The Sun. — 1850-03-26 (London, England)

THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH. (through Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P. for the Borough of St. Marylebone), AGAINST THE DEADLY POISONS Used or held out as Medicines by Doctorss, In order to prop up their ' Guinea Trade ;' Which trade is the root of all the evil as regards the public health ; the cause of hospitals and lunatic asylums belug filled with diseased objects ; and, above all, the cause of all persons' lives being kept in constant jeopardy through the deadly chemicals which doctors have introduced in order to prop up that trade." The 'ontents of the work are as follows:1. Case of Miss Abercrombie, poisoned by strychnine. Reported by Sir. Serjeant Talfourd, now Mr. Justice Talfourd.  Death of Wainwright, her murderer. Sale of Poisons. Marchioness of Brinvilliers. Account of the Aqua Tofana, ~ Wholesale Poisoning during the Roman Reptplic. 1. Recent Cases of Poisoning. 3. Preface to the 70th Thousand of the " 31orisoniana." 9. Buckingham's Case : a whole family saved by the Vegetable Universal Medicine, after having been accidentally poisoned by Arsenic. 10. General Report of the British College of Health for 1850. 11. Prineples of the Hygelan System of Medicine. 12. Letter to the Lord Bishop of London on the Sanitary Question. 13. The Rise and I'r ogre of the Britisk College of Health. London : Published by the British College of Health, New-road. Price 2s. 6d.  Just published, price fis., tivo. in cluth, STRICTURE of the URETHRA; its Pathok_7 logy and Rational Treatment, with important Practical Observations on the Use and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment of Ostctions of the Urinary Canal ; showing how it is that Strictarebs, irun most cases, not only resist, but are aggravated by the ordinary means adopted for their cure,' and at length become seriously complicated by the so-called " consequences of ,tricture." The whole illustrated by numerous cases, which will be found to embrace ossible form of Stricture and its consequences, together with every p appropriate means of care. By F. B. COURTENAT, Those who are labouring under long-protracted stricture, with all Its accompanying miseries, will find detailed in this work modes of treatment adapted to such cases, the efficacy and superiority of which have been tested by repeated practice; whilst these who are suffering under the less severe forms of the disease may find the means of prompt relief, and at the same time such information as will protect them from becoming the victims of unskillal and violent treatment—the main-spring of severe and complicated obstructions of the urinary canal. " Thstricture opeeris, atiowithoutn of introducingdoubt, the a catheter through an impermeable most difficult in the whole range of surgical operations, and demands all the prudence, science, and skill of a master. The art can only be acquired. and that gradually, by frequent practice."— Liston's Operative Surgery. Tublished by 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street ; and may be had of all booksellers in town and country.  THE FRENCH REPUBLIC  We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. At length one journal, and one journal only, has been found to deiend the repressive law against the press, which the PRESIDENT and his Ministers, in the very extremity of panic terror, have been, as our Scotch friends would say, " So far left to themselves," as to propose. That journal is the Napoleon, and thus does it deal with the comparisons which have been recently made between the conduct of