The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND
V.r A IVITTCA MO'

WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED EIsTORAVINGS.
Just published, Sixteenth Thousand, In a sealed envelope, price
Sc. 6d., or post paid, to any address, for as. 6d. in Postage Stamps
or Post-office Order.
SELF-PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise
on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity.
Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy,
Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs,
explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and showing
the injuries that are produced in them, by solitary habits, and other
excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous
Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of
the Urethra.

By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London;
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.

CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE.

RAFTER 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrances
and Obligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.—
CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative
Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, proving that great
Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action.
—CHAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the
Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the functions
of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the
Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth
and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness,
Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—CHAPTERS 5 and 6. On
the Disorders arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonuorhcea,
Gleet, Strictures, and other Diseases of the Urethra.
REVIEWS or THE WORE.

"The author of this singular and talented work is a legally quali-
fied medical man, who has evidently had considerable experience in
the treatment of the various disorders arising from the follies and
frailties of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad-
dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must
act as a salutary warning to youth. and maturity, and by its perusal
many questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit of no ap-
peal, even to the most confidential friend."—Era.
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MISERABLE LODGINGS OF THE POOR.—In conse-
quence of the demolition of the " Rookery" in St. Giles's,
the close back avenues in Drury-lane, Saffron-hill, old
Westminster and Whitechapel, are crowded to repletion by
emigrants from the fallen fastness of Bloomsbury. It is
stated by a clergyman, who is constantly amongst the poor,
that, on entering houses in those neighbourhoods in the course
of his sick calls, he has found a number amounting to seventy
human beings, crammed together in a narrow and dilapidated
tenement. The arrangements by which the miserable crea-
tures are thus packed, are almost revolting, for lodgings
have become so valuable in these dens, that the poorer
inmates pay for permission to sleep on the landing-places
gild Aida