of myself
that has been taken since the effects of your treatment have been shown.
With feelings of much gratefulness, I am,

Very truly yours,
ROBERT B. WILLS,
No. 23 Elizabeth St., Hagerstown, Md.

RUPTURE OF SPERMATIC VEINS.

VARICOCELE (FALSE RUPTURE)--PREVIOUS OPERATOR LEFT PART OF SURGEON'S
NEEDLE IN FLESH; SUCCESSFULLY EXTRACTED AT INVALIDS' HOTEL.

[Illustration: Chas. P. Morse, Esq.]

"WHAT I THINK OF THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE:"

The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute is an Institution first-class
in every respect, presided over by a capable, honest and pleasant lot of
medical experts who certainly know their business. I cannot speak of it
too highly.

I was treated there in the summer of 1887, for Rupture of the Spermatic
Veins, previous to which I had been operated on two different times,
with no relief, by a doctor here in this place cracked up to be one of
the best in Northern Illinois, and an officer of the Chicago Eye and Ear
Infirmary. The operation at the Invalids' Hotel was perfectly painless,
did not have to take any anaesthetic, neither was I confined to my bed at
all, and the result a perfect success; while in the two previous
operations I had here at home, I was confined to my bed a week each time
and another week scarcely able to move about, be sides getting worse
each time with pain enough to drive one crazy. But the half has not been
told. About two and a half years after I had been cured of my difficulty
at Buffalo, I commenced having terrible pains in my leg and abdomen, for
which I could not account, and after standing it until it seemed as
though I would be glad to die, I again consulted the Invalids' Hotel;
after a thorough investigation they operated on me where my pain seemed
the most apparent, and dug out a piece of a surgeon's needle something
over half an inch in length, that had been broken off in the first
operation I had by the doctor here at home, and so admitted by him when
confronted with it. I have spent lots of money and nearly six years of
the worst pain man ever stood getting relief, while had I known of this
place on the start, an operation with no pain whatever and scarcely more
discomfort than a sore mouth after having a tooth removed, would have
ended it all.

In conclusion, I will say to any poor sufferer, don't do as I did and
put your trust in the would-be greatest doctor you have at home, but go
to this place at Buffalo, w