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26, CORNHILL, LONDON.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
has given
"In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay)
the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as had
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had roasted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both
In duration, severity, and complication of symptos, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, are yet the
treatment adoptrxl by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful."
rrolessor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

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June 23, 1853.

By order of the Court of Directors,
W. 8. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary.

THE PATENT WATERPROOF
and COMMON BRICK and TILE COMPANY. Provision-
ally Itegivered under the 7th and Bth Victoria. Capital 100,0001.
(a portion or which has been already subscribed), in shares (4'l/.
each fitly paid up. No allotment will be made of a less number
than live shares.

DIRETO
HUMPHREY BROWN, Esq C ; M.P RS„. Chairman.
Rowland G. Alston, Esq , Harley-street Cavendish-square. ,
James Baring, Esq., Piccadilly.
Thomas Chandler, Esq., Rotherldtbe.'
Richard Paddison, Esq., LansdownesroadSSltftfng-121/1.
Fitzroy Young, Esq., Houlton-hall, Northamptonshire.
Bankers—Royal British Bank, 16, Tokenhouse-yard.
Solicitor—Henry Empson, Esq., 61, Moorgate-stroet.
Broker—George E. Seymour, Esq., 38, Throgmorton-street.
Secretary—Chas. Smith Rawlings, Esq.
Offices 34, Moorgate-street.
This Company is formed for the purpose of carrying out Work-
Inan's Patent for manufacturing ,waterproof, common and hollow
bricks, tiles, Bte.
The general complaint of architects, surveyors, builders, and others
engaged in the erection of docks, warehouses, tunnels, and other
structures, has been that, with our progress and improvements In
scientific and other matters, nothing has been produced that will per-
manently resist the destructive influence of damp. Cements, stuccos,
and other means have been introduced, but without success. Bricss
generally, from theirtorous nature, absorb and retain large quan-
tities of water, and become conductors of damp. The waterproof
bricks made by Mr. Workman's patent will not absorb or retain
moisture ; neither are they affected by the atmosphere, thus reme-
dying the evil complained of
It will be seen that bricks, tiles, &c., made under this patent, being
completely waterproof, with the same adhesive qualities as the com-
mon brick, possess great advantage' over all others in the construc-
tion or building of foundations, warehouses, vaults, tunnels, docks,
walls, tanks, baths, &c., and for, brickwork of every description.
The Peculiar character of these tricks has been proved, by the
practical tests of the gentlemen comprising the Jury of Class 27 at
the Great Exhibition of All Nations in 1851.
The patentee has not only obtained the prize medal from the Com-
missioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851, bathe has been honoured
by the high commendatios of his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort and his Majesty the ging of the Belgians.
As the waterproof and also the common bricks will be manufac-
tured by improved machinery, the trade will be supplied at lower
prices than at present charged.
The acknowledged superiority of these bricks over all others will
insure an_all but unlimited demand, and.orders are continually being
received by the patentee for large quantities, both for home con-
sumption and exportation ; numerous applications are likewise being
made for licenses. "•
The following Report of the Jury composed of the undermentioned
eminent and scientific. gentlemen was submitted to her Majesty's
Commissioners for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all
Nations, 1851 : —Renedetto Pistrucci, Royal Mint; Lord Sudeley ;
D. T. Anted, F.R.S. Reporter S Bernardo de Bernardis ; George
Godwin, F.R.S. ; Sir 'Charles Lemon, Bart., P.R.'S., 31. P. ; Em-
manuel Psyche; Viscount Hericart de Thury ; F. Barker, Esq. ; J.
Henry,H. Pass. ; George Lowe, C.E., F.R.S.
Report of the Jury submitted to her Majesty's Commisioners for the
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851.
"A prize medal has been awarded to Mr. J. Workman (116, p.
773) for an ingenious and apparently effectual method of rendering
common bricks perfectly waterproof, at a cost of about 6s per thou-
sand. The machine by which the process is effected is sufficient to
tarn out from 30,000 to 50,000 per day, and the waterproofing takes
Place either during the first process of manufacture. or after the
brick is completed. No extra cost of carriage is needed to complete
the work under any circumstances.
"It is unnecessary to point out all the advantages that would re-
sult front taking advantage of this method, but the reporter would
net omit to notice its peculiar importance in the case of cottages andi
sznall houses, and for vaults and foundations. It lin theseap4-1
cations that the very great absorbency of common brickshis (whichso ruinous,
not up, on the average, nearly a quart of watertii
sheltereac, but to the
health of
to the property exposed under iv
means of the inhabitants, who are often very ill supplied with the
--"nit of removing the evil."
It has become a subject of great national importance to procure an
ample supply of bricks to meet the continued and increasing demand.
It may be remarked that during the last season (1852) the stock
round the metropolis ran sheet, by several millions, of the required
supply.
It is now considered beyond a doubt that bricks manufactured by
machinery are superior in quality to those produced by labour, the
clay receiving in its transit through the die great compression,
Which cannot be effected by hand.
On reference to the report of the jury selected by her Majesty's
Commissioners at the late Exhibition it will be seen that one ma-
chine alone,is capable of yielding 30,000 to 50,000 per day.
The profits which will accrue to the Shareholders from the manu-
facture of watnrptoot and common bricks and the sale of licences will ensure a large and increasing dividend, and, at the present price of
stock bricks, at least 60 per cent. may be safely relied upon. The
Directors therefore feel confident that they will be enabled to declare
a dividend within a few months from the commencement of opera-
tions.
The patentee has enteredinto a conditional contract with the Di-
rectors to dispose of the whole of his interest upon very favourable
terms, and, to mark the confidence he has in the success of the
undertaking, he desires to take one moiety of the purchase money in
shares.
The Directors have also concluded on the purchase of several plots
of ground, so that the manufacture of bricks can be commenced
forthwith ; and it is their intention periodically to advertise in the
" Budder," and other trade journals, the price of all descriptions of
bricks and tiles manufactured by them, in order that builders may
be guided, in this especial department, by the most perfect accuracy
and e.conomy in making their estimates for all contracts they under-
t
Arpllcations for shares to be made to the broker, or the Company's
of
tches, 34, Moorgate-street, where prospectuses may be had, samples
e waterproof brick inspected, and every information obtained.
June, 1853.

