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THE PRESENT ANNUAL VOLUMES OF

THE LANCET, commencing on the 2d of
October, 1841, and concluding in September, 1842,
will contain a complete COURSE of LECTURES on SY-
PHILIS, delivered by SAMUEL LANE, Esq., Lecturer on
Anatomy and Surgery, and formerly House-Surgeoq, of St.
George's and the Lock Hospitals, delivered at the School of
Anatomy and Medicine, Grosvenor-place, St. George's Hospital.
Lecture Ist contains the History and Origin of the Vene-
real Disease—Differences of Opinion relative to the Nature
and Treatment of the Venereal Disease—lnjurious Tendency
of such Diversity of Opinion—Prevalence of the Opinions of
Hunter—Design of the present Course of Lectures—History
and Origin of Syphilis—lmportation of Syphilis from Ame-
r!ca—Circurnstances connected with the Disease, in relation to
the Siege of Naples—Early Authors on the Venereal Disease
—Origin of the Disease in Europe—Early Proscription and
Banishment of those Affected with Syphilis—Discovery of Sy-
philis as a distinctly Contagious Malady.
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Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.

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Consulting Surgeons, London.

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This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged
by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general
principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in-
teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
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