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London, England, 1841-12-08 00:00:00

MARRIAGE.

New and Enlarged Edition (in an Enve'ope), price 55.,
by post 6s. 6d.,
ARRIAGE—Its Intent, Obligations, and
Physical and,Constitutional Disqualifications, Medically
considered; with Essays on Hereditary Health, and on many
of the Crneealed Infirmities of Human Life. To which is
added, the Confess'onal—ccmprising details of Melancholy,
Nervousness, and. Feeble Health, arising from Care, Grief
Anxiety, Dissipation, Gourmandism, Corpulency, Love, and
Religion, with numcr: us Engravings, &c., the entire forming
a series of interesting, cr,ginal, and important Papers, ad-
dressed especially to those approaching and arriving at Puberty
and Manhood, and called " PROFESSIONAL RECORDS.

By a PHYSICIAN.
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-,tree( ;
Smith, 5, Liverpool-street, City ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-strut;
39, Cornhill ; and all Booksellers.

Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d.,
%4 /ANHOOD: 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 Syphili., Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c. Illustrated
with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
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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 ;
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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 labeur,isnonheein
more
applicable than in medical practice. NVc feel no hesitation•
saying that there is no member of society by nhom the book
will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
The PARENT, rho beholds his beloved child pining
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of acme 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.
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assisted in investigating and detecting
con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of bis 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 thus
he will bo 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 patty ; the communication must be accompanied by
the usual Consultation Fee of it., without which no notice
whatever can be taken of thetr application ; and in all eases, the
most inviolable secrecy ;nay be relied on.