The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-05-23
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CAUSES Of its Premature Decline, with directions
for its perfect Restoration Addressed to those suf
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive In
diligence, Solitary Habits, &c. &c. BY +. Deslan-
DIES, M. d. Translated from the French, with many
additions, by an American Physician.-Seventh 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 Vitals OF many
youth Of all ages in all countries, too, portrayed
by the author. If this work freely crcula
ted the tendency would be beneficial, because, like
alarm gun, it would give warning in season 10 avert
a threatened danger. 1t might thus drive away a
iend that would ruin soul and body at the same in
slant, and blight the dawn of life before the ndividu
al 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 our profession generally, and
the evils of the vice which your publication treats
not appreciated by the community, although the
presented in your book frghtful. Yet,
judging from the many patients who have been
der my treatment they have not been overdrawn.-
A. Sidney Doane, M. D., New York.
The work of Dcslandes, 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 those INDUCING will do
much to prevent the vice, which, by its prevalence
among the young, has much influence on the
present, we'll the future, well-being of many
[Winslow Lewis Jr, M. ID. Boston.
The vice is doubtless very much more common in
this country than is generally Supposed than most
medical ready to believe, that it is q fright
ul source ofill 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 this sxbject.-[DrS S. b Wood
ward, Superintendent of the Insane Hospital at Wor-
ceser.
The present work a5ounds in well authenticated
cases. going fully TO substantiae the position taken
by the author, and cannot be read without, producing
a deep conviction that something ought 10 he done
to check this deplorable evil.-[Zions Herald.
The volume, as publishedwill prove eminent
y useful, and deserving the consideration OF all TO
whom is committed the responsible trust of moral
and physc education.-[John w. Francis, NJ. ID.
New York.
We recommend the work entitled ''Manhood,'
etc. the careful perusal of persons of all classes
The moral as well physical 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 go too far in saying 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 'sManhood," is one of the few
| books now coming before the public on such SUBJ
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 invaluabe.- Mag.
| net.
This important work has been noticed in the Her.
aid before, but take advantage of the issue Of q
fourth edition to refer to it sagain. The subject is
). one of untold imdortance. The vice of which il
treats is supposed, by competent judges to be gener
ally prevalent and growing; it is spreading through
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 it's deplorabe effects or
body and soul. It's triumph of hcmanity ,as wei
morality, that the vice has last been stripped
the false delicacy which screened it, and that scen
tifc men have lnterposed to the young from
its ruin. [Zion's Herald
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