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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4951, 21 November 1884, Page 4

STRICTEST SECRECY 111 ]i/f R FERGUSSON may bje Consulted l?i FREE on Diseases of Young Men, at his Private Consulting Room (next Atkins' Printing Office), High street;, Auckland. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Evening, 7to 8 p.m. Desceiptive Pamphlets Free. Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions."—Act iii, Scene 1. TO THE PUBLIC. SOME patients suffering from nervous affections are afraid from sheer bashfulness and modesty to PEBSONAIirr consult a medical man—other patients have not the aelf-poscession and coolness when in the consulting room, to accurately describe their symptoms —their habits of life, and the nature of the disease they suffer from. Let such persons (he or she) ait quietly down in the privacy of their own apartments, and with calm minds describe clearly each symptom of their case, a clear statement thus written, and laid before me is, far preferable in neevous diseases to a personal consultation. Where, however, a disease is of a peculiar and exceptional character, a personal consultation may become necessary ; but my success in correspondence is bo great, that of the thousands upon thousands whom I have treated by letter during the last 32 years, not a single mistake bas ever occurred, not a case has ever been made public—in fact the very simplicity of my system of correspondence prevents publicity. At the same time medicines are sent to my patients in such a form aB to defy detection. How many thousands have I not brought joy to ? How many have been enabled to enter into the marriage state through consulting mo ? How many after marriage have privately consulted me and been blessed and their married lives made fruitful and happy. How many wasted ruined youths of both sexes have also been restored to health, and thanked their manhood, for having coneulted me by letter. How mßny questions arise whpre the family physician iv unable to unravel the case and where often the patient lingers on, not daring to toll his family medical adviser tho nature of his complaint, until consumption wiisting, or mental diseases, set in and the sufferer geta beyond the curiable stage, and is left a hopeless wreck. A letter written in the privacy of the room and dropped in the poet box reaches me quietly ; the answer is returned as quietly and unostentatiously, and the patient, without stepping from his oharnber, except to post his letter, is by return of post put in full possession of the nature of his case. His hopes are rrißed his doubts removed, and he is comparatively a new man j in fact, in many cases, a new being altogether. The only addition to the ordinary written letter is the age occupation, habits and eymptoms, nothing more. The usual consultation fee of £1 (one pound) must bo enclosed, j otherwise no answer will be returned.

There are thousands of cases in daily life where a consultation with one at a distance will remove by a single letter a great fear, a great care, and it often solves what appears as an impenetrable mystery. Many a sad heart has been made joyful on receipt of an explanatory letter from me. To those who are about to marry, I would say consult me before doing so, and thus prevent many after troubles, and remove many unnecessary fears and prejudices j to those, more especially, who have suffered in early years fiom disease, or who have yielded to their passions. To these I say, at once, consult with me, do not tarry, delays are dangerous, and as an expert, my time may not be always st your service, you can, by ismply enclosing one pound, have the benefit of my experience in the same manner as if I lived in your town, and with the additional advantage of thorough privacy.—:You.rs, truly, tQUtS L. SMITH. Address— DE L. L. SMITH. 182 COLLIN3 STREET BAST Melbourne, CONSULTATION FEE BY LETTER, £1. Fee for personal Consultation, gl 1. The latter is inclusive of Medicine. Medicines forwarded, well-packed, to all the Colonies, India and Europe. 1 182, Co&UtfS BTBBJX Eabl, MIWJOTNBiqj,