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GRAY AND PERCY'S KEY, NEW EDITION.
In One handsome Volume, octavo, price Bs., bound in cloth.
AKEY TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
AND APOCRYPHA ; or, an Account of their
several Books, their Contents, and Authors, and of the times
in which they were respectively written. By ROBERT
GRAY, D.D., Bishop of Bristol. To which is now added, a
Key to the New Testament, by THOMAS PERCY, D.D.,
Bishon of Dromore.
Oxford : Printed by J. Vincent, for Thomas Tegg, 73,
Cheapside ; and sold by all other Booksellers.

Just puhlished,ibe Seventh Edition,rice 3s. • and sent free,
-
gikreceipt of Post-oftlee,Or er, for is. 6d.,
M 4 NgOOW: t6e CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to these 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, &e.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,

Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the Authors, and sold by Railiere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London ; Guest, Bir-
mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip,
South Castle-street, Liverpool ; Machen and Co., 8, 111'01ier-
street, Dublin; Duneau,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to
be had of all Booksellers.

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-
ence, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial
and well known rapacity •f unqualified practitioners, who
traffic 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 for a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases; of 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 secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, vvhersin
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 nowhere more
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by whom the bock
will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga-
tion of its real cause, has been set down to 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 consumption,
heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The. PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarily at
least), the relation arid responsibility of a parent, will,
by perusing this work, be directed and very much
assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be com-
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and than
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 instructor, will
here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the dis-
astrous consequences which are 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-square, London.

Country Patients are requested to 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 IL, without which no notice
whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all oases, the
most inviolable socrecv laay be relied on.