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Wellington Independent, Issue 2178, 11 March 1865, Page 8

41 Ask Medicus' counsel ere medicine ye take, And honor that man for necessity's sake, Though thousands hate physic because of the cost, Yet thousands it helpeth that else should be lost." Thomas Tnisser, a.tj., 1520. *' O you kind gods. Cure this great breach in his abused nature !" HAVE \on l),>r>n the guilty victim of a fearful secret vice ? Have you allowed your passions to hiive unbriilled sway, and is 'nature now rrsenting with fearful interest the outrage committed upon her? Are you pining and hioodiii" your time away in melancholy, and allowing the cankerworm of disease and decay to enter into you and consume you without daring to confide in a friend ? Or are you fearful of communicating your secret to your medical attendant ? Firstly because of the great mist you would have to repose in him, andthefear of his divulging it to one of the family ; and secondly, because you have heard of numberless cases where the general practitioner has had his patient for years under treatment for a disease, which, his limited amount of practice in this particular branch of Im profession, gives him no opportunity of he, quiring knowledge, either of discriminating the disease, or, on discovering it, not knowing how to cure it. How many are there who have been nn.ier treatment for years for a disease or weakness which nxs puzzled the different medical men of this and the neighboring colonies ? The origin cannot be sur. mised; one medical man culls 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 i; consumption — decline one treatment ia persevered with after another but necessarily without success ; the patient loses all hope, if imieed he is uot quacked to death with the different experiments tried on his system; he languishes ; becomes wearied of life ; his rr.iud gives way; he becomes hypochondriacul ; avoids society ; becomes nervous, and if he dees not brood, get melancholy anil mad ; be pines and dies away. lstly — Why is this ? Because, the patient is cognisant of the fact that from want of practice in these unhappy cases, the medical man (otherwise skiMul) is uuainle to diseriminale the cause, and therefore unable to cure the patient. 2ii(lly — Want of confidence in entrusting to his medical adviser his secret, for fear of betrayal of his infirmity. 3rdly — I3ashfulness and delicacy in exposing his frailty 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 diseases is well known throughout the Australian colonies ; nay, even in England, and he points with a pardonable pride at the fact that he has been the means of saving many from untimely deaths. Ho has had all kinds of epithets launched at his unfortunate head by his medical brethren, because he advertises (and so does every medical man privately, tbotigh he has not the pluck to own it), niul because he has wore especially devoted his studies to tbe above diseases. But, he asks here publicly, is it not bettor that a legally qualified medical man should tnke up this branch of practice than that the unfortunate sufferers should fall victims to the various quacks and charlatans who advertise aud 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 Hall, Ricunl, Lallemand, and Culverwell (whoso pupil Dr Smith was), devoted their attention to to it, ami stand prominent as the greatest anatomists, physiologists aud puthologists of their day. Let the thinking portion of the public imagine what must have been tbe practice of Dr L. L. Smith during the last eleven years in this colony, standing alonei as he has, in curing the above diseases, and the diseases and infirmities of married life generally; and then let them ask this question — has Dr Smith during the whole course of this exteneive practice ever had one single case of mal praxis brought against him ? This is a proud thing for any one in I his profession to state — to state it moreover openly, and in a public n-iauuer thus; but Dr Smith has ever held sacred the trust reposed in him, and he now openly offers eleven years' guarantee of houor.skill, practice, and he humbly states, ability, in this purticularbranch of his profession. Dr L. L. SMITH then offers three guarantees to those who desire to consult him : — Eleven years' extensive practice in this colony, ii'respective of hi«j practice in England. Eleven years' gunrnnteo of sacredniiss of reticence; Nine years' practice of consultation by lettur. Of his success in practice it is more fitting the public should speak titan himself. Consultation Fee by letter A'l. BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS^ ~~ TTOLLOWAV3 FILLS AND OINTMENT. Copy of a letter received from Messrs GoiiDON AN.D Gotch. Dated Melbourne, July 2b, 1804. " Dear Sir, — We have found ont that there has been a considerable trade doing iv Counterfeiting your Pills. That a man, (whose numo we know) made for a certain person a machine, rolling out One Hundred and Fity Pills at once. That labels were printed and despatched up the Couutry in great numbers, the machine was offered to a friend of ours for sale, and we suspect is at work somewhere now. What can we do for you iv this matter? Something should be done at once. If we were sure you would approve of it ; we would set the detectives at work and ferret the nestout. " We are, &c , (signed) GORDON & GOTCH." In many places abroad, the Government stamp to these Medicines has Jutely been forged, aud affixed to an immense quantity of spurious Ointment and Pills, and sold to the public as my prepattitions. Please 10 observe, therefore,, that tbe words "HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OIXTMENT, LONDON." besides being on the British Government Label, as heretofore, are woven iv the water-mark of every leaf of the pamphlets, without which the medicine is not genuine. Also, be careful to observe that ihe address on the coiers of the pots and the labels sf the boxes, is " 244, Strand, London," and that there is no initial before the name " Holloway." Parties who may be defrauded by Vendors selling ipurious '• Holloway's Pills aad Ointment, 1 ' a» inrited to communicate the particulars to me, or to Messrs Gordon and Gotch, of Collins-street, Melbourne, when legal proceedings will be immediately ustituted against the offenders, and an ample reitineration given *o inr'ormanta for their trouble, nd a pledge not to divulge their names. (Signed) THOMAS HOLLOWA*. London, 24th Sept., 1864. FOR HORSES. and Autumn are the Seasons the COWJ DITION of HORSES ought to be looked to, hen they aie generally rough coated, hide bound, id altogether debilitated and out of tone, perhaps oceeding from irreguiar or over-reached exercise, ( list y or innutritious feeding, which always causes A jrms, aud induces the most destructive disorders, I; en to the death of the Hoise ; but may in such g asons be entirely eradicated by administering fi GIBI'ON'S ORIGINAL WORM AND CON- tl DJTION POWDERS. s ?y being easily given, and without any alteration tl cessary in either feeding or exercise. See his atise on the care of the Horse, oue of which is - slosed in each package. « The Public are particularly requested to observe ' it the Signature of Robt. N. Gibton is on each c, upper. Sclo Wholesale Agent, VV. Edwards, 07 ™ Paul's, London. Sold by Mr C. D. flarrand, also by Mr W, CV ihop, Chemists, Wellington; and by muot res- c table Chemists in the Colony.