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New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2222, 13 September 1864, Page 7

f* Though fools spurn Hymen's gsntle powers, We who improve his'goldin hours By sweet experience know That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise, below.”— Cotton ; THERE are many thousands of persons who pine away in this colony, and allow the canker worm of disease to eat into them, because they dare not coniide in tiieir medical adviser. It'is not‘in every case that ther doubt the skill of the medical man with whom they have been constantly in communication, but it is that they inwardly shrink from exposing their weakness to him. How many are there who have been under treatment for vears for a disease which has puzzled the different surgeons’of the day;' and the origin of which cannot even be surmised by medical men, still one treatment is persevered with after another in the vain hope of overcoming the affection. The patient receives no benefit from the various treatments ; ho languishes, his mind gives way, he becomes hypochondriacal, avoidi society, loses all hope, and if he does not become insane, he pines and dies. What has been the cause of this ? Simply, in the first place, want of confidence in his medical adviser on the part of the poor unfortunate victim ef a debasing passion, so that the patient will not tell how he himself has engendered these infirmities ; and, secondly, because of the inability, in consequence of want of practice in these unhappy cases in the .medical man (otherwise skilful) who is thereby unable to discriminate the cause, and therefore unable to cure these patients “ Who woo the means of weakness and debility.’* I)r. L. L, SMITH, it is well known, has given, pearly the, whole of his time to the study of these diseases. He has had large practical experience in.the treatment of ! them, even before his arrival in. this colony. He was pupil, and afterwards assistant, to the celebrated Dr. Culverwell (since dead), and during eleven years in this colony he has continually practised in this branch of his profession. *

~Dr. L. L, Smith does not require .to, Taunt or -praise-him-self here; he : certainly ‘is an advertiser, and,he does not deny the fact. He considers it better to openly do so, and pay for it, than, humbug about as the majority of his medical brethren do to obtain a practice. He thinks'it, more honourable and more straightforward. But without praising himself, te may point with a becoming pride at the number of cases continually passing in review before him, and the success which has accompanied his practice. One fact alone is worth more than a thousand assertions. He has been eleven years in an advertising practice; during the whole of that time, he asks, has there ever been one case of mal praxis or want of knowledge, or carelessness in his profession, that has ever been brought against him, much less sustained? If not, can the public be any longer gulled by the sophistries of those whose interests it is to promulgate and circulate reposts prejudicial to him in order to ob ’ tain a modicum of practice? But not only does Dr. Smith glance at the above with pride, but he challenges 1 openly any one to say that he ever betrayed, by word, look or dped, his patient’s secret. The honor and confidence of his patient has been held as sacred by Dr. Smith. The thinking portion of the public can imagine what must have been during the last eleven years, and is still the extent of the practice of Dr. L. L. Smith, and yet he fearlessly asks (am any man point; and state “you betrayed; the confidence I reposed in you in the consulting room.” To those, then, who shrink from exposing their disease to their medical man, to those who are nervous, debilitated, and physically exhausted, but who would rather die than coiifide personally their case to their medical man, Dr. Smith’s system of correspondence by letter is admirably adapted, inasmuch in confiding in Dr. L. L. Smith they hare eleven years' guarantee of honour, skill, ability, practice in this colony in This particular branch of his profession, and a guarantee of the sacredness of his regard to reticence and the trust reposed in him f and thirdly, they haver all the advantage of a consultation without the inconvenience of a personal' interview, and the shame that many feel in detailing their case to a fellow mortal face to face., Dr. L. L. Smith can be consulted by letter. Fee £l. Dr. L. L. Smith is at home for consultation daily, punctually, mornings nine till eleven; evenings six till half-past eight, at his consulting rooms, 192 and 194, Bourke-street East, Melbourne. Parties wishing to consult Dr. Smith at his private residence, 6, Royal Terrace, Nicholson-street, Fitzroy, can do so between half-past one and