Testimonials (part 2)

I have been a constant sufferer all my life, and for the past five years have been under the care of many good physicians, who, I must say, have only given me relief for a short time. I cannot describe the constant pain and torment to which I was subjected every moment of my life, and I was so reduced in flesh and strength that I could scarcely walk across the floor and had little hope of ever being any better.

I was induced, by the advice of a friend, to take your "Favorite Prescription," as she had been cured after taking several bottles of it. My physicians said I was suffering from the effects of "change of life," organic heart disease and womb trouble.

I sent for your Common Sense Medical Adviser and then wrote to you. You advised me to take six bottles more of the "Favorite Prescription," which I did, and in a reasonable length of time after taking it, I felt very grateful for the happy relief I obtained. I do not suffer near so much with my heart as I did before taking the "Favorite Prescription." I had not been able to do any kind of work at all for two years, and I am now able to attend to my household duties without suffering any pain.

I have two daughters—17 and 19 years old, that have been in very bad health for twelve months or more. I gave them each several bottles of the "Favorite Prescription," and it entirely cured them.

I would send you my photo., as you request, but have none, and there is no place nearer than Natchez, Miss., thirty miles distant, where I could have one taken.

I now thank you most kindly for the happy relief and cure which myself and daughters received from taking your "Favorite Prescription."

With many thanks and wishing you success, I am.

Yours respectfully,
Mrs N.E. Reily,
Bougere, Concordia Parish, La.

Ulceration of the Womb.

Mrs. McAllister.

Gentlemen—This is to let you knew what your medicine is doing here. I was In bad health; age was working upon me, and had ulceration of the womb; I could not get about; I took Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and it cured me; I felt ten years younger. I have not had any return of my trouble. I am the mother of thirteen children and I am fifty-three years old, have never seen a better woman's friend than your medicine. I have recommended it to my friends here, and it has never failed in any case, so let me thank you for the good it did me.

Yours,
MRS. M.A. MCALLISTER,
Lim Rock, Jackson County, Ala.

Rev. W.J. Walker's Prayer.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Rev. W.J. Walker.

Gentlemen—I wish to inform you of the benefit my wife has received from the use of your medicines. I must say that your "Favorite Prescription" is the best female regulator on earth; my wife has been cured by the timely use of it. I have been using the "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Pleasant Pellets," and I am fully satisfied they are all you claim them to be; so I wish you abundant success, and hope that the Almighty God will continue His blessings toward you in your noble work.

Respectfully,
REV. W.J. WALKER,
Vancleave; Jackson Co., Miss.

Terrible Pain and Fainting Spells.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Jacobs.

Gentlemen—When I commenced taking your medicine I was very sickly. I had frequent spells of fainting, terrible pain in my head, and life was a burden to me. I was attended by one of the best physicians in our town, but with no good results. At last a neighbor advised me to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which I did, and after taking one bottle I felt greatly benefited. I would advise all ladies similarly afflicted to try "Favorite Prescription."

Yours truly,
Mrs. SAMUEL A. JACOBS,
Mechanicsburgh,
Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania

"Was the Picture of Death."

Physicians Failed.

Mrs. Loyd.

DR. R.V. PIERCE: Dear Sir—My daughter has been sick all her life, and the older she grew, the worse she was until she was the picture of death: the physicians could not do her any good.

I heard of your "Favorite Prescription," for women, and I gave her three bottles, and now she is a perfectly healthy girl.

Have recommended it to a great many sufferers from "female complaints," and it has cured them.

I think it is the greatest medicine in the world, and I have never found anything to compare with it.

Yours truly,
MRS. M.J. LOYD,
Wesson, Copiah Co., Miss.

Uterine Disease of Years' Standing.

Suffered for Twelve Years.

Mrs. Wilson and Child

Oreide, (formerly Enterprise,) Taylor County, W. Va.

Gentlemen—A heart overflowing with gratitude prompts me to write you. Twelve long weary years I suffered greatly from Uterine derangement and at last was given up by my physician to die, besides spending almost all we had. After five months' treatment with your Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription, I now enjoy most excellent health. I would, to-day, have been in my grave, and my little children motherless, had it not been for you and your medicine. I will recommend your medicine as long as I live. If any one doubts this, give my name and address.

Yours sincerely,
MRS. MALVINA WILSON.

St. Vitus's Dance.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

St. Vitus's Dance.

Gentlemen—My boy had been in bad health for a long time. We called our home doctor, but he got no better. Finally he had the St. Vitus's Dance, and our doctor did not know what to do. So I wrote to you and did as you told me: I got two bottles of your "Favorite Prescription," and one bottle and a half did the work all right. At that time, eighteen months ago, his weight was 85 pounds, now it is 135 to 140; he is fourteen years old.

Yours truly,
JEREMIAH PONSLER,
Zenas, Jennings County, Ind.

"Falling of Womb."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Sharrard and Son.

Gentlemen—I take great pleasure in recommending Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription for "Falling of the Womb." I was troubled with bearing down pains and pains in my back whenever I would be on my feet any length of time. I was recommended to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which I did with happy results. I feel like a new person after taking three bottles of it.

Respectfully,
MRS. ALLEN SHARRARD,
Hartney, Selkirk Co., Man.

Uterine Disease, "Change of Life."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Fletcher.

Gentlemen—I am happy to say that my health remains good since my sickness four years ago. I took several bottles of "Pellets," one of "Golden Medical Discovery," and two of "Favorite Prescription" and gained right along after I had been taking them. I am at a loss to give my sickness a name, as my physician called it a "Complication of Diseases," resulting from change of life and over-work. I take great pleasure in recommending your remedies to suffering women. May you live many years to administer to the suffering and afflicted is the wish of your sincere friend.

Yours, etc.,
MRS. J.T. FLETCHER,
Pony, Madison Co., Montana.

Makes Childbirth Easy.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Guthrie.

Gentlemen—I never can thank you enough for what your treatment has done for me; I am stronger now than I have been for six years. When I began your treatment I was not able to do anything. I could not stand on my feet long enough to wash my dishes without suffering almost death; now I do all my housework, washing, cooking, sewing and everything for my family of eight.

Your "Favorite Prescription" is the best medicine to take before confinement that can be found; or at least it proved so with me. I never suffered as little with any of my children as I did with my last, and she is the healthiest we have. I recommend your medicines to all of my neighbors, and especially "Favorite Prescription" to all women who are suffering. Have induced several to try it, and it has proved good for them.

Very respectfully,
MRS. DORA A. GUTHRIE,
Oakley, Overton Co., Tenn.

Shortens Labor.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Baker.

Gentlemen—I began taking your "Favorite Prescription" the first month of pregnancy, and have continued taking it since confinement. I did not experience the nausea or any of the ailments due to pregnancy, after I began taking your "Prescription." I was only in labor a short time, and the physician said I got along unusually well.

We think it saved me a great deal of suffering. I was troubled a great deal with leucorrhea also, and it has done a world of good for me.

Yours truly, MRS. W.C.BAKER,
South Bend, Pacific Co., Wash.

"Female Weakness."

DR. B.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Shepherd.

Dear Sir—My wife was hardly able to walk about the house when she began using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and by the time she had used one bottle of it and one bottle of his "Pellets," she could walk a half a mile with more ease than she could walk across the house before she began to take it; she says she thinks it is just what all weakly women ought to have.

Yours truly,
GEORGE W. SHEPHERD,
Sigman, Putnam Co., W. Va.

"Female Weakness."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Inman.

Gentlemen—I began taking "Favorite Prescription" about a year ago. For years I have suffered with falling and ulceration of the womb, but to-day, I am enjoying perfect health.

I took four bottles of the "Prescription" and two of the "Golden Medical Discovery." Every lady suffering from female weakness should try the "Prescription" and "Golden Medical Discovery."

Yours respectfully,
Mrs. F.L. INMAN,
Manton, Wexford Co., Mich.

"Female Weakness".

"Could Scarcely Drag Around."

Mrs. Baker.

DR. R.V. PIERCE: Dear Sir—Several years ago I took your "Favorite Prescription." At that time, I was so miserable (and had been so for many years) that I could scarcely drag myself around. Concluded to try your medicine. I took half a dozen bottles and I have not had a return of my old trouble.

Hoping others will be benefited as I have been, I remain,

Sincerely,
MRS. C.H. BAKER,
Freytown, Lackawanna Co., Pa.

Obstinate Chronic Disease Cured.

Ministers Endorse It.

Mrs. Stimpson.

DR. R.V. PIERCE: Dear Sir—For some six or seven years my wife had been an invalid. Becoming convinced that it was her only hope, we bought six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and "Golden Medical Discovery." To the surprise of the community and the joy of myself and family, in one week my wife commenced to improve, and long before she had taken the last bottle she was able to do her own work (she had not been able to do it before for seven years), and when she had taken the last of the medicine she was soundly cured.

Yours truly,
REV. T.H. STIMPSON,
Donnoha, Forsyth Co., N.C.

Nervous Dyspepsia; Uterine and Spinal Weakness.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Nay.

Gentlemen—I had nervous dyspepsia for twenty years, followed by uterine and spinal weakness with irritation of the same. In the Spring of 1890 I became so exhausted that I was compelled to keep to my bed with symptoms of paralysis in the lower limbs, and many other distressing symptoms. I accidentally obtained one of Dr. Pierce's Medical Advisers from a friend, and finding my ailments so well described therein, I wrote to Dr. Pierce for his advice, which he sent by return mail. For my recovery he requested me to use his "Golden Medical Discovery," his "Favorite Prescription," and his "Pleasant Pellets." He also gave me some directions for every-day living. These means accomplished my complete cure. I am thankful that we can have such reliable medicines brought into our homes without great expense.

