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EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OF THE NEW I MODE OF TREATMENT. Postfreefor Six Stamps, open ends, or Fourteen in a Sealed Envelope. rnHE LAST NEW BOOK, on PREMATURE DECLINE and I its ready removal; the modern treatment of certain disquali- fications with rules and numerous prescriptions tor the speedy cure by very simple means of nervousness, debility, and all the more common diseases and supposed incurable maladies of the sexual system. Invalids will be astonished at its contents. By D^ W. DK Boos, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.A.C., &c., of the JScole de Medecine, Paris; Gradua'e in Medicine, Surgery, and Mid- W By1the present law, none but the real Physician r Surgeon dare attach M.D. or M.lt.C.S. to his name and openly advertise his fees, as heavy penalties would be incurred. The public should therefore guard against impostors who impudently style themselves 'Dr,' 'Professor,' 'M.R.A.S. 'M.A. &c, in order to mislead the unwary as to their true character. None of these men really know more of the diseases they profess to treat than any person may by reading the above work. Fom long practical observation in the most famous Institutions of this country and the continent, the Author has had somewhat unusual facilities for acquiring that uniform success, which has hitherto characterized hi, treatment, and he refers with pride to the numbers he has been instrumental in restoring to health and happiness whilst to all who need such aid he offers every assu- rance of speedy restoration. Persons at a distance should for- ward a detail of their CMC by letter, enclosing £ 1 Is for advice and medicines, which will be sent by return. Patients corres- ponded with till cured. Post-office orders to be made payable at the General Post Office, to Dr. WALTER DE Itoos, M.D., 25, Bedford Place, Bloomsbury Square, London. Hours for con- sultation, 12, till 2, Sundays excepted. It is important to recol- lect the address, as to meet the wish of patients, THE ENTRANCE IS STRICTLY PRIVATE.

WORLD CURE IN FOUR WEEKS.—THE GUTTLE VITJ2, or VEGE- TABLE LIFE DROPS, Protected by Royal Letters Patent Sanctioned by the Faculte de France; ifc, have in numberless instances proved their superiority over every other advertised remedy for langour, lassitude, d. pression of spirits, irritability, excitement, fear, distaste and incapacity for society, study or business, indigestion, pains and palpitations in the side, giddi- ness. noise in the head, &c. This medicine strengthens the vitality of the whole system, gives energy to the muscles, speedily removes nervousness, renovates the impaired powers of life, and invigorates the most shattered constitution. For skin eruptions, sore throat, pains in the bones, and those diseases in which mer- cury, sarsaparilla, &c, are too often einployed to the utter ruin of health, its su' prising efficacacy has only to be tested. Before wasting valuable time in seeking aid from instruments, electricity, galvanism, with similar absurdities, professing to set aside medicines, by American impostors and others, whose boasted distingui-hed qualifications' consist solely of their con- summate impudence, sufferers will do well to make fair trial of a remedy which, concocted on scientific principles, cannot fail. Price is 6d and lis., or four times the latter at 33s per bottle, through all chemists, or direct from 25, Bedford Place, WHERE THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS MAY BE SEEN. THE THREE DAYS' CURE.-NEW FRENCH REMEDY TIIERAPION, as uniformly adopted in the French hospitals and by the notabilities of the French faculty in a remarkably short time, often two or three days only, without the slightest discomfort, inconvenience, or risk removes all discharges from the mucous membrane, whether of the urinary or other organs. It combines a 1 the desiderata to be sought in a medicine of the kind, and surpasses everything hitherto employed. Devoid of all unpleasant taste and smell. In packets 2s 9d, 4s Gd, 1 Is, and 33s, through all respectable medicine vendors, or sent direct from the establishment on receipt of stamps or post office order. The lls size contains three at 4s 6d, and those at 33s four of the Us. The stamp, to imitate which is felony, bears the word 'Therapion,' in white letters, by order of Him MAJESTY'S TION. COMMISSIONERS, who thereby secure the proprietor against in- fringement throughout the United Kingdom and the colonies. rtNS IN THE BACK, GRAVEL, LUMBAGO, GOUT, JL RHEUMATISM, DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS, BLAD- DER, &c. THE