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CAUSES of its Premature Decline, with directions
for its perfect Restoration Addressed to those suf
ferng from the destructive effects of Excessive In
diligence, Solitary Habits, &c. &c. By E. Desan-
des Nj. d. Translated from the French, with many
additions, by American PLY sician.-Seventh edi-
ton. 252 PIP. Is mo, full bound i'll cloth.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
Physicians of extensive observation, and Super:n-
tendants of establishments for the moral management
of unatics, concur in assuring that the canker-
worm of death is gnawng at the vitals of many
youth Of all ages, in all countries too, portray ed
by the author. If this work once freely circula
ted, the tendency would be beneficial, because, like
alarm gun, it would give warning in TO avert
a threatened danger 1t might thus drive away n
fend that would ruin soul and body at the same in
stan and blight the dawn of life before the indlvdu
al conscious of his duty to himself! to society," or TO
his Maker Boston Medical anG Surgical Journal.
consider Deslandes' book as decidedly the best
treatise extant in the French or English Language.
The subject is extremely important, and one TOO
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 book frighful. Yet,
judging from the many patients who have been I'M
der my treatment they have not been overdrawn.-
IA. Sidney Doane, NJ. D., New York.
The work of Desandes, by pointing out the dis
eases resulting from excesscs the evils of which
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 SO much influence on the
present, well as the future, wel-beng of many
[Winslow Lewis, IT., M. ID. Boston.
The vice is doubtless very much more common in
this country than is generally supposed, than most
mcdcal men ready to believe, that it is fright
ul source ofill health aud fatal disease with the
young, have no doubt. hope, therefore, the book
will go into extensive circulation. The views of the
writer excellent this sxbject.- Dr S. b w God
ward superintendent of the Insane Hospital at Wor
cester.
The present work a5ounds in well authenticated
cases, gong fully to substaniate the position taken
by the author and cannot be read without producing
a deep conviction that something ought to be done
to check this deplorable evil Zion's Herald.
The volume, as now published, will prove eminent
y useful and deserving the consideration of all 10
whom is committed the responsible trust of moral
and physical education.-[John w. Francis, M. d.
New York.
We recommend the work entitled "Manhood,' %
etc., TO the careful pe-usal of persons of all classes
The moral as well as physical advantages 10 re-
suit from such perusa will be most readily recog-
nized and felt Ivy those who stand most in need of
them.-[Ph1nix Journal.
We do not think we go too far in saying that So
ccty is deeply indebted 10 the author for producing
SO valuable, useful, much wanted, and so truly
moral a work.-[Conserva;ivc 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, at the time that it is fully
ineligible to all who read it. The moral and med
cal precepts given in it render il invaluable.-[M
net.
This important work has been noticed in the Her.
aid before but we take advantage of the issue of
fourth edition TO refer to it again. The subject is
one of untold imdortance. The vice of which il
treats is supposed, by competent Judges be gener-
ally prevalent and growing; it is spreading through
the community decrepid bodies and decayed minds
and peoping 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, Desnndes, and other writers, 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 deplorabe effects or
body and soul. 1t is triumph of hcmanity, AS wei
morality, that the vice has at last been stripped
the false decacy which screened it, and that scien
!ifc men have interposed to rescue the young from
its ruin. lions Herald
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