_Healing and strengthening of the ruptured and relaxed valves of the veins._

_Relief of the pressure and weight of the column of blood from above._

Suspensory Bandages are good, because they act as supports.

Astringent and Tonic Washes are good, because they strengthen the weakened veins and muscles and heal the relaxed valves.

Proper Trusses are good, because they break the great pressure of the blood from above, and act as do the valves in the veins in the groin in health. Also, because they act directly on the disease in cases of Varicocele of the Cord.

But neither one alone will cure a really serious case of Varicocele.

Combine them, however, properly and scientifically, so that you have the practical outcome of these three sound principles of cure in the one appliance, and

ANY CASE, NO MATTER HOW SEVERE OR HOW OLD, CAN BE PERMANENTLY AND PAINLESSLY CURED.

Such a perfect and practical combination is to be found in the Elastic self-adjusting and adjustable Cradle and Compressor, which has succeeded in curing many very serious and (apparently) hopeless cases. Patented and thoroughly protected from all infringements and imitations (and many would-be ones, seeing our success and recognizing the merits of the Cradle-Compressor, have lately sprung up), both in this country and Europe, there is nothing like it. It combines all the good points of all previous instruments, and being easy to wear, rapid and pleasing in its results, and certain in its effects, is the only rational means for radically curing this disease.

Briefly: It consists of a very light and elastic triangle of tempered steel bands, that rests on the front of the abdomen, and is held in place by a soft silk-elastic waist-band. In each of the slanting arms of the triangle are small holes that admit the central pivot of a bell-pad, having a central spring, and so adjusted that it adapts itself to every movement of the body without being misplaced. By means of a thumb-screw and the perforations, it (the spring bell-pad) can be set at any point in the groin, and can be changed from day to day and hour to hour.

{Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 13.

INSTRUMENT ON BODY.

_a. a._ Transverse Steel Band; _b. b._ Elastic Waist Belt; _c. d._ Metallic Arms, perforated to permit change of pad pressure; _e._ Pubic Shield to which Elastic Cradle is attached; _f._ Bell Spring Pad.}

By means of pivotal joints at the angles, the appliance can be made to fit any one perfectly; moreover, by means of the metallic shoulder below, the arms can be thrown into any lateral variation of the groin line.

We thus are able to obtain all the marked benefits of a truss without any of its drawbacks; and that special disadvantage, steady and wearisome pressure at one point, is wholly obviated. The whole appliance is held in place below by means of perineal tubular rubber bands that connect with the waist-belt behind.

Attached to the metallic shoulder below is the Elastic, Glove-Fitting, Self-Adjusting t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e-Cradle, by means of which not only are the t.e.s.t.i.c.l.es perfectly supported and rested, but by the sheet-rubber lining and the elastic tie bands, a constant, easy and perfectly painless elastic pressure is kept up on the dilated and sagging veins, which are thereby emptied of their unhealthy and stagnated blood and allowed to regain their tone, strength and contractility.

By means of the elastic bands it is easy to regulate the amount of pressure, thereby constantly adapting it to the improvement that is steadily taking place.

The compression is so uniform, yet so elastic, that it is absolutely painless, and no motion of the body, however violent, can disarrange it.

This, and the fact that the blood can enter and leave the t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e with perfect freedom, const.i.tute some of its most marked advantages over the Truss.

Moreover, the wearer always feels a sense of rest and relief while wearing the Elastic Cradle-Compressor, and from the first day the symptoms of weakness and impotence improve. Being made in different sizes and shapes, and of the most durable yet softest silk, and powerful yet yielding elastic, they will wear perfectly until long after the Varicocele has entirely disappeared.

{Transcriber's Note: The left edge of this page was partially illegible. Words and letters in braces { } are conjectural; all came at the beginning of a line.}

{Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 14.

ELASTIC t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e CRADLE, {Deta}ched from Compressor, and showing its appearance {when} worn singly. It is lined inside with sheet rubber, and {the t}ie cords are of the very best French elastic. The bag {cover} is of the finest knit silk.}

While it compresses the Varicocele, forces out the blood, and allows the veins a chance to regain their strength and proper size again, it simply supports and keeps from injury the t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e, which at once begins to grow larger. In addition to their curative value in Varicocele, they are now being extensively used by the medical profession for the relief of the pain and subduing of the inflammation of "swelled t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e;" also in hydrocele and haematocele.

Being applied over the whole s.c.r.o.t.u.m, they will cure a Double as readily as a Single Varicocele.

In certain recent or simple cases the Elastic t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e-Cradle alone will effect a perfect cure. If the case is severe or of long standing, if it involves the Cord, or if the s.e.xual organs are affected, the complete instrument should be worn.

It is beautifully made and finished, and is strong and durable, yet light and easily worn.

