In a practice embracing the treatment of a vast number of cases of diseases of the Urinary Organs, it has been our good fortune to effect many remarkable cures. The experience gained in this field of practice has made our specialists skilled experts, and hence hundreds consult them as a last resort. In fact we seldom get a case, in this line, that has not been the rounds of the home physicians before applying to us for relief and cure. The cures, therefore, which we shall introduce here are the more remarkable because of the failure, in nearly every case, of other medical men to benefit or cure. They are not the every-day, ordinary cases met with in the general practitioner's rounds, but complicated, obstinate ones, which had generally been given up as hopeless before coming to us.
CASE 4A-3431. "WASTED TO A SHADOW." BLEEDING FROM KIDNEYS. A SEVERE CASE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: T.S. Bailey, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I think it my duty to write to you concerning my case. In the year 1886 I was seized with inflammation of the bladder and passed nothing but thick blood, owing to heavy work, and I consulted a doctor and he said there was no cure for such a bad case; but he gave me medicine and it relieved me at the time I used it; and I took 16 bottles and I got worse and wasted to a shadow. I quit taking the medicine, and other complaints came, as rupture in the spermatic cord, for which I applied to you and soon got relief. And in 1891 the bladder disease made its appearance, and I wrote to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute and got no reply as our mails were stopped on account of snow drifts. I sent for the best doctor in Listowell and I still got worse, and he said I might live three or four weeks, but there was no stoppage of the disease. And I got so weak that I had to support myself by the furniture in my room; and I wasted down to 100 lbs. in two weeks; and I applied to your Institute and I received my medicine in a few days, and in two weeks I began to gather strength and now I am hearty and well and my weight is 145 lbs. I feel so thankful to the Medical Association and its Staff of skilled men. It is 15 months since I quit taking your medicines and no signs of the disease returning.
Yours gratefully, THOMAS S. BAILEY, Dorking, Wellington Co., Ont.
CASE 23A-877. INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER, WITH OTHER COMPLICATIONS.
SUFFERED EXCRUCIATING PAIN IN URINATING.
[Illustration: G.W. Heffner, Esq.]
For many years I suffered with inflammation of the Prostrate Gland and Bladder. It became gradually worse and I endured extreme pain, so much so that I was laid up for weeks at a time, and almost gave up in despair. I was persuaded to go to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute. I have never regretted following this advice. While there I submitted to an operation by their specialist. This was entirely painless and the result perfectly satisfactory. I left in a short time delighted, and have since been strong and well. I cannot speak in too high praise of this famous Institution; the rooms are large and pleasant, the food the very best, the attendants kind and attentive and the staff of physicians skillful and of large experience. I highly recommend all invalids to the World's Dispensary Medical Association. I feel confident that all the benefit to be derived from medical treatment is to be received at this Institution.
Yours truly, GEO. W. HEFFNER, Chicago, Ills.
CASE 2A-103. INFLAMMATION OF BLADDER, COMPLICATED WITH KIDNEY DISEASE.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: M. Manheim, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--Having been a patient in your Invalids' Hotel for several weeks, I take great pleasure in telling other sufferers of my treatment which I received under your efficient staff of physicians, surgeons and nurses, and I will say with clear conscience that every care and comfort was given me that could be wished for. I am sure that your Institution is far in advance of the age, and would wish that every invalid could avail himself of the treatment that I received in your most excellently kept Invalids' Hotel. I cheerfully give this as my testimonial to individuals, friends and sufferers. My health is so fully restored that I look upon life with pleasure and comfort, whereas before I was a suffering, nervous invalid, unable to sleep and much of the time in torment. Wishing you success,
I am your friend and well wisher, M. MANHEIM, Georgetown, S.C.
CASE 859,143. BLADDER, RECTAL, KIDNEY AND LIVER DISEASE. "ENTIRE URINARY ORGANS ONE MASS OF SORES." "DESPAIRED OF CURE."
[Illustration: S.C. Tracy, Esq.]
