bowel descending through
the internal ring and inguinal canal.]

THE RADICAL CURE. A small percentage of cures will follow the proper use
of a good truss, and the advertisements of the so-called rupture cures
are founded upon such cases. These impostors pretend that the use of
some vaunted salve, ointment, or styptic lotion, applied on the outside,
will heal and cure the deep-seated separation of the muscular fibres.
The truss in these cases is the curative means in the small number that
are relieved, and for it but few dollars should be charged instead of
the exorbitant prices demanded by these impostors.

Improvements in surgery in this age of wonders, have kept apace with the
advances in electricity and other branches of science. Diseases and
deformities which only a few years ago were considered incurable are now
overcome and cured with certainty and without risk or suffering.
Especially is this true with reference to hernia or rupture.

Our specialists have devoted much attention to the radical cure of
rupture, or breach, with the most gratifying results. Formerly we
employed and advocated the use of the injection treatment only. This
method was tested and brought to a most efficient and practical stage,
so that we now apply it in the treatment of over eighty percent. of the
cases that are presented at our Institution. This plan of cure, as used
by us, is a great advance over that of any similar one in use,
throughout the country. Our fluid is much more safe in its effects,
never gives rise to the troublesome abscesses and inflammation that is
common to the use of the injection fluids that have been advised on the
Heatonian method. The fluid we use is a bland and healing agent, which
produces an exudation behind the cords that surround the inguinal rings,
and forms a well defined truss pad of moderate size in such position
that the rupture cannot pass by it and appear externally. It causes also
an adhesive inflammation limited to the hernial sac, that completely
closes it.

This treatment is rendered _entirely painless_ by the use of a solution
which is injected underneath the skin with a fine hollow needle attached
to a small syringe, and which tends to produce complete local
anaesthesia, or loss of feeling so that the procedure is thoroughly and
carefully carried out without any risk or discomfort.

The needle used by us for the treatment of the hernia is so perfected
that any possible injection of the fluid