orrid dead
ache and dragging pain in my groin and back. I shall want some of your
Crayons soon, and will write again in a few weeks. Please tell me how
long the wash ought to stand before it is strained, and whether it would
hurt me to use it _twice_ a day instead of once.

"Very respectfully, D. L. B."

"PERFECTLY CURED."

"ISLIP, Suffolk County, N.Y., February 13, 1884.

"_Dear Sir:_--It is now over two months since I quit wearing the
Cradle-Compressor, and I seat myself to tell you that the Varicocele
seems to be entirely well. The left side is a trifle larger than the
right, but the veins are not wormy as they used to be, and the blood
don't stagnate in them any more. The dragging pain is all gone away,
and the small of my back hasn't pained me for a long time. When I came
to see you in New York, your doctor told me I musn't feel sure that I
was cured until every bit of worminess was gone and the canal was free
of swelled veins. You can tell him that this is so now, and that the
testicles aren't shrunk and wasted the way they used to be.

"Our doctor here, who told me I couldn't be cured unless I had it
operated on, says it's the most remarkable thing he ever saw. Those are
his very words. He didn't seem any too chipper to find out he was wrong
about having to get cut.

"I am a thousand times grateful to you. You have made me a man again,
and I shall not forget it. I am ashamed to think how mean a letter I
wrote you last summer about humbugging and the like, but I apologize
now, and if you find any other people that don't feel sure you can cure
them, send them this letter or get them to write to me.

"I shall remember all you wrote in your last letter about not 'presuming
too much on my improvement,' and to be careful about jumping, straining
and lifting hard, and the like. The Crayons did their work just as well
as the Compress Instrument, and I never can tell you how grateful I am
to you. There's several men I know here that are going to write you
about their cases. One of them, ---- ----, is going down on the train
to-morrow, and will bring this letter with him, he says, for
introduction. Good bye.

Yours respectfully and gratefully, DAVID L. B."

REMARKS.

The foregoing three letters tell their story plainly and concisely, and
need little or no explanation. We only desire to append the following
note from our Case Book--"D---- B----; RESIDENCE--Bay Shore, Suffolk
Coun