TO THE PUBLIC.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5181, 30 May 1885, Page 4

TO THE PUBLIC.

QOME patients suffering from nervous affection? io are afraid from sheer bashfulnessiaud modesty to Personally consult .a .medical,man-other patients have not the self-possession and coolness when in the consulting room; to accurately describe their symptoms-rthelr habits of life, and the nature of the disease they suffer from. , , . .' 1 let such persons (he or she) sit Quietly down in the privacy of their own apartments, and with calm .! minds doscribe clearly each symptom of their case, a clear statement thus written, and laid, before me, is far preferable in hehvocs diseases to a personal consultation, Where/however, a ! disease Is of a peculiar and exceptional character, a personal consultation may become necessary ;'butmy success in correspondence is so great, that of the thousands'upoU thousands whom I have treated by letter .during the last 32years, not a siugle mistake has ever occurred, not acasehas ever been made public—in fact,ithe very simplicity , of my system of correspondence prevents PU Atthesame time medielnesare sent to my patients in such a form as to defy detection. i How many thousands have I not brought Joy to■ ? How many havo been enabled to entor into, the marriago state through consulting me? ( How many after marriagehave privately: consulted me and been blessed, and their married- lives mado fruitful and happy. „ ' '. ' ' How many wasl6druiii6d youths of DOtli 88X63 davg also been restored to health, and thanked their manliood for having consulted me by letter., _ _ r ,<. How many questions arise where the family physician is unable to unravel the case, and' where often the patient lingeis on, not daring to tell his family medical adviser the nature of liis complaint, until consumption, wasting or menial diseases set in, and the sufferer gets beyond tho curable Btago, and is left a hopeless wreck. • - , ■ * - A letter mitten in the privacy of the room and dropped in the post box reaches me quietly; the answer is returned as quietly and unostentatiously, and the patient, without steppintr from his chamber, oxcept to post his letter, is by return of post put in full possession of the nature ;of his case. His hopes, are raised, his doubts removed, and he is comparatively a uew man; in fact; in many cases,' a new being al The only addition to the ordinary written; letter is tho age, occupation, habits and symptoms, nothin? more. Theusual consultation fee of 1!. (onepound) must be enclosed, otherwise no answer , will be returned. .. • There are thousands of cases in dally life where a consultationHvith one at a distance, will remove by. asingleletter agreat fear, a great carfl.and it often solves what appears as an impenetrable mystery. Many a sad heart has been made joyful onreoeiptof an explanatory letter from me. t ■ 1 To those who are about to marry, 1 would say consult me before doing so, and thus provent many after troubles, and removo 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, aud as an expert, my time may not be always at your service, you can, by simply enclosing one pound, have the benefit of my experience in thesame mannef as if I lived in your own to™, aud with the additional advantage of thorough privacy^YpraM^y^ Address- ' • • DR. L. L. SMITH, 182 COLLINS-STREET EAST, ; Melbourne, ; CONSULTATION FEE, BY LETTER,' SI, Peo for personal Consultation, £1 Is. The latter is inolusive of Medioinei' ; Medioines forwarded, wrelfcpaoked, to all the Colonies, India, and Europe,. : 182 COLLINS-STREET:EAST, Melbourne,