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Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2176, 7 March 1865, Page 6

JUST PUBLISHED, Price, 2s 6d j by post, 3s 6d, No. I of a Series of Works, each complete in itself. Dlt, L, L. SMITH "ON THE MEANS OF PROLONGING LIFE AND AVOIDING DISEASES." H. T. Dwigbt, publisher, and all Booksellers ; or direct from the author. CONTENTS : Chapter I. Causes of Diseases. — Intemperance in this colony, action of a ' nobbier' on the liver, peculiarity of this climate, difference between functional and sructural 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 air — ' Choke damp 1 amongst our diggers ; foul air amongst shopmen, printers, &c. Over exertion — Heenan, the prize-lighter, oonttnued 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, diarrl cea. Effects of cold — Infant mortality during ' ©ur winter, effects on tho aged. Congestion, &v. Hints to mothers as regards dress. Spirit-drink-ing — The stomach of habitual drunkards; Hypochondriacs, depression of mind, malades imtiginaires, faith, action of the mind on diseases and their cure. Electro-biology, mesmerism ; defective cleanliness, perspiration. 'I he skin — Enamelling ; Madame Rachel. Ventilation — Dr Arnold; 'The Times': hint for ventilation on simple principle. Diseased food — Ple'iro-pneumonia meat, poisonous fish, sausages, parasitic mutton, measely pork, &c. Drainage — The Yarra ; Dr Farre on sanitary measures. | Chaptek 11. Nature of Disease. — Exemplification, tracing ' a cold' to 'consumption'; quantity of perspiration eliminated, sympathy of kidneys &nd aiher organs wiib. skin.' Derangement of digestive organs — • tracing tbe progress of food till it becomes part of the animal ; physiology and pathology of digestion ; chyme, chyle, tobacco, Americans, gastric diseases, mental emotions, and their influence on the stomach; boiling food ; a word to our Collins-street merchants and city men ; the serpent at the Zoological Gardens ; inadequate mastication ; action of fluids on the stomach ; warm tea, &c ; improperly cooked food; different styles of cooking ; rules for eating ; digesting; Dr Mandeville, Sir F. Burdett, the London Alderman ; flatulency, acids, heartburn ; excess of food, its effects, aud deficiency of food; derangement of liver, &c ; gymnastic exercises; injurious effects of cricket, a warning; continued wakefulness. Diseases of the brain, how engendered ; frequency in this colony; giving prizes at our schools ; excessive evacuations ; their action on the brain; grief; Her Majesty; the ploughboy; the Araeiicaus ; the silent prison system ; Ernest Jones, the Chartist; Vernon; Peutridge; influence of the mind ;Er 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 which govern health, importance of Diet, quality ; Italian, French, and Englisbmen 4 s diet ; Garrick, Macready, Wellington; report of health of navy; quantity, Dr Abercrombie ; indigestion, over-feeding, its effects ; the stomach pump ; laws concerning feeding; the Laplander, Sir Walter Scott, Canaro, Stilites, Hilaiio, Dr Spaik, the sagacious Irishman, case of the English miller, Dr Robertson, toujours perdrix; starvation ; digestibility and indigostibnity of food; diflerent kinds of food and digestibility of sumc; table showing length of lime of digestion of the different articles of food usually consumed, and mode of preparation ; fat. The culinary art~a hint to cooks, Dr Chambers, eookiug and cooks, high estimation in which they have been and are held; France, Rome, Careme, George the Fourth, Emperors of Prussia and Austria, 13aron Rothschild, Mark Antony, Sir Henry t-lulford. List of different indigestible kimls of food ; digestibility of animal ill contradistinction to vegetable food, paralysis of stomach, nutritious mid innutritious food, portable eoufs, inhabitants of Africa, Asia, North America, aborigines, racehorses, different kinds of nutritious food, list of them and quantity of nutriment contained in each shown. Clothing — stays, tbe Medicean Venus, tight-lacing, crinoline, disease engendered "6y it, Dr Lankester, in others; culpable manner in wbich they dress their children ; mackintosh coverings, woollen coverings, sun-stroke, head coverings. Light — its influence on health and disease, ' etiolation.' Mr Bagshaw Ward, Commison the State of Towns Report, Duputien,,Sir James Wylie, experiments of Dr Edwards. Free ventilation — Melbourne lodging-houses, our inspector, . Sanitary condition of Adelaide, Hob art Town, Melbourne, Dr Southwood Smith's .opinion. Drainage — Stagnant water, miasmata, tbe floods, contagion, infection. Quarantine laws, the late Emperor of Russia, black vomit, itch, syphilis, &c, contagion, inoculation, small-pox, measles, hoopiug-couyh, typhus, means of avoiding infection, rules for bathing, swimming, want of sleep, infants, the nervous cy.stem, palpitation of the heart, the Turkish bath, terated bread. Sold by all booksellers and direct from the author, Dr L. L. SMITH, 1-14, Bourke-street, east, Melbourne. Price, 2s 6d. COUGHS, ASTHMA, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION, AIVE EFFECTUALLY' CUHED BY KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. HIS world-renowned medicine, wbich has obtained Biieh celebrity in all parts of tho Globe, for curing the above-named complnints and other Affections of the Chest and Pulmonary Organs, is strongly recommended to nil suffering from any of the above disorders, as One Trial will be sufficient to prove their undoubted efficacy, being frequently used under the recommendation of the most eminent of the Faculty. 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SPRING and Autumn are tho Seasons the CONDITION of HORSES ought to be looked to, when they are generally rough coated, hide bound, and altogether debilitated and.out of tone, perhaps proceeding from irreguiur or over-reached exercise, musty or innutritious feeding, which always causes worms, and induces the moat destructive disorders, even to tlie death of the Hoise ; but may in such seasons be entirely eradicated by administering GIBiON'S ORIGINAL WORM AND CONDITION POWDERS. they being easily given, and without any alteration necessary in either feeding or exercise. See bis treatise on the care of the House, oue of which is enclosed in each package. The Public me particularly requested to observe ; that the Signature of Robt. N. Gibton is on each wrapper. Hcle Wholesale Agent, W. Edwards, 07 St. Paulo, London. Sold by Mr C. D. Barraud, also by Mr W. Bishop, Chemists, Wellington; and by most respectable Chemists in the Colony. CLEANLINESS ! 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