Yours truly,
MRS. AMERICA NAY,
Volga, Jefferson Co., Ind.

Thick Neck (Goitre),

Nervous Debility and Weakness Cured.

Miss Houghton.

MISS ELLA A. HOUGHTON, of Theresa, Jefferson Co., N.Y., was cured of Thick Neck, Nervous Prostration, Weakness and a complication of ailments by Dr. Pierce's "Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription." She says: "My health is now as good as it was before I was sick. The swelling (goitre) has all gone from my neck. I don't have any bad feelings. My gratitude for the benefit I have received from your treatment has induced me to recommend you to all whom I know to be sick." "I have known of two or three middle aged ladies residing near here, who have been cured by your 'Favorite Prescription.'"

Suppressed Menstruation.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—It is almost two years ago that my little girl was taken with a spasm which frightened me so that my menses became suppressed. I suffered severely with pressure on the brain so that I often thought I should go insane. I also had severe pain in the ovaries, and bearing down pain. I consulted a physician, who treated me for awhile till I began to feel worse, and consulted another physician whom I knew had treated several women for like ailments. He gave me medicine which did me no more good than that prescribed by the first physician.

Finally, after an examination, the doctor said that he should have to operate on me in order to have my health restored.

As my husband and I had heard and read so much about Dr. Pierce's medicines we decided to try them. We had Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. I took three or four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and one bottle of "Golden Medical Discovery" and one vial of "Pellets." After using these I felt perfectly cured. As I am always troubled more or less with biliousness, I keep your little "Pellets" on hand and find relief by using them. One of them taken after meals acts splendidly for indigestion.

Respectfully, MRS. B.H. KAMFERBECK,
Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan.

Thick Neck (Goitre).

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:

Master Sumner.

Gentlemen—I am willing and pleased to have you publish anything I have written in regard to the cure of my little son of Goitre (that a surgeon of N. Adams said could never be cured).

I do hope that by so doing some little one may escape the misery my little one suffered for over a year until I began the use of the "Golden Medical Discovery." I followed your directions found in the little book around the bottles. Before the first bottle was gone, he could eat and sleep without that coughing and choking that, before the use of the "Discovery," was impossible.

The tumor began to lessen in size, and after the third bottle I would never have known he ever had a tumor there. He is now hearty and healthy. Sleeps as good as any child and is full of life. He does not take anything to prevent a return, and has not for over a year.

I have one of your Common Sense Medical Advisers, and found it worth five times what I gave for it; I have helped others to get it and the "Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription" have brought relief to many through me. I use the "Prescription" off and on; it has given me strength; I think I should have been an invalid long ago without it.

Every one here knows the truth of this letter, and I would tell it to the world if I could.

Respectfully,
MRS. ANNIE SUMNER, Heartwellville, Bennington Co., Vt.

Dropsy, Sick Headache, Dyspepsia and Bloody Piles.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Knavel.

Gentlemen—In the winter of 1881, I became irregular in my monthly courses. Of course at first I paid but little attention to it, hoping it would amount to nothing and probably wear away. But I slowly but surely grew worse, and at last resolved to apply to the doctors for help. My water came often, and in small quantities, and with great pain, and with red brick-dust deposit. I was attacked with severe womb trouble, bloody piles and dropsy of the ovary. I was treated by five different doctors. I was compelled to wear an inside support for a year, but it still seemed impossible for me to get well and I began to feel exceedingly alarmed and very uneasy, not knowing what course to pursue, or what the consequences might be. I had heard of Dr. Pierce, and concluded to make one more trial, so I sat down and wrote a letter to him, stating matters as near as I could, and in due time I received a favorable reply; then I commenced with his medicine. I commenced somewhere in February 1891 with the "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription," in alternate doses. A strange occurrence followed. My limbs felt like what we call "asleep," and I felt as if I were in a strange land and wondered what was going to take place. I kept on till I took nine bottles. The first relief I felt was from sick headache, which I had been troubled with for many years; I was also cured of a very bad cough which I had been troubled with for many years, and of dyspepsia of long standing. I was entirely cured of a very singular and severe itching on my back, between my shoulders, which our doctors called winter itch and which they pronounced incurable. I had suffered with this for twenty years; it would come in the winter and go away in the summer. I was also cured of the worst form of bloody piles and of womb disease. At present I feel like a new person.

When I first commenced with Dr. Pierce's medicines, I could not walk half a mile without a pain. The other day I walked to Mercersburgh post-office, a distance of twelve miles, and the next day walked back again, and felt no bad results from the journey. I am now 51 years old.

Mrs. Knavel further writes, that "To any person desiring to know more concerning my case and its wonderful cure, and who will enclose to me a return self-addressed and stamped envelope for reply, I will be pleased to write further information."

Yours respectfully,
SARAH A. KNAVEL,
Indian Springs, Washington Co. Md.

Womb Disease.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

MRS. GUNEKEL.

Gentlemen—I have been a sufferer from womb trouble for eight years, having doctored with the most skillful physicians, but finding only temporary relief from medicines prescribed by them. I was advised by a friend to take the "Favorite Prescription," which I did, and found, in taking six bottles of the "Prescription" and two of the "Discovery," that it has effected a positive cure, for which words cannot express my gratitude for the relief from the great suffering that I so long endured.

Respectfully,
MRS. W.O. GUNEKEL,
No. 1461 South 7th St.,
Terre Haute, Ind.

General Debility. "Female Weakness."

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.: Hardy, Cascade Co., Mont.

Dear Sir—I have enjoyed pretty good health for the past three years. Before I took your "Golden Medical Discovery" and your "Favorite Prescription" I was so weak that I could hardly do my housework. I took seven bottles in all of the two medicines; they did me a world of good; I do not think I should have been here to-day were it not for your medicines.

I would send you my photograph, but I have none, and live sixty miles from a photographer.

Gratefully yours,
Mr. Thomas Prewett

Tumor of Breast and Womb Disease.

MRS. GOLDEN.

Mrs. Jane Golden, of Durand, Pepin Co., Wis., writes Dr. R.V. Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician, at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N.Y., as follows: "It is my heart's desire to write to you of what your medicines have done for me. I was in a very bad state when I wrote to you, and you prescribed for me and I took your medicines according to directions and am a well woman again. I had uterine disease and tumor in the breast. The doctors said they could do nothing for me any more and must resort to the knife. I would not consent and so wrote to you, and followed your advice. I took two dozen bottles of your 'Favorite Prescription,' seven bottles of your 'Golden Medical Discovery' and my health is now better than it had been in twenty years; my neighbors said I could not live three months, and I know that your treatment and medicine cured."

Ulceration of Womb. Irregular Menstruation.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Spicer.

Gentlemen—Please accept my heartfelt thanks for your medicines, which I have every reason to believe have cured me. I was afflicted for more than five years with falling of the womb and ulceration of the same, connected with very painful and irregular menstruation with chills during the same. Rush of blood to the head, sometimes falling down in insensibility and remaining so for several hours; and part of the time could not bear my weight on my limbs to stand up or walk at all for several days at a time. I was a burden to myself when I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and "Golden Medical Discovery," and his "Pleasant Pellets" and "Smart-weed;" I used the glycerine and iodine as you prescribed for me also. I think I used one dozen bottles of "Prescription," half a dozen "Discovery" one dozen "Pills," one-half dozen "Smart-weed," at first and some more afterwards, only a few bottles, I don't remember how many.

I am now well, doing my own work, and do not suffer any more pain, and don't need any more medicine.

Respectfully,
MRS. MARY J. SPICER,
Boulder, Boulder Co., Colo.

Save Doctors' Bills.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.: Arcadia, Manistee Co., Mich.

Dear Sir—We received your kind letter, with the "Pellets," and are very much obliged for the same. We know they are just what you recommend them to be. We have used your medicines for about seven years and have depended almost entirely on them for five years. Before we began the use of your medicines, we used to have to employ a doctor every little while; now we do not have to. We have four children. We give them Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery when they take cold and I think it is far better than most cough medicines, for the "Discovery" helps the appetite and the cough medicines make one sick. I like your idea of keeping the blood pure and the "Discovery" is the medicine for that. I take a bottle twice a year, in the spring and fall, and I have recommended it to several other ladies who have tried it and they all think highly of it. I have bought thirteen bottles of the "Discovery" and three bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and nine bottles of the "Pellets" in five years, so you see our doctor-bill has not been very large. Our oldest boy hurt himself, lifting, and I depended upon Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-weed for external application, and it cured him. I bought two bottles of that.

Yours truly,
Mrs. S. Keillor

"Female Weakness."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Cummings.

Gentlemen—I took your Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription when I was run-down and through the warm weather. It worked like a charm on my system and I am a good deal heavier in flesh now. It is the best medicine in the world for "female troubles," for I took almost all kinds of Patent Medicines, and doctors' prescriptions without benefit. There is hardly a day passes but that I recommend it to some of my lady friends.

Yours truly,
Mrs. CORA CUMMINGS,
No. 74 E. Yates St., Ithaca, N.Y.

CHILDBIRTH MADE EASY.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Johnson.

