The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English Part 148

Mrs. Mary Krause, the mother of the little boy whose case is above reported, writes: "In respect to your medicines I can only say that they have done me and others much good, especially when I suffered with chronic catarrh and doctored with your physicians. I shall never forget the kind treatment I received from your physicians and nurses during the time I had to stay in your house, while our Herman had to go through that dangerous operation which was necessary to cure his strangulated rupture. I can recommend your Inst.i.tute and medicines to all suffering people."

HERNIA OR RUPTURE

[Ill.u.s.tration: B. Galland, Esq.]

OF FOURTEEN YEARS CURED "SOUND AS A DOLLAR."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL a.s.sOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sirs_--In reply to yours of the 29th ult., in which you kindly make inquiry in regard to my physical condition, I would say, that I am now, I think, as sound as a dollar, and consider that after I had bad fourteen years of suffering with Hernia, and being cured as I was last winter at your Inst.i.tute, makes me under great obligations to the science and skill of the World's Dispensary Medical a.s.sociation.

Very respectfully yours, ROBERT GALLAND, Orangeville Mills, Barry Co., Mich.

IRREDUCIBLE HERNIA.

PRESENT FROM BOYHOOD--PROTRUSION OF ENORMOUS SIZE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL a.s.sOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

[Ill.u.s.tration: D. Nitschke, Esq.]

_Gentlemen_--I take pleasure in reporting that I have not worn the truss for a long period, and that I have been at work steadily at my business of binding and printing, running a large establishment, for over four years, without any trouble whatever from the rupture. It has remained permanently and perfectly cured. You will remember my case as a most severe one. I am a man of sixty years of age, and the disease had been the source of serious discomfort to me since childhood. The protrusion was the size of a man's head, and could not be replaced. I was forced to give up all exercise, and suffered much at my daily work from inconvenience and pain. Any injury upon the protrusion, which could not always be protected, was followed with much discomfort, and my general health was seriously affected. The pa.s.sage of the food through the confined intestines was a painful process often times, and kept me in great misery. I am thankful to state that since your operation the rupture has remained sound and well, and I have been relieved of all difficulty of the kind. I now enjoy excellent health, and am at my business daily from twelve to sixteen hours, and on my feet constantly, yet without any manifestations whatever of the re-appearance of the rupture. You have my most sincere grat.i.tude for the skillful operation and the good care received in your Inst.i.tution while there. I can recommend your nurses and physicians most highly, and think your Inst.i.tution is unequaled in this country.

With many good wishes, I am, Very truly yours, DANIEL NITSCHKE, 2067 Franklin Ave., Toledo, Ohio.

COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A. Holes, Esq.]

Without solicitude or hope of pecuniary reward, with heart-felt grat.i.tude and a desire to aid my fellow-man to health and happiness, allow me to state, that as an inmate for more than a month of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Inst.i.tute at No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y., I feel warranted in its highest recommendation. While there I saw and talked with a great number of people who came there as a last resort, to be cured of almost every chronic disease to which flesh is heir, and they were unanimous in their praise of the Inst.i.tution and the skilled specialists who const.i.tute its professional staff.

ANDREW HOLES, Moorhead, Minn.

HERNIA OR RUPTURE OF 11 YEARS' STANDING.

[Ill.u.s.tration: L. Crist, Esq.]

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL a.s.sOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Allow me to express my thanks to you for the attention and benefits received at the hands of your skillful staff of surgeons and nurses. I had been a sufferer from Hernia for eleven years and tried everything, but was no better. I finally went to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Inst.i.tute, and am now entirely cured and enjoy splendid health.

I heartily recommend yours to be the most skillful treatment of the age.

With best wishes, LEWIS CRIST, No. 67 Frankston Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

RUPTURE,

AGGRAVATED BY OCCUPATION AS A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER--COULD NOT BE HELD IN PLACE--AFTER TREATMENT SUBJECTED TO THE TRYING TEST OF THE CONSTANT JAR OF THE LOCOMOTIVE YET PROVES RELIABLE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL a.s.sOCIATION, NO. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.:

[Ill.u.s.tration: J.M. Keach, Esq.]

_Gentlemen_--It has long been my desire to make a statement of my cure for the benefit of all those persons who have suffered in like manner. I had a rupture that was very large and difficult to hold in place.

Trusses of all kinds were tried. They were painful and would not hold it. The rupture would come down constantly when at my engine and give me fearful pain. I was cured at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Inst.i.tute, Buffalo, N.Y., by a treatment that is safe and certain. My cure has been permanent, although I have worked steadily.

Yours sincerely, JAMES M. KEACH.

No. 68 Bissell Ave., Buffalo, N.Y.

FEMORAL HERNIA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Miss M.V. Thomas.]

This patient, aged thirty-four years, was always delicate; suffered from malarial fever each year for ten years past. The hernia was caused by lifting her father, who was on his sick-bed, during five different times, causing terrible suffering. The hernia was treated by our Specialist, and in eighteen days the lady was able to return home.

She reports:

_Gentlemen_--I am grateful to you for a permanent cure of the hernia, and happy to inform you that I have felt no signs of rupture since I was at your Inst.i.tution.

Respectfully yours, Miss MATTIE V. THOMAS, Albion, n.o.ble Co., Ind.

"A LIVING DEATH FOR YEARS."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL a.s.sOCIATION, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:

[Ill.u.s.tration: H. Wood, Esq.]

_Gentlemen_--In the hope that some sufferer from hernia may be induced to take your treatment for that disease, I send you this certificate, containing a synopsis of my case and cure of the same. My life was a living death for years. I had almost lost all hope of ever being cured, and was plunged in despair, as I had tried so many trusses, appliances and remedies, each one in successive repet.i.tion, a failure. In January and February of the year '89, I entered your Inst.i.tution for treatment, my malady being an inguinal hernia on the right side, of twenty years'

standing--from childhood. I was then impressed with the feeling that it was my last chance, and that it would be my last effort, and to be candid I had very little hope that a cure would be effected. To me my condition seemed appalling, as I dare not eat, drink, laugh, exercise or perform any of the functions of life without having to reduce my rupture, frequently as often as forty or fifty times _per diem_, while on occasions the reduction would occupy hours of untold agony. No truss or appliance that I could get would retain the rupture, and I had tried all sorts as fast as they came to my knowledge. Marvelous as it may appear to all sufferers from this distressing affliction, I was discharged from your Inst.i.tute in thirty days, a well and sound man, and only from memory and the record do I know that I was ever ruptured. I have at times since performed some of the hardest kinds of work for long periods, but no sign of weakness has ever appeared. I do not consider the necessary operation performed as attended with any danger; it is no comparison to the chances a person takes who in the daily walks of life is tortured with a rupture.

While an inmate of your Inst.i.tution, I was accorded the kindest and most considerate treatment from all members of your staff and employees with whom I came in contact. I consider the appointments and cuisine of the establishment as perfection. You are at liberty to make the fullest and freest use of this testimonial you may see fit in your judgment, and I will cheerfully answer any communication from any sufferer referred to me for more explicit testimony.

I am, Sincerely yours, HENRY WOOD.

Mason Valley, Nev.

CROUP, MEMBRANOUS AND SPASMODIC.