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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 262, 6 October 1874, Page 7

The earnings of Sir Astley Cooper afford a striking example of the slow promotion of even the most skilful and deserving of doctors. In the first year he netted five guineas ; in the second, £26 ; in the third, £64 ; in the fourth, £96 ; in the fifth, £IOO ; in the sixth, £IOO ; in the seventh, £4OO ; in the eighth, £6lO ; in the ninth, the year in which he secured his hospital appointment, £IOOO. The highest amount he ever received in any one year was £24,000 ; but for many years his average income was £15,000. The most that the famous Abernethy ever realised in one year was £SOOO, showing that his vagaries and eccentricities were by no means a source of profit to him. More air can be passed through the House of Commons without draughts than through any similar building in Europe. The whole atmosphere of the House can be renewed in little more than ten minutes, and more air passes through the House when the windows are shut, than when they are open, although such is the force of habit, that members insist in hot weather on having the windows opened, and profess themselves sensibly cooler, notwithstanding that the thermometers throughout the House immediately rise one or two degrees. Such is the force of imagination, even over the minds of statesmen, and such the power of mind over matter. Holloways Pills. —ln general debility, mental depression, and nervous irritability there is no medicine which operates so like a charm as these famous Pills. They purify the blood, soothe and strengthen the nerves and system, give tone to the stomach, elevate the spirits, and, in fact, render the patient sensible of a total and most delightful revolution in his whole system. They may be commended most unreservedly as the very best family medicine in existence. Though so powerfully efficacious, they are singularly mild in tlmr operative,