Rupture, and its radical cure by Dr. J.A. Sherman's method : with an extract from an article on the radical cure of inguinal hernia / by W.T. Leonard.

  • Sherman, J. A.
Date:
1880
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    means to go to Dr. Sherman and see what he could do, and to come back and let him see me after I got fixed. This encouraging advice fro*nT)r. Sayre fanned into aflame the spark of hope kindled in me when I fir si looked over Dr. Sherman's circular, and I went to his office, 697 Broadway, with a step of buoyancy which! bad not'felt before for years. When I arrived I found several before me, but I waited my turn, and had my case examined. During the ex- amination by Dr. Sherman I did not have the same feelings of dread and fear come upon me that I had when Dr. Marsh, Dr. Gregory and others examined me,which circumstance tended further to strengthen my faith in the opinion that I had at last fortunately found some one equal to the task of relieving me. Subsequent to the examination, Dr. Sherman gave a more favorable opinion than any of the other parties to whom ] bad applied, and expressed himself in such sanguine terms that I put my- self in his hands, and am now, and have been since that day, a new man, capable of taking the most active exercise without any inconvenience whatever from my rupture. I am now, practically, a sound man. and expect bo m to be in point of fact. As Dr. Sayre requested me to call and let him see wliat Dr. Sher- man did for me, I stepped in at his office, after proving Dr. Sherman's method a few days, to let him knew that I was doing well, lie ex- amined me, and was very much pleased, expressing his satisfaction in very strong terms of praise, adding, 'When I first saw your rupture 1 was afraidlthat you would not be able to find anything to d<> you any good.' The way that I have been treated since my rupture first appeared by the numerous persons who have attempted to relieve me, and in view Df the relief that I have recently received from Dr. Sherman, forces me to the conclusion that it is not the incurability of rupture, but the bad treatment by injurious pressure the ruptured patient receives, which fastens to him this curse for life, or hurls him with the horrors of strangulated rupture to a premature grave. That the reader may more fully realize the horrible condition that I was in when I placed myself in the hands of Dr. Shermcsn, I would recommend him to see my photographs, taken by order of Dr. Sher- man before and after treatment, which may be seen at his office. GEOEGE HODGES, Thirtieth street, near Sixth avenue, New York. As a proof of the correctness of the foregoin* statement, we give the following extract from an affidavit of Mr. George Hodges, made to re- move some doubts cast upon it by Dr. S. N. Mar^h: New York, September 21, 1803. Having my attention called this morning to an article from Dr. S. N. Marsh, No. 3 Vesey street (Astor House), denying the correctness of a Statement of mine, I feel it a duty I om e to the public to aver, under oath, that his denial of my making but one visit to him is false, and that all my remarks regarding him, and all the other gentlemen alluded to in that statement are strictly true. GEOIvGE HODGES. Sworn befor* me, tkis 21st day of September, George E. Jenkins, Notary Public, New York City;