ed, and the remedies to be employed
indicated. As the non-professional are not qualified to make such
examinations, it would be useless for us to suggest specific treatment
for the various forms of this affection.

Samples of the urine may be sent to us with a brief description of the
symptoms experienced, and the proper medicines to cure can be returned
by mail or express. Our specialists are treating, with uniform success,
large numbers of cases in this way. (SEE TESTIMONIALS.)

STONE IN THE BLADDER.

Few affections to which the human flesh is heir are more painful than
this terrible affliction. The cutting operation heretofore required to
remove it, is considered one of the most dangerous operations that the
surgeon is ever called upon to perform.

The death of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, of France, from an operation
for the removal of a stone, at the hands of surgeons renowned for their
skill, gave new impetus to the efforts of surgeons to invent some method
that would be less dangerous than that which has been heretofore
commonly employed. The cutting operations have been the rule. Of these
the operation by median-section is the safest, and is most commonly
employed for the removal of stones that are not too large, while the
lateral operation is used where the stone is more than about one inch in
its smallest diameter.

As will be seen by the consultation of any hospital record, the deaths
in these various operations have been, in adults, from one in three to
one in every four cases--a very large percentage, and sufficient to
deter any sufferer from undergoing an operation except for the relief of
a condition which is in itself worse than death. Even when this alarming
death-rate is explained to sufferers, they willingly undergo the
operation, feeling that they would rather die than longer continue in
their pain and anguish.

Our specialists, not satisfied with the results of these operative
measures, in their studies of the disease endeavored to perfect some
other means by which these foreign bodies could be removed from the
bladder without such great danger and pain. The operation by crushing,
and removal without cutting, appeared to them to present the most
practicable advantages, and they therefore devote their entire time to
the improvement of this method for the removal of stone.

The method of crushing was first invented by a French surgeon many years
ago; but, owing to his crude instruments, and