Gentlemen—Your medicines have my greatest praise as they did me a great deal of good. I was sick for nearly three years. Sometimes I thought I would go crazy I was so weak, nervous, and down hearted, and sour in spirits, that I was afraid I would die every day, and such mean feelings I could not describe to any one. I remained in this stage for nearly three years, doctoring with every home doctor and trying every medicine that I thought would help me, and I could get no relief. I could not sleep at times and had palpitation of the heart so that I would have to get up, for my heart would beat so fast I thought every minute I would die. The misery I went through no one could describe.

A lady friend handed me Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, and I wrote to you about myself, and you told me to take "Favorite Prescription" and "Golden Medical Discovery." I commenced in the spring and took three bottles of each of your medicines, and I felt so much better I thought that was enough, and ever since I have had my health. I grew stronger, and could run and skip about like a child, and was happy all day long. I felt so well I could hardly believe it was myself. I just used the two kinds of medicines—"Golden Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription," and followed the "Common Sense Medical Adviser," took regular baths, and dieted for about a year, and the result was a bright baby boy which brightens our home. I took the "Favorite Prescription" before, and the result was a few hours' labor and got along splendidly; my baby weighed twenty-four pounds at seven months—a brighter, healthier baby than he is there never was.

Respectfully yours,
MRS. MINA JOHNSON,
Riverside, Ravalli Co., Mont.

Partial Paralysis from Uterine Disease.

Buffalo, Larue County, Ky.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I am still having very good health. I value Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and his "Favorite Prescription" very highly and often recommend them to others. I do not think I would ever have got well if it had not been for your medicines. I was in a sad condition. My bowels and half of my body (the left side), was nearly paralyzed, besides nearly my whole system was out of order. I suffered all the time; but after taking six bottles of "Golden Medical Discovery" and the same of "Favorite Prescription," and using two bottles of Sage's Catarrh Remedy as an injection, I felt like a new person. I have never seen anyone suffering in the same way as I did. If anyone with female trouble of any kind will use your medicines I am satisfied they will help them.

Yours truly,
Mary A. Sallee

Irregularity and Uterine Debility.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Miss Henderson.

Gentlemen—I cannot say enough for your Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. For years I suffered from irregularity and uterine debility, but now I feel as well as I ever did in my life. Thanks to you for your "Favorite Prescription," for it has performed a permanent cure of me. With gratitude, I remain,

Yours,
L.M. HENDERSON,
Springfield, South Dakota.

Womb Disease.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Sprigs.

Dear Sir—I think your "Favorite Prescription" was the preservation of my life. I was under the doctor's care for three months with womb disease and a gradual wasting all the time. I was so weak that I could not be raised in bed when I commenced taking the "Prescription," and by the time I had taken three bottles I was up and going wherever I pleased, and have had good health and been very strong ever since. That was four years ago. I have recommended it to a good many of my friends, and they have taken it and are highly pleased.

Yours truly,
G.A. SPRIGGS,
Long Savannah, James Co.. Tenn.

Ulceration of Womb.

St. John, Whitman Co., Wash.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—For three months I was almost prostrated with ulceration of the womb. I began the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and his "Golden Medical Discovery," and other remedies that are prescribed in his treatise on womb diseases. After three months' use of same I was cured. I have implicit faith in their medicines and can recommend them to others who are similarly afflicted.

Yours truly,
Mrs. Geo. Thornton.

Lessens Misery.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Lindsey.

Dear Sirs—I think Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription the best medicine in the world for females; I consider myself entirely well. I can do as much work as any woman. I gave birth to a healthy girl; your medicine is the best in the world for pregnant ladies—it lessens the misery of that critical period. I cannot praise it too much. I have gained ten pounds since I began using your valuable remedy.

Yours respectfully,
MRS. MARY LINDSEY,
Williams Station, Escambia Co., Ala.

Ovarian Disease.

Bridgeport, Putnam Co., Fla.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I received the Common Sense Medical Adviser and I am well pleased with it. I return many thanks to you for your kindness. My complaint was pain in my back, and in my side, that moved from the right side to the left; shortness of breath and pain in the lower part of the stomach, and my doctor said I had ovaritis and I took two bottles of the "Favorite Prescription" and one bottle of the "Golden Medical Discovery," and I am relieved of all pains in the back and sides, and of womb complaint. I shall always speak good words for you. I suffered with those pains for five years.

Yours truly,
Mrs Nancy Brooks

Leucorrhea.

Brooklyn, Jackson Co., Mich.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Parker

Gentlemen—I am more than willing to say your most valuable medicine has cured me of a very disagreeable complaint, leucorrhea. I suffered for years with pain in my back, never a night was I free. At your request I commenced a course of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and "Golden Medical Discovery." I could not sleep on a mattress; it seemed as though it would kill me. Since taking the medicine I can sleep anywhere; I am perfectly well. I would not be placed in my former condition for any money. I bought six bottles, or $5.00 worth. I took but four, my husband took the "Golden Medical Discovery." At this time I had a servant girl who suffered badly from pain at the time of her monthly periods; she took the other bottle of "Favorite Prescription," which was a great help to her.

Gratefully yours,
Mrs. J.H. Parker

Severe Flowing (Menorrhagia.)

Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Penn's.

Gentlemen—Seven years ago this month, I was taken sick—was bed-fast six months, and during that time, many times, was not able to eat alone. I had the best doctor that could be got. I would have sinking spells. My nerves were prostrated and I had female weakness and ulceration of the womb, which caused such excessive flowing that they thought I would die; then I would take sinking spells. My stomach was too weak, the medicine could not do its part as it should have done. I had torpid liver and right side of lungs affected; catarrh of the throat and piles; palpitation of the heart, and kidneys were somewhat affected. My doctor got me up and able to walk through the house, but the flowing would still be so bad that I would have to take the bed; then would be able to be up again and learn to walk a little again till the time would come again.

My doctor treated me for the ulcers. A lady came to see me. She told me to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I got it but did not tell my doctor. He soon remarked the improvement and I then told him what I was using; he told me to use it, that it would be good for me. I used eleven bottles of the "Favorite Prescription," and two of the "Golden Medical Discovery." The flowing was not so bad. I got so I could sit up and be about at all times, and walk about in the house. I am still improving, and can do light house work. I am able to walk out to church every Sunday.

Yours truly,
Mrs Abner Knepp

"Female Weakness."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Danard.

Gentlemen—A few years ago my health failed. I was troubled with female disease in its worst form having been afflicted about fifteen years. I was also troubled with constipation, loss of appetite, dizziness and ringing in my head, nervous prostration, hysteria, loss of memory, palpitation of the heart together with "that tired feeling" all the time. I consulted several physicians—no one could clearly diagnose my case and their medicine failed to give relief. After much persuasion I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription—have taken five bottles and am a well woman doing all my housework; from a run down condition I have been restored to health. I feel it my duty to recommend your "Favorite Prescription" for ladies afflicted with female diseases as I have been.

Gratefully yours,
MRS. BYRON DANARD,
Milford, Prince Edward Co., Ont., Canada.

Indigestion, Impoverished Blood.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Miss Sampson.

Gentlemen—After suffering for over a year with indigestion and low condition of the blood I was advised to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I had hardly finished the first bottle when I felt a great change, so I continued on until I had taken three bottles, and at the end of that time I was completely cured. My health was so much impaired that I feel I owe a great deal to your wonderful medicine. Thanking you for the advice which you so kindly gave me while taking your medicine, I am,

Most gratefully.
Miss CASSIE SAMPSON,
No. 347 McHaren Street,
Ottawa, Ottawa County, Ontario.

"Female Weakness."

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.: Nixon, Hardin Co., Tenn.

Dear Sir—I am in very good health now. I think your "Favorite Prescription" is wonderful. I brought forth a fine son the first day of December—the fattest baby I ever saw, and that is why I think your medicine is such a fine one for poor sickly females. I know I never would have become pregnant, if I had not got in better health. I feel it my duty to do all that I can to praise you and your wonderful "Favorite Prescription." I can highly recommend it to all females who are suffering with leucorrhea, for I don't think any one suffered any worse than I did when I made my case known to you. May God bless you, and your great medicine—the "Favorite Prescription."

Yours truly,
Sallie L. Howard

Ulceration and Falling of Womb.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Lyon.

Gentlemen—I had been suffering from ulceration and abscess in the womb, and falling of the womb, for several years or since the birth of my youngest child. I consulted all the physicians around here and they gave me up and said there was no help for me.

At last, almost discouraged, I found in a little book your medicines advertised. I did not have any faith in them—I had tried so much and failed to get relief. But I began taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and his "Favorite Prescription," and took five bottles of each, and used two bottles of your Sage's Catarrh Remedy for vaginal injections. It is three years since and I have not had any return of the trouble. I feel very grateful, and in fact, owe you my life, for I do not think I should have been alive now if I had not taken your remedies.

Respectfully,
Mrs. ABRAM LYON,
Lorraine, Jefferson County, N.Y.

Barrenness, Dyspepsia, "Liver Complaint."

Basin, Cassia Co., Idaho.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I first had dyspepsia and "liver complaint" for five years, and I took six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and his "Pleasant Pellets," which Entirely cured me of that complaint. I also had painful menstruation, and took about eight bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and two bottles of his Compound Extract of Smart-weed, which cured me. The symptoms of this disease were very severe, pain in the region of the womb, back and thighs, Chilliness and nausea; this disease was so severe that I was barren for two years of married life, and after taking the "Favorite Prescription," I became the mother of a boy.

