The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-28 00:00:00

EMPIRICS IN GAS LIGHTS.

TTHE Public way easily appreciate the talents of
those catchpenny philosophers, who are without names
or ahedes, like their ownWill-cetho.wisp lights; who most ins-
priiderstly bark, at what they can neithe catch, bite, digest,
nor comprehend, but what has been proved five years since at
the Lyceum, and eighteen months past in 97, Pall-Mall, and
what may be seen in the open street every night. I should
not have noticed those advertising quacks, but for the salute(
edue warning aging( their ignorant impo.tures.
These wiseacres say oxygen and gun-powder my be put
into the lamps in Pall.lbtall. I invite them and all their
learn... 4 lamplighters in the realm to a public and undis-
turbed experiment. The summon sense of my smith and
stoker will prove an over mash for all their united wisdom
and cunning. They as ignorantly assert, that gas it pernici-
ous to inhale, whereas every apothecary's apprentice knows, on
the contrary, numbers have been relieved by gas ; and all who
are aired, d with coughs may try its efficacy from nsorninvill
evening, at my office. This shelve that when animals find
themselves on the wrong scent, they become the more per.
were and ; if the objet of the chemical saddler and his
learned colleagues, is notoriety, to catch shilling customers--I
will render them as notorious at their attacks on G 46 Lights an
ignorant ; because clowns, the most happy in blundering, will
elmw, by accident, all what those quacks exhibit to frighten,
if possible, tools and old women. F. A. WINSOR.

A LL TRUTH IS SALU'CARY TO MAN,
and whoever discovers or dolfuses it in an! portion,
raiders an essential Seiview to hit Country and his Kind.

Professional men have, of late, through the medium rf the
Prow, laid before the public eyes the venous symptoms of di,.
orders, which, howeser, to the delicate and susceptible mind,
it is only necessary fur in to glance at.
We have the happiness to hiforta those persons. who,
either from constitution or accident, or acquired habit, (ruin
hard study, change of climate, ,klent disappointment, im-
moderate •nef, or 'meows of any kind, labour under those
Ii 1110.1•01 which result from a desangcmeet of the NERVOUS
SYSTEM, a general or partial DEBILITY, that, from the
union of more accurate anatomical knowledge, with very
elaborate chemical analysis, we hive it in our p.over to
insure, In most caw, a parka re-establlshment of health
and strength.
The barks, steel, and other tonic medicines, which have
been usually administered, in one clam of those complamts,
we have found, from experience to be by no menu adequate
to the performance of a comillete and lasting cure ; and
MIURCURT, the ordinary specific in other cases, is univer-
sally known us be prodmlive of the mast mischievous ethlts
on the human constitution ; we have therefore laboured, by
turning the whole of our attention exclusiv.ly to this alibied
end by the aid of 17 years experience in au extensive snaffle*,
to offer to the Public a mode of treatment entirely new, which
hat In so one instance hitherto been known to fail.

As a groat pert of these diseases has its teat in the mind—
that has Mee particularly attend 4 to in the present method of
cure ;wand, as it a a lad, well known to professional men,
that persons of each sex, and of all Seel, of all situations 1111
life, and every description of charatler, are liable to these
ds..rders, particularly thous of elegant and cultivated minds,
very refined sentiments and feclim:s, and of studious sedentary
habits, most especially those of a quick and lively Nub
and fertile imagination-.-the Port, the Painter, and the
Novelist—and those wnom an affluent fortune and high rank
in suci-ty have excluded horn all manual labour, and 'yeaa
easier employment; for the sake of such Patients, whose
minds, natural!y timid, are rendered still inure is say the very
nature of their complaint, the strictest attention a paid to
delicacy and secrecy, and a certain, a permanent and radical
Cur-, a solensuly promised.
Mean. CURRIE and CO. Stirrers, may be consulted at
their ham. No. 107, Ilatton-torden, by Patients of either
sex, personally, or by letter (posl.pardr ticleung a Bank
Note, when the airessaary Advice and Me 611611111 will be gime,
sent to any part of the kingdom,
Panelists in the country are requested to describe the para.
niLus oh 044 complaints, ages, and general habit of hying.
Na. 107, Hatton-Garden.