The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-12 00:00:00

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 oases. 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 rental, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
ence, by the ordinary, medical practitioner. The proverbial
and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who
traalle on the health and credulity of patients, has been en-
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the
authors have fur a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases; a the necessity of so
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact. in in-
vestigating the latent Sources of many diseases, which arise
from certain seeret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily oaaaaataz whersin
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source,
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of labour) is htlwhere more
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by a horn the book
will not be found useful, Whether such person hold the ielation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyns*Sk.
The PARENT, who behokie his beloved child pining
away, and fast approaehittg to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of some disease, which, for want of rarerut ihvestiga-
tion of its real cause, has been set down th the score of con-
sumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find,
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary Wonsumption,
heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole !sod exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain daltructive habits practised by
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds, (tempetSanly at
least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will,
by perusing. this work, directed and very much
assisted in investiseatieg and detecting the too often con-
reeled practices to often introduced into schools, wbaSeaby the
health and ultimately the lives of his
,popils tat sure to be corn-
promised, unless the evil be arrests! in proper time. He will
here find a clue to guide bins through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, dud a standard whereby to is,lttes when
delicacy of health should appear to attack asty of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instrutttr,
here he directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted; he will also be enabled to point out the &o-
estrous consequences which fan sure to follow from them if not
relinquished.
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-sqeart, London.
Country Patients are requomed tb be as minnte as possible in
the detail of their cases--as to the duration of the complaint,
the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occupation in
life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by
the usual Consultation Fee of 11., without vslo.ch no notice
whatever can be taken of their application; and in all cases, the
most inviolable socrecv may be relied on.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Saturday an in-
quest was held before Mr. IVakle,ll INi.P., at the Mar-
quis of Hastings, Ossulston-strObt, Somers-town, on the
body of Mr. William 11Qartkr, a retired publican, aged
76, who was killed by a gentleman's cab under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—Thomas Daniell, groom to
Guliehno, Esq., of 181, Picasdilly, said, that on the
11th of June he was behind his master's cab. His
master was driving, and there was no one else in it.
They had cressed Oxford-street from Bond.street, and
were just etttrning into Vere-street, wheh ti% deceased
crossed from the west side, and cline iti edlitild With the
shaft of the cab, which struck hail On the right side and
knocked him down face doWnWards. His master pulled
up immediately, and prevented the wheels from passing
over him, lie was picked up in a state of insensibility,
bleeding from wounds in the head, caused t*Voir, in
contact with the stones, and assisted into a chemist's
shop at the corner of Bond-street, His wounds having
been dressed, witness's master gave him his address and
two sovereigns, and then sent him home in a cab. The
occurrence was purely an accident, as they Were loin
g
very slow at the time.. His master hear* that the de-
ceased was ill in consequence. of the acciftit, sent him
his own surgeon to attend him, and ?!.
,paying
the expenses he had incurred.—Mid
of 23, Clarendon-square, said I% Mullinger,
deceased lived in his
house ; he was very intirn:,
plained of a pain
him on the 11th tilt
_A s soon as he came home he com-
and hard of hearing. Saw
down by ^ 1' '9 cab, blit tni far as lit COOld judge,
it _ qent eman; , 3 ,
;:inis side, and said he had been knocked
to him
during his lin& Mr. Edwards and the gentleman's
was accidental: May tatelttloll Was paid
diet, t' Amidental Death," i 1 wort constantly in attendance upon hirrli—Ver-

LOVE Tititlm.NAAi4T.—A few days ago, Says
the Monikt' Parisien, M. C., a person employed in tha
prbiterie Royale, and who is in good pecuniery.ciretimstances
wishing to break off a love affair between his daughter and a
young painter, more rich hi hopes titAti profitable fame, who
lived in the same house; Writ to his rhtim, and eilteealeri him
renounce all pretetisiott§ to her hand. The yotitig marl hay; eg re
plied, at the yontig lady already had done, that the attachment
was mutual, and that nothing sVtuld prevent their ma,. lying.
the old gentleman, in his aligerr loOked the door of the r.orn a-
he left him, and took aWay the key, telling the painter that he
weald Weep Idea confined until he signed a paper renouncing
the hand of his daughter. A short time afterwards; thalfing
that his prisoner might be more disputed tO listen to I
strance, he called again, but, Oh applying the key, he I,trad
that the door was fattened bit the inside. He knocked, but
received 00 anhiver; and having repeated his visit severer.] teneb
in the day with eqUally bad success, he became alarried, lamp.
tog that the young mart might hate committed stricide, and at
length resolved on going for the Commissary of Po:ice, tt
break oven the doer, On Isis return with the Commissary. tt,,
of the house informed him that his daughter had 'ire
trit it with the young painter, and shortly after came a ?-gal
summons, calling upon him formally for his consent to the mar-
riage. The old gentleman, finding that matters had gone so
far, told the huittier that he might take back his amnions, r_s
he r;asresolVed ifth gibing his cnnaent tO the UniOn.
SALE off' ISSTATES.—EXAGGERATED PLANS.
tiestlay the Lord Chief Baron in the Equity Excite-
titter, sat to dispose of a few motions. In one, in the cause of
Pope v. Garland, which turned uaon the question whether the
auctioneer had deceived a purchaser by the plan exhibited at
the sale, his Lordship said he remembered a case of an action
brought by Lord Lansdown against a party for having misled
him by a false and overcharged description, and Lord Kenyon
directed the Jury to find for the plaintiff, adding, " I hope,
this verdict will curb the luxuriant penmanship of auctioneers."
THE MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—We are
sorry to learn, from various correspondents, that the murrain
is extending over large sections of Galloway, and the higher
parts of Dumfries-shire. A good many deceased cattle ap-
peared on our Sands on Wednesday last, and where the parties
were able to agree as to terms, found purchasers eotwithstand-
ing. Oae respectable jobber and farmer from the border selected
a few of the worstfor the express purpose of communicating
the complaint to his own healthy herd; and the reason
he assigned was this :—" I know I am sure to catch it like my
neighbours ; I wish, therefore, to quicken the process, that all
may be right again before Brough-hill fair, on the 27th of Sep-
tember." Strange as the fact may appear, the reader may rest
assured it ho strictly true; and we have since learned that the
practice is not so rare as we had at first imagined. In the back
end of last year, while the cattle of F. Lawrie became affected
at Tinwald-Shaws, they continued sound on his farm in Close-
burn. Accordingly, he sent invalids from the one farm to the
other. and in two days the experiment had the desired effect.—
Dumfries Courier.
ANTIQUITIES 'IN TIIE ClTY.—During the
excavations which are now making in Bush-lane the workmen
employed in digging have discovered several curious relief,
which seem to belong to different periods of antiquity. Amon
them are a large earthenware bottle curiously embossed with a
human face, and a coat-of-arms, a gold ring, engraved with the
words " Espoyr tie ioye" (espoir de joie), in Gothic charac-
ters, a bronze key of very antique workmanship, and a curious
hollow sphere, most rudely fashioned in brick earth, the pur-
pose of which it is difficult to conjecture. These curiosities
are at present in possession of the landlorn of the Bell Tavern,
opposite to which the excavations are being made.
In the beginning of the week a strawberry,
which measured 6i inehes in circumference, was exhibited in
the private garden of Mr. Wilson of Kirkfield Bank, near
Lanark, its greatest diameter being nearly '2 inches. On the
same stem with it were fourteen others, most of which were of
an ordinary size. The plant was set in April, andhas received
no artificial forcing. •