ operated upon, caused by placing it in a
vacuum, is liable to rupture these minute vessels, causing the
infiltration of blood into the tissues and giving rise to inflammation,
and in some cases, to _suppuration, mortification, sloughing_ and
_death_.
In other cases, the blood-vessels of the organ and adjacent parts are
so weakened by the _strain_ put upon them as to induce varicocele and
other diseased conditions. In spermatorrhea, it is the worst possible
thing that can be applied, for by forcing an undue amount of blood into
the part the sensitiveness of the organ is increased, irritation is set
up in the deep urethra, and the emissions are increased in frequency. In
this, and other ways, hundreds of men but slightly out of health have
been permanently injured.
But this is only a small part of the story connected with the
reprehensible business of palming off "The Vacuum Developing and
Strengthening Appliance." The precious rascals, not content with making
from a thousand to fifteen hundred per cent. profit on the miserable
device furnished, while advertising fifteen dollars ($15.00) as the
price of the "appliance" and "accompanying preparations," for "_ordinary
cases_," make a general practice, when they have secured the fifteen
dollars ($15.00), of sending it by express _with a bill to be collected
on delivery_ FOR FIFTEEN DOLLARS ($15.00) MORE. With this bill they send
an explanation, that "on re-examining the case" they "found it
necessary, or thought it advisable, to send their stronger and more
expensive preparations and appliances _for the worst cases_ AND SO HAVE
CHARGED FIFTEEN DOLLARS ($15.00) MORE TO COVER THE EXTRA EXPENSE."
It is astonishing that there are those who can be induced to part with
their money for such claptrap devices, and still more so that having
been duped and swindled out of their hard earned money through false
pretenses and promises of benefit held out to them, they should submit
quietly to such extortion and not have the swindlers arrested and
prosecuted for obtaining money under false pretenses as they richly
deserve. For what crime can be more deserving of punishment than the
holding out of false hopes and pretenses to the unfortunate? Employing
the United States mails for swindling is a pretty dangerous business,
and sooner or later these rascals will, we predict, find it out to their
sorrow. They are pretty sure to get hold of some men, ere long, who will
invoke the aid of the United States District Attorney to bring them to
justice.
YOUNG MAN, if you have, through ignorance, fallen into practices that
have arrested your physical growth and development in any of your organs
or parts, shun all such unscientific and worse than worthless
contrivances as you would shun a pestilence. No matter how plausible the
web of arguments woven to entrap you, be assured, they are the utterance
of knaves who care not what false hopes they encourage so they secure
your money.
Consult only those whose well known skill, experience and integrity will
insure honest dealings and the most scientific treatment known to the
"healing art," and who supply the latter at reasonable cost.
Be assured also, that when, through proper treatment, your weakness and
functional derangements are overcome, the parts that have suffered
therefrom, will regain all the strength and development possible to
impart to them through the aid of the physician's skill. Nature often
accomplishes wonders in this direction, when aided by the skillful
practitioner.
* * * * *
VARICOCELE;
_OR, ENLARGED VEINS OF THE SCROTUM SOMETIMES CALLED FALSE RUPTURE_
Probably no affection of the generative organs has been given more
attention by surgeons than this. Its great frequency, being present in
about one-third of all cases of spermatorrhea, and its disposition to
result in impotency and wasting away of the testicles, bring it
constantly before the profession.
[Illustration: Fig. 1.
A healthy testicle.]
[Illustration: Fig. 2.
Testicle wasted from Varicocele.
The enlarged and
torturous veins are shown
to be about as large as the
testicle.]
CAUSES.--Varicocele commonly results from long continued fatiguing
exercise, in the upright position, heavy lifting, jumping, straining,
severe constipation, injuries from horseback riding, bicycle riding,
especially the latter, or any obstruction or obstacle to the free return
of blood through the spermatic veins. Self abuse and excessive sexual
indulgence are also prolific causes of varicocele.
