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vi "A N Ill v V ID,
CAUSES of its Premature Decline with directions
for its perfect Restoration. Addressed to those suf-
ferine from the destructive effects Of Excessive In
| diligence Solitary Habits, &c. &c. BY E.. Deslan
des, M. d. Translated from the French, with many
| additions by an American PLY scian.-Sevcnth edi-
ton. 252 PIP. Is mo, full bound in cloth.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
Physicians of extensive observation, ard Super!n-
tendants of establishments for the moral management
of lunacs, concur in assuring US that the canker-
worm of death is gnawing at the Vltas of many
youth Of all ages, in all countries, too, as portrayed
by the author II this work once freely circula
ted the tendency ould be beneficial, because like
alarm gum it would give warning in season to avert
a threatened danger. It might thus drive away
fiend that would ruin soul and body at the same in
stan and blight the dawn of life before the lndivdu
al is conscious of his duty to himself to society, to
his Maker Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
consider Deslandes book as decidedly the best
treatise extant in the French English Language
The subject is extremely important, and one too
much over looked by profession generally, and
the evils of tho vice which your publication treats
not appreciated by the community, although the
cases presented in your book are frishtful Yet
judging from the many patients who have been UNI
der my treatment, they have not been overdrawn.-
IA. Sidney Doane, M. d. New York.
The work of Deslandes, by pointing out the dis
resulting from excuses, the evils of which
manifest in every insane asylum, no less than in the
shattered constitutions OF tnose VIII
much 10 prevent the vice. which, by its prevalence
among the young has much influence the
present, we'll as the future webeing of many
WINSTON Lewis, Jr., M. ID. Boston.
The vice is doubtless very much more common in
this country than is generally supposed, than
medical men ready to believe, that ii is a 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 excellent on this sxbject.-[DrS Il. Wood
ward Superintendent Of the Insane ospal al Wor-
ccster.
The present work a5ounds in well authenticated
cases, going folly TO substaniiae the position taken
by the author, and cannot be read without producing
deep conviction that something ought 10 he done
10 check this dcplorabe evil lions Herald
The volume, now published will prove eminent
y useful, and deserving the consideration of all to
whom is committed the responsible trust of moral
and physical oducation.-[John w. Francis NJ. d.
New York.
We recommend tho work entitled "Manhood,"
etc, to the careful perusal of persons of all classes
The moral as well ply steal advantages sure TO re.
suit from such perusa will be readily recog-
mixed and felt Ivy those no staad m1st in need of
em.-[PhGnx Journal.
We do no, think we go too far in saving that so.
ciety is deeply indebted to the author for producing
! valuable, useful, much wanted, and so truly
moral work-[Conservative Journal.
| The work entitled MANHOOD" is one of the few
DOCKS now coming before puOilc on sucn SUBJ
cct, which can lay claim to the character of being
strictly professional, at the time that it is fully
| Ineligible to all who read it. The neral and med
cal preceps given in it render il nvauabIe.-[ 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 is
! one of untold inheritance. The vice of which it
treats is supposed Ivy competent judges, be gener-
ally prevalent and growing; it is spreading throug h
the community decrepid bodies and decayed minds,
and peopling insane hospitals and the grave. Some
of the highest medical authorities pronounce it the
great scourge of civilization. 1t is absolutely terrific
To read Tissot, Deslnndes, and other writer's, who
have treated of the extent of this destructive habit
the facility with which it is contracted in childhood
and even in infancy, and its deplorable effects on
body and soul. 1t is triumph of hcmani,y as W ell
morality, that the Vice has last been stripped
the false delicacy which screened it, and that scien
tifc men have interrosed to rescue the young from
its ruin [Zion's Herald
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