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New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2264, 2 November 1864, Page 3

JUST PUBLISHED. Price 2s. 6d. ; by post, 3s. Gel.. No 1 of a Series of Works, each Complete in itself. BY Dn. L. L. SMITH. ON THE MEANS OF PROLONGING LIFE AND AVOIDING DISEASES. CONTENTS. Chapter I. Causes of disease.—lntemperance in this colony; action of a "nobbier" on the liver, peculiarity of this climate, difference between functional and .structural derangement of organs, instances of longevity, death at the age of 370 years, Nature's means of repelling diseases, imperfect nourishment, diet with children, ««lollies,'' &c.; infant deaths in the colony. Impure a ; r _" Choke-damp" amongst our diggers : foul air amongst shopmen,' printers, &c. Over exertion— Heenan, the prize-fighier; "wakefulness, anxiety, quartz mining speculators. Want of exercise —Brahmins of India, accumulations of fat. Climate of colony—Long continued heat effects on muscles, the heart, liver, bile, dysentery, diarrhoea. Effects of Co ld Infant mortality daring our winter, effects on the aged. Congestion, &C.—Hints to mothers as regards dress. Spirit drinking —The stomachs of habitual drunkards. Hypochondriacs, depression of mind, maladies, imaginaries, faith, action of the mind on diseases and their cure. Electro-biology, mesmerism, defective cleanliness, perspiration. The Skin Enamelling—Madame Rachael. Ventilation—Dr. Arnold ; The Times ; hint for ventilation on simple principle. Diseased Food—Plearo-pncumonia, meat, poisonous fish, sausages, parasitic mutton, mealy pork, &c. Drainage —The Yarra ; Dr. Farre on sanitary measures. Chapter IT. Nature of Disease—Exemplification, tracing "a cold" to "consumption" ; quantity of perspiration eliminated, sympathy of kidneys and other organs with skin. Derangement of digestive organs—Tracing the progress of food till it becomes part of the animal ; physiology and pathology of digestion ; chyme, chyle, tobneco, Americans, gastric diseases, mental emotions, and their influence on the stomach ; bolting food ; a word to our Col'ins-strcet merchants and city men ; the serpent at the Zoological Gardens; inadequate mastication ; action of fluids on the stomach ; warm ten &c. ; improperly cooked food ; different styles oi cooking; rules for eating ; digesting; Dr. Mandc•ville. Sir F. Burdett, the London Alderman, flatulency acids, heartburn j excess of food, its effects, and deficif ncv of food ; derangement of liver, &c.; gymnastic exorcises ; injurious effects of cricket, a warning : c$J l iniicl wakefulness. Diseases of the brain, how /)ue. en ,|. cre i] . frequency in this colony ; (jiving prizes at our schools ; excessive evacuations ; their action on/the brain ; grief; Her Majesty ; the ploughboy ; •he Americans ; the silent prison system ; Ernest Jonc, the Chartist ; Vernon ; Pentridge ; influence of the mind ; Dr. Beddoes. Insanity—symptoms ; how to discover it ; how to promptly remedy it ; incipient insanity ; treatment easy in early stage. Chapter 111.

Means of avoiding Disease.—Laws winch govern health, importance of diet, quality; Italian, French, and Englishmen's diet; Gurrick, Macready, Wellington; report of health of navy'; quantity; Dr. Abcrcron bie ; indigestion, over-feeding, its effects; the Stomach-pump ; laws concerning feeding ; the Laplander, Sir Walter Scott, Canaro, Stilites, Hilario, Dr. Spark, the sagacious Irishman, case of the English miller, Dr. Robertson, tojditrs perdrix; slarvation ; digestibility and indigcstibility of food; different kinds of food, and digestibility of same; table showing length of time of digestion of the different articles of food usually consumed, and mode of preparation; fa*. The culinary art—a hint to cooks, Dr. Chambers, Cooking and cooks, high estimation in which they have been and are held; France, Home, Careme, George the Fourth, Emperors of Prussia and Austria, Baron Rothschild. Mark Antony, Sir Henry Hal ford. List of different indigestible kinds of food; digestibility of animal in contradistinction to vegetable food,paralysis of stomach, nutritious and innutritious food; portable soups, inhabitants of Africa, Asia. North America, aborigines, race-horses, different kinds of nutritious food, list of them and quantity of nutriment contained in shown. Clothing— stays, the Medicean Venus, tight-lacing, crinoline, diseases engendered by it. Dr. Lankester, mothers; culpable manner in which they dress their children; mackintosh coverings, woollen coverings, sun-stroke, head coverings. Light—its influence on health and disease, "etiolation,'' Mr. Bagshnw Ward, Commission on the State of Towns Report, Dupuytien. Sir James Wylie, experiments of Dr. Edwards, Free ventilation—Melbourne lodginghouses, our inspector, sanitary condition of Adelaide, Hobart Town, Melbourne. "Dr. Southwood Smith's opinion. Drainage-stagnant water, miasmata, the floods, contagion; infection. Quarantine laws, the laie Emperor of Kussia, black vomit, itch, syphilis, etc., contagion, inoculation, small-pox, measles, hooping cough, typhus, means of avoiding infection, rules for bathing," swimming, want of sleep, infants, the nervous system, pt.lpitation of the heart, the Turkish bath, aerated bread. Sold by all Booksellers, and direct fioui the Author Melbourne. Price, 2s. 6d. H. T. Dwight, publisher, and all Booksellers; or direct from the Author. The Cause and Cure of Premature Decline. Sold by all the Agentejor Dr. Be Boos' Medicines, or pose free, secure from observetion, direct from the Author for 2s. 6d. THE MEDICAL ADVISER, on the modern treatment of mental and physical incapacity, &c. ; with unfailing rules and prescriptions of the sperdv cm-e, by very simple means, of all the more common diseases and supposed incurable maladies of the sexual svs em. By I'r. W. 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