When the spermatic veins are over-distended to such an extent that their
tonicity is impaired, they gradually lose their capacity for
transmitting the blood, and a slowly increasing enlargement and
tortuously of veins results. This goes on, becoming steadily more
marked, until the pressure of the engorged vessels upon the spermatic
cord impedes the full circulation of blood in the testicle and causes a
wasting and softening of this gland. A loss of sexual power and
increasing weakness of the generative organs generally follow this
gradual destruction of the testicle, and sometimes total and incurable
impotency results.
This affection is also designated by the terms _circocele_ and
_spermatocele_. It consists of an enlargement or varicose condition of
the veins of the scrotum or spermatic cord, and affects the left side
more frequently than the right. This is due to the fact that the
spermatic veins of that side are longer, more dependent and tortuous,
and, consequently, support a greater column of blood than the other
side. The enlarged veins feel like a bundle of earth-worms. The knotty
and tortuous vessels sometimes form quite a large tumor, which is, now
ever, but rarely sensitive to the touch, yet sometimes causes a feeling
of weight in the scrotum and loins, and sometimes produces a sensation
of numbness in the thighs.
[Illustration: Fig. 3.
Well developed Varicocele.]
When varicocele of an aggravated or largely developed type is present,
associated with any weakness of the generative organs, as spermatorrhea
or impotency, it must be cured before the organs can regain a healthy
condition, as by the constant pressure of the abnormal quantity of blood
and enlarged veins upon the spermatic cord, arteries, and testicles, the
irritability, weakness, and wasting, are increased. The use of
suspensory bandages, with strongly astringent lotions, will, in mild
cases, produce relief and many times cure. Except in the worst cases, it
is well to try these means before resort is had to operative surgical
treatment, unless the patient is anxious to be cured in a more speedy
manner. The treatment by suspensory bandage and lotions is necessarily
somewhat slow in producing remedial results; yet, many quite well marked
cases have, in our experience, been cured by such means perseveringly
applied. Although many who have been unable to come to us for an
operation, have been cured by suspensory bandages and our improved
lotions applied to the affected parts, in all cases in which the veins
are very much enlarged, we recommend the sufferers to come here and
undergo our surgical treatment, which is painless in its execution and
radical in its results.
It has been recognized by physicians and surgeons for over a century,
that in bad cases of varicocele a cure can only be certainly and
permanently effected by operation. Many have been the methods of
operation advanced by the prominent surgeons of every age, but all have
met with such an alarming mortality, that they have been one by one
abandoned, except as a last resort in extremely bad cases. A late author
gives the percentage of deaths from the various old operations, now in
general use throughout this country and Europe, as varying from seven to
fifteen per cent. of all cases. In contrast to this, we point with pride
to our records, by which we are shown to have operated upon over a
thousand cases by our original method, obtaining in each and every
instance a perfect cure, without a single alarming symptom or a death
ensuing. This we think is sufficient evidence of the perfect safety of
the operation and its superiority over every other method. So every
sufferer with the disease, we would recommend it as a positive means of
securing a permanent cure. Various worse than useless devices are
advertised by quacks, who, as a class, are afraid to undertake surgical
treatment for the cure of varicocele. One has what he calls a "varix
clamp," or "clasp," to be worn upon the enlarged veins. Many
"compressors" and other equally useless devices are advertised and sold
for the same purpose. These are not only perfectly worthless, but
positively dangerous in their application. The pressure they make upon
the spermatic cord, nerves, and artery, is very apt to result in
impotency and a rapid wasting away of the testicles. Patients should
avoid all the catch-penny devices recommended for varicocele, as none of
them are worth a moment's consideration.
Even a moderate degree of morbid enlargement of the spermatic veins will
sometimes cause such engorgement and obstruction to the free circulation
of the blood in the testicle, as to cause gradual wasting or shriveling
of that organ. In some cases the morbid condition will give rise to
seminal weakness, or spermatorrhea. Many of these cases that can only be
cured by surgery, are trifled with by quacks, who attribute the
spermatorrhea, or loss of semen, to everything else than its true
cause--varicocele.
