The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-07 00:00:00

DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION.

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ELF-PRESERVATION.—A popular Essay on
Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious
habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which,
by prematurely exhausting the functions of Manhood, de-
stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil-
ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished
objects of existence.

By Dr. LA'MERT, 37, Bedford-square, London.
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh;
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &a
The above work contains most useful and interesting
information on the physiological changes which occur
in the Reproductive System during, the periods of youth,
puberty, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that
degree of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity
depend. It also points out how all the attributes of Man-
hood can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they
are lost, and how they can be recovered. It is free from the
gross exaggerations, alarming descriptions, and dangerous
remedies so generally resorted to by persons, who, prac-
tising with false medical qualifications, inflict most serious
injuries, and render judicious treatment frequently abortive.
The Author is the only legally qualified practitioner
whose name stands on the Medical. Register (the only
true test of medical qualification), who has been exclu-
sively engaged for a series of years in the treatment of the
various functional disorders of the nervous and reproductive
system, which, owing to the great discoveries of modern
science, are rendered subservient to a rational, simple,
and easy mode of treatment.
At home for consultation daily from 10 till 2, and from 6
till 8, either personally or by letter.-37, Bedford-square.

A FRENCHMAN ON FRENCH WINES.—As long as
wino was held in honour by all classes of society, the bril-
liant qualities of the French people rendered them the first
of modern times. A loyal and generous courage, gaiety and
vivacity of mind, patriotism, eloquence, the exquisite senti-
ment of personal dignity allied to an excessive politeness,
together with an irresistible tendency towards the charms of
social life, were the principal features of the national cha-
racter. But when coffee, tea, and tobacco successively occu-
pied a place in their habits, each of these more or less dele-
terious agents imprinted a sensible alteration on these fine
noble attributes,',and notwithstanding the continuous action
of wine upon the French people, who still possess the best
blood in Europe, the close observer may remark detetiorat•
ing modifications in the clearness of their thought, the
precision of their speech, and the frank and joyous expres-
sion of their aspect. Above all, literature, that sincere and
elevated token of the genius of a nation, has received a fatal
blow through the introduction of these morbid agents into
the usual regimen. The encouragement given by Henry IV,
Richelieu, and Louis XIV., to the cultivation of the vine,
speedily bore fruit. During those glorious reigns (for the
cardinal was the king of his day), the very best sort of peo-
ple frequented the taverns ; and under the influence of their
associations arose that luminous literary co nstellation of
which Corneille, Moliere, La Fontaine, Pascal, Racine,
Bossuet, and Fenolon, were the most brilliant stars. Under
Louis XIV. (what happened while that wine-bibber, the
Regent Orleans, ruled, Dr. Arthaud does not say), the use
of coffee having become general, men of letters no longer
assembled round the bottle. Instead of meeting at the
Croix Le Lorraine, where Bouileau composed his Chapelain
Decoiffe, or at the Mouton Blanc, where Racine wrote Les
Plaideurs ; the wits of the 18th century gathered `together
at the Cafe Procope. To a literature full of vigour, warmth
and conviction, succeeded one that was polished but cold ;
witty, but without the sign of true genius ; philosophical,
but without religious vitality, mocking but uninformed
by that spirit of lofty and wise criticism which at-
tack and overthrows vice. Who does not recognise the
cerebral stimulus produced by coffee in the writings of Vol-
taire, of Diderot, of D'Alembert, of Grimm, of Beaumar-
chais, and of Frederick of Prussia? These men compre-
hended everything, spoke admirably of everything, laughed
nearly at everything, but felt nothing,—Dickens's "All
the par lotflig,"