“Islip, Suffolk County, N.Y., February 13, 1884.
“Dear Sir:—It is now over two months since I quit wearing the Cradle-Compressor, and I seat myself to tell you that the Varicocele seems to be entirely well. The left side is a trifle larger than the right, but the veins are not wormy as they used to be, and the blood don’t stagnate in them any more. The dragging pain is all gone away, and the small of my back hasn’t pained me for a long time. When I came to see you in New York, your doctor told me I musn’t feel sure that I was cured until every bit of worminess was gone and the canal was free of swelled veins. You can tell him that this is so now, and that the testicles aren’t shrunk and wasted the way they used to be.
“Our doctor here, who told me I couldn’t be cured unless I had it operated on, says it’s the most remarkable thing he ever saw. Those are his very words. He didn’t seem any too chipper to find out he was wrong about having to get cut.
“I am a thousand times grateful to you. You have made me a man again, and I shall not forget it. I am ashamed to think how mean a letter I wrote you last summer about humbugging and the like, but I apologize now, and if you find any other people that don’t feel sure you can cure them, send them this letter or get them to write to me.
“I shall remember all you wrote in your last letter about not ‘presuming too much on my improvement,’ and to be careful about jumping, straining and lifting hard, and the like. The Crayons did their work just as well as the Compress Instrument, and I never can tell you how grateful I am to you. There’s several men I know here that are going to write you about their cases. One of them, —— ——, is going down on the train to-morrow, and will bring this letter with him, he says, for introduction. Good bye.
Yours respectfully and gratefully, DAVID L. B.”
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The foregoing three letters tell their story plainly and concisely, and need little or no explanation. We only desire to append the following note from our Case Book—“D—— B——; Residence—Bay Shore, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y.; Age—54; Sex—Male; Civil Condition—Widower; Occupation—Track-Walker on L.I. Railroad (formerly Bayman and Sailor); Disease—Double Varicocele, most pronounced on the left side; glands much softened and wasted; cord also varicose and very painful. Complication—Impaired powers, losses and commencing Impotence. Cause—Indirect and Contributive Abuse in earlier years. Direct—Fall from rigging of a vessel. Treatment—Medium Cradle and Inguinal Compressor and one No. 2 Course Civiale’s Soluble Crayons. Result—Perfect cure in about 9 months. Remarks—As severe and complicated a case as can be found in any records. The symptoms of Impotence were undoubtedly due to the pressure of the dilated veins on the testicles in the scrotum and the seminal duct in the Inguinal Canal. Patient promises to report, in person, at the end of six months, to determine whether the cure remains perfect.” Mr. B—— has since moved to Islip, Long Island, where letters of inquiry (containing a stamp for reply) will reach him.