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CONTRACT FOR BOOKS.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Services,
&menet-plane, October 11, 1853.
lIPRE Commissioners for executing the Office of
and Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
tie Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TIIURSDAY,
wit,,3d November next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat
qc.' such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and
'venlig into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, all such
for fo m
,„, BOKS
troy g a Seamen's Library on board her Nfajesty's ships as shall
Until time to time be demanded, for three years certain, and further
the expiration of three months' warning.
be' Peciniens of the Books anti the Conditions of the Contract may
seen, and a Form of the Tender obtained, at the said Office. No
..."aler will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor
teed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly autho-
'Ma Writing-
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lux 'ear in Om left-hand corner the words Tender for Books,"
Lett::,alBt also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a
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Sac Person t
ontractendering, in the sum of 2001., for the due perform-
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ery uncertain state of the Money Market
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place arkets are so overstocked that shipments are taking
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ustral, This is
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is
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apa, Hosiery, Furs, Boots, and Shoes, &c., &c.,
circumstance which could occur when money is
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MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.
laR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
g"netor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
`society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
TAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
TX the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
riting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
trd More misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
c,,:e decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
ii7i!:e known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
Z 5 secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
V2tence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
;:u"ult3r, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri-
-4' ImPotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless
modifications owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely kin a necessary that all men should know that there are
14,..„e1P1es of personal management which cannot be violated without
sCe rifing grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
xsaeYdaY of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
landold w the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
thZ.now the evil its consequenc es may be avoided, and above all,
ee,.". there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
;.!'l.lgement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure
bl"yen TOR LA'3IERT has for a long series of years been engaged
Di., extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn-
orllp, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
sbeue taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
it confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
itezntion to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
trew_arded by the
rb- In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
great success that has attended his efforts in the
sar'ettnent of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
Attbill,nnqualitied and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
etssi,7,„ms, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
eve Patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
h'een induced to place faith in their pretensions.
Rix, 'tome for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
ixedtill Eight.
All letters must contain the fee of IL, and advice and
Itie,ines can he forwarded to any initials or address.
1110..,.3 desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LAWERT
A uid first obtain a copy of his work on
Medical SELF -PRESERVATION.
sae_ Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
eni:rative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des-
exc,„,ng in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
dese—,.,se,2,• The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
pren..ciscion of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English,
Erothh.'
Co„
Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
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DCornhill • Storle Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free
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°II. TIIE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES

AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
THE SILENT FRIEND.

In Siiiitngn;ge;:FiftieihEdition.
.lv. CONTAINING TtiE REMEDY FOE PREVENTION OF DUMAS Moat rated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and
IT
Cases. ely Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the
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THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
excessive
with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol.
bY observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which
prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L.
.._!ItRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford-
kreet, London. Published by Sherwood and Co., 23, Paternoster-
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Chu ric'ehad- enhall-street ; 95, Farrin4don-street ; W. Sutton, 10,
yard ; Butler, 4, Chea.pside ; It Jotuison, 68, Cornhill.
rAtt.r I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive
moans, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings.
4bPEAT 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive itt-
gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
'TlM.and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
MY. Illustrated by 10 Explanator) Engravings.
th SA" treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
4,‘,Prirnary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
treatxnent. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav-
ings.
straP". 'r
IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
...Pesarr Vis devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties.
i'llin_a,uses of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole
THE CORDIAL
and Philosophically inquired into.
BALM OF SYRI AC UM is exclusively emploved
stn
Det:'riera,t,llg nervous and sexual debilitylmpotence, &c., 118 and 335.
e,rn.ptle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
inr purifying the blood in cases of inction, secondary
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Der '_errY's Purifying Specific Pills, 25. 9d., 4s. Gd., and Its.
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on
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MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Head Office-345, Strand, London.
BONUS.
NDTICE.—A Division of Profits by this Society will take place at
the end of the year 1854. All persons who have paid two annual
premiums will be entitled to share therein. Policies to participate
in the Bonus must therefore be effected in the course of this year.
ABATEMENT IN INCOME TAX.
Every person assured in this Society is entitled to have the amount
of the annual premium paid for assurance or for a deferred annuity
on his own life or the life of his wife "deducted from any profits or
gains in respect to which he shall be liable to be assessed under
either of the Schedules D and E of the Income Tax Act."
By order of the Board.
ANTEIONY PECK, Assistant-Actuary.