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Dunstan Times, Issue 926, 16 January 1880, Page 4

“ Lives of creat nr n all remind us, We can make our lives sub ime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.” HE above is read with great interest by thousands of yrnng men It inspires them with Hope, for in the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail. Alas ! say many-, this is correct,— is true with regard to the youth who has never abused his strength—and to the man who has not been “ passion’s slave.” But to that youth—to that man, who has wasted his vigor, who has yielded himself up to the temporary sweet allurements of vice, who has given urn a idled, license to his passions, to him the above Urn s arc but as a reproach. What Hope can he have? What aspirations ? What chance of leaving /(is footprints on the sands of time ? For him. alas 1 there is nought but dark despair and self reproach for a lout life. Fora man to leave his footprints on the sands of time, he must be endowed with a strong brain and nervous power. He must possess a sound, vigorous healthy mind, in a healthy body—the power to conceive—the energy to execute ! But look at our Australian youth ! See the emaciated form, the vacant look, the listless hesitating manner, the nervous distrust, the senseless, almost idiotic expression. Note his demeanour and conversation, and then say, Is that a man to leave his footprints on the sands of time. Do parents, medical mm and educators of youth pay sufficient attention to this subject ? Do they ever ascertain the cause of this decay ; and having done so, do they (as a strict sense of duty demands) seek the skilled advice of the medical man, who has made this branch of his piofession his particular specialty, whose life has been devo. ted to the treatment of these cases? Reader, what is your answer ? Let each one answer for himself. Parents see their proceny fading gradually before their sight, see them become emaciated old young men, broken down in health, enfeebled, unfitted lor the battle of life ; yet one word might save them, ouesoundand vigoroushea.th-giving letter from a raedicai man, habituated to the treatment and continuous supervision of such cases, would, in most instances, sue ceed in warding off the impending doom of a miserable and gloomy future, and by appropriate treatment rest 're the enervated system toils natural vigor, and ensure a joyous and happy life. Dr. L. L. S.vIITH, of Melbourne, has made the diseases ofyouth and those arising therelrom his peculiar study. His whole professional life has been esp- cially devoted to the treatment of Nervous Affections and the Diseases incidental to Mamed Lit. ills skill is available to all -no matter hnv many hundreds or thousands of mb vs distant. His system of Correspondence by eterisnow so web organised and known, that comment would be supmfluous- (by this mcaus many thousands of patients have beeu cured, whom he has never seen and never known) ; and it is cairied on with such judicious supervision that though he has been practising this branch of his profession for twenty-six yeais in these cob • nies, no single instance of accidental dis covery has ever yet happened. When medicines are required, these are forwarded in the same careful manner without a possibility of the contents of the parcels being discovered. Plain and clear directions accompany these latter, and a cure is effected without even the physician knowing who is his patient. To Men and Women with Broken-down Constitutions, the Nervous, the Debilitated and from any Disease whatever, Dr. L. L. SMITH’S plau of treatment commends itself, avoiding, as it does, the inconvenience and expense of a personal visit. Address— DR. L L. SMITH, IS2 Collins Street, MELBOURNE. (Late the residence of the Governor). CONSULTATION FEE BY LETTER,