PRICE.

{Comp}lete Instrument (all attachments) $15.00 {Extra} Central-Spring Bell-Pad, In case of Double Varicocele 3.00 {Elast}ic Glove-fitting t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e-Sac and Cradle (separate) 6.00

{Sold ne}atly boxed, and with full and explicit directions for applying; as also a {____} prescription for a Tonic, Healing and Astringent Lotion, to be used {in conju}nction with it.

In ordering, please state girth around waist, circ.u.mference of s.c.r.o.t.u.m, and length of same from root of p.e.n.i.s to about the middle of the bottom of the bag.

The reason why Varicocele has until within the past ten or fifteen years received so little attention is owing to the fact that up to that time this bagging or bulging of the spermatic veins was looked upon as merely a local affection. No one seemed to be aware of the fact that its effect in nine cases out of ten was to produce Seminal Weakness and Loss of s.e.xual Power, etc. To-day no fact is so well recognized in medicine, although probably not so well known outside of the profession.

Then, too, until very recently, physicians either carelessly dismissed a patient with Varicocele with the advice to "get a suspensory bandage and wear it; the thing don't amount to anything;" or else, when the patient became persistent in his demands for a cure, advised him that the dangerous cutting or tying operations were the only means of relief. But this is all changed now. Physicians have come to know something about the disease, and means for both relief and cure are now speedy and certain, and in no sense painful or dangerous.

It is for the purpose of stating in as plain and concise a manner as possible all the more important facts relating to this disease, and pointing out to such as are troubled with it, or have friends so troubled, not only the proper manner of treatment, but also the danger of delay, that this little treatise has been compiled. Many a man well built and apparently healthy, yet totally bereft of manhood--in a word Impotent--can trace his deplorable condition to a neglected Varicocele.

Nor are these the only ones who need information upon the subject.

Thousands of young men are to-day being treated for seminal troubles who will never be cured, because they are entirely ignorant of the existence of a Varicocele of the Cord, that most insidious and dangerous of all forms of Varicocele, or, if aware of it, do not understand the terrible influence it has on their s.e.xual Powers, and how great and persistent a stumbling-block it will be in the way of all treatment.

It is for the benefit of all such that this little essay is intended.

For the sake of clearness we shall consider the subject under the heads of Definition, Frequency, Causes, Dangers, Influence on s.e.xual Diseases, Wasting of the Organs, Symptoms and Treatment.

Consultation with our physicians, by letter or in person, free, References and testimonials promptly and cheerfully furnished.

CIVIALE REMEDIAL AGENCY, 174 Fulton Street, New York.

_CHAPTER XII._

THE RELIABILITY OF THE CIVIALE REMEDIES, AND THE BUSINESS STANDING AND PROBITY OF OUR AGENCY.

In previous editions of this work, we made no attempt whatever to point out to our readers either our reputation as a medical business firm, or proofs of the efficacy or reliability of the remedies we represent and prescribe, supposing that any person at all familiar with the names and reputation of Professors Lallemand and Civiale, and the honors bestowed upon the latter by the French government, would need no such references, etc. We find, however, that there are but few men in this country who are as familiar as they should be with the nature and extent of Lallemand's and Civiale's medical labors, or indeed with French Medical History at all. We, therefore, for the benefit of such, have here transcribed extracts from that most reliable work, _Appleton's Cyclopedia_ (copies of which may be found in many families, and every town and city library), from which may be learned the professional standing and reputation of these great men.

Furthermore: Of late years there have sprung up in various parts of the country, physicians and firms who have made it a business to prey upon foolish young men, who took everything that was sent to them for gospel.

There are many young men (and old men, too) who do not know us, and for their benefit we have drawn up here and submitted such proofs of our probity, fair dealing and medical capacity, as well as of the reliability of the Civiale Remedies, as will, we believe, carry conviction of our truthfulness and probity to any honest man's mind.

We have always been averse to parading before the eyes of the careless, scoffing world the sufferings of the victims of abuse or excess, even when by doing so we might profit largely by such a course. We have a large number of letters from persons who have been cured by this treatment constantly on file in our office, and any sufferer really in earnest will be gladly given permission to examine them, should he so desire. But we certainly shall not parade such letters, written to us in the strictest confidence and secrecy, to every reader of a treatise of this kind, especially when we give an abundance of equally as good proof of another kind.

_If we have always dealt fairly and with professional honor and ability with our corresponding and office patients in the past, we certainly shall continue to do so in the future._

First, let us call your attention to two very recent and very flattering extracts from editorial articles that appeared in newspapers of known standing and reputation in the city of New York, both of which articles were wholly unsolicited by us, being the spontaneous testimony of wholly disinterested journals.

TESTIMONIALS AND ENDORs.e.m.e.nTS

from the