Gentlemen—I had been a terrible sufferer for many years with Bladder trouble. I had experienced the greatest discomfort, and tried in vain to find relief. I was persuaded to go to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, I went and while there submitted to a course of treatment that gave me relief, and was entirely satisfactory. Three years have elapsed and I continue well. I take the greatest pleasure in making public my cure. No sufferer going there can fail to receive all the benefit to be derived from medical treatment. The staff of physicians are skillful and of large experience; the attendants kind and attentive, and the Institution, in all its appointments, not to be excelled in the country. I had been told by other physicians, Jealous at your success, not to go to your place, but I am now more than pleased that I disregarded their advice.
E.A. BROWN,
Corfu, N.Y.
RUPTURE.
(BREACH OR HERNIA.)
By the term Hernia, we mean a tumor, which is formed by the displacement of the intestines, the omentum (covering of the bowels), or both, and which protrudes from the abdominal cavity. The most common varieties are umbilical, inguinal and femoral hernia. Children are most subject to umbilical, males to inguinal, and females to femoral, hernia.
Causes. These are either predisposing or exciting. Any thing which occasions general or local muscular debility, as dropsy, pregnancy, abscesses, wounds, obstructions to natural evacuations, etc., is a predisposing cause of hernia. The exciting cause is pressure applied to the contents of the abdomen, as straining in evacuating the bowels and bladder, lifting heavy weights, or violent physical exertion.