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Patent Medicines clouded, the memory fails, the judgment becomes indistinct, the will capricious and undecided, the taste vitiated, the imagination broods upon unpleasant topics, the spirits are cither very low or very excited, the ordinary duties of life become burdensome, society is shunned, and business neglected. A Strange Spectacle. —lt is certainly strange, but not the less true, that perfectly' sane persons in the prime of life, with firm step and healthy countenance, may occasionally, be met with, who, in spite of possessing all the advantages of education, religion, ample means, and kind friends, nevertheless are victims of the nervousness above described ; unhappy themselves, they render other people unhappy. Why is this ? What cause has operated to change the cheerful, active, obliging, unsuspecting, and uncomplaining youth into the unhappy, drowsy, listless, suspicious, and gloomy misanthrope ? Many causes, or one cause only, may operate to produce this sad state : the cause may be either mental or physical, or both combined. Attempts to Cure Nervousness by means of ordinary tonics have so frequently proved fruitless, that the leading physicians now for the most part recommend hygienic means, such as exercise in the open air. regular habits, seabathing, the cold bath friction ; change of air and scene, as in travelling. Jf all these fail, as they often do, what is to be done ? The Answer will be found by carefully perusing the following Work : Ninth Elltlon ; Post Free, Is. 4 d. NERVOUS 1) EBIL IT Y, Its Cause and Cure, With Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health. ‘ . Applications for a copy of the above Work must be accompanied by the amount in New Zealand or other stamps, also a properly directed envelope. ADDRESS : CHARLES SENNET, Agent, Brooklyn House, Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne. “ Up ! Up ! ray friend, and clear your looks ! Why all this toil and trouble ? ALL those who are suffering from despondency, melancholia, loss of spirits and pluck, who feel that they are wasting and pining; and who are gradually getting weaker and weaker, from causes they have not the courage or the desire to acquaint their family attendant with : in all such cases, Mr 1/. L. Smith feels it incumbent on himself to inform such unfortunate patients, that he has devoted his lifetime to the study of such complaints, having been a pupil and assistant of the late Dr Culver',veil, of London, who made these diseases his special practice. In all those diseases relating and pertaining to Married Life, and which make marriage a curse rather than a blessing, Mr L. L. Smith can be consulted with the greatest certainty of success, and with the additional n cling that no chance can possibly occur of their secret over being divulged. In cases of extreme Nervous Debility, where the patient feels that ho-is exhausted and , physically prostrated,.and incapable of oxerj tion without fatigue, then and there the perj son so situated should at once consult Mr L. I L. Smith, before disease of a more serious ! character sets in ; the above arises frequently ; from the enervating influence of hot climates, : but frequently from other causes of a more I serious nature. | Palpitations of the heart, a tendency also I to be easily startled and alarmed, is another i phase of disease which requires particular attention, as arising from a most important ! cause ; those who sillier from the above have ! NOT—- “ MixM reason with pleasure Aml wisdom with mirth But have, on the contrary, been guilty of a secret vice, which has, as it wore, eaten into their very vitals. Many “ old young men” consult me, who, though young in years, have, through the vice above alluded to, and by their having been quacked by the miqualified and unskilful medical men, at last given ii]> all hope and succumbed, and arc I aged in their very youth, unfitted to fntll the | duties which they were sent to this world to perform. “ Re wise to-day, ’tis madness to defer, Procrastination is the thief of time.'’ Mr L. L. Smith wishes to impress upon those who are labouring under diseases which cannot be treated by the general medical attendant, from insufficient knowledge and practice, that as an expert in these diseases, | lie has the right to warn the public at large ] against the number of blatant charlatans and quacks, who not only extort the money out I of the pockets of the patients, but are con- { tinnally ruining the health of the unfortunate sufferers. Many hundreds yearly present themselves to him from all parts of the different colonies, who are thoroughly bankrupt in health and pocket, and they then lament, when too late, the horrible deception which has been practised on them. Not only do men deceive those unfortunate victims by pretending to be legally-qualified I men, but they advertise for sale, and swindle the public, by selling bottles of muck, under the name of “ Dr L’icord’s Essence of Life,” “ Bdm of Syriacum,” and a mass of other quackeries, whose sole province is to extract money out of the pockets of their deluded victims. Will the public never understand that the only guarantee they can have that they will he honestly and skilfully treated, is the fact that the person to whom they apply for advice is a legally-qualified medical man, who has devoted his time to the branch of practice i for which the patient is seeking aid ? j Secondly, that his long residence in the place, j and at least a guarantee of the

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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 134, 4 June 1872, Page 8

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Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 134, 4 June 1872, Page 8

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