er than bear the humiliation of exposure of the parts. Nothing can
be more pitiable than such a condition."

If these very moral and dainty practitioners, who, as Dr. Courtnay
says, affect to consider these cases "objectionable" and the sufferers
"unworthy of the attention or sympathy of any one"--if these moralists
could sit at our desk, and day after day, week after week, read the
affecting stories of enforced celibacy, shattered health, broken family
ties, the anguish of jealousy, despair, misanthropy, the consciousness
of physical, mental and moral inferiority begotten by this sad
condition--we think that then these gentlemen would agree with us that
medical science and philanthropy can have no higher object than the
saving of these wrecks.

OUR PATIENTS' LETTERS AND TESTIMONIALS.

Our correspondents are candid--they cannot well afford to be
otherwise--and it is seldom we read one of their letters without feeling
all the interest in the writer that one can for an honest suffering
fellow being. We would not feel this interest did they not evince an
earnest desire to profit by their misfortunes. Our aid is not sought
by those wishing a brute's power for excesses, for we hold out no
inducements to this class, but plainly tell them that they will
inevitably pay the penalty for abuse of nature's laws. Nor are our
patrons among the vicious and imaginative youth, or the class termed
"greenhorns." We confine our advertising almost wholly to the daily
press, thus reaching the most intelligent class of citizens only.

We regret that, for obvious reasons, we cannot present some of the
letters we have received from those who have been treated by our method.
We are pledged to secresy with our correspondents, however, and cannot
use their names publicly; we cannot publish testimonials, although we
have scores of such a nature as to satisfy the most incredulous, yet all
must understand that it would be a breach of confidence on our part to
make these public, and would ruin our practice besides, as we can only
do business of this nature under guarantee of strict privacy. But of the
many hundreds we have successfully treated, a number have voluntarily
given us permission to refer to them in correspondence with interested
parties.

We will cheerfully furnish, on conditions named below, a list of some
of the persons who have taken this mode of treatment, been thoroughly
developed in size and strength of the organs, and relieved