Yours respectfully,
Mrs Eonma Mcintosh

General Debility, Malaria, Sick Headache.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. J.H. Lansing.

Gentlemen—I am happy to say that your valuable medicine has been a great benefit to me. I was suffering from general debility, malaria and nervous sick headaches, and after my third child was born (a beautiful baby boy of ten pounds) I only recovered after a long illness; I barely gained strength enough in two years' time so that I was able to crawl about to accomplish the little housework that I had, by lying down to read many times each day; had sick headaches very often; and many pains and aches, all the time complaining of getting no better. I finally asked my husband to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which he promptly did. After I had taken one bottle I could see a great change in my strength, and fewer sick headaches.

I continued taking the medicine until I had taken eight bottles—seven of the "Favorite Prescription" and one of the "Golden Medical Discovery." For some time past I have not used it but I am now able to do the housework for myself, husband and two children (aged nine and five years). I also take in dressmaking, and enjoy walking a mile at a time, and I think it is all due to the medicine, for I know I was only failing fast before I commenced to take it. I take great pleasure in recommending the "Favorite Prescription" to all women who suffer from debility and sick headache.

Respectfully yours, MRS. J.H.LANSING,
Fort Edward, Washington Co., N.Y.

Ovarian Pains.

Ligonier, Westmoreland Co., Pa.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—The doctors never gave any name for my disease except that one doctor said it was severe pain in the ovaries. His medicine did me no good; but whatever ailed me I was in such misery I could not describe what I suffered. The first thing that gave me any relief was Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The first half bottle made me feel much better. I used two or three bottles and thought I was cured, but it came back in three or four months, and as soon as I began to take the medicine again I got better. I took two or three bottles again, and never felt anything of it since; and that is nearly four years ago, and I give all thanks to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I use no other medicine at all for stomach trouble but Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I have been troubled some with rheumatism, when nothing else would do any good, "Golden Medical Discovery" cured me; I had not taken more than one-half bottle when I felt like another woman, and I would advise any who has any trouble with his stomach, or who has rheumatism, to try it as there is not its equal to be found.

Yours truly,
Mrs S.A. Beatty

"Gives a New Lease of Life."

Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., N.Y.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Miss Crowley.

Dear Sir—Both your communications have been received. I have neglected to answer them. I am glad to say in this letter that my sister is very much improved in health, and says she feels as if she had a new lease of life. She feels so much better since she commenced taking your medicine. I think it was just the medicine she needed, and am more than thankful to you for the kindly interest you have taken, and hope that others will find the same benefit from your valuable books and medicines, that my sister has. I will close with gratitude to you.

Yours respectfully,
Miss MOLLIE M. CROWLEY,
(for sister) care Sherman House, Jamestown, N.Y.

Mothers' Relief.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Simmons.

Gentlemen—Doctor Pierce's Medicines have been our family medicines for twenty years. They are all they have been represented to be, and untold benefits have been derived from them.

Have been treated by you with your Special Remedies, and cured of difficulties that our family doctor failed to cure; and when ailing, by the use of a few bottles of "Golden Medical Discovery," have been always benefited.

I recommend Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription to every one who is having a family—taken as directed, it works like a charm in confinement.

Respectfully,
MRS. A.D. SIMMONS,
Emporia, Lyon Co., Kas.

"Falling of Womb."

Clover Hill, Coahoma Co., Miss.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I cannot tell you how I have improved since I have used Dr. R.V. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and his "Golden Medical Discovery." I had been suffering for four years and I began to get worse and worse until I commenced using these medicines, and then I began to get better, and now I feel like a new woman.

I suffered much from "falling of the womb," and headache, and pains in my back, and I thank you kindly for the good your medicines done me. I can do my housework now and not feel bad from it. I hope others will find the same benefit from your valuable books and medicines that I have.

Gratefully yours,
Eliza Allen.

"Woman's Ills."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Bates.

Gentlemen—A few years ago I took Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which has been a great benefit to me. I am in excellent health now. I hope that every woman, who is troubled with "women's ills," will try the "Prescription" and be benefited as I have been.

Yours truly,
MRS. W..R. BATES,
Dilworth, Trumbull Co., Ohio.

An Old Lady's Tribute. Better Than Calomel.

Clinton, Hinds Co., Miss.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—It gives me much pleasure to say that I have been greatly benefited by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They act on the stomach and liver, and clear the complexion better than calomel, and you are relieved of that awful sickness and constipation which other medicines produce.

Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the greatest tonic in the world, to build up the broken-down constitution. I am an elderly lady, sixty-six years old. I feel that my days are of short duration and would not give a word of recommendation if I did not feel it my duty to suffering humanity.

Yours truly,
Mrs. N.A. Watts.

A Young Lady's Advice to Invalids.

"A Sure and Certain Cure."

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Miss Fugate.

Dear Sir—Please accept my thanks for the good your medicines have done me. I truly believe the "Favorite Prescription" saved my life; it is a sure and certain cure. I am having perfect health; I am stout and can do all my housework.

Every invalid lady should take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and "Golden Medical Discovery."

Yours respectfully,
ROZZIE FUGATE,
Madisonville, Hopkins Co., Ky.

Better Than "Supporters."

Leesville Cross Roads, Crawford Co., Ohio.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—Four years ago, I became afflicted with womb trouble—knew nothing but pain and suffering. Began doctoring right away with our home doctor. He not doing me any good, I went to another doctor who advised me to wear an inside supporter, which really did me more harm than good. Last spring was taken down sick and laid on my back for ten weeks; when I heard of Dr. Pierce's wonderful Favorite Prescription. The first bottle helped me. I have now taken four bottles and feel perfectly cured. I cannot find language to express my gratitude for being restored to perfect health from a condition worse than death.

Yours truly,
Mrs F. Holmes.

Suppressed Menstruation.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Miss Burk.

Gentlemen—When I was fourteen years old I took a bad cold and there resulted internal troubles. I was a great sufferer for four years. I had tried two physicians but neither gave me any relief. After taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription I can't say enough for it. It cured me so I have no more pains. I am now nineteen years of age.

Respectfully,
Miss MAMIE BURK,
Everett, Bedford Co., Pa.

How Traveling Invalids May Be Imposed Upon.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—It is now about five years since I spent eight days at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, under treatment for a chronic disease of eighteen years' standing. I had given up to die. Going to your Dispensary was a last resort with me; I had undergone a surgical operation at the hands of my family physician from which I grew worse every day for eight months, so that I very despondently started for your institution; and when I had traveled eleven hundred miles I was made more despondent by inquiring of a man how far I had to travel to reach Buffalo, N.Y.: He answered, "Just one hundred miles." I then inquired of him if he had ever been in Buffalo, N.Y. He replied, "Many a time." I then asked him, what about Dr. Pierce's world-famed Surgical Institute? "Oh, it's a humbug. They have some drawings or pictures taken from some government buildings, that's where they get that fine building you see pictured in their books and pamphlets."

I don't suppose there ever was a sadder heart entered the door of the Invalids' Hotel than that heart of mine; but it was soon made glad to be glad ever since. During the first night in the Invalids' Hotel I met and talked with patients afflicted as I was. Many of them were cured and talking of going home next day, and sure enough, they went; but I never missed them in number for others kept coming.

I can honestly and truthfully say that the World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N.Y., is anything else than a humbug. The reason why they are not humbugs is plain. They continue to perform wonderful cures and treat their patients with unsurpassed nursing, and a kinder lot of physicians, surgeons and nurses I don't believe can be found in the world.

I cheerfully advise all persons suffering from chronic diseases not to stop to count the distance from where they live to Buffalo, N.Y., but go straight to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute without delay, for it is by the will of God and their skill that I am living to-day.

Yours truly,
L.M. McPhail,
Autun, Anderson County, S.C.

Nervousness, "Female Weakness," Nasal Catarrh.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Sanderson.

Gentlemen—My health was utterly gone. Was suffering from nervousness, female troubles and nasal catarrh; life was almost a burden to me, but a glorious change came, due solely to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. I have suffered more than tongue can ever tell. I have been treated by good physicians but they only help me temporarily. I have taken a great many patent medicines with the same result. In 1890, I began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, which gave me immediate relief and a permanent cure.

Respectfully,
MRS. BELLE SANDERSON,
Sprout, Nicholas Co., Ky.

Made Her "Strong and Well."

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

West Liberty, Ohio.

Dear Sir—I can cheerfully recommend your valuable medicine, the "Favorite Prescription," to suffering females. Three years ago my health became so poor that I was scarcely able to help with the household duties. I was persuaded to try your medicine, and purchased six bottles. That, with the local treatment you advised, made me strong and well. My sister has used it in the family with like results.

Yours truly,
L.E. Johnson

Made Life a Burden.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Miss Crawford.

Gentlemen—For years I suffered monthly from periodic pains which at times were so acute as to render life a burden. I began using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I used seven bottles in as many months and derived so much benefit from it and the home-treatment recommended in his Treatise on Diseases of Women, that I wish every women throughout our land, suffering in the same way, may be induced to give your medicines and treatment a fair trial.

Gratefully yours,
Miss G.F. CRAWFORD,
Limestone, Me.

