“Dear Sir:—­My attention has been several times called to your method of curing Varicocele of the Bag without any cutting or tying, and I am now going to describe my case to you, and get your idea whether you can cure me or not.  I would have done this long ago if I hadn’t been afraid of being humbugged, as I often have been by doctors and men who said they could cure me right off without any pain or trouble.  But they all fooled me out of my money, and that’s all.  But I’m going to try once more, and please tell me if you think my case is too bad for your Compress and Cradle.

“I’m pretty badly off I know, but it seems to me that this thing ought to be able to be cured by some one.  This is how mine was.  Eight or nine years ago I fell from the rigging of a schooner, and was laid up for nearly sixteen weeks with a broken thigh.  I also had both testicles terribly sore and swollen, and it was a long time after my leg got well before I was able to walk, the pain in the groin, testicles and small of my back was so bad.  Sometimes, even when I was sitting quiet, it would cut me like the stab of a knife.  The first I noticed of the Varicocele was one day when I was taking a bath I saw there was a sort of bulging there, and come to notice it closer, it felt just like a bunch of angle worms all twisted together.  I tried cold water to it and wore a suspension bag for a long time, but it didn’t do much good.  At first it didn’t trouble me much in winter, but was bad in summer.  Now it’s bad all the time, and I don’t believe I could walk half a mile without I wore a supporter.

“I have tried most everything I ever heard of, but it’s no use.  Some of the things helped me for a while, but they didn’t last, and now I’m pretty well discouraged, for I don’t dare have it operated on; not so much that I’m afraid of the pain, but because a young man I knew went to a hospital in New York to be operated on, and died, because the veins got inflamed from the cutting and tying.

“I am willing to pay any one a fair price for curing me, because as I am now I can’t do a fair day’s work, and my testes are wasting away very fast.  But I don’t want any more humbugging, and if you treat me, you have got to give me good proofs that you can do as you say.”

      “Truly yours, D. L. B.

“I forgot to say that my Varicocele is on both sides, but the left side is much the worse.  It is twice as bulgy as the other.”

“JUST AS REPRESENTED.”

      “ISLIP, N.Y.

“Dear Sir:—­I went to the depot night before last and got the package all right, and when I got up yesterday morning, bathed as the circular said, and put the Cradle and Compressor on me.  I write to tell you how pleased I am.  I always felt sure some one would find a cure for this thing, and believe I’ve got hold of the right thing at last, though I’m not going to crow this time till I’m part way out of the woods at least.