To illustrate, Mr. B., of Colorado, applied at the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, a few years ago, and said he had for five years been
troubled with nightly emissions of semen and his testicles were
gradually wasting away. He had been under the treatment of men making
great pretensions as specialists, to whom he had paid several hundred
dollars in the vain hope of getting cured of spermatorrhea. They treated
him with medicines only, and did him no good whatever. On examination,
we found a very varicose or enlarged condition of the left spermatic
veins, and gave it as our opinion that the seminal loss was wholly due
to this abnormal condition and could only be cured by an operation that
would remove the varicocele. The operation was promptly performed. In
two days he was able to leave his bed, and in a week started home to
Colorado. Some months thereafter we received a letter from him wherein
he said: "The enlarged veins continued to absorb and grow less and less,
until, in a few weeks' time, all unnatural enlargement had disappeared.
With a steady improvement in the condition of the veins, I experienced
corresponding improvement in my general health, and the seminal losses
grew less and less, and finally, long ago, disappeared entirely. I feel
that my manhood, with all the powers that should belong thereto, are
mine to enjoy. In other words, my restoration to health is complete. Had
I saved the large amount of money that I fooled away on those quacks,
and given it all to you, I feel that you would then have been only
fairly paid for the great good you have done me."
The foregoing is but a fair sample of letters that we are almost
constantly receiving from those who have pursued useless treatment for
spermatorrhea, dependent upon varicocele, and have been speedily cured
by our never-failing operation for this malady. Among the great variety
of operations in surgery for various diseased conditions, performed by
our surgeons, none have been attended with more uniform satisfaction,
and perfect success, than has our operation for varicocele.
A PAINLESS OPERATION.
By the injection of a few drops of a medicated solution under the skin,
at the point where the incision is to be made, we are now able to
produce such complete local anæsthesia as to render the operation
_entirely painless_ without the administration of either chloroform or
ether. This is an important consideration, as many are averse to taking
chloroform or ether, and now that we are possessed of an agent that
produces, locally, _complete insensibility to pain_, we are very glad to
be able to dispense with their use in all such minor operations. Many
examinations heretofore very painful, as of the bladder for stone, and
of the deep urethra for strictures, are now rendered _entirely painless_
by the use of this wonderful agent.
A great variety of surgical operations are now performed by our surgeon
specialists, without any suffering on the part of our patients, by the
local use of an anæsthetic solution injected into the parts to be
operated upon. Formerly we were obliged either to administer chloroform
or ether, or subject our patients to a great deal of suffering. Our
specialists were among the first surgeons in this country to employ
local anæsthesia successfully. We regard it as a great boon to our
patients, and never withhold it in any case where it can be employed to
prevent suffering, its use being attended with no danger and followed by
no bad or disagreeable results.
OUR PAINLESS OPERATION.
Having operated with unvarying success, during the past twenty-five
years, upon several thousand cases of varicocele, at the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, we now invite special attention to the results
of our peculiar operation, which is neither severe nor dangerous, and
from which the patient makes a much more rapid, and in every respect
more satisfactory, recovery than from other operations in use by
surgeons generally. In our practice we have never failed to secure the
happiest results from our operation. The saving of time is also of
importance to the laboring man as well as to the millionaire. Instead of
being confined to his bed for ten to twenty days, and to his room for a
month or more, as is the case following other operations, the patient is
not confined to bed at all, and can generally return home in a week or
ten days at the longest. The only precaution necessary is that he
should, for a reasonable time after the operation, wear a well-fitting
suspensory bandage. This can, in a little time, be entirely dispensed
with. When we contrast these results with those obtained from ligation,
graduated pressure by "clamps," suture pins, or the slicing off of a
part of the scrotum, and suturing, or stitching, the wide gaping wound
so caused, as is practiced to-day by other surgeons, the marked
superiority of the results obtained, through our superior method of
operating on this affection, must be apparent.
