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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4972, 16 December 1884, Page 4

STRICTEST SECEEOY !!! \ ; l R FERGUBSON may bo Consulted its FREE on Diseases of Young Men, at bis Private Consulting Eoom (next Atkins' Printing Office), High Btreet, Auckland. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Evening, 7toß p.m. Desceiptive Pamphlets Free. Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions."—Act iii; Scene 1. TO THE PUBLIC. SOME patients Buffering from nervous affections are afraid from sheer bashfulness and modesty to pebsonally consult a medical man—other patients have not the self-possession and ooolnesß 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) sit quietly down in the privacy of their own apartments, and with calm minds describe clearly eaoh symptom of their caee, a clear statement thus written, and laid before me is, far preferable in kebvous 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 so great, that of the thousands upon thousands whom I have treated by letter during the last 32 years, not a single mistake Las. 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 as 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 me ? 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 bflen restored to health, and thanked their manhood, for having consulted nic by letter. How many questions arise whore the family physician la unable to unravol the case and where often the patient lingers on, not daring to tell hie family medical adviser the nature of his complaint, until consumption wasting, or mental diseases, set in and the sufferer gets beyond the curiable stage, and is left a hopeless wreck. A letter written in the privacy of the room and dropped in the post box reaches me quietly ; the answor is returned os quietly and unostentatiously, and the patient, without stepping from his chamber, except to post his letter, is by return of post put in full possession of the nuture of bis caee. His hopes are rrised his doubts removed, and he is comparatively a new man ; in fact, in many cases, a new being altogether. The only addition to the ordinary written letter is the age occupation, habits and symptoms, nothing more. The usual consultation fee of £1 (one pound) must be enclosed, otherwise no answer will bo returned. There are thousands of cases in daily life where a consultation with one at a distance will remove by a single lettar a great fear, a great care, and it oftan solves what appears as an impenetrable mystery. Many a sad heart haß 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 ; to those, more especially, who have suffered in early years from 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 at 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.—Yours, truly, LOUIS L. SMITH. Address — DR L. L. SMITH. 182 COLLINS STREET EAST Melbourne. CONSULTATION FEE BY LETTER, £1. Fee for personal Consultation, £1 1. The latter is inclusive of Medicine. Medicines forwarded, welUpaofeed, to all the Colonies, India and Europe. 182, Con ins stbebt East, Mxtjiovms.