COMPOUND RENAL PILLS correct acidity of the stomach, and indigestion, promote the functions of the liver and kidneys, thereby preventing stone in the bladder and kidneys, with many other serious disorders to which these important organs are subject. Listlessness, weakness, peevishness, and complaints long supposed to be nervous, often arise solely from contamination of the ttlood with certain impurities which should have been carried off by the kidneys several unsightly ernp- tions of ihe skin and face also arise from the same cause, and may be as readily removed by these Pills, which in nineteen cases out of twenty cure" ith a rapidity almost marvellous. Is Igd, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, 11s, and 33s per box, through all chemists. THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS MAY BE SEEN BY ANY ONE. Sold by James, Joy, and Evans, Cardiff; Roberts, chemist, Conway; Hughes, chemist, Bangor; Griffith, chemist, High- street, Carnarvon; Edwards, chemist, Denbigh; Hughes, druggist, Holyhead; Price Brothers, Post-office, Bridgend; Thomas, chemist, (opposite Angel), Merthyr; Watkins, High- street, Abergavenny Ward, chemist, Brecon White, chemist, Guildhail-square, Carmarthen Williams, chemist, High-street, Cardigan; Meyler, druggist, Haverfordwest; Treweeks, che- mist, Pembroke; Evans, chemist, High-street, Swansea Hil- ditch, chemist, Rhyl; Moore, chemist, Broad-street, Newtown; Stephens, chemist, High-street, Merthyr Tydfil; Grindley, chemist, Chester Ryder, druggist, Mill-street, Macclesfield Broxton, chemist, Shrewsbury Pearce, King-street, Ludlow, Partridge, bookseller, Wellington Leake and Smith, chemists, Bridgenorth; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhampton; Hollier, chemist, Dudley; and at least one agent in almost every town; but should difficulty occur, enclose the amount by Post- office order otherwise, to 25, Bedford Place, Bloomsbury Square, London, and they will be sent securely packed per return. NOTICE 4- CAUTION.-Dr. De Roos is. the only legally qualified medical man who thus advertises his medicines; and as there are injurious imitations of the above by self-sty.ed Doctors and Professors, who copy his books, advertisements, &c, and forge testimonials to puff of their useless trash, sufferers should guard against the recommendation of the same, or other articles, by dishonest vendors, who thereby obtain a larger profit. The genuine have the words 'WALTER DE Roos, LONDON, printed in white letters on the Government Stamp, BY ORDER OF HER MAJESTY'S HON. COMMISSIONERS to imitate which is felony and transportation. KNOW THYSEiF 1 THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIOLOQIST MARIE

COUPELLE, continues her livid, and useful delineations of character from the handwriting of individuals, in a stylepeeu- liarly her own. Persons desirous of knowing their own charac- teristics, or those of any friend, should send a specimen of writing, ftating sex, age, or supposed age, &c., with 14 uncut penny stamps, and addressed envelope, to MARIE COUPELLE, Bedford House, Russell-equare, London, W.C., when they will receive a lengthened detail of the talents, tastes, virtues, failings-, &c., of the writer, with many other things previously unsus- pected, and calculated to guide in the every day affairs of life. The thousands who acknowledge the value and accuracy of Miss C's sketches, establish the great utility of the science. The characters you sent were wonderfully truthful. •—Sl\ss Hall, Atheun¡, CQ. Galway. I was much surprised atthe clever way in which you described my character.Jent Bray, lu5, Lana- dovnp Place, Brighton. It is pronounced quite extraordinary.' -Charles Hamilton. You describe my character so truly, J hat I could not have done it better.'—Louis Lwior. < EVERT: MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR. For two stamp3 sufferers may avoid the sham Captains who generously caution the public against pills, <joc. tic self-styled reverends; gentlemen of fortune; rupture-curing t/uacfcs and other swindlers, who send their books for nothing, publish testi- monials which they write themselves, fictitious reviews from Journals which rlo not exist, profess to cure disease's by galva- nism, electricity, instruments, tfc., instead of medicines, which they style American treatment, and other absurdities as cruel as they are deceptive, A physician many years extensively engaged in the treatment 01 debility, and the various mental and nervous affections re- sulting therefrom, will send free on receipt of two penny stamps to) prepay postage, a pamphlet containing his highly successful and only safe treatment, with all the necessary prescriptions and directions by which sufferers may cure themselves at trifling cost. 