A very large part of those cured by our treatment have previously spent
far more money for worthless "electric suspensories," "equable scrotal
compressors," "scrotal clamps," various "rings," and other "jim cracks,"
than was paid us _for a radical and permanent cure_. Some of these
instruments are so formidable as to suggest the racks and thumbscrews of
the middle ages. Such useless appliances often weaken the scrotal
muscles by the unnatural compression which they produce and make the
discomfort far worse when they are discontinued than before their use.
For such cases as cannot come to us at once for an immediate and
_perfect cure_, we have a common sense method of treatment,
comparatively inexpensive, that gives relief and comfort in all cases,
and in mild cases often effects a complete cure. This treatment leaves
the scrotum and its contents in an improved, strengthened and more
healthful state.
* * * * *
TESTIMONIALS.
If the following letters had been written by your nearest, most
respected and trustworthy neighbors, they could not be entitled to more
confidence than they now are, coming, as they do, from intelligent
citizens, each one of whom, in his own neighborhood, enjoys the full
confidence of all his acquaintances. These letters are taken at random
from among hundreds of similar ones, received from former patients of
ours, residing in all parts of the United States and Canada, and if it
would add anything to the endorsement in the way of giving greater
confidence in our ability to treat successfully the malady under
consideration, we could multiply the letters which we here introduce
many times over. To publish more, however, would seem to be tedious
repetition, for there necessarily must be a sameness in all such letters
testifying to our skill, and we must, therefore, be content to rest our
case with the limited number of endorsements which we have room for only
in this volume.
VARICOCELE.
A PERFECTLY PAINLESS OPERATION. PATIENT SMOKES A CIGAR AND TALKS WITH
THE SURGEONS WHILE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: A.J. Seth, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I suffered with varicocele at the age of nine years, caused
by a fall, and doctored for same about fifteen years, and obtained no
relief. Renowned surgeons of Pittsburgh, New York, and other cities
pronounced my case incurable.
I heard of the Invalids' Hotel, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y., and
entered it as a last resource. On the third day after entering the
Institution I was treated, and during the operation (which was a
painless one), I smoked a cigar and talked with the operating surgeons,
feeling _no pain whatever_. I remained in the Hotel one week, and during
that time I never once was unable to walk to the elevator and have my
meals in the dining room. The tables were laden with the best the
country can produce. It is truly "The Invalids' Hotel" (or rather
_home_), as the clerks and nurses are very kind, attentive and social.
Will add, that I am permanently cured, and advise any person thus
afflicted not to hesitate entering the Invalids' Hotel for treatment.
Respectfully, A.J. SETH,
Lucinda, Clarion Co., Penna.
VARICOCELE.
Fair View, Sanpete Co., Utah.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: W.F. Petts, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I feel it my duty to thank you for the benefit I received
at your Institution during the month of December, 1892.
I was afflicted with varicocele on the left side, which caused me a
great deal of trouble and almost made me feel at times that I did not
want to live any longer if I could not be restored to soundness again.
Hearing of your skill in the treatment of varicocele I determined to
give you a trial, which I accordingly did, and with gratifying results
for now I am as sound and well as a gold dollar.
The operation which was performed on me at your Institution for the
permanent cure of varicocele was, to my great surprise, entirely
painless and performed in a much briefer time than I expected. I only
remained at your noble Institution ten days after the operation, at the
end of which time I returned to my home at Chatham Hill, Smyth Co., Va.
When I got home I experienced very little soreness from the operation
and I felt that I could enjoy life fully. About six months after, I got
married and came to Utah where I now reside, and I am very much pleased
to say that I am now as sound and well as ever, and very happy in my
married state.
