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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    Rupture Radically Cured by Dr. J. A. SHERMAN'S METHOD. Statement of F. Gerth, Esq.: To the N~. Y. Stoats Zeitung: After having suffered many years from a bad rupture, and exhausting all my patience and large amounts oi money on many doctors of this city, New York and Brooklyn, and suffering at their hands indescribable agony, I was compelled to aban- don all hopes of finding any one competent to relieve me, when fortu- nately, a friend of mine took Dr. Sherman's advertisement out of your paper and inclosed it to me by letter. I showed it to my friends and several doctors, who ridiculed the idea of Dr. Sherman being able to do anything for me, basing their conclusions no doubt upon their own inability to assist me. The last doctor I applied to in Brooklyn harnessed me up with a machine like the claws of a lobster, and sent me off with instructions not to remove it. But on my way home I was in terrible agony, and on reaching there was compelled to take my bed, and as the torment in- creased I was obliged, with assistance, to cut it off. If I had not done so I am sure I would have been killed in less than twenty-four hours, as inflammation was rapidly setting in. Indeed, till I found Dr. Sherman, none of the doctors seemed to have the ability to perfectly reduce my rupture, and in most instances discouraged me by telling me nothing could be done for me, and thug one after the other gave me up as a hopeless subject doomed to inces- sant suffering. JJt, thank Heaven for the thoughtfulness of my friend and for my persistent faith in encouraging me to call on Dr. Sherman, contrary to the advice of many of those physicians who had given me up, my joy is too great for me to express, for I feel like a man emerging from pur- gatory to Heaven since I placed myself in the hands of this gentleman, whom I am compelled to declare the doctor of doctors, who has ful- filled all his promises, while all the other doctors fulfilled none of theirs. Hence you will see why I thus highly appreciate his services, and feel it a duty to make this public declaration, that others affected with this disease may know where to obtain relief and avoid the delay and Bufferings from experiments such as I, for long years, experienced. With all this suffering I expended a much larger sum of money than I paid Dr. Sherman for this great relief, and find his treatment, not only infinitely superior to others, but also more economical. I have just re- marked to a gentleman to-day, that if any one should offer me $1,003 In gold to discontinue Dr. Sherman's method, I would think it ridicu- lous and refuse it like an idle puff of wind. I can now walk and ride with more comfort and pleasure in r.ne hour than I experienced for the past five years, previous to obtaining this relief, and with *s much fa- cilitv and comfort as before this affliction came upon me. My photographs were taken by Dr. Sherman, and may be seen at his office, or at my residence, which will give a more clew understand- ing of my case than even my description, and it will afford me a plea- sure to show them to any person interested, and give them all the information, if they feel pleased to call upon me at my residence, No. 65 Market street, Newark, N. J. GERTH. Nbwabk, September 19, 1868