A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER'S
Advice to Sufferers from Rupture. The Constant jar of a Locomotive is one of the Severest Tests that can be Applied to a Recently Cured Case. Throw away Trusses.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
Gentlemen—I am an engineer—running an engine on the Western Division of the Fitchburg Railroad. I had a severe case of double Hernia; still, have always worked along with them until this winter. One side was of twenty-five years' standing—the other of about eight years. This winter I was laid up sick with pneumonia; in coughing so much, which of course was made necessary by that terrible disease, I strained myself so that after getting up from my sick-bed, I was not able to go to work, as I could get no truss that would hold the rupture. I was talking with Brother Stagg one day. He asked me "why I did not go to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N.Y., and get cured?" I went, and in three weeks was cured, so that I could dispose of my truss entirely.
I wish to say this comes from me direct; it was my own proposition that this letter be made public.
Yours respectfully,
F.S. AUCHENPAUGH,
Rotterdam, N.Y.