When I went to your Institution I was surprised to see such a great
number of young men from almost every State in the Union, who had come
there to be operated upon for varicocele; and they all told me that the
operation was painless to them, as it also was to me, and they said they
were fast improving and were glad they had come there for treatment. I
never experienced such great and unprecedented kindness as I did during
the ten days I was at the "Invalids' Hotel." I had an excellent
room--well furnished, plenty to eat, and was treated with the kindness
of a mother by the nurses and attending physician.
I advise all who are afflicted with varicocele to go to your Institution
at once for an operation, which I assure them they will never regret.
Trusting that those who require an operation of any kind, or who are
afflicted in any way, may go to your Institution and be restored to
health, and again thanking you for my restoration to health and YOUR
great kindness and good treatment of me while I was with you, I remain,
Yours very truly,
William F. Petts
P.S.--My sister's life was saved by your "Favorite Prescription," W.F.P.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: A. Ebsary, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--It is with great pleasure I recommend those suffering from
varicocele to your skillful hands. I suffered with varicocele for seven
years, caused by standing behind the counter at business from seven in
the morning until ten and twelve o'clock at night.
In 1888 a friend gave me a copy of your Common Sense Medical Adviser.
After perusing its pages I was convinced of the genuineness of its
doctrine. I immediately started for Buffalo--a distance of 1,900 miles.
During my stay of ten days at your Institution I was treated with the
utmost kindness by the nurses and surgeons, all of whom are expert
specialists.
The equipment of the Institution is something immense. I often think of
the appetite those healthy exercises in the treatment room gave me when
dinner time came.
After being in the Institution three days I underwent an operation for
varicocele--an injection of medicine locally making the operation
_absolutely free from pain_. The operation was performed in about thirty
minutes, immediately after which I could walk to my room, and, after
resting an hour, descended to the dining room and took my dinner as
usual.
While at the Institution I met numerous persons suffering from
varicocele, and it was quite pleasing to contrast their happy looks as
they wished you "goodbye" with the haggard appearance they had upon
entering.
After leaving the Institution I traveled about 1,400 miles by rail and
500 miles by water without the least inconvenience, which I consider a
fair test of the operation.
Five years have passed since that time, and I now feel as sound as it is
possible to feel.
In conclusion, let me say to those suffering from varicocele that it is
impossible for them to do better than follow my example.
Respectfully yours, ARTHUR EBSARY,
(Care of Hon. Jas. Baird.) Water Street, St. John's, Newfoundland.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: F.H. Jenkins, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I am a carpenter and some years ago, I fell from a scaffold
which in time almost killed me. I wasn't hurt very much at the time, but
a dull aching pain seemed to take me in the left side of the scrotum,
and after I could stand it no longer, I went to my doctor. He said that
I had a rupture of the blood veins of the left testicle, and it was
incurable. I gave up in despair; but at last, a friend handed me some of
your advertising papers, and I saw the Common Sense Medical Adviser
advertised and sent for the book and studied its contents carefully, and
came to the conclusion that I was suffering from varicocele. I found on
consulting you that my suspicions were right. I at once wrote you for
particulars, and in less than a week I was at the Invalids' Hotel for
treatment. At that time no one knows how I suffered; but I hadn't long
to suffer. In ten days after _an entirely painless operation_ I was a
well man and returned home.
I cannot say too much in regard to the treatment and care from both
Surgeons and Nurses. Nothing was left undone to promote comfort and good
care. It is the only place on earth that I would feel safe to trust my
life for a severe operation. There were, I think, over 100 patients at
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at the time I was there, and
as I had a good chance to be with them, I found that they were all doing
remarkably well.
At the date of my operation which was the 7th of March, 1893, I weighed
just 165 pounds; to-day I weigh 189. I have gained in health, strength
and vigor every day, I believe.
