The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

This day is Published, price One Shilling, No. I. of
PHE POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL, a MAGAZINE of
.I. SCIENCE and the FINE ARTS.
CONTENTS :—The Proceedings of the British Ass ation
—The Royal Academy—Old and Yoking Ma rs—The
Revival of the Renaissance and Elizabethan St e—Works
of Art in Progress—Ancient and Modern ctures—The
Astronomy of the Book of Job, by J. Lan s r, Esq.—Pre-
tenders to the British Throne—National sic of Scotland,
by George Hogarth, Esq.—State of Art in Ireland—Foreign
Art—Bust of Mr. Clarkson—School of Design•--Parliamen-
tary Report on the Bade Light—College for Civil Engineers
—An Essay on Life Assurances, Annuities, and Reversions—
On the Conductibility of Heat in Metals—On the supposed
Influence which the Roughness or Smoothness of Surfaces
exercises upon the Emissive Power of Bodies—On the Con-
struction of Railway Carriages—with a great variety of
Reviews of Books, Prints, Exhibitions, &c.

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VALUABLE REMEDIES FOR THE AFFLICTED.
DR ROBERTS' CELEBRATED MED LINES.
'THAT excellent Ointment, called the P OR MAN'S
.I. FRIEND, which is confidently reco mended to the
public as an unfailing remedy for woun of every descrip-
tion, and a certain cure for ulcerated S Legs, if of twenty
years' standing ; cuts, burns, scalds bruises, chilblains,
ulcers, scorbutic eruptions, pimples i the face, weak and
inflamed eyes, piles and fistula, gangrene, and is a specific
for those eruptions that sometimes follow vaccination.
Sold in pots at 134 d. and 2s. 9d.
Also, his PILULJE ANTISCROPHULJE confirmed by
more than forty years' successful experience as an invaluable
remedy for that distressing complaint called scrofula, glan-
dular swellings, particularly those of the neck, &c. They
destroy all sharpness and acrid salts, open the obstructed
pores, expel all superfluous humours on the skin, and pre-
sent one of the best alteratives ever compounded for puri-
fying the blood, and assisting nature in all her operations.
They are efficacious also in rheumatism, and form a mild and
superior family aperient, that may be taken at all times
without confinement or change of diet. Sold in boxes at
131 d. and 2s. 9d.
By the late Dr. Roberts' will, Messrs. Beach and Barni-
cott (who have been confidentially entrusted with the prepa-
ration of this medicine for many years past) are left joint
proprietors of the " Poor Man's Friend," and " Piluhe
Antiscorphulm," &c, with the exclusive right, power, and
authority to prepare the same.
Sold wholesale by the Proprietors, Beach and Barnicott,
at their Dispensary, Bridport ; by the London houses ; and
retail by all respectable Medicine Venders in the United
Kingdom.
OBSERVE.—No medicine sold under the above names can
possibly be genuine unless " Beach and Barnicott, late Dr.
Roberts, Bridport," is engraved and printed on the stamp
affixed to each
,package; each pot of the Ointment has
" Poor Man's Friend, prepared only by Beach and Barni-
cott, successors to Dr. Roberts, Bridport," (burnt in) and
each box of the Pills has on the label an impression of Her-
cules killing the Hydra, with Dr. Roberts' Alterative Pills
for Scorbutic Complaints, prepared by Beach and Barnicott,
Bridport, and each direction signed with fac-similies of the
late Doctor Roberts's and the present Proprietors' hand-
writing'