Georgetown weekly news., 1854-12-28
San frantistu.
DIR. wHELPLEY's MEDICAL cARDs-
Important to Miners, Travellers, and
MIN OF RIISTNECC

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clan. Not knowing whom to trust, they some
times fall into tho hands of mere pretenders, as
void OF conscience as of knowledge. That they
may escape these dangers, DIR. WHELPLEY
takes this occasion to inform that his office is
now
AT THE CORNER OF sANsoME AND COM
MERCIBL STREETS,
Opposite the st. Nicholas,
Mantle and
Crescent City Hotels,
San Francisco.
(Up Stnirs-entrdnce on iSGnsome Street,
Where he can be consulted at all hours of the
day and evening.
1t is needless to say that DR.. Whelpley is a
regular member of the Faculty of Medicine, quail
flied by long study and experience for the prac-
tice of the healing art He is able to those
who afflicted with tho FEVERS and RHEU-
MATlC AFFECTIONS peculiar to California,
or with those SECRET MADADIES which, from
slight and neglected beginnings, destroy so many
vigorous constitutions-that modern science has
discovered sure, safe, and speedy methods Of
cure 1t is no longer thought necessary to satu-
rate the body with mineral poisons, condemnng
IL 10 weakness and premature decay: the horrible
system OF starving, poisining and confinement
pursoed by antique ignorance, is entirely SUPER
ceded, and those Miasmatit, Pestilential and We
nereal, and Contagious Diseases which it was
supposrd might, in time, destroy the human race,
Gah no" De cured by simple and natural Teme-
| dies, in few days
/ SopH,11s EPocoo,,i.os - e.. - ,. II
| sores or slight excavations and Buboes whc
| gradually enlarge into Ulcers, from which TIM
VEINS continually absorb an active diffusiye poe
| son:
2. GoNoRRHEA-An unhealthy and contagious
enux, generated at first by uncleanliness, and
thence communicated by contact: producing, if
| unchecked, destructive and horribly painful in
| tiammatI0n of fhp m
| external:
| B. SEMINAL WEAKNEss-A disease which usn-
| ally commences in early life, and by insensbe
| degrees destroys the mind and body of the suf-
| ferer:
| A. MALARIoUs lNFEcTIoN-In the form of
| "Chills and Fever" Marsh Fever, Panama Fever,
| Ague, Intermittent, &c, &c, generated by the
eartn and air OF new country, and producing, in
| the sequel, a hoft of constitutional disorders:
5. RHEUMATIC AFFEkTIoNs-Face Ache, Tie
Doloreux Rheumatism Neuralgia, Sweled Joints.
Stiffness of the Soints, Arthritic Infammatons,
ETC., the result of hard work, exposure, or free
! living:
6. DELIRIuM TREMENs- -Theresult of excessive
| drinking with mental excitement.
These and such othe: diseaaes as arise from ex-
ternal non-natural causes, and are not inherited
or constitutional, may be readily and speedily
cured if token in good time. and treated by the
/
Persons laboring under Secret Maladies or
weakness, constitute at least Onefourth of the
population af civilized countries. Scientific and
medical research has consequently been largely
devoted to their cure, and the most illustrous Of
living names in medicine, are of those European
practitioners who have discovered sure and safe
methods. The saving of human life and health
which has resulted from the researches of John
Hunter and his successors, and the medical dis
coveries of Rcord and few others, in our own
times, has produced sensible increase in popu-
lation and has extended the average term of hui
man existence.
DR.. w. wishes to have il understood that he re-.
lies Tor has success upon competent knowledge
| OF the more recent and valuable discoveries of
science In a country so unsettled, and with
population so fuetuafing as that of California,
it is not necessary for him to apologize for hav.
ing taken this public method of making known
his principles. The proof of their correctness is
in their constant success
Remember thut DR.. WIS Office is on the corner
of Sansome and Commercial streets, Oong
Wharf,) up stairs, entrance on Sansome, opposite
st. Nicholas, Mantle and Crescent City Hotels,
San francisco. j. D. WHELPLEY, NJ d.
n. b. Letters requesting advice, enclosing .fre
dollars, will be promptly attended to.
Address DIR. j. D. WHELPLEY, San Fran
cisco. Dec. /, 1854. 8-3m