I would just say, in conclusion, that I can give my word as an honest
man to any sufferer that I believe he can be cured of almost any chronic
malady at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
Respectfully yours,
F.H. JENKINS,
(Box 13), Ascot Corner, Sherbrooke Co., P.Q., Canada.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: R.C. Martin, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--Having been operated upon at the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute. Buffalo, N.Y., for the radical cure of a varicocele
of the left side from which I had suffered for four years, I take
pleasure in certifying to the speedy and certain relief afforded me, and
the painless nature of the operation, as performed by the surgeons of
the World's Dispensary Medical Association. Fourteen days from the time
of the operation I returned home cured, and went to work. I desire to
express my thanks to the Medical Staff for their skill and attention. I
met several patients while at the Sanitarium, and they all reported as
getting along favorably and well. Respectfully,
R.C. MARTIN,
Gambril, Scott Co., Iowa.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: Chas. Dove, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I can heartily say that the operation was a great success.
I had rupture of the veins, or Varicocele, ten years. I never thought
that I could be cured so easily. The operation was entirely painless,
and I was only nine days away from home. I am now as well as ever and I
recommend the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute to any one who is
suffering from any chronic disease. Yours,
CHARLES DOVE,
33 John St., Wilkes Barre, Pa.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: J.F. Singrey, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I was successfully treated for varicocele at the Invalids'
Hotel. The operation was made painless by local application, previously
applied, which made the parts insensible, and I returned home the ninth
day. While there I met with patients from all parts of the country, and
all spoke in the highest terms of the treatment received from the
surgeons and nurses and all connected with the Institution.
Yours respectfully, J.F. SINGREY,
Maryville, Nodaway Co., Mo.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: H.P. SMITH, ESQ.]
_Gentlemen_--I feel very thankful to the Association for the benefit
received--due to an operation performed for the cure of a varicocele of
many years' standing. All traces of the disease have disappeared. I was
surprised to know that so little pain was connected with the operation.
Will say to those who think of visiting the Invalids' Hotel, that they
will be treated well, and their visit will be made as pleasant as
possible during their stay.
Yours respectfully,
HENRY P. SMITH,
Warren, Huntington Co., Ind.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: G.R. Southern, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--Having been operated upon at the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., for varicocele of ten years'
standing, I take pleasure in certifying to a speedy and perfect cure.
The operation was made painless by local applications previously
applied, which made the parts insensible to such a degree that the
operation was performed without any suffering on my part. Time of stay,
after operation, was ten days. I cannot speak too highly of the care and
attention I received from the surgeons and nurses while there;
everything that was provided was of the best--the best of food, clean
apartments and pleasant rooms.
I would recommend your Institution to any one suffering from any kind of
chronic or surgical disease; and if they will only go to your
Institution, they will meet with patients cured and others on the way to
recovery from the same difficulty they have themselves--no matter what
it is, if curable at all. I wish you success,
Yours truly, GEORGE R. SOUTHERN,
Morris, Otsego Co., N.Y.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.
[Illustration: B.T. Stone, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--It is with pleasure that I certify to the success of the
operation performed upon me for varicocele at your Institution some
months ago. This operation was performed by one of your specialists in a
skillful and painless manner.
I found the Invalids' Hotel just what it is represented to be, and all
patients who were there were well satisfied with the treatment.
I was not confined to bed at all after the operation, and was able to
leave at the end of ten days in an excellent condition.
I am unable to express the great relief which your treatment has given
me and I cannot say too much in praise of your Institution.
I take great pleasure in recommending you whenever I get a chance, and
cannot thank you enough for what you have done for me. With kindest
regards,
I am sincerely yours,
B.T. STONE,
Fellowsville, Preston Co., W. Va.
