The stricture, which resulted from an injury, had been greatly aggravated by uric acid crystals which were continually forming in the urine. Patient had rheumatism, causing this acid state of the system. He had been a great sufferer for many years, continually experiencing the nervousness, smarting, pain and burning, with occasional attacks of urethritis, common to the malady in this form. This made the stricture almost unbearable, and he was practically incapacitated for his labor at the time that treatment was undertaken in our Institution. He had been to the Hot Springs and in the care of other physicians with no satisfactory results. The relief of the stricture by our new and painless method was followed by very great improvement in his condition, after which appropriate remedies for the rheumatism were administered, and the result was a very gratifying and satisfactory relief from his difficulty. Patient afterwards embarked in business as a proprietor of a hotel of his own, and has been ever since very active in carrying on the business, and extremely successful. The stricture showed no tendency to recur, as is commonly the case where it is cured by other methods than employed by us. Many years elapsed from the time that it was treated before the testimonial appended was written.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
Dear Doctors—I want to thank you, but words cannot express my gratitude, for your treatment white at your Institution, but I will say for the benefit of persons afflicted with stricture, that I was entirely cured by you, and after several years have not seen any signs of its returning.
Yours truly,
FAY SAWDY, Proprietor Hotel Sawdy,
Earlville, Madison Co., N.Y.
Case 551,864, URETHRAL STRICTURE—NASAL CATARRH—CURED IN TWENTY DAYS—A PREVIOUS OPERATION BY A NASHVILLE (TENN.) SURGEON UTTERLY FAILED.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL, ASSOCIATION. Buffalo, N.Y.:
In September, 1886, I was examined by one of your able staff of physicians and was found to be suffering with a bad form of nasal catarrh and with two strictures in the urethra (water passage). After a few days' general treatment, I was operated upon and turned over to be cared for by the nurse, from whom I received all the attention that was necessary. To my utter astonishment I was dismissed in twenty days from the Surgical Institute, cured of the stricture. I had been operated on by one able surgeon of Nashville, Tenn., and was worse after the operation than before. I have never had a symptom of the stricture since I was dismissed from the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, and have been in better health than ever before in my life.
Very truly,
S.A.D. SMITH,
Laurel Hill, Tenn.
Case 820,201. STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA OF THREE YEARS' STANDING—COULD PASS URINE ONLY IN DROPS AND WITH GREAT PAIN.