three. Dr. L. L. Smith’s out-door visiting fee is £1 Is., which must in all cases be prepaid, otherwise Dr, Smith will not visit. N.B. —Dr, L. L. Smith possesses extensive practical medical experience in the diseases of married life, nervous affections and debility, midwifery, and the diseases of women and children.' Dr. L. L. SMITH, 192 and 194, Bourke-street East, Melbourne. <'■. “Ask Medians’ couxsel ere medicine ye take, And honor that man for necessity’s sake, Though thousands hate .physio because-of the cost, Yet thousands it helpeth that else should be lost.” Thomas Trussev, Jl.d., 1523. “ 0 you kind gods, Cure this greafbreach in his abused nature'!?. ■' - HAVE you been.the, guilty victim of a fearful secret vice ? Have you allowed your passions to have unbridled, ,ai)4:is i ~Nafnyfi ; ivow with fearful interest'the outrage committed upon her 7 Are yPu opining and brooding your, time away in melancholy, and allowing the canfeerworm of disease and decay to enter in(o,yon,ap4 consume you .without daring to confide in a friCt'd ? Or are jrou fearful of communicating your secret to yopr medical attendant ? Firstly, because of the great trust ydtt" would have to repose iu him apd the fear of his, divulging it.to one of the family ; and, because you have heard of numberless cases where the general practitioner has had his patient for years under treatmeht' for a disease, which his limited amount of practice in this particular branch of his profession, gives him no opportunity of acquiring knowledge, either of discriminating the disease, or on discovering it, not knowing how to cure it. How many are there who have been under treatment .for years fora disease or weakness which has puzzled the different medical men of this and neighbouring colonics? The origin cannot be surmised ; one medi-j cal man calls it liver complaint, another indigestion, dyspepsia, another weakness of the spine, and the last consulted, perhaps, in desperation, so as to differ with his brethren and show his learning calls it consumptiou decline. One treatment is persevered with after another, but necessarily without success the patient loses all hope, if indeed he is not quacked to death with the different experiments ; tried on his system ; he languishes ; become wearied of life ; his mind gibes way ; he becomes hypochondriacal ; avoids society ; becomes nervous, and if he does not brood, get melancholy and mad, he pines and dies away, Tstly—Why is this ? • ■ r., , . Because, the patient is cognizant of the fact that, from want of practice in the unhappy cases* the medical man (otherwise skilful) is unable to discriminate the cause and therefore unable to cure the patient, v--2ndly—Want of confidence in entrusting to bis medical adviser bis secret, fot fear of betrayal of his infirmity. . 3rd ly_,Bashfulness and delicacy m exposing his fraility to a fellow-being, face to face. Hence the utility of Dr. Smith’s correspondence by letter. Dr. L. L. Smith’s extensive practice, in the above glanced at disease is well known throughout the Aus tralian colonies ; nay, even in England and he points with a pardonable: pride at the fact that he baa been the means of saving many from untimely deaths. He has had all kinds of epithets launched at his unfortunate head by his medical brethren, because he adver.ises (and so does every medical man privately, though he has not the pluck to own it), and because he has more especially devoted his studies to the above disease. Aut, he, ask here publicly, is it not better that a legally qualified medical man should take up this branch of practice than that the unfortunate sufferers should fall victims to the various quacks and charlatans who advertise and prey upon the deluded ignorant victims whom these wretches lure to their,dens. Medical men think, or pretend to think, that it is derogatory to their dignity to practice in this peculiar branch of their profession, but John Hunter, Marshall Hal>, Ricord, Lillcmand, and Culverwell (whose pupil Dr Smith was), devoted theii attention to it, and stand prominent as the preatest anatomists, physiologists and pathologists df their day. Dr. L. L. Smith then offers three guarantees to those who desire to consult him : . .. Eleven years’ extensive practice ip this colony, irrespective of his practice in England. Eleven years guarantee of sacredness of reticence ; Nine years’ practice of consultation by letter. Of his success in practice it is more fitting the public should speak than himself. ‘ Consultation .Fee by letter Dr. L. L, Smith at home for consultation—Mornings, before eleven ; Evening*, seven till half-past eight, 192 and 194 Bourke-street east, Melbourne ; and between two and three at his private residence, 6 Royal-terrace, Nicholson-street, Fitzroy. 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