My disease was caused by the roughness and exposure incidental to the life of a miner, working in the gold mines of California and Montana. I had much of the time to work in water, with my clothes wet, which finally brought on a severe pain In my kidney, which ere long completely prostrated me. I employed and was treated by six different physicians, the best I could obtain in my section of country, and who while seeming to understand the nature of my disease, yet gave me no remedy that afforded me any real relief. I grew worse under the treatment of them all. The pain in the kidney left me, but immediately located in the bladder. My bladder became very painful and commenced to ulcerate and fill up. It seemed from the excruciating agony I suffered, that there must have been an abscess in either the kidney or bladder, and from the large amount of pus discharged at one time, it appeared to me that my kidneys, bladder and the entire urinary organs were one mass of sores and pus mixed with blood. I had to use injections of laudanum daily in the lower bowels to ease the pain and live. Was reduced by long suffering, looking for each day to be my last. I felt that no human power on earth could help me. No language can describe, and God only knows, the agony I suffered. From what I have already written, you may form some faint conception of my physical condition at the end of six years' treatment by the best medical aid I could get in the section where I was living. I also used for some time (with no benefit), "Warner's Safe Cure," and in fact, tried every means that I could hear of, but to no permanent relief. Such was my condition when I was led finally to consult and be treated by your Association, though I had but faint hope of obtaining any relief from any one. With the very best description I could give in writing of my case, and all the information you got from me, you would not undertake the case until you were further informed, and for which caution I sincerely thank you. You wrote me--"we are at a loss to definitely determine your condition. We have an opinion based upon the facts before us, but we feel that we must have a personal examination." In the condition I was then in, I could not have been kept alive to reach the first railroad station, which was only six miles from my house, and much less to travel to Buffalo. Indeed I wrote you, that if you would cure me for nothing, I was unable to go to you. In reply, you then advised me to take your "Special Remedies" until I could improve sufficiently to go to Buffalo for examination. Now this frank answer of yours, removed every doubt from my mind, and convinced me that you were _honorable physicians_. On March 10th, 1883, I began taking your "Special Remedies," as you prescribed them, and at the end of three years' constant treatment, I was improved sufficiently to go to Buffalo to your Institute, where I was examined as you required of me. When I reached your Institute, I was there carefully examined and received a month's treatment. When I reflect on my condition and my suffering when I first began to use your specifics, and see what I am now, I feel that no words can too glowingly express my gratitude to your Association for the physical benefits you have conferred upon me by your treatment of my despaired-of case.
SAMUEL C. TRACY Platteville, Wis.
DOUBLE VARICOCELE AND STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
[Illustration: C. Hanson, Esq.]
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:
_Gentlemen_--I have taken treatment from you for several months for nervous debility, and although I am not quite fully cured as yet, I have been greatly benefited, and believe, if I had come to you before I was duped and swindled by different quacks and was more dead than alive, I would to-day be a thoroughly well man.
I have also been to your Institute twice for surgical operations, and cannot too highly praise the Hotel, or the skill and care of the attending surgeons and nurses. They are gentlemen in every way and the Invalids' Hotel is just as represented.
I shall advise all suffering from chronic diseases to go to you for relief, as I have never seen any one there who was not cured or greatly benefited.
Very truly yours, CHRISTIAN HANSON, Esq.
Austin, Mower Co., Minn.
CASE 23A-890. DISEASE OF THE URINARY ORGANS.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
[Illustration: F.A. Empsall, Esq.]
_Gentlemen_--I feel it my duty to give my testimonial in behalf of your grand Institution. I had an operation performed at your place two years ago for the relief of a very painful disease of urinary passage, and, thanks to your skill, I was cured, and have enjoyed the best of health since. I earnestly recommend your Institution to all who are suffering, and still further let me thank you for the kindness I received at the hands of everybody connected with the Institution. I am,
Respectfully yours, FRANK A. EMPSALL, P.O. Box 980, Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Mass.
CASE 2A-208. RETENTION OF URINE. SUFFERED INTENSE PAIN.
[Illustration: P.J. Hamill, Esq.]
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:
_Dear Sirs_--To your favor of the 20th ult., would say that I can only speak in the highest terms of your Institution. After suffering for ten or twelve years with retention of the urine, and bladder difficulties, I can say that I found immediate relief at your hands. When going to your place, about six years ago, I was suffering with intense pain, loss of appetite, and unable to eat a good meal. I now weigh 170 lbs., do a good day's work and feel well in every respect. I am only too glad that I am able to praise your Institution, and can highly recommend it to any one who is suffering as I was. With great respect, I remain.
Yours very truly, P.J. HAMILL, Utica, N.Y.
CASE 80,115. ENLARGED PROSTATE AND CHRONIC CATARRHAL INFLAMMATION OF BLADDER.
[Illustration: Abraham Schell, Esq.]
Several years ago I had occasion to become an inmate of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, No. 683 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. I was afflicted with an enlarged prostate and chronic Inflammation, or catarrhal condition of the bladder. I was largely benefited by the treatment I received there, and had I remained a little longer, as I was advised to do by the doctor who attended me, I should have fully recovered. I was so nearly cured that I did not think it necessary to remain longer, as I supposed nature would do for me what remained to be done, to effect a perfect cure. My business was urgent. I could not well remain longer. In this I made a mistake, I should have remained longer.
I was seventy-two years old at the time. I bear willing testimony to the ability of the medical staff and the interest the doctors take in the welfare of their patients. The nurses and all the subordinates were very kind and seemed to vie with each other to contribute to the pleasure and happiness of the inmates of the Institute. One will find the Institute equipped with all the improvements known to modern science, for the promotion and restoration of health. It is impossible to do justice to its merits in a short article of this kind. Persons must go there and see and judge for themselves, of the wonders of this extraordinary medical establishment. If they cannot recover their health there, in my Judgment, it is of no use to go elsewhere.
ABRAHAM SCHELL, Knight's Ferry, Cal.
CASE 820,804. OBSTINATE AND COMPLICATED DISEASE.
[Illustration: John H. Smith, Esq.]
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: