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Patent Medicine 3 ministration, by a remarkable increase of nervous power with a feeling of vigor ami comfort ten which the patient Ims long been unaccustomed. Digestion is improved; the appetite increases, wonderfully; the bowels become regular; the eyes brighter ; the shin clear and healthy ; and the hair acquires strength, showing the importance of the Phosphodyne on the organs of mitrit'oa. Finally, the Phosphodyne maintains a certain degree of activity in the previously debilitated nervous system ; its use enables all debilitated organs t» return to their sound state and perform their nitnral "unet'ons. Persons suffering from Nervous Debility, or any of the hundred symptoms "which this distressing disease assumes, may rest assured of an effectual and even speedy cure bv the judicious use of this most invaluable reme.iy. DR BRIGHT'S PHOSPHODYNE ' is scld only in cases at L.l Is., coutaining Two bot'les ; and L2 25., containing Five bottles; — also in family cases at L.o, containing Sixteen boftles. To be had of all Chemists and upcountry Storekeepers throughout the Colonies. Full directions for use, in the English, French, aid German languages, accompany each case. SELECT MEDICAL OPINIONS I Sir Charles Locock, Physician Accoucheur to her Majesty the Queen, stated at a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society that in thirteen cases of debility and nervous prostration he had effected permanent cures by the use of Dr Bright's Phosphotlyne. Sir Win. Ferguson, Bart., F.R.S., surgeon to her Majesty the Queen, says : —" I have repeatedly prescribed Dr Bright's Phosphodyne and found it an agreeable and beneficial remedy. I have but one objection regar Hug it, and that is, the elaborate process required in the preparation will not allow of the retail price being within the reach of all classes." Dr Lancaster, the eminent coroner, says:— " Dr Bright's Phosphodyne is calculated to entirely supersede iron, mercury, sarsaparilla, quinine, and cod-liver oil. Dr R. Quain, F. R.C.P., physician to the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, remarks : "It cannot be doubted that this Phosphatic preparation will henceforth rank foremo-t in therapeutics ; it generates all the important elements of tiiehuman frame, the peculiar character of this substance fitting it for vital uses.' : Sir T. Lawrence says : '' I have found Dr Bright's Phosphodyne an excellent remedy in skin diseases. I presume it is by oxydisation." Professor Syme says:—"The effects of the Phosphodyne in obstinate cases of disease are as astonishing as perplexing." Dr Handfield Jones, F.R.C.P., F.R.S., physician to St. Marv's Hospital, says in atrophy, and general debility, Phosphodyne is a most admirable remedy ; it invigorates the nutritive functions, an 1 increases the vital energy, "it not only acts as an absorbent," but retards or repairs the waste of tissue, and restores the nutritive functions to their normal condition. The Lancet considers the Phosphodyne one of the most important contributions made to materia medica during the last century. Caution. —Be particular to ask for Dr Blight's Phosphodyne. as imitations are abroad. Pampbl"ts containing testimonials may be obtaided from all chemists and up-country storekeepers'. Wholesale agents for New Zealand : KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER AND CO., I) U N E 1) I X. PARADOX !—TO SUFFERERS. L NERVOUSNESS, IT S NAT UK E AN D CUR E. What is Nervousness? Various answers might be given to this question, according to the constitution and knowledge of the individual. Strong healthy person.-, whether medically educated or not, generally regard nervousne s as more or less an " imaginary complaint" ; it is sometimes only believed to be real when the patient is found to be dying or dead. The best answer to the question, probably, is this, — Nervousness is an Unnatural Condition of the Nervous System. Sometimes this unnatural is accompanied with considerable bodily weakness, loss of flesh, and loss of strength ; but in most cises there is in the earlier stages of the disorder no outward sign of weakness. The sufferers are found in both sexes ; they often have the bloom of health upon the cheek ; they are surrounded by kind friends, yet existence to them has no charms, for they feel that thev cannot enjoy it. Without intending it. they annoy other people about the merest trifles ; if they encounter some person unexpectedly they feel confused, afraid, and alarmed : the heart beats Violently, the hand shakes when writing, Mid the whole frame at times experiences a complete tremulousness. The intellect also is sometimes 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 either verv 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 netiiu. of ihe nervousness above described ; unhappy themselves, they render other pe -pie unhappy. . Why is this? What cause has operated to change the cheerful, active, obliging, unsuspecting, and uncomplaining youth into the unhappy, drowsy, listless, suspicious, anl gloomy misanthrope ? Many causes, or one cans: only, mac operate to produce this sad state : the cause may be cither menti.l or physical, or both combined. Attempts t-> Cure Nervousness by means of ordinary tonics hive so frequently proved fruitless, .that the leiding physicians now for the most part recmnuend hygienic means, such as exercise in the open air. regular habits, seabathing, the cold bath friction ; change of air and scene, as in travelling. If all these fail, as they often do, what is to be done ?