"Female Weakness," Leucorrhea.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I will write you a few lines to-day and feel thankful that I can say I enjoy good health most all the time. When I first commenced using your medicine I was suffering from female weakness, leucorrhea, bearing-down pains and a soreness across me that at times I could hardly stand up straight when I would get up off of my chair to walk across the room. I got a bottle of your "Favorite Prescription" and by the time I had used half of it, the soreness began to get better. I used three bottles altogether, and since that, you might say I am enjoying the best of health most of the time. I have had two baby boys since—both healthy, although the baby is only three weeks old, and I am doing all of my own work since he was two and one-half weeks old.

I always speak highly and recommend your medicine because I know it deserves a good name; and I feel certain it will cure female diseases if they give it a fair trial.

Yours respectfully,
MRS. RICHARD REED,
Springfield, Kings Co., N.B.

Female Irregularities.

Cuscowilla, Mecklenburg Co., Va.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I take pleasure in adding my testimonial to the great list, and hope that it will be of interest to suffering humanity. I tried three doctors and none of them seemed to do me any good. When at last I almost despaired of health any more, I saw in a paper one of your advertisements, and I sent for and got two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and I improved so rapidly that I sent for and got three bottles of your "Favorite Prescription," and now I am as well as I have been since I was a child.

I had been a sufferer for three years when I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's medicines. When I commenced taking it, I was not able to walk across my room without help, or rise from my chair. I suffered from nervousness very much, and with the least excitement I would faint; and I think, in short, I suffered with female irregularities and that your medicine has brought me through. I don't think I can say enough for it. I have used five bottles of your medicine in all.

If any one wishes to know what I have to say, they can address me in person, enclosing stamps. With respect, I am,

Yours,
Sarah E. Ineker

"Just a Mere Skeleton."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Roberts.

Gentlemen—If I had not taken your medicine I would not be here now. The doctors did me no good, I was just a mere skeleton, could not eat. I would have awful pain in my stomach—pain in my side, bowels and chest; soreness in my back and womb; was weak, nervous and could not sleep.

After I took your "Favorite Proscription" and "Golden Medical Discovery," I commenced to improve. In two weeks could walk about the house—could eat—did not have any more pain in my stomach—threw away my morphine powders. When I first commenced taking the medicine it made me feel worse. I was hoarse, could not speak aloud for three days; as I got better my pains and bad feelings left me and I could sleep good; my nerves got better. Before I took your medicine I kept my bed four months—got worse all the while. I am now quite fleshy and can work all day.

Respectfully,
MRS. WILLIAM ROBERTS,
Bridgeport, N.Y.

Constant Sufferer for Many Years.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Scott.

Gentlemen—For many years my wife has been a constant sufferer from indigestion, sick headache, nervous prostration and all other complaints that the female sex is heir to, and, after trying many remedies and doctors with but little or no relief, I persuaded her to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and "Golden Medical Discovery." She was so out of heart, she returned the answer that it would be like all the rest—of no good; but on my account, she said she would try it, so I got one bottle each; and before she had used half of a bottle she felt that it was benefiting her, and she has continued to improve ever since, and now thinks it the most wonderful remedy on earth for her sex, and recommends it to all suffering females. She has not been so well in ten years.

I write this without any solicitation and with a free, good will, so that you may let all who may suffer know what it has done for her.

Yours truly,
M.W. SCOTT,
U.S. Marshall's Office,
Atlanta, Ga.

A Mothers' Friend.

Tanks, Cottle Co., Texas.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Dear Sir—I took your "Favorite Prescription" previous to confinement and never did so well in my life. It is only two weeks since my confinement and I am able to do my work. I feel stronger than I ever did in six weeks before.

Yours truly,
Corda Culpepper

Bed Fast.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Tappan.

Gentlemen—For about two years I was a constant sufferer from diseases peculiar to my sex. I had to be carried from my bed, had horrible dreams, sinking sensations, was very nervous and had little or no appetite. In short, my whole body was racked with pain. I had frequent attacks of hysteria, and was completely discouraged, for I found no medicine did me any good. At last I determined to give your "Favorite Prescription" a trial. I had taken but two bottles before I felt so much better! I took eleven bottles. To-day I am well. I have never felt the least trace of my old complaint in the last six years. We use the "Golden Medical Discovery" whenever we need a blood-purifier. By its use, eruptions of all kinds vanish and the skin is rendered clear and soft, almost as an infants.

Respectfully,
MRS. HARRY TAPPAN,
Reynolds, Neb.

At Death's Door.

Abita Springs, La.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Dear Sir—My wife suffered from laceration of the womb and inflammation—she was completely bed-ridden and lingered about one year at death's door. Local applications were given her and Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription; she gradually regained strength and continued to do so until she recovered. I am convinced that any case of womb disease can be certainly and permanently cured by the use of your remedies.

M. Green
Agt. Southern Exp. Co.

Heart, Liver, and Stomach Disease.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Landrum.

Gentlemen—About nine years ago my health began to fail; had a continual pain and aching under my right shoulder and in or under my right breast; I could not eat anything but a little milk or bread, and even that made my stomach pain and hurt me so I could not rest; I kept getting weaker all the time and I could no longer sit up; I sent for our family physician; he said I had dyspepsia and inflammation of the liver, and gave me medicine two or three months, but I kept getting weaker all the time; it seemed to me that I was diseased all over; thought I had heart disease; had the doctor examine my heart several times. I became so discouraged that I gave up all hope of ever getting well, but consented to send to Dr. Pierce for medicine. I commenced taking it and in a short time I was able to sit up; continued to take his medicine three months and felt like a new person—didn't need any more medicine and have not yet. I can eat anything I wish; am sixty-three years old; can walk a mile without any trouble, and I can truly say that I believe it was Dr. Pierce's medicines that saved my life.

Respectfully yours,
MRS. VIRGINIA LANDRUM,
Merino, Logan Co.. Col.

Uterine Disease.

Creston, Iowa.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Sir—My wife improved in health gradually from the time she commenced taking "Favorite Prescription" until now. She has been doing her own housework for the past four months. When she began taking it, she was scarcely able to be on her feet, she suffered so from uterine debility. I can heartily recommend it for such cases.

Yours truly,
H.H. Snyder

The Picture of Health.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mrs. Meeker.

Dear Sir—My daughter, Miss MEEKER, was sick and we called in one of the best doctors here. She got so weak that I had to help her out of bed and draw her in a chair. She then tried some of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. In less than a week she was out of bed and has been working about five weeks now, and looks the picture of health. As for myself I am much better of my female complaint. Before taking the "Favorite Prescription," I suffered most of the time from catarrhal inflammation.

Yours respectfully,
MRS. NANCY MEEKER,
Dunraven, Delaware Co., N.Y.

Lifted the Burden.

Nye, Putnam Co., W. Va.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Dear Sir—Mine is a case of eleven years' standing, which baffled the skill of the best medical aid procurable. I obtained no good effect, until I began the use of the "Favorite Prescription," which lifted the burden which was seeking my life. My gratitude I owe to the "Prescription." I hope that all suffering humanity (as in my case) may profit by the result of my experience.

Yours truly,
Evoline Neil

Spermatorrhea

(Seminal Weakness),

or emission of semen without copulation, is generally induced by the early habit of masturbation. It is one of the evidences that passion, instead of prudence, has held sway. Passion may aptly be termed the voice of the body, by which, if we listen, we are enchanted and led astray. Conscience is the voice of the soul, which remonstrates, and if we obey, we shall be guided aright. We cannot reconcile these conflicting voices, and if we indulge the passions when conscience forbids gratification, the remembrance of the wrong remains forever, and constant fear is an everlasting punishment.

Wrecked Manhood. Man possesses few powers which are more highly prized than those of virility, which is the very essence of manhood. "He is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man."

The Semen is a milky fluid of the consistency of mucus. It is secreted by the testicles and is intermixed with the fluids secreted by the prostate and by Cowper's glands. Its fertilizing property depends on the presence of minute bodies, termed spermatozoa. These consist of little polliwig-shaped bodies (Fig. 3), having large heads and long filaments or tails. Under the microscope these little bodies are seen to describe movements not unlike those of polliwigs.

Why Emissions of the Vital Fluid Debilitate. The seminal fluid consists of the most vital elements in the human body. It not only assists in maintaining the life of the individual, but communicates the essential, transforming principle which generates another mortal having an imperishable existence. Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers. No wonder that its loss enfeebles the constitution, and results in impotency, premature decline, St. Vitus's dance, paralysis, epilepsy, consumption, softening of the brain, and insanity. No wonder that conscience and fear become tormenting inquisitors, and that the symptoms are changed into imaginary specters of stealthily approaching disease.

"There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self-condemned
He deals on his own soul."

The Practice of Onanism squanders the vitality and bankrupts the constitution. Indigestion, innutrition, emaciation, shortness of breath, palpitation, nervous debility, are all symptoms of this exhaustion. Subsequently, the yellow skin reveals the bones, the sunken eyes are surrounded by a leaden circle, the vivacious imagination becomes dull, the active mind grows insipid—in short, the spring, or vital force, having lost its tension, every function wanes in consequence. Excessive lustful enjoyment produces feebleness, and finally terminates in disease and impotency.

Seminal Weakness may be the result of marital excesses. A proper sexual gratification contributes to the health and happiness of both parties. On the other hand, intemperate indulgence not only prevents fruitfulness, but ultimately, if persisted in, renders the husband entirely impotent, and undermines and destroys the constitution of the wife. Spermatorrhea may be induced by spinal irritation, intestinal worms, or piles. It may also result from inherited, as well as acquired, constitutional weakness.