LARGE VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: C.W. Kelly, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--It gives me much pleasure to state that during my stay at
your Sanitarium I was treated with the utmost kindness, and found
everything there just as represented in your pamphlet, if not indeed
better. Your Institution is the best of the kind that I have ever seen
and if it is possible for a person to be cured your specialists will
accomplish it. A visit there convinced me that you do not make promises
which you do not fulfill. After being there and having a surgical
operation successfully performed, I heartily recommend all invalids to
give your place a trial. Much to my surprise the operation which was
performed was perfectly painless, no anæsthetic was given, and I was not
confined to my bed for an hour. I was able to leave your Institution at
the end of ten days completely cured. I can heartily commend your
efforts in the cause of suffering humanity, and shall be pleased to
offer my personal testimony at any time. With best wishes to the World's
Dispensary Medical Association, I am,
Sincerely yours,
C.W. KELLY,
Riverside, Riverside Co., Cal.
VARICOCELE. THE RESULT OF INJURY.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: C.F.L. DeHaven, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--Nine years ago I was struck with a springing pole, causing
the spermatic cord to swell badly. I applied for medical aid and was
told that no harm would result. But I grew worse, and spent over one
hundred dollars with quacks and received no help.
Four years ago while reading a chapter in Dr. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, I noticed that no hesitation was made in stating that a
permanent and radical cure of varicocele could be made at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute. I went to the Hotel and the result was I
returned home in eleven days permanently cured. I cannot speak in too
high praise of the surgeon, and his delicacy and kindness in performing
a painless operation; or of the nurses, who almost hourly visit the
invalids and minister to their comfort. The Institution is fully
equipped and nothing is left undone that can relieve suffering. I
conversed with a great many patients while at the Invalids' Hotel and
language could not express their delight at their treatment there.
I earnestly urge all invalids to save time and suffering by being
treated at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute where the latest
and most improved methods are used, and operations are made painless and
where everything is delightful and comfortable. I owe my life to the
tenderness and skill of the surgeon and nurses at the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute.
Very truly yours, CLARENCE F.L. DEHAVEN,
Haynes, Hocking Co., Ohio.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: F. Brooks, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I can say that while in your Institution I received the
best of care and attention both by doctors and nurses; that your
operation was almost entirely without pain; that my virility has
increased since then as well as the tone of my general health; that your
Institution is as commodious and cheerful as one could wish. Your
patients with whom I became acquainted while there nearly all seemed to
be well pleased with the ease and comfort of their surroundings as well
as the manner in which they were treated for varicocele.
Respectfully,
FLAVIUS BROOKS,
Sinnamahoning, Cameron Co., Pa.
BAD VARICOCELE OF MANY YEARS' STANDING.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: D.E. Moorefield, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I take pleasure in recommending your Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute as first-class in every respect. Some four years ago
I was there and had an operation performed on me for a very bad
varicocele with which I had been troubled some 15 or 20 years. The
operation was made painless by the use of local applications. After
staying at your place about twenty days (longer than is generally
necessary) I was able to make my long trip home. The operation was a
very successful one, considering the long time my trouble had been
neglected, as I have suffered little or no inconvenience since. I saw a
very large number of patients at the Invalids' Hotel from all parts of
the United States and Canada, and all of them seemed to have a very high
opinion of the treatment they were receiving from your Specialists, and
I know personally, of several remarkably successful operations performed
by your skillful surgeons while I was there.
Respectfully, D.E. MOOREFIEID,
Nathalie, Halifax Co., Va.
VARICOCELE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: D.H. Miller, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--Having been operated upon at the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute for the cure of Varicocele, which was caused from
heavy lifting, I take pleasure in informing you that it is entirely
cured; it was a varicocele of a number of years' standing and a bad
case. It has been three years since I was operated upon and I have not
experienced any trouble from it since; in fact, I feel that I am now
entirely cured. _The operation is painless_ and gives entire
satisfaction in every respect.
I advise all who are suffering from this or any other chronic disease to
take treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute and they
will be well rewarded by so doing.
Yours respectfully,
DAVID H. MILLER,
Markle, Huntington Co., Ind.
VARICOCELE OR FALSE RUPTURE--DUE TO STRAINING AND OVERWORK.