Chapter 8

Everything has a value. If a man offers to sell to another a gold watch worth $150 for $5, you would at once set him down as an impostor, and the watch as injured or worthless or fraudulent. Yet there are thousands of men who try to find for a few dollars a remedy for a most serious and complicated disease. In medicine, as elsewhere, Common Sense plays an important part. Such remedies cannot possibly do what is claimed for them. Reputable, honest men, educated and skilled physicians who have spent thousands of dollars in obtaining a proper medical education, cannot afford to waste their time for such slight remuneration. Hence, unscrupulous scoundrels, who have no reputations either to make or lose, who make most glaring promises in their printed matter, who are willing to guarantee anything to anybody, infest this field. They know how great is man's cupidity, and trade upon it willingly, caring nothing for the consequences.

OUR REMEDIES ARE RELIABLE AND REASONABLE.

We not speak thus disparagingly of cheap remedies because ours are dear, for no patient who has gone the round of cheap remedies, and has at last profited by Civiale's method, but will tell you that our treatment is cheap at any price.

We charge what we consider a fair and reasonable profit on our remedies. Our entire institution is conducted on the very highest and most ethical medical basis. The Physicians comprising our Consulting Staff are men of the best standing, of fine education, and having special experience in this branch of medical science; our remedies are made up under the direct personal supervision of one of the most expert chemists in this country, and precisely after Civiale's formulæ; our drugs are purchased from such firms as McKesson & Robbins, Schieffelin, etc., and are of the purest and best, and our aim at all times is to give the patient consulting us the full value of his money.

For such skill and services we charge fairly and reasonably, and we have yet to find a patient who is dissatisfied. Our cases get well, provided our advice is followed and a cure is possible. If it is not, we frankly and candidly tell the truth. We cannot afford to make false statements or false promises, to hold out hopes we cannot justify, to ruin our established and well-known reputation for honesty, fair dealing and medical skill in order to make a few dollars. We find that one man cured is the very best advertisement we can have, and that one such case makes us one warm friend and advocate, and brings us many patients, where one man deceived and defrauded would make us one bitter enemy and injure us in the eyes of many. Thus, every other consideration of honor and honesty aside, it pays us better to deal fairly with our patrons.

This treatment has been thoroughly tried in the most desperate and adverse cases, and has stood the test of time and repeated trials, has stood these tests as no other remedy or remedies ever have or ever will, and in them men of all ages and all conditions may find strength, health and vigor.

THE CIVIALE REMEDIAL AGENCY, MAIN OFFICES AND LABORATORY, 174 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK CITY.

--> Please address all Medical and Business Letters to Offices, 174 Fulton street. They may be addressed to CIVIALE AGENCY, or Mr. L. B. Jones, our Business Manager.

(From the New Orleans _Weekly Picayune_, May 23, 1885.)

CIVIALE REMEDIAL AGENCY.--Every man, whether he be young, middle aged, or old, suffering from weakness, debility, or impotency, will be made healthy and happy by writing to this excellent concern, at 174 Fulton street, New York. The advertisement should be read, which will show skeptics that the agency is worthy of confidence. The press and medical profession indorse the gentlemen connected with it in strong terms.

A SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

STRICT MORALITY vs. FALSE MODESTY.

In preparing both the first and later editions of this little work (that has brought happiness to so many by opening the way to knowledge of a proper means of cure and methods of regaining health and vigor), +the utmost care and circumspection have been exercised in an endeavor to exclude from its pages anything that could be construed by the most fastidious as immodest, obscene, or in any way offensive to decency, morality or good breeding+. Indeed, although purely and essentially +a medical work, and intended solely for such persons whose duty it is to be acquainted with the facts given+, in order to understand their complaint, to place themselves under proper treatment, and to avoid the dangers of quackery, we have in many instances wholly excluded or materially modified the wording of passages in order to comply with our original ideas of the strictest purity of thought and speech commensurate with a truthful and honest statement of facts.

We wish it distinctly understood that +this treatise is intended solely for persons suffering from Genito-Urinary Diseases+, and that it is +never mailed to any person who has not voluntarily requested us to send it+, and then +not to boys+ or to members of the +opposite sex+. (Our application books show a large number of such refusals.)