Nocturnal or Night Emissions. Involuntary emissions of semen most frequently occur during amorous dreams at night, and are therefore termed nocturnal emissions. Although they are at first occasioned by lascivious dreams, attended by erections and pleasurable sensations, yet, as the disease progresses, the erections become less perfect and the losses are only revealed by the depression of spirits experienced the following morning, and by the stiffened and stained spots on the linen. At first, these emissions may occur but once in two or three weeks, unless the patient be excited by company, stimulation, food, drinks, or other causes; but, at a later stage of the disease, they sometimes take place every night. In aggravated cases, the seminal sacs are so weakened that the warmth of the bed, friction of the clothing, reading obscene literature, viewing indecent pictures, indulging in lewd conversation, or even being in the presence of women, produces a waste of semen—many times unattended by erections. When there is great weakness, seminal discharges may be induced by lifting heavy weights, pressure upon the genital organs, horseback riding, straining at stool, or even upon urinating, as observed when muscular efforts are made to expel the last drops, which appear thick and viscid. If the urine be allowed to stand for a few hours, the seminal discharge will be precipitated, and will form a light-colored deposit at the bottom of the vessel. If the sediment be examined with a microscope, spermatozoa can readily be detected in it.

Wasting Away of the Testicles. Masturbation not only occasions loss of semen, but frequently the testicles and other generative organs waste and become reduced in size as a result of the abuse. Fig. 1 shows the testicle in a healthy condition, while Fig. 2 represents one much reduced, as a result of self-abuse.

The celebrated Dr. Drewery, of London, speaking of the reason why masturbation is so extremely injurious in its effects upon both body and mind, says:

"This is a question which I have often been asked by patients, and it is one which is rather difficult to explain to any one not acquainted with the phenomena of reflex nervous action.

"Perhaps the simplest mode of putting it is to say that the effects produced by the excitement of the parts are not the direct result of the stimulation, but that the excitement of the extremities of the nerves is conveyed through them to the spinal cord and brain, and that the emission which occurs, when sufficient stimulus has been applied, is the result of nervous force reacting upon the parts from the spinal cord back again. This action is termed reflex, and is similar to that of vomiting, which is only produced through the medium of the great nervous centres; so that if the nervous communication between the stomach and spinal cord and brain is cut off, nothing in the stomach could possibly cause vomiting, whereas if the communication remains intact, this action can be immediately produced by irritation of nerves far away from the stomach, viz., by tickling the fauces, as every drunkard is well aware who has ever put his finger down his throat for the purpose of emptying his stomach of the contents which are poisoning him, but which without the additional stimulus he is unable to expel. It will be seen, therefore, from this that the act of emission is only produced through the agency of the spinal cord, and not by any direct nervous action between the parts which are stimulated, and those which are concerned in the emission.

Fig. 1. The Testicle in a healthy condition.

Fig. 2. A Testicle wasted by Masturbation.

"The brain is also concerned to the fullest extent in the production of these phenomena, as are all the senses of the body; this is proved by the fact that emissions occur during sleep, without any excitement beyond the engorgement of the parts with blood, produced by the cerebellar congestion of the brain, usually found to follow lying upon the back during sleep. This, however, is unnatural and unhealthy, and is usually the result, as before pointed out, of masturbation. But these two important points must be remembered—that emission may be produced by friction merely as a purely spinal reflex action, and it may be caused by the action of the brain without any friction whatever. Both these results are unhealthy and injurious. A true natural and healthy act of sexual intercourse demands the excitement of brain, spinal cord, and every nerve in the body simultaneously, and resembles the lightning flash which restores the equilibrium of electric force disturbed during a thunderstorm.

"It is useless to endeavor to describe the marvelous actions of nervous force, but from what has been said it is not difficult to comprehend that if a convulsive action is produced in any part of the body by the sole excitement of the spinal cord, when it is necessary for its healthy and natural production that the brain and senses generally should be equally excited, the balance of nerve power is destroyed, which fact alone is proved by the effects upon the nervous system always following masturbation, which is the irritation of the spinal cord without the assistance of the brain."

Various Complications are likely to arise in the progress of this malady.

Stricture of the Urethra, or water passage, is a very common complication and, even when quite slight, generally interferes very seriously with the cure of the spermatorrhea when overlooked by the attending physician, as is very commonly done, especially when the constriction of the water passage is only slight. Very often it occurs in our practice that on examining a case of this disease that has been the rounds of the doctors, we find a stricture, which had been entirely overlooked by other practitioners, being so slight as not to occasion serious obstruction to the flow of urine but yet sufficient to interfere very much with the cure of the spermatorrhea. The size of the urethra, or water passage, should bear an exact and proportionate relation to that of the penis, and when from any cause the urethra is contracted below this normal size, it should receive attention, as otherwise the stricture is likely to increase and the passage becomes so constricted as to produce serious disease of the bladder, and not fail to perpetuate spermatorrhea, when this disease exists.

Hydrocele (Dropsy of the Scrotum) consists of an undue secretion of the fluid which moistens the tunica vaginalis, and may arise from an irritation of the testicle, produced by masturbation. This subject is fully considered in the Medical Adviser.

Varicocele is a dilatation of the veins of the spermatic cord and scrotum, and is frequently a result of masturbation. It is readily distinguished under the form of a soft, doughy, compressible, knotty, and unequal enlargement of the veins, and a tumid condition of the adjacent parts. One writer, speaking of the enlargement of the spermatic vessels, describes them as "feeling like a coiled up bundle of worms."

Disease of the Prostate Gland is frequently caused by solitary indulgence. Venereal excesses produce congestion and the gland is overnourished. It becomes greatly enlarged, a condition called hypertrophy. This affection gives rise to a heavy feeling or pressure in the region below the bladder, and often interferes seriously with urination, and gives great pain and uneasiness, and often results in grave and dangerous complications.

Prostatorrhea consists of an unnatural flowing or wasting of the prostatic secretion, which may be known by its mucous-like appearance, and, when placed within the field of the microscope, by the absence of spermatozoa or fecundating germs. It is often mistaken for spermatorrhea, or for gleet, by inexperienced and careless physicians. For a full consideration of diseases of the prostate gland, see Part IX of our Dime Series of pamphlets, which will be sent on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps.

Again, the habit of self-pollution weakens all the structures of the genital organs, and induces seminal waste, which may lead to a morbid diminution in the size of the prostate gland. This condition, which is exactly the opposite of the one above described, is atrophy. Any disease which renders the circulation in the prostate gland languid and feeble interferes with the nutrition of that organ and impairs its function.

Impotency (Loss of Sexual Power). Masturbation prevents the excitability of the nervous system and sexual organs and causes debility, which is indicated by the premature discharge of semen during sexual intercourse. These premature emissions indicate not only partial impotency, but also that the nerve-centres have become morbidly sensitive by the practice of solitary vice, or marital excesses. At length the powers of the erectile tissues are diminished, and there is weakness which prevents the act of copulation, or the erection may be slow and not last long enough, on account of a faulty functional condition of the spinal cord.

A Peculiar Form of Impotency is associated with certain abnormal nutritive changes which give rise to a lymphatic or fat condition of the system. Not that the temperament in all these cases is originally lymphatic, but the system degenerates in consequence of nutritive perversion. With the loss of sexual ardor, there is also apathy of mind, loss of manliness, and the victim becomes cold, dispassionate, and treacherous, devoid of any admiration or love for the opposite sex. He acquires rotundity of person, the face is fat, smooth, often beardless, and the voice is feminine.

The victims of this disease represent two distinct classes, viz.: (1) those who are fearfully tormented by the consciousness that they are losing their virile powers, and become irritable, jealous and often desperate; and (2) those who are completely indifferent to this deprivation.

(1.) Patients of the former class are readily restored to health by proper treatment, for they are willing to make an effort for the recovery of their manly powers. There is not complete loss of sexual desire, yet their disappointment is so great that they may entertain suicidal thoughts. They are moody, fickle, discontented, excitable, and remarkably impulsive. With proper treatment, they regain tone of body, vigor of mind, an increase of sexual desire, and become more attentive to business affairs, and less indifferent to the gentler sex. With the restoration of the general health and the sexual functions, remarkable constitutional changes occur. It is often the case that their intimate friends hardly recognize them by looks or acts.

(2.) It is equally true that those who are wholly indifferent to the loss of virile power, uninterested in the evidences of their manhood, are sometimes incurable. In fact, it is useless to treat the latter class, because they will neither co-operate with the physician, nor persist in the treatment necessary to effect a radical and constitutional change.

Masturbation perverts and finally destroys the secretory functions of the testicles. It sometimes causes chronic inflammation, which may result in obliteration of the minute seminal canals, or obstruction of the conveying ducts. The sperm is imperfectly elaborated and totally unfit for procreative purposes. Sometimes the spermatozoa are entirely absent, and, when present, are very few in number, incomplete in structure, diseased, and deficient in power as well as in organization. Fig. 3 represents the spermatozoa in a healthy condition, and Fig. 4, when they are sickly, deficient and inanimate. The husband may appear to be healthy, and his inability to procreate may be erroneously considered a defect in his wife.

Symptoms of Spermatorrhea. The indications of abuse of the sexual organs 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Fig. 1. A healthy testicle.

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.

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.:

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.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo. N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I can bear testimony to the removal of the difficulty for which you treated me, for I had been to experts in Philadelphia and they did not know how to perform the operation, and said I could not be cured. I was treated by experts in Albany and other cities, but all for no use. I went to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute and was operated upon and find I am cured. The treatment in every other respect was good; everything was done to make patients happy and pleasant; the best of care and attention was paid to all.