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Sold by all Chemists in the world, or sent post free, on receipt of 24 penny stamps, by Misses DEAN and COUPELLE, Hair Restorers, &c., Bedford IIou.c, Ru,sell Square, London. W.C. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS My hair was rapidly coming off, but in a week after using your Crinileue it ceased.'—' I. Hickson, Eldon-street, Sheffield. I In the short time of one fornight I have got a beautifnl ii-loustaclie. Adams, Wilsden. 'I can now boast of a head of hair, which many cannjt; I was quite bald on the crown of my head when I began using B. EN,ei,y customer speaks highly of your Crinilene.F. P. Jones, Chemist, 5, Paradise-street, Liverpool. 'HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE HAIR,' Whiskers, &c., with Testimonials, List of Agents, &c., sent post ree for four penny stamps. AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.—A gentleman who had been long LV suffering from a very deplorable state of nervousness, languor, lassitude, low spirits, almost constant headache, dim- ness of sight, threatened deafness, loss of memory and strength, in short all zest for enjoyment and everything that renders life pleasant, has been marvellously restored by very simple means, and as a public duty feels it incumbent on him to impart the information to others similarly affected, on receipt of a directed envelope bearing two stamps addresseil B. B. Laurie, Esq, Montague Chambers, Montague-street, London. mllE PLEASURE-SEEKER'S GUIDE, HOTEL DIRECTORY, I and Excursionist's Ilandy-Bsok. This work, containing (in addition to much interesting information) a Tariff of Hotel Charges, will be found very serviceable to all who patronize Excursion Trains. Post free for seven stamps by Johnson & Co, 10, Brooke-street, Holborn. GOUT, RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, NEURALGIA P/SALYSIS, GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, &C. 11HE effects of heat, fumigation, &c., in curing the above and many other chronic diseases are almost incredible. THE TURKISH BATHS, 20, Baker-street, Portman-square, London. Under the direction of two Physicians. Consultations 11 till 3. A Pamphlet, (110 pages,) post free for H stamps. SKIN DISEASES, GOUT, RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, &c. TI HEIR prevention and cure by heat and fumigation, the effects ± of which in the above and many other chronic maladies, surpasses everything. 20, Baker-street, Portman-square, Lon- don. Under the direction of two Physicians. Consultations il till three daily. A Pamphlet (13J pages), sent post free for 14 stamps. STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA; its nature, consequences, varieties, and speedy cure, without the pain and risk of laoer ttion cutting or other irrational measures. By Drs. Barker and Henderson, M.R.C.S.E., &c. 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THE SUFFERER'S BEST FRIEND. 1C HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. All Disorders affecting the Liver, Stomach, and Bowels. These Pills can be confidently recommended as the most simple and certain remedy for indigestion, flatulency, acidity, heart- burn, colic, constipation, and all the manv maladies resulting from disordered stomach or bowels. In a disease it is of primary importance to set the stomach right. These Pills are purifiers, alteratives, and strengtheners of the stomach. They may be taken under any circumstances. Though powerfully tonic, and satisfactorily ape dent, they are mild in their operation, and beneficial to the whole system. ,Weakness and Debility I Nervous Irritability. The wholesome effect exercise I bv these admirable Pills over the blood and fluids generally is like a charm in dispelling low spirits, and restoring cheerfuln JSS. Their general aperient qualities well fit them for a domet tic medicine, particularly for females of all ages and periods of life. They never betray any disagreeable irritating qualities; they quickly eject all impu- rities from the system, and regulate every function of the body, giving wonderful tone and energy to weak and debilitated per- sons, while they brace and strengthen the nervous system in a most extraordinary manner. Old Coughs, Colds, and Asthmatical Affections. These Pills, assisted in their action by rubbing Ilolloway's Ointment very effectually twice a day upon the throat and chest, and keeping those parts covered with the preparation, will be found the most effective remedy for asthma, coughs, colds, bronchitis, and influenza. These remedies tranquilize the hur- ried breathing, soothe the Irritated air-tubes, and assist in dis- lodging the phlegm which stops up the air-passages. This treatment has proved wonderfully efficient in not only curing old settled coughs and colds, but asthma of many years standing", and even when patients who were in so bad a state as not able to lie down on their beds lest they be choked by phlegm. Ilolloway's Pills are the best remedy known in the world for the following diseases: Ague Dropsy Liver com- Tlcdouloureux Asthma Dysentery plaints Tumours Bilious com- Erysipelas Lumbago Ulcers plaints Femaleirregu- Piles Venerealaffec- Blotches on larities Rheumatism tions the skin Fevers of all Retention of Worms of all Bowel com- kinds urine kinds plaints Fits Sciofula, or Weakness Colics I Gout King's Evil from what. Constipationof Head-ache Sore throats ever cause the bowels Indigestion Stonefe Gravel fee &c Consumption inflammation Secondary' Debility Jaundice symptoms Sold, at the Estublishment of PROFK*SOR HOLLOW AY 244 Strand (near Temple Bar,) I^aion, also by all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the civilised world at the followinig-pricesIs lid, is 9d, 4s Cd, lis, 22s, and 3Bs each box. 8. -There Is a considerable saving by taking the larger sizes. S.B. -Directions for the guidance ofpattents in every disordre are affixed to each Box.

A Quaker once bearing a person tell how much he had felt for another who was in distress and needed assistance, dryly asked him Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for him ?' Mike, why don't you fire at those ducks ? Don't YOU see you have the whole flock before your gun ? I knjw I have, but when I get a good aim at one, two or three others will swim right in betwixt it and me.' A reverend Scotsman was going to hold forth to an open air meeting. He sat down on a bank in which there was an ant's nest: the insects soon found their way into his Oh no, we never mention 'ems,' and he said: 'Bretheren, though I hope I have the word of God in my mouth, I think the Jeil has got into my breeks.' In the bull-fighting days, a blacksmith, who was rearing a bull pup, induced his old father to go on all fours and imitate the bull. The canine pupil pinned the old man by the nose. The son, disregarding the pater- nal roaring, exclaitntd, Hold him Growler! boy, hold him Bear it father, bear it; it'll be the making of the pup?' A Cockney who was proceeding down the High Street, at Gravesend, in hot haste, in order to get on board the boat which be saw from the distance was at the pier, arrived there just in time to be too late-in other words, just as the boat had unshipped her fastening?, and put off. I Ab, Jemmy,' said a friend of his who had watched his movements you did not run fast enough.' Yes, I did,' said Jemmy, I ran fast enough, but I did not start soon enough.' An Irishman had been sick for a long time, and while in this state would occasionally cease breathing, with life apparently extinct f r some time, when he would again come to. On one of these occasion?, when he had just awakened from his sleep, Patrick asked him :An' how'll we know, Jemmy when you're dead you're after wakin' up ev'ry time ?'—' Bring me a glass o' grog, an' say to me, Here's to ye, Jemmy, an if I don't rise up an' dhrink, then bury me GUlLS, BKWAltE !-Girls beware of transient young men. Never suffer the address of a stranger. Recol- lect, that one good farmer's boy or industrious mechanic is worth all the floating fops in the world. The allurements of a dandy Jack, with a g Id chain round his neck, a walk- ing stick in his paw, a three-halfpenny cigar in his mcuth, some honest tailor's coat on his back, and a brainless though fancy skull, never can make up the loss of a good father's home, a good mother's counsel, and the society of brothers and sisters their affection lasts while that of such a young man is lost in the wane of a honeymoon 'Tis true. THE MEDICAL PHOFF.SSI.JN IN VIRGINIA.