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London, England, 1841-09-15 00:00:00

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.
By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the A.nthors, and sold by liailiere, 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 Me.e.hen and Co., 8, D'Olier-
street, Dublin; Duncan,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 of unqualified practitioners, who
traffic en 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 disease 3, which arise
from certain sestet praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice.
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are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of Labour,
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will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation
beholds his beloved child •
The PARENT, who pining
premature •
approaching to a grave, in conse-
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
away, and fast
been set down to the score of con-
tion of its real cause, has.
queries of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga-
sumption, will, on
cases of young persons of both
that in nine-tenths of the
perusing this work, be astonished to find,
consumption,
and exclusive origin has
heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole
tive habits practised by
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary
been the indulgence in certain destructive
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holds (temporarily at
The PRECEPTOR, also, who
responsibility of a parent, will,
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
least), the relation and i
and very much
by perusing this work, be directed
thev
assisted in investigating. and detecting the too often
hereh
con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be cons-
promised„unless the evil be arrested in proper time.He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricateozes
of m
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 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 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, Ne. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Country Patients are requested to be as minute 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 aceompanied by
the usual Consultation Fee of 11., without which no notice
• whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the
most inviolable secrecy may be relied on.