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Medical. ' JUST PUBLISHED. Octavo, 320 pages, price Fifteen Shillings. SYPHILIS, its Nature and Diffusion Popularly Considered: by James Gboro> • Bi'ANRY, F.R.0.5., late Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital, and Surgeon to Her < Majesty's Forces during the Crimean War. Illustrated with Fifteen Chromo - Lithographs. EXTRACT PROM PREFAOE. To the physician and surgeon in extensive practice, the nortean forms of Syphilis are a | source of hourly interest. In a large proportion of cases that come under their treatment, the practised eye detects the mark of the destroyer in one or more symptoms. Its presence is discovered either internally or externally, where less skilled observers had not recognised it. . . . . It is from this point of view that I deem it my duty to lend my assistance, in the form of ft simple and popular treatise, to the public, that they may comprehend more intelligently the nature and dangers of the taint, and exhibit more reliance on the professional body in the treatment of the same. GEORGE ROBERTSON, 69 Elizabeth street, Melbourne, And all Booksellers. OPINIONS OP THE PRESS. Melbourne Australasian, May 7th, 1870. A work upon a subject which is equally repulsive and important has just been published by Mr George Robertson of this city, from the pen of Mr J. G. Beaney, F.R.C.S. Its appearance is opportune, on account of the discussions which have arisen in the mother country with respect to the Contagious Diseases Prevention Actj the application of a similar measure to winch, in other parts of Her Majesty's dominions, will soon occupy further attention in such other portions of the empire. Mr Beaney treats the hedious malady in a most exhaustive manner, showing the subtlety, the virulence, and the far-reaching consequences of its operation, revealing with sufficient clearness to the non-pro-fessional reader the terrible nature of the secondary and tertiary phases of the disease, and explaining the premonitory symptoms. It is to be regretted that the warnings contained in a work of this kind could not be conveyed in a simple, intelligible, and impressive form, to all young men on entering life, for the prevention or counteraction of one of the deadliest scourgeß of the human race, and one of the remote causes of physical maladies and mental Bufferings innumerable. Melbourne Daily Telegraph, February 7th, 1870. Some short time since Mr J. G. Beaney, surgeon, of Collins street, gave to the public a work, founded on the practical experience of years, on the subject of a disease unfortunately too well known. It is an inquiry which can only be approached by laymen in a limited degree, but it is almost, the duty of the medical profession to make some effort towards discovering whether or no Dr. Beaney is right in his theory, and if so, whether any means can be found of avoiding the danger he points out. Tb c ignoring the existence of unpleasant things is, of course, the more agreeable mode of dealing with them, but experience shows' that it is scarcely the wiser. The Melbourne Herald March Ist. 1870. In a medical work recently published by Dr. Beaney, of Collins street, an interesting theory is started respecting the transmission of diseases more especially by means of vaccination in cases where the pus is taken from human beings. The writer devotes a chapter to the discussion of this theory, and maintains that within his own knowledge many serious cases of hereditary disease have been transmitted solely from this practice of vaccination, and strongly advocates the same system being adopted as is at present in operation in Belgium, Italy, and France, that is, only using lymph from the animal. The question is one well worthy of consideration by the medical practitioners of this city, and some valuable particulars would no doubt, be elicited in a discussion of the question. If the facts are as stated by Dr. Beaney, he deserves the thanks of the community for drawing the attention of the faculty to the matter. The jfrahan Telegraph April 2nd, 1870. Beaney on Syphilis.— The class of diseases of which this book treats is one which otters considerable difficulty to either author or reviewer who desires to avoid the charge of indelicacy. Consequently, the consideration of them has too often_ been left to the quack, who, devoid of conscience, thinking only of gain and reckless of consequences, has daringly "rushed in where angels feared to tread,'' and thereby, in too many instances, aggravated and intensified the evil he professed to cure. True as it is that the victims of venereal disorders have generally — not always —their own folly to thank for. what they suffer, that is no reason why proper treatment should be denied them. We are therefore glad that Dr. Beaney, a vielbourne surgeon of established reputation, has had the courage to grapple with this subject, and by the publication of this work, point out a way of escape to sufferers from the injuries on their constitution, and the drain made on their purse, by impudent charlatans. To such sufferers we commend a perusal of Mr Beaney's volume. There is one chapter in the book— the 12th — which is deserving, however, of a much more extended persuaL In it Mr Beaney argues, and to our thinking with conclusive force, that many forma of syphilitic disease are conveyed by vaccination. This is a horrible revelation, if true ; and after reading what our author says on the subject, we do not see how its truth can be questioned. If our pity is given those who are to a certain extent the voluntary victims of syphilis in one or other of its protean forms, how deeply must we sympathise with those who are innocently made to suffer from '' this scourge of humanity." The remedy Mr. Beaney points out for this alarming state of things, is, that no lymph should be used for vaccination but what has been obtained direct from the cow. This sounds very reasonable; and, as vaccination is compuUoiy by law, we certainly think this question should be speedily settled, so that if the theory propounded by our author, is proved to be true, it should oe compulsory on vaccinators to use no lymph that has been taken from the human being. If this is not done, parents will, at all risks, refuse to allow their offspring to be vaccinated. Already some have done so. For our own part,