o pain whatever_, for by first applying a weak solution of
cocaine to the parts they are speedily rendered entirely insensible, so
that the most sensitive, nervous lady experiences not the slightest
suffering from the application of our remedies.

Having now at our command means so positively certain in their action
upon pile tumors, we do not hesitate to say that the very worst cases,
no matter of how long standing, can be promptly cured, if we can only
have the patient for a few days under our personal care. Considering the
very distressing character of pile tumors, it is a great boon that we
have at last found safe, painless, and positively certain means for
their cure. The news will be hailed with joy by a large class of
sufferers.

Probably no other discovery in modern science is destined to be the
means of conferring greater blessings on a large class of sufferers than
that of a painless and positive method of curing the largest pile tumors
in the brief time required by our system of treating them.

It seems to us that there is no longer an excuse for any one to endure
the tortures inflicted by pile tumors, provided the afflicted one can
command the little time and moderate amount of means necessary to secure
the treatment indicated. Piles are not only in and of themselves very
painful and annoying, but often greatly aggravate and even cause other
grave and painful affections, and should, therefore, not be neglected.
When large, they never get well without proper treatment. We have seen
many cases in which the long train of diverse and distressing symptoms
caused by piles led the sufferer, and even the family physician, to
suppose that other diseases existed, but all of which annoying symptoms
were speedily dispelled by the cure of the piles. We have no doubt that
neglected piles, fistulae, and other morbid conditions of the lower
bowels, frequently degenerate into cancerous disease. We have the
eminent authority of J. Hughes Bennett, of Edinburg, and many other
close observers, for saying that benign or ordinary tumors often
degenerate into real cancerous disease, and our own extensive
observation convinces us that this is not infrequently a result of
neglected rectal disease, as piles, fistulae and fissures. How important,
then, to give prompt attention and skillful treatment to disease of
these parts. When the ordinary palliative treatment, with ointments and
with laxative agents to keep the bowels soluble, d