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TAUSES Of its Premature Decline, with d.
directions for IFS perfect Restoration. Address
ell 10 those suffering from the destructive effects
OF Excessive Indulgence. Solitary Habits, SC.
&c.--By E. DesIandes. NJ. d. Translated from
the French, with many additions. by an Ameri-
can Physician.-Seventh edition. 252 pp. Is
mo- full bound in cloth.
-. -" - ACCOMMODATIONS.
Physicians of extensive observation, and Su.
perlntendenis of establishments for the moral man.
agement of lunatios, concur in assuring US that
the cankerworm of death is gnawing al the vitals
OF many youth OF all ages, in all Countries too
as portrayed by the author If this work were
once freely circulated, the tendency would be
beneficial, because like an alarm gun il would
give warning In season to avert threatened
danger. 1t ght thus drive away a fend that
would ruin soul and body at the same instant ard
blight the dawn Of life before the individual 10
conscious of his duty TO himself, to society. or
to his Maker .-Boson Medical and Surgical
Journal. .~."..-=
consider Desandes' book as decidedly the
best treatise extant in the French or English LAM
guage. The subject is extre nelly important and
one loo much overlooked by our profession gem
orally, and the evils of the vice on which YOUR
pub icatlon treats are not appreciatedby the COM
munity, although the cases presented in your
book are frightful. Yet, judging from the many
patients who have been under my treatment
they have not been oyerdrawn.-A Sidney Doane.
M. D., New-York.
The work OF Deslandes, by pointing out the
diseases resulting from excesses the evils of which
are manites, in every insane asylum, no less than
in the shattered constitutions IF those Indugng
Will do much TO prevent the vice, which, BY its
prevalence among the young, has so much influ.
ence on the present, as wella the future we'll
being of many Ninslow Lewis, Jr., nj. D.,
Boston. " ...-....
The vice is doubtless very much more common
in this country than is generally supposed. or
than most medical men are ready TO believe:
that 1t Is iughtui source of i'll health and fatal
disease with the young have no doubt hope,
therefore, the hook will 60 into extensive circu-
| lation. The views of the writer are excellent ON
| this subject DIR. S. B. Woodward Superintend-
ent of the Insane Hospital at Worcester
The present work abounds in well authenticat.
ed cases, going fully 10 substdntiate the position
! taken by the author and cannot BE read without
producing deep convictions that something ought
to be done TO check this deploIable eyil.-Zion's
/ Herald. ":-.. -. .~. .-
| The volume, now published, will prove emf
nently useful, and deserving the consideration of
all to whom is committed the RESPONSE ole trust of
moral and physical education.-John W. Francis.
Al. D., New-York. ..- ~:.
! We recommend the work entitled "Man-
hood etc, 10 the careful perusal Of PERSONS of
all classes. The moral as well as physical advan-
tages to result from such perusal viii be most
readily recognized and felt by those who stand
most in need of them.-Phenix journal.
We do not think we go too far in saying that
fsociety is deeply indebted To the author for oro-
ducihg SO valuable, so useful, so much wanted
and so truly moral work Conservative Jour
nat -.....-* u. .:.-s..
The work entitled Manhood" is one of the
lew books now coming before the public on such
subj which can lay claim 10 the character of
being strictly professional at the same lime that
it is fully Ineligible TO all who read il. The
moral and medical precepts given in it render it
observation-disclosures.
This important work has been noticed in the
Herald before, but We take advantage Of the issue
OF fourth edition to refer TO it again. The sub
ject Is one of untold Importance. The wee Ct
which II treats Is supposed, BY competent judges,
to be generally prevalent ard growing il is
spreading through the community decrepid bod
lis and decayed minds, are popping insane hos
piiai7 and toe grave. Some of the highest medi-
: cal authorities pronounce it the great scourge OF
civilization. 1t is absolutely terrific 10 read lis
sot, Deslandes, and other writers, who have treat
ed OF the extent Of this desructITe habit. the ia
cilty with which il is contracted IN childhood,
and even in Infancy, and lis deplorabe effects ON
= body and soul Ii is triumph of humanity as
:, well as morality, that the vice has at last been
stripped of The false delicacy which screened il,
q and that scientific men have inierposed to rescue
: the young from its ruln-Zion's Herald
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