Yours truly,
W. McGOWAN,
Orbisonia, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Varicocele or False Rupture—Twelve Years' Standing—Cured in Ten Days.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

N.H. Sharitz, 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 twelve years, I take pleasure in certifying to the speedy and certain relief afforded, and the painless nature of the operation as performed by the surgeon of the World's Dispensary Medical Association. Ten days from the time of the operation, I returned home radically and permanently cured. I desire to express my thanks to the medical staff for their skill and attention.

Gratefully yours,
N.H. SHARITZ,
Box 22. Rural Retreat, Wythae Co., Va.

Varicocele and Resultant Weaknesses.

Wasting of Strength and Manly Vigor—Now Strong and Well.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Robert B. Wills, Esq.

Gentlemen—I am unable to find words to express my feelings of gratefulness and gratitude that I owe to your Institution, for the able and gentlemanly treatment that I was favored with during my stay with you, by officials and attendants in their respective capacities, in every department. Nothing was left undone that could possibly be of benefit to me or add to my comfort, and to your Institution, your treatment, which in my own experience I have found to be marvelously wonderful, I feel to-day as if I owe my health, my strength, my life; for I firmly believe if it had not been for your timely and painless treatment, instead of writing to you at this time, being in the enjoyment of health and strength, I would be filling a place in an insane asylum or an invalid's grave. And it may not be more than just to your wonderful treatment to say that the Varicocele and resultant weaknesses was of about fifteen years' standing, during which time I had spent time and money with both physicians and quacks, without any result for the better, and when my life blood was daily wasting away, and the powers of manly strength and vigor were completely gone, by an act of Providence I went to your Institution as a last resort, for life or death. I was painlessly operated upon by you for my complaint, from which time I have steadily improved in health, strength, weight and vigor, until I have gone from 135 pounds, my weight when operated upon, to 174, at which I tip the balance as I write to you to-day. If the afflicted everywhere could only realize that so many lives may be spared by your wonderful treatment, none would stay away.

You are at liberty to give my testimony to the world in whatever way it may be of most benefit to you. I also enclose a photograph of myself that has been taken since the effects of your treatment have been shown. With feelings of much gratefulness, I am,

Very truly yours,
ROBERT B. WILLS,
No. 23 Elizabeth St., Hagerstown, Md.

Rupture of Spermatic Veins.

Varicocele (false rupture)—Previous Operator Left Part of Surgeon's Needle in Flesh; Successfully Extracted at Invalids' Hotel.

Chas. P. Morse, Esq.

"WHAT I THINK OF THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE:"

The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute is an Institution first-class in every respect, presided over by a capable, honest and pleasant lot of medical experts who certainly know their business. I cannot speak of it too highly.

I was treated there in the summer of 1887, for Rupture of the Spermatic Veins, previous to which I had been operated on two different times, with no relief, by a doctor here in this place cracked up to be one of the best in Northern Illinois, and an officer of the Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary. The operation at the Invalids' Hotel was perfectly painless, did not have to take any anæsthetic, neither was I confined to my bed at all, and the result a perfect success; while in the two previous operations I had here at home, I was confined to my bed a week each time and another week scarcely able to move about, be sides getting worse each time with pain enough to drive one crazy. But the half has not been told. About two and a half years after I had been cured of my difficulty at Buffalo, I commenced having terrible pains in my leg and abdomen, for which I could not account, and after standing it until it seemed as though I would be glad to die, I again consulted the Invalids' Hotel; after a thorough investigation they operated on me where my pain seemed the most apparent, and dug out a piece of a surgeon's needle something over half an inch in length, that had been broken off in the first operation I had by the doctor here at home, and so admitted by him when confronted with it. I have spent lots of money and nearly six years of the worst pain man ever stood getting relief, while had I known of this place on the start, an operation with no pain whatever and scarcely more discomfort than a sore mouth after having a tooth removed, would have ended it all.

In conclusion, I will say to any poor sufferer, don't do as I did and put your trust in the would-be greatest doctor you have at home, but go to this place at Buffalo, where you will have proof of their ability, and where you will surely meet patients about to leave, cured; others on their way to recovery for the same difficulty you may have yourself, no matter what it is, if curable at all; a place where you will have the kindest of attention, the best of medical and surgical skill, and where you can see sufferers going away every day with hearts full of gratitude and happy.

Respectfully, CHAS. P. MORSE,
311 North Avon St., Rockford, Ills.

Varicocele-False Rupture Caused by Injury.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

G.W. McCollom, Esq.

Gentlemen—In the year 1866, sometime in July, I jumped from a load of lumber to the ground, and at once felt a sharp severe pain along the spermatic cord of left side of scrotum, preventing my walking to the house without help. The veins near the cord filled to such extent that they seemed solid, and could not be reduced for some time. I went to a good doctor and by him was advised to "pay no attention to it, it will not amount to much." From that time I suffered continually, and will not try to describe what I endured until I was relieved by a surgical operation performed on me by the surgeon-specialist of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N.Y. After working-hard for several years my suffering increased and I was advised to consult Prof. L., of Chicago Hahnemann College (of Homeopathic School) and by him was informed an operation of tieing the veins (choking them off) could be performed but 90 per cent (if I remember rightly) of the operations proved fatal. I decided not to try it. By accident I learned of your great skill, and though my case was of twenty-one years' time, and my health and strength gone, I considered the method plausible and reasonably safe. I had the operation performed, and now after six years have passed, I can say with satisfaction, there is little to be noticed or remind me of the past years of misery. The parts are of healthy-color. Urine has assumed a natural appearance, both sides of scrotum seem in size alike. No bandage is worn and for two years has been discarded. My weight increased and for two years prior to the taking of my photo, I did the work of handling a third-class post office, doing a money order business of $50,000, not losing a day in that time, and at the present time in this hot climate, I have been doing outdoor work, some of it hard, and with mercury at 100 degrees. I have worked and found no need of a bandage; and no unnatural relaxation of the scrotum or veins is noticed.

If anyone wishes to write me, they are at liberty to do so. If my experience can be of benefit to any, I will answer all enquiries, and in a general way will now say no one should delay attending to such difficulty, for if the blood is in a reasonably healthy condition your surgeon will operate in such a way that the result will be all right in time. I send photo taken in 1891.

Respectfully, GEORGE W. McCOLLOM,
Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., Cal.

Varicocele.

Sanborn, Barnes Co., N. Dak., Aug. 9th, 1895.

PROPRIETOR INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Dear Sir—Having been afflicted with varicocele and loss of manhood and having heard so much of the cure for these troubles at the Invalids' Hotel. Buffalo. N.Y., I went there and was operated upon. The operation itself is nothing to bear. It is painless and the result is a radical cure. For this you have my sincere thanks. I take pleasure in recommending your Institution to all sufferers and know that it is in every respect just as claimed to be. I would say to all who suffer from this trouble: go to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N.Y., and you will get relief. You will receive kind attention from all.

Very truly yours,
George Bignall.

Varicocele and General Debility.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

J.L. Ridings, Esq.

Gentlemen—I can bear testimony to the removal of varicocele, for which you treated me. I had been in the habit of getting out with the boys and trying to see which could kick the highest with one foot on the ground, and it caused me to have varicocele. I went to my home doctor and he treated me with no success. It was getting worse all the time and I got out of shape all over. My health got bad and I thought my case hopeless. I had tried two doctors and received no benefit.

I had one of your little Memorandum Books in my pocket, and one day, looking through it I saw you treated such cases, and wrote you and received word in a few days that you would treat me, so I sent off for one month's treatment; and in five months I had gained my weight back, and that was eight years ago and I feel sound and well and my health has been good ever since.

You are at liberty to use my testimony in whatever way if may be of most benefit to you.

I also enclose a photograph of myself that was taken soon after your treatment.

With feelings of much gratefulness, I am,

Very truly yours,
J.L. RIDINGS,
Clarence, Shelby County, Missouri.

Varicocele and Nervous Debility.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

D.A. Walton, Esq.

Gentlemen—I commenced treatment, I think, in July or August, of 1888, and continued four months. My case was nervous debility of fifteen years' standing.

I tried home doctors but found they were only aggravating my case. I also tried the Remedy Company, then of St. Louis, who claimed to perform wonderful cures with their "Pastiles," but they proved utterly worthless. Having come in possession of Dr. Pierce's little book and circulars, a perusal of the same convinced me that my health would not be trifled with at his Institution.

I was a poor man and could not afford much experimenting. I ordered one month's treatment, and at the end of this first month, I found, to my surprise, that I was feeling different. The second month, still more surprised at my returning health. Third month thought I was cured, and engaged myself to a young lady, and wrote you to that effect, and you advised me with your congratulations to marry, and to order another month's treatment; and at the end of the fourth month I was a man, something I did not know what it would be like to be before.

I have now been married five years, and have two healthy children—a boy and a girl. I would never have dared to marry had it not been for your medicines. I must add that during this treatment I was troubled with varicocele on left side. I wrote you this at third month of treatment, and you sent without extra charge, a Suspensory and Lotion, and two months' treatment cured me sound and well of this distressing malady; I have not felt the least symptoms of its return.

I want the world to know what a competent and honorable firm the World's Dispensary Medical Association is. I would love to shake you by the hand. May God let you continue to be a help to mankind is my prayer.

Yours truly,
D.A. WALTON,
Marion, Grant County, Ind.