—The fol- lowing is extracted from a letter received from a physi- cian in Norfolk, Virginia, by a Confederate cfficer now in London I am now a gen'leman of elegant leisure, not being allowed to practice my profession upon innocent women and children without swearing true allegiance to the Yankee government. While you are abroad, do go to the Feejee and Sandwich Islands, and let me know if there is anything like this there.' Our correspondent adds. —' The people are dying in numbers from want of medi- cal attendance.' HYDROPHOBIA. — The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has addressed a circular to all the prefects, re- questing them to furnish the Committe of Pulic Salubrity with every information necessary for the general inquiry into canine madness, which has been going on since 1859. The veterinary schools are also directed to draw up sta- tistical accounts of all the cases which come under their notice, with every particular connected with them. The circular moreover proposes to establish in each depart- ment a special infirmary, where animals which have been bitten can be confined and the ^effects of the bite closely watched. PROGNOSTICS OF THE WEATIlEH.- 01rl experience lays down sundry wise saws. W hen the took larger than usual, it is a sign of change of w.^ii L r. Very bright or double rainbows indicate long-continued rain; the same when the rain smokes as it falls on the ground. Lightning in winter is a sign of coming snow, wind, or tempest. Bats flying about in unusual numbers announce that the next day will be warm and fine. Flies bite sharper and tease you more before a tempest. When the gnats dance in the setting sun-shine, some holds it a sign of fine weather to-morrow, while sceptics declare that it is only a sign of fine weather to-day. If it rains on the 3rd of May, there will be no walnuts if on the 15th of June, no grapes. Plenty of snow precedes an abundant year; plenty of rain, the contrary. A rainy autumn spoils the rain of that year, and threatens a poor crop of wheat next year. A fine autumn is mostly fol lowed by a windy winter a wet spring and summer by a fine autumn. On the other hand, when the autumn is fine the following spring is apt to be rainy.-From London Society, for October. ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS.—November is the least wel- come month of the year. It is stated that more suicides are committed about this time than at any other period. We are well aware, if the weather be damp and foggy, that a listless and languid state is produced; whilst during dry weather, however cold it may be, there is a feeling of lightheadedness and cheerfulness pervading the whole system. In the first instance, the atmosphere is robbing us of our electricity, which it greatly absorbs in the latter case the dryness of the air is such that it leaves us in possession of the electricity that seams to belong to us; hence the buoyancy of spirits on the cold and frosty days of December and January, and the despondency experi- enced in November. To such influences are attributed the elasticity, life, and animation of the Frenchman the sluggish heavy movement of the Dutchman and the comparatively variable feelings of the Englishman—one day full of hope and cheerfulness, and the next day at war with himself and all the rest of mankind. In order to prevent the absorption by the air of the electricity of the body, an eminent medical man, several years ago, suggested the use of silk next the skin in such weather as most frequently occurs in November, for we know (he says) that if a silk handkerchief be perfectly dry, lightening the most accumulated cannot pas.. through hence, if worn n«t the skin, the air cannot rob the body of its electricity.—Toller's Almanack for 1864. CKICKET.—The game of cricket is emphatically an English amusement, and is practised more universally than any other sport. It is the first important game the the school boy thinks it worth while to excel in; and from the peer to the peasant, in city and in village, it is alike the favourite recreation. Nut long since, an eleven from the House ofLords challenged an equal cumber of the Lower House to meet them on the cricket-field and but very recently the All England .Eleven travelled to the Antipodes by invitation, and gave our colonial brethren a lesson in the art of ball-play that did credit to the old country. Some very curious mate-hps have been played at this game. On the 23rd of May. -623, eleven married played eleven single women, atLrockwell-cum-Wiltone, the players were dreased in jackets and trousers deco- rated with ribbons, on which occasion the married women were victorious. On the 4th of August following, a similar match was played in Kent, when the spinsters won by twenty runs. At Parsons Green near London, in 1835, the single women again beat the married women by seven runs. One of the most singular matches is that actually played at Kennington Oval, London, between eleven men with one arm each and eleven men with one wooden leg each. Considerable attention has recently been attracted to the game, on account of the revision of the laws by the Marylebone and other clubs.—Toiler's Almanack for 1864* j, {