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CAUSES Of its Premature Decline, with directions
for its perfect Restoration Addressed to those SUI
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive In
diligence, Solitary Habits, &c. &c. BY T.. Desan-
des, Nj. ID. Translated from the French, with many
additions by an American Physician.-Sevcnth edl-
ton. 252 PIP. l9 mo, full bound in cloth.
nEcoMMENDATroHs
Physicians of extensive observation, and Super!n-
tendants of establishments for the moral management
of luna,ics concur in assuring that the canker-
worm of death is gnawing at the vitais OF many
youth Of all ages in all countries, too, as portrayed
by the author If this work were once freely crcula
ted the tendency would be beneficial, because like On
alarm gun, il would give warning in season to avert
q threatened danger. 1t might thus drive away
fend that would ruin soul and body at the same IN
stan and blight the dawn of life before the ndvidu-
al is conscious of his duty to himself to society," or TO
his Maker Boston Medical anG Surgical Journal.
consider Deslandes' book decidedly the best
treatise extant in the French English Language.
The subject is extremely important, and one loo
much over looked by our profession generally, and
the evils of the vice which your publication treats
are not appreciated by the community, although the
cases presented in your hook are friGhtiuL Yet,
Judging from the many patients who have been I'M
der my treatment, they have not been overdrawn.-
IA. Sidney Doane, M. D., New York.
The work Of Dcslandes, by pointing out the dis
eases resulting from excesscs tho evils OF which are
manifest in every insane asylum no less than in the
shattered constitutions of those indulgng, will do
much to prevent the vice, which, by its prevalence
among the young, has much influence on the
present, as well as the future we-being Of many
[Wnslow Lewis, Jr., M. ID. Boston.
The vice is doubtless very much more common in
this country than is generally supposed, than most
medical men are ready to believe, that it is fright
al source of i'll health and fatal disease with the
young have no doubt. hope, therefore, the book
will go into extensive circulation The views of the
writer are excellent this sxbject. DrS. b. Wood
| ri af he
cestcr.
The present work, abounds in well authenticated
cases, going fully to subsantiate the position taken
by the author and cannot be read without producing
deep conviction that something ought to be done
10 check this deporabe evil.-[Zions Herald
The volume, as now published will prove eminent
Iy useful and deserving the consideration of all 10
| whom is committed the responsible trust OF moral
and physical educaton.-[Joh ohm w. Francis M. d.
| New York.
We recommend the work entitled MANHOOD u
etc. to the careful peyusal Of persons of all classes
The moral well phys advantages sure to re-
suit from such perusal will be most readily recog
| nized and felt by those who stand most in need OF
them.-[Ph@nix Journal.
We do not think we go too far in saying that so
cety is deeply indebted to the author for producing
valuable, useful, SO much wanted, and SO truly
moral a work. Conservative journal.
The work entitled "Manhood," is one of the few
! books now coming before the public on such sub
ject, which can lay claim to the character of being
strictly professional the time that it is fully
ineligible to all who read it, The moral and med
cal precepts given in it render il invauabe.-[ Mag
net.
This important work has been noticed in the Her
aid before, but take advantage of the issue of
fourth edition to refer to it again. The subject il
one of untold inheritance. The vice of which il
treats is supposed, by competent judges, to be gene
ally prevalent and growing; it is spreading through
the community decrepid bodies and decayed minds
and peopling insane hospitals and the grave SOM
of the highest medical authorities pronounce it tn,
great scourge of civilization. It is absolutely terrific
to read Tissot, Deslnntes, and other writer's, VIII,
have treated of the extent of this destructive habit
the facility with which it is contracted in childhood
and even in infancy, and its deporabIe effects OF
body and soul 1t is triumph of hcmanity as wei
morality, that the vice has at last been stripped
the false deicacy which screened it, and that scen
tfc men have interposed to rescue the young from
its ruin. [Zion's Herald
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