the organs can regain a healthy
condition, as by the constant pressure of the abnormal quantity of blood
and enlarged veins upon the spermatic cord, arteries, and testicles, the
irritability, weakness, and wasting, are increased. The use of
suspensory bandages, with strongly astringent lotions, will, in mild
cases, produce relief and many times cure. Except in the worst cases, it
is well to try these means before resort is had to operative surgical
treatment, unless the patient is anxious to be cured in a more speedy
manner. The treatment by suspensory bandage and lotions is necessarily
somewhat slow in producing remedial results; yet, many quite well marked
cases have, in our experience, been cured by such means perseveringly
applied. Although many who have been unable to come to us for an
operation, have been cured by suspensory bandages and our improved
lotions applied to the affected parts, in all cases in which the veins
are very much enlarged, we recommend the sufferers to come here and
undergo our surgical treatment, which is painless in its execution and
radical in its results.

It has been recognized by physicians and surgeons for over a century,
that in bad cases of varicocele a cure can only be certainly and
permanently effected by operation. Many have been the methods of
operation advanced by the prominent surgeons of every age, but all have
met with such an alarming mortality, that they have been one by one
abandoned, except as a last resort in extremely bad cases. A late author
gives the percentage of deaths from the various old operations, now in
general use throughout this country and Europe, as varying from seven to
fifteen per cent. of all cases. In contrast to this, we point with pride
to our records, by which we are shown to have operated upon over a
thousand cases by our original method, obtaining in each and every
instance a perfect cure, without a single alarming symptom or a death
ensuing. This we think is sufficient evidence of the perfect safety of
the operation and its superiority over every other method. So every
sufferer with the disease, we would recommend it as a positive means of
securing a permanent cure. Various worse than useless devices are
advertised by quacks, who, as a class, are afraid to undertake surgical
treatment for the cure of varicocele. One has what he calls a "varix
clamp," or "clasp," to be worn upon the enlarged veins. Many
"compressors" and other equally useless devic