“ I .i vos of ('rout men all romind ns, Wo tan make our lives sublime; Ami, departing:, leave beliind us Footprints on the sands of time." mnn above is reaiWith groat interest J by thousands of young men. Jt. inspirits them with Horn, for in the bright lexicon of vouth there is no suth word ns fail. Alas! say many, this is torrent, —is true with regard to the youth who has never abused his strength-and to the man who Ims not been slave.” Hut to that vouth—to that man, who has wasted his vigor, who has yielded himself up to the temporary sweet allurements of vice, who lias given unbridled bis passions, to him tlm above but as a reproach. What Horn can lie have ? "What aspirations? What chance of leaving ins footprints on the sands of e ? For him, alas ! there is nought hut dark despair and self-reproach roll a lost LITE. Fop a man to leave his footprints on the •sands of time,*lie must he endowed with strong brain and nervous power, lie mi joss a sound, vigorous, healthy mind, in a healthy body—the power to conceive—' energy to execute I Hat look at our A Uni youth! See the emaciated form, I tli»* vacant look, the listless hesitating manner, the nervous distrust, the senseless, almost, idiotic expression. Note his tie-::nr:i:io;!!-,*;iud conversation, and tli -n say, Is that a man to leave ms footprints on the sands of time. Do parents, medical men and educators of youth pay suilieioiit attention to this sul jeef ? Do they ever ascertain tho cans 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 profession his particular speciality, whoso life lias been devoted to tlietrentmcut of those cases? Header, what is vyra answer? l.eteaehoneanswor for himself. l*arents see their progeny fading gradually before their sight, see them become emaciated old young men, broken down in health, enfeebled, unfitted for tho battle of life; yet one word might save them, one sound and vigorous health-giving latter from a medical man. habituated t-» the treatment and continuous supervision of such eas«\s, would, in most instances impending doom appropriate treatment restore (lie enervate*! system to its natural vigor, and ensure a joyous* and hnppv life. Du. 1.. 1.. Smith, of Melbourne, has made the diseases ..£ nmlli ami those arising therefrom bis peculiar study. Tills [, whole profesional life Ims been especially devoted to tin l treatment nf Nervous Affections mul tin: Diseases incidental to Married Life. Kis skill is available to all—no matter bowmany hundreds or tkousanils of miles distant, His system of ciirrespiaideneo by letter is now so well organised and known that eoimhent would be sniperituons—(by tins means many tliimsands of patients lisvi been eared, whom be lias never seen anil never known): and it is earned •a. with su.ii' judicious supervision that though he has been penalising this brunch ~f his profession for twenty-six years in these colonies, no single instance ot accidental diseovery has ever yet happened. When Medicines are reipiiml. these are forwarded in the same careful manner without a possibility of tin* ■leilents of the tiareels being diseovered. I'hiia and clear directions aceompmmy these hit;.>]■. a ciov is elfected without even the lihy-h i.in knowing who is his patient. To Men and W omen with ilmken-down Constitutions, the Nervous, the Debilitated, and all sulferiug from any Disease whatever. Du. L. L. Smith's plait ot treatment commends itself, avoiding, as it does, the iiieoiivenienco ami expense of a personal
J A M K 8 F P.P. P A N I), P9. • lIUHOiOI'ATIiIC CIIUMIMTH, IK, Thromliicdulo Stnui, aud 170,Plouditlv,
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 1
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619Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 1
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