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London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

Carlyle.

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DEDICATED TO DR. ELLIOTSON.
This day, with Two Lithographic Plates, 12s. cloth boards,
FACTS in MESMERISM : with Reasons
for a dispassionate Inquiry into it.
By the Rev. CHAUNCY HARE TOWNSHEND, A.M.,
late of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Calculated to " bring it (Mesmerism) under the formal con-
ditions of the recognised sciences ; putting a period to three
quarters of a century of speculative assertion and speculative
denial."—Monthly Magazine.
London ; Longman, Brown, and Co.

THE CREAM OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
In One Pocket Volume, with Sixty Cuts, price 3s. cloth,
THE CREAM of SCIENTIFIC KNOW-
LEDGE; A Note Book of General Information, so
brief and pithy, yet clear and easy, that an hour's perusal may
supply a Stock of Useful Intelligence on almost every subject.
A New Edition, greatly enlarged by the Rev. G. N. Wright.
London :—Printed for Thomas Tegg, No. 73, Cheapside ;
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THE POST CAPTAIN.—TENTH EDITION.
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THE POST-CAPTAIN; or, THE
WOODEN WALLS WELL MANNED: compre-
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of George the Third. A new and enlarged Edition, by the
Author. " List, ye landsmen, all to me."
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Just published, price 3s. ; or by post, free, 3s. 6d.,
ON•the DEBILITIES of the GENERA-
TIVE SYSTEM in MAN and WOMAN; the
Causes that produce a Premature Decay of the Reproductive
Powers in both ; and the Meaus of their perfect Restoration.
To which are added, Practical Observations on the Nature and
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, and other Diseases peculiar
t. the Organs of Generation in both Sexes.
By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS.
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In a sealed Envelope.—This day is published,
APRACTICAL and POPULAR TREA-
TISE, adapted and written expressly for the USE of
the NON-MEDICAL READER, pointing out a successful
and never-failing mode of effectually Curing those dire Dis-
eases depicted in the works of Drs. Tissot, Solomon, Jordan,
Goss, and others. By WILLIAM HENRY CASTLE,
Surgeon. Illustrated with Cases.
This little work is not only distinguished but contra-distin-
guished from all others which have preceded it, its pages being
exclusively devoted to the curative department, and hence it
may be justly bailed as a great national desideratum. It con-
tains above one hundred choice recipes, adapted to various
stages of the complaint, which is divided into three distinct
heads and progressive stages of treatment, viz.:-Ist, The
cleansing, or detergent ; 2dly, The strengthening, or tonic
and lastly, The alterative, or purifying. Int* these three grand
divisions, theory suggested, and long experience has demon-
strated, the curative plan ought and must be divided.
The treatment of this disease has, for obvious reasons, been
hitherto confined to some cordial balm, occult tincture, or talis-
manic drops, which act merely as a dram—a temporary stimu-
lus, procured at the expense of the patient's future welfare.
The invalid suffering under mental depression and decay,
impotence, and a host of peculiar and inveterate infirmities,
comprehended under nervous debility, will find this Pocket
Manual written expressly for his use, and adapted to his va-
rious wants.
London : Published by Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street
and may be had of all booksellers.
Price ss. By post free, ss. 6d.

Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 35. ; 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 Authors, and sold by &Mere, 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, 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 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 practices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, 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 nowhere more
applicable than in medical practice. We feel ne hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by whom the book
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
relation and responsibility of a parent, will,
least), the
work, be directed and very much
assisted ginvtebsitsigatine and detecting the too often con-
cealedo often introduced into schools, whereby the
hyiierpur
the evil be arreste in proper tune. He will
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health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be com-
promised, unless
siailcu'tices s
this moral labp..inth,
here find a clue to gmadned
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appearof such attack may be, and tuhnug
charges, what the real causess
delicacy of health should to attack any of his yo
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred charac
iter istor, ea:t once
of
here be directed as to the nature
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and n
those habits structo which
will
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 11., without which no notice
whatever can be takes of their application ; and in all cases, the
most inviolable secrecy may be relied on.