We look upon our special mission in the field of medicine as +distinct+, +laudable+ and +holy+. There are those who look down upon this special branch of medicine, and some ignoramuses who assert that such diseases only exist in the imaginations of such patients as a result of reading the pamphlets of quacks who paint frightful pictures of insanity, idiocy, etc. To such men as these we have only this to say: Consult the works of Hammond, Black, Acton, Wilson, Lallemand, Civialè, Courtenay, Lee etc., etc., the authors of which have world-wide reputations, not only as physicians, but as truthful, honest and moral men. They will then see how really grave are such affections and how needful of aid.

God knows that the misery, despondency and actual organic disease, as a result of early vices, are prevalent enough even to-day to make a lover of his fellow men sincerely pity and desire to help them. And we claim (and every honest man cannot but admit) that it is only by the +widespread dissemination of a knowledge of certain facts+ to young and old, especially the former, that such vice and its consequences can be met and overcome. We are daily spreading such knowledge throughout the length and breadth of this land, not only warning and advising the young and cautioning the older, but also pointing out to all such as need it a perfect and easy means of cure and restoration to health and vigor.

Our mission is as real, noble and important as that of preaching the Gospel, and aside from its bearing on the enlightenment of those who would otherwise go astray, and offering the means of relief to those who have already sinned against Nature, it is of a broader and even more sweeping importance. As every whole must needs be the sum total of its integrals, so +each nation+ and +people must+--in mental, moral and physical traits--+be that which its individual members make it+. Hence, if perfect general health, full procreative ability and healthy offspring mark the majority of the individuals, so naturally must the health, vigor, populousness and power of the nation be accordingly. +As secret vice diminishes, public virtue and morality become greater.+ Diseases of the Prostate Gland, Urinary Organs and Sexual Apparatus are as +real, as embarassing+ and +as needful of cure+ as those of the lungs, heart, stomach, or any other organ--indeed, more important, for the latter only affect the life or health of the individual immediately concerned, while the former concern not only the person affected, but his offspring also.

There is no reason why false modesty or pseudo-delicacy should reign supreme here. If the Almighty had intended these matters to be viewed and treated in the light which some fanatics and extremists seem to desire, we would certainly have been created without the power of procreation entirely. As it is, such organs and such diseases +do exist+, are of the greatest (individual and national) importance, and provided a +full knowledge of the causes and consequences of vice and abuse as related to these parts can be brought vividly and strongly before the mind of every man, young or old, in a chaste, decent and strictly professional manner+, the result can only be a good one, and those who deny it are engaged in moral hair-splitting.

We felt that the foregoing remarks were both +apropos+ and necessary with a view to contradicting some statements recently made regarding the uselessness and demoralizing effects of everything concerning this branch of medical practice, and as due ourselves in distinctly recording our belief and practice in the matter; more especially to refute the false accusation that special medical treatises were being scattered broadcast over the land and made to invade the privacy of homes, and coming into the hands of young boys and females.

THE CIVIALÈ REMEDIAL AGENCY.

{Illustration (Civiale Agency)}

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{Errors and irregularities noted by transcriber:

Civiale : Civialè _inconsistent spellings in original_

the secrecy of his chamber or his bed or, if secresy is desired the strictest confidence and secrecy We are pledged to secresy _variant spellings in original_

HUMAN SPERMATAZOA. ... well developed and active zoa-sperms

to their freinds

+Impotency+ (from the Latin words _im_ [not] and _potens_ [to be able] _no closing parenthesis_

{Footnote 7: Beltrage zur anat-uns Phys., Bd. iv. and Bd. vii.} {Footnote 20: Endoskopische Befunde bei Erkrankungen des Samenhugels Wein, 1880.} _Spelling and punctuation of all footnotes as in original._ _Footnotes 1-25 were printed in a block, although the text referencing 24 and 25 was on the following page._

Bloody Urination, etc., etc. (Many cases of _no closing parenthesis_

in accordance with the formlæ

[_Appleton's Cyclopedia, vol. x, p. 144._ [_Appleton's Cyclopedia, vol. iv, p. 618._ _open-ended brackets in original_ _"vol. iv" illegible_

(_Paris_), 1827) _extra parenthesis in original_

Again, some medical men * * * * affect to consider too many members of the profession. * * * I am well aware _asterisks in original_

your doctor told me I musn't feel sure

a tendency to misanthrophy

as +real, as embarassing+ and +as needful of cure+ }