Bad Varicocele of Long Standing.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

J.M. Elam, Esq.

Gentlemen—I feel many obligations to your noble skill, as physicians. I was treated with much kindness by physicians and nurses. I was surprised to find such a speedy cure of such a bad case of varicocele of long standing; the operation was entirely painless and I felt a great change in myself, as a result of it. Am so glad to tell any sufferer of that terrible disease to apply to you at once and be cured, for I am sure I could not have lived long as the pressure and burden was so great I could scarcely be on my feet at all; any work in an upright position was impossible.

Now it has been five years since I was operated upon and I feel well of that disease—varicocele attended with impotency or weakness of the generative organs, caused by varicocele.

Thanks to the good physician who relieved me—hope he may live long and be able to relieve all that submit themselves to him for treatment, as I did. I found everything that had been described to be just so in regard to the Staff and Institution.

Gratefully yours, J.M. ELAM,
Flat Rock, Scott Co., Va.

Double Varicocele and Stricture of Urethra.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

C. Hanson, Esq.

Gentlemen—I have taken treatment from you for several months for nervous debility, and although I am not quite fully cured as yet, I have been greatly benefited, and believe, if I had come to you before I was duped and swindled by different quacks and was more dead than alive, I would to-day be a thoroughly well man.

I have also been to your Institute twice for surgical operations, and cannot too highly praise the Hotel, or the skill and care of the attending surgeons and nurses. They are gentlemen in every way and the Invalids' Hotel is just as represented.

I shall advise all suffering from chronic diseases to go to you for relief, as I have never seen any one there who was not cured or greatly benefited.

Very truly yours,
CHRISTIAN HANSON,
Austin, Mower Co., Minn.

Indigestion, Constipation, Varicocele.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Mr. Hodges.

Dear Sirs—In regard to my condition of health, will say, although I am not entirely well, yet I have received much and lasting good from your treatment. My digestion was improved greatly, so that little trouble is experienced after eating; my liver seems to act reasonably well, and my bowels are much better. My varicocele I consider entirely cured, as I have not used the bandage for one half day for more than six months, and do not experience any inconvenience from that source.

Yours truly,
HARLAN HODGES,
Keota, Keokuk Co., Ia.

Bad Varicocele.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

W.H. Dellinger, Esq.

Gentlemen—Having been operated upon at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute for the radical cure of a bad varicocele, from which I had suffered for eight years, I desire to express my thanks to you for your kindness and skill. And I would advise all persons, needing surgical or medical treatment, to go to the World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM H. DELLINGER,
Vincennes, Knox Co., Ind.

Varicocele.

Cambridge, Furnas Co., Nebr.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—With great gratitude toward your most valuable Institute, I feel indebted to you for the cure of varicocele. I was troubled ten years with this annoying disease, caused, I think, by being thrown from a horse. My case was of a very obstinate character. I was treated by a leading specialist of Omaha, Nebr., without success and without being in the least benefited. I expended the neat little sum of $500, and then sank back in despair, losing all hopes of a cure. I had previous to my treatment in Omaha noticed a little hand or Memorandum Book of the World's Dispensary, and again one came to my notice. I mustered up courage to write to you, and in June, 1892, I visited your Institute for treatment. I was treated by the best skilled surgeons and given best attention by experienced nurses. I met a number of patients while under treatment troubled with various and complex diseases, who expressed their gratitude to the Faculty of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute. The operation performed was rendered painless, owing to local applications previously applied. After the operation, which was about 11 o'clock, A.M., I rested until 12, noon, and responded to the dinner call as usual. I was required to remain but ten days, then returned home, a distance of some twelve hundred miles. I wore a neat fitting support for about six months, and then abandoned it and have gone as nature created me. Oh, what a relief. I had worn a "suspensory" for about six years. I have had no return of former trouble, it being now about two years since the operation.

To any suffering with varicocele I must say, "don't delay, but place yourself under treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., and you will say as I do, 'The half has never been told.'" With earnest wishes for your future success, I am,

Yours truly,
E.L. Brown

Varicocele.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

D.E. Righetti, Esq.

Gentlemen—I wish to inform you of the success of your treatment of me for varicocele on the left side and its attendant weakness, etc. I am now happy to say that through the agency of your surgical skill and the efficacy of your medicine, I am healthy, strong, and a perfect man. I suffered for about two years previous to the operation with acute pain in the parts, and continued mental anxiety. I desire to express my entire satisfaction that, during the ten days that I remained in the Invalids' Hotel, I never experienced such uniform kindness and attention as I did from the attending surgeon and from all the attachees, and that I recommend all persons similarly afflicted to consult you, and they can be sure to find the way to happiness.

Respectfully yours,
D.E. RIGHETTI,
Cayucos, San Luis Obispo Co., Cal.

Varicocele

Of Twenty Years' Standing—Cured "Without Pain.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

C.H. Boyle, Esq.

Gentlemen—I take great pleasure in recommending the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute. After trying my home physicians without obtaining any permanent relief, and growing constantly worse, I went to this famous Institution and submitted to an operation for varicocele. This was a perfect success, and soon I felt like a new man, and as strong as I ever did. I feel that nothing I could say would do justice to this renowned Institution. In every way, it is kept in advance of the age. The staff of physicians and nurses spare no pains to make the visit of every one pleasant as well as beneficial in the highest degree. I would urge all sufferers afflicted as I was, or with any chronic disease, to avail themselves, without delay, of the skillful treatment to be obtained of the specialists of the World's Dispensary Medical Association, for I am confident that they will receive all the benefit that can be obtained from medical or surgical treatment and care.

Yours truly,
CHAS. H. BOYLE,
Fort Benton, Choteau Co., Montana.

Varicocele.

Spent $500 With Other Doctors to no Purpose.

Bryson, Jack Co., Texas.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—I had been troubled with varicocele for nine years, and had given up ever being cured. After spending $500.00, with medical quacks I then went to the World's Dispensary Medical Association as a last resort. One of their skillful surgeons performed an operation upon me which was entirely painless. I conversed with several other patients, who had the same disease. They seemed happy to know that there was such an Institution that could relieve suffering humanity. The surgeons and nurses were so good and kind to us and gave us the best of attention and even the patients had a very fraternal feeling toward each other.

Your Institution is finely equipped and has the best of accommodations. Accept my thanks.

Yours truly,
A.D. Bryson

A Bad Case.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:

H.C. Decker, Esq.

Gentlemen—I have been cured of an almost life-long difficulty by the skill of your specialist, and heartily thank you for the successful manner in which the operation was performed in my case. The result is complete and perfect relief, and as time advances I can each day more fully appreciate the value of your Institution. The time spent there I shall never forget, as it was a time of extreme pleasure to me. The operation was perfectly painless and did not confine me to my bed, and this taken with the extreme kindness of every one connected with the Institution, made the time pass in a very happy manner.

I consider your Hotel first-class in every respect, and would heartily advise all sufferers from chronic ailments to visit you before giving up their cases as hopeless.

Respectfully yours,
H.C. DECKER,
Dresbach, Winona Co., Minn.

Varicocele-Caused from Strain.

Montague, Sussex Co., N.J.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—In reply to your inquiry concerning my treatment, I cheerfully give you the following testimonial: "I was troubled for many years with a very bad varicocele, which I received when a boy while jumping. The complaint troubled me exceedingly. I tried almost every known means to effect a cure, but with no avail, for the more I doctored the more aggravated became the disease. After thus suffering for many years and knowing of the fame your Institution had attained in curing such diseases, I at last consulted your specialist in that class of diseases—was operated upon and returned home in ten days, a sound and well man. I can recommend your Institution to all suffering humanity as the most home-like, your nurses the most attentive and specialists the most skillful the world can offer. May you long be the benefactors of mankind."

Yours truly,
F.L. Van Etten

Varicocele.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

E.H. MAHNKEN, ESQ.

Gentlemen—The result of your operation, performed one year and a half ago for a case of varicocele of twelve years' standing, and which had troubled me very much, has cured me entirely. I am thankful to God that He put it into my mind to visit your Surgical Institute. I cannot recommend your skill too highly.

Yours truly,
ED. H. MAHNKEN,
Smithton, Pettis Co., Mo.

Varicocele.

Medora, Billings Co., N. Dak.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen—Having been operated upon at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., for the radical cure of a varicocele on the left side from which I suffered four years, I take pleasure in certifying to the speedy and certain relief afforded, and the painless operation, as performed by the surgeon of the World's Dispensary Medical Association. Ten days from the time of the operation I returned home permanently cured.

I desire to express my thanks to the Medical Staff for their skill and attention.

Gratefully yours,
Geo. O. Reid

A Strong Endorsement.

To whom it may concern:

H.E. Bankston

This is to certify that I took treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., and I was cured of a chronic trouble that had been maltreated by other physicians. While there I saw a man who had been cured by the specialists, who had before been given up to die by the best doctors in Troy, N.Y. Of course, the case must have been a very stubborn one. I afterwards saw a man here, in Georgia, die, who, if he had been in Pierce's Surgical Institute under the treatment and care of his skilled doctors and nurses, I know would have most assuredly got well. Why? Because it was only a case of stone in the bladder, and they are easily cured at Dr. Pierce's Surgical Institute. I think almost any chronic disease can be cured there, if taken in time, judging from my observations while an inmate of that Institution.

H.E. BANKSTON,
Barnesville, Pike Co., Ga.