e been only
fairly paid for the great good you have done me."

The foregoing is but a fair sample of letters that we are almost
constantly receiving from those who have pursued useless treatment for
spermatorrhea, dependent upon varicocele, and have been speedily cured
by our never-failing operation for this malady. Among the great variety
of operations in surgery for various diseased conditions, performed by
our surgeons, none have been attended with more uniform satisfaction,
and perfect success, than has our operation for varicocele.

A PAINLESS OPERATION.

By the injection of a few drops of a medicated solution under the skin,
at the point where the incision is to be made, we are now able to
produce such complete local anaesthesia as to render the operation
_entirely painless_ without the administration of either chloroform or
ether. This is an important consideration, as many are averse to taking
chloroform or ether, and now that we are possessed of an agent that
produces, locally, _complete insensibility to pain_, we are very glad to
be able to dispense with their use in all such minor operations. Many
examinations heretofore very painful, as of the bladder for stone, and
of the deep urethra for strictures, are now rendered _entirely painless_
by the use of this wonderful agent.

A great variety of surgical operations are now performed by our surgeon
specialists, without any suffering on the part of our patients, by the
local use of an anaesthetic solution injected into the parts to be
operated upon. Formerly we were obliged either to administer chloroform
or ether, or subject our patients to a great deal of suffering. Our
specialists were among the first surgeons in this country to employ
local anaesthesia successfully. We regard it as a great boon to our
patients, and never withhold it in any case where it can be employed to
prevent suffering, its use being attended with no danger and followed by
no bad or disagreeable results.

OUR PAINLESS OPERATION.

Having operated with unvarying success, during the past twenty-five
years, upon several thousand cases of varicocele, at the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, we now invite special attention to the results
of our peculiar operation, which is neither severe nor dangerous, and
from which the patient makes a much more rapid, and in every respect
more satisfactory, recovery than from other operations in use by
surgeons generally. In our practice we h