Foam OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Te the Directors of the Patent Waterproof and Common Brick and
Tile Company.
theGentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 14 each In
the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept and pay for
to do arae
, or any less number you may allot me, when required so
.

Dated this day of 1853*
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Place of Business • • • • • • • • • • •• • • •
Residence • •• •
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and Profession .. •
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MEDICAL
--..,"171CE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
Doctor of MedlLei
D. SAM/7E YOUTH AND MATURITY.
LA'SIERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Edinburgh,
Ho and and Matriculated Member of the University of
Society. Licentia°terao7lllember
Apothecaries'of tHhellLLondodnhHscitspitktl Medical
m v
rAesulitinAgthfiYeo b:coillisul. ted, personally, fly fetter, on
various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
.1i re inisery
J en e irregu'arities and eacosses, which have pro-
duced mo
in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
t re decay at all staves of life, than perhaps any other class of die-
oases
the treatment of modern
ence secret eau
F:ses known to
these pathologists. Long and practical experience
_.,
ee causes of diseasesself-acquired hini
.sepnr.oevseadndthdaitsatphpeorienaterde fn le
hopes
sisiht
jcZic'jaint,_ . traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
en..
mmtene of Insanity Unhappy
ages. 1-'2 various forms
and Cons.titutional WanedaknUnfrultfhl Marri-
uiess niocuft V, Local
It is absoi cations owe their ess, and their
principles of.uTelY neeessar
entire origin.
inceurrinn
~.rlie,,,,,ersonat
Ittarz that all men should know that there are
til heyday of I's Densitt:ement which cannot be violated w,tnout
may be mitigat4c°nsidera; and when wisdom and regret succeed
and how the evil ' how
the
„A slf-indulgence, how these penalti
es
that there is yearZit3cons og. of their bitterness may be removed, derangement to whrehap- deelreeonfe mbe avoided, and above all,
DOCTOR LA'MERThi': tirnety a',4PhYsical Infirmity or functional
in an extensive practieeaisnr(Za lon:f scienoacannot apply a cure.
plaints, and s the only tegall the tre ,series of years been engaged
of the taunts and envy or the?: trua4:tane_llit of these delicate corn-
the confidence, through the 44,,iticat ranhTsieian who, regardless
attention to these enormous evils, 1P
or theu mock-modest, has had
free. In selecting this department ro();•'' wittornblic press, to direct
rewarded by the great success, that }, practic c.s grade of society is
treatment of these cases, which are .
toattenaerhhas been amply
is efforts in the
care ot unqualified and ignorant ernpirksgenerally
, ..._.,, confided to the
publications, assumed foreign names and titiZn . with their
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious t
Pre_ended pirated
have been induced to place faith in their pretensfo',7 On those Clews
At home for consultation daily from Eleven tilt .1,
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 11., ..„,
Ivo, and froth
Medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address. advice And
It 13 desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr- LA,SMAT
Should first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF-PRESERVATION.
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des_
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from Secret habits and
excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street;
Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Stolle, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free
by post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi-
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IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London
No I.
vo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d.,
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERAIA.TORRHCEA,
wi o
t he View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
In relation t thethTreatimut and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Ilypochondriasis.
. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD
"Dr. Plckford ts known to English readers by his frequent practi-
!The,ohe
cntributions to German medical literature. This is the ilrst
informs ns, that he has addressed himself to the non-rnedi-
deaute l reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
Power arlY other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
Olitatbgerecat sr.veritY
..,... r to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—_"_", brolnised in a former number that we should. recur to this
_y_.`",' ,in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes
could flnd it al
the impostors who make a livelihood by preying
and , :d4,l,ulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet symathisers,'
Fricnds,' are mercilessly expos ,
ed • arid if this book
plaint 01.,,,i' waY into the hands of those who stiffer from th com-
less imports"
be saved
Triulich it tre,its, we are satisfied that many h indreds would
needless suffering ot 14ody and mind, and what is of much rnotteor'ee
empirical , though it is that which ths quacks most prize--
rnsnt ty)onjja'
'.; • •• • .I'his volume is well qualified to put an end to the
ern of treating Spermatorrlwea, and to place the likely to to do ''''ore rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore,
nmeli g°°d."—Medieal Circular, Juno 16, 1852.

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pies at once S
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day of August, 1853, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at the said Cham-
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Dated this 25th day of June, 1853,

CHAS. PITGH, Chief Clerk.

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