There are some persons who, from having used various forms of medicated bougies—having had sounds, catheters and bougies roughly passed upon them by unskillful persons—or merely from an indistinct belief, based upon hearsay or tradition, feel some hesitancy about passing anything into the organ for fear that it may do harm, cause pain, or give rise to stricture.
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The majority of these timid people have got this idea from hearing it said that stricture and inflammation have often been caused by gonorrhœa (clap) injections, and they therefore have the idea that anything put into the urethra will do harm. There is not the slightest doubt but that strong injections of nitrate of silver, zinc, copper, carbolic acid and the like (of which these injections are usually made) have, in many instances, caused severe inflammation and, eventually, stricture.
But that is no reason why proper and absolutely unirritating and bland medicines, such as those in the Civiale Crayons, should do this—and they don’t do it. Make up a strong injection of zinc, copper, &c., and take a swallow of it. It will burn and pain your mouth and throat, make you hoarse, and for days afterward you will find it painful to swallow. Put a troche or lozenge, properly medicated for the purpose, into your mouth, and, instead of causing pain, irritation and difficulty in swallowing, it will relieve these symptoms if they exist, cool and calm the membrane, soothe the irritation, and give tone and strength to the vocal chords.
So it is with the Civiale Soluble Crayons.
(1.) They are wholly unlike any caustic, metallic or irritating injection.
(2.) They do not contain a grain of any mineral, caustic or irritant of any kind.
(3.) Their ingredients are purely vegetable.
(4.) They soothe, calm and allay irritation, and give strength and tone to the mucous membrane, Seminal Ducts, Generative Nerves and Prostate Gland.
(5.) They do not cause stricture, but they cure it if it exists.