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.

"Any way, I'm satisfied so far. The appliance is just what it was
represented, and I find that it fits me to a t, and is the most easy and
comfortable thing I ever wore. I haven't had a bit of pain since I put
it on yesterday morning, and I have done some hard work these two days,
purposely twisting and wrenching my body about to see if I would get it
out of place.

"So far it is all right, and I am very thankful to you, for if it never
cured me it would be a God-send to wear for relief of that h