Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-03
RECOMMENDATIONS.

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Physicians of extensive observation, and Su.
perintendens of establishments for the moral man.
agement of lunatics, concur in assuring US that
the canker worm of death is gnawing at 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 grn it would
give warning in season to avert threatened
danger. II mil ht thus drive away fend that
would ruin soul and body at the same instant, al
blight the dawn of life before the individual is
conscious of his duty 10 himself, to society, or
to his Maker Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal. ...-: =. -"
consider Desandes' book as decidedly the
best treatise extant in the French or English Ian
guage. The subject is extremely important, and
one too much overlooked by our profession gen
orally, and the evils of the vice on which your
publication treats are not appreciated by 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 overdra Wn.-A Sidney Doane
M. D., NewYork. :.:
The work of Deslandes, by pointing out the
diseases resulting from excesses the evils of which
manifest In every insane asylum, no leSssthan
10 the shattered constitutions of those lndulgng,
will do much to prevent the vice, which, by its
X
ence on the present, we'll as the iu' ure, we'll
being of many -Winsow Lewis, Jr., NJ. D.,
Boston. 49,. -. 49,. :.=""
The vice is doubtless very much more common
in this country than is generally supposed, or
than most medical men are ready to believe :;
hat it is frghtfuI source of i'll health and fatal
disease with the young, have no doubt. Hope,
therefore, the hook will go into extensive circu-
lation. The views of the writer are excellent on
Dir r
| ent of the Insane Hospital at Worcester. -.
The present work abounds in well authenicat-
! ed cases, going fully TO substantiate the position
taken by the author, and cannot be read without
producing deep conviction that something ought
to be done to check this deplorabie eViI.-Zion 5
Herald. ~: ~....- ~. .-.-
The volume, as now published, will prove emf
nentIy useful and deserving the consideration of
all to whom is committed the responsible trust of
moral and physical education.-John W. Francis,
NJ D., New-York. .a: r.. ri T.. 49,.
| We recommend the work entitled " Man
hood" ETC., to the careful perusal of persons of
all classes. The moral as well physical advan-
tages sure TO result from such peruSa Will be most
| readily recognize and felt by those who stand
| most in need of them.-Phenix Journal
We do not think we go too far in saying that
society is deeply indebted to the author for pro-
ducing so valuable so useful, so much wanted,
| and so truly moral work. Conservative Jour
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| The work entitled " Manhood is one of the
| few books now coming before the public on such
a subject, which can lay claim TO the character OF
being strictly professional at the same time that
il is fully Ineligible TO all who read it. The
| moral and medical precepts given In It render il
observation-disclosures. IT.. .-.= ".s> .~... .....
/ 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.
iect is one of untold Importance The vice oi
| which it treats is supposed, by competent Judges
| to be generally prevalent and growing; it i:
spreading throus h the community decrepid bod
les and decayed minds, are popping insane hos
ni,als and the grave. Some of the highest med
cal authorities pronounce it the great scoUrge o.
civilization. it is absolutely terrific to read It's
| sol. Desandes, and other writers, who have treat
al of the extent Of this destructive habit. the ia
cility with which it is contracted in childhood
and even in Infancy, and lis deporable effects OF
body and soul. 1t is triumph OF humanity, a
well as morality, that the vice has at last beer
Stripe of The false delicacy which screened it
| and that scientific men have interposed to rescue
the Young from its ruin.-Zion's Herald.
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