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The Author has used language so simple, that a wayfaring man need not err while reading it. Diseases of the throat, if not attended to in season, it is well known will end in Consumption; and it is only at the commencement of the disease that medical skill can be of much service. He has thrown out many suggestions on the nature and treatment of throat diseases, the effect of a change of climate, sea-voyage, &c., all of which we unhesitatingly commend to the early attention of all such as may be afflicted with this complaint, which so often proves fatal, if neglected even for a short period-Hartford, Conn., Times.

The Author of this book has devoted many years of careful and diligent labor to the subject of which he treats, and the result is given in a very intelligent and palpable form. It records cases of recovery fitted to awaken confidence, and suggests specific modes of treatment as the result of an extended experience.-Syracuse Journal.

In this volume there are hints and counsels of the utmost practical importance. Children of consumptive parents should be placed under the regimen best suited to develope and to nourish the physical system; persons admonished by the premonitory symptoms of the approach of Consumption, should use the most careful, energetic, and persistent means to ward it off. Nowhere have we seen the origin and progress of Consumption so clearly exhibited, or suggestions for arresting or mitigating the disease, so intelligently and happily stated. This book should be read especially by students for the ministry, who often lay the foundation of bronchial disease during their course of preparatory studies. It should be read in all families hereditarily disposed. It is such a work as will be at once helpful to the medical profession, and to the whole community lying under sentence of mortality. It is marked at once with the skill of medical science, the judgment of medical experience. and the simplicity and honesty of practical good sense.-New-York Independent.

The seventh edition of a universally popular medical treatise with the above title lies before us. As the language is free from pathological technicalities, and addressed to the understanding of the general reader, it becomes, as it purports, a really valuable and important work, and should be included among the select books of every reading man. Although dedicated particularly to public speakers, clergymen, and vocalists, it will be found of the utmost importance to those whose avocations do not of necessity lead them to exercise, violently, the organs of articulation. There are thousands laboring under throat diseases, to whom this treatise will be found of inestimable value. An intimate knowledge of those dis

eases apt to affect the lungs and chest, may-nay, will-assist in warding off ailments, which, in the form of bronchial and pulmonary affections, daily sweep hundreds to the grave. Medical men ought to teach the people, in easy and familiar language, the various diseases under which they are liable to labor. It would very much assist in the inducement of a sanitary condition in localities and commonwealths, heretofore unparalleled in the history of modern medical science. The work of Dr. Hall is a step towards a consummation ardently desired.--New-York Paper.

This is the seventh edition of a work we have noticed before. Dr. Hall has presented to a large class of persons, a very sound as well as a very interesting volume. Some of the opinions about Going South," &c., will commend themselves to judicious and experienced men. Similar opinions have been since published in Europe, and noticed in the Living Age.-Little's Living Age, No. 439.

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Published monthly-Twenty-four pages, octavo-Covered, stitched, and trimmed-Making a Volume of some Three Hundred Pages a year, in large, clear type.

"HEALTH IS A DUTY."

"I labor for the good time coming, when sickness and disease, except congenital, or from accidental causes, will be regarded as the result of ignorance and animalism, and will degrade the individual in the estimation of all good men, as much as drunkenness now does."

"We consume too much food, and too little pure air. We take too much medicine, and too little exercise."

The design of this Publication is the diffusion of useful knowledge, in familiar terms, as to two points:

HOW TO CURE DISEASE, WITHOUT MEDICINE, IN MANY INSTANCES.

HOW TO PREVENT SICKNESS, BY THE RATIONAL USE OF FOOD, AIR, AND EXERCISE:

The Editor desires that a copy of it shall be taken, and read, and studied, and re-read, and preserved, by every Clergyman, by every Theological Student, by every Lawyer, and by every young Man and young Woman in the land, who is now in process of obtaining an education:

This will not be attempted by Lectures on Physiology and Hygiene, but by such practical illustrations as a Physician's note-book daily affords. To show how the every-day occurrences of life are fraught with death, simply from inattention, or from ignorance of some one of the plainest laws of our being, but which no opportunity of learning has ever occurred, from the nursery to the time of entering on the active duties of life.

Multitudes of parents throughout this land daily feel the bitterness of the premature death of a promising son or only daughter, from one of the thousand slight causes of disease, which a little knowledge or precaution would have rendered harmless.

Emma B., aged 18, was caught in a slight shower while riding on horseback to a Fourth of July celebration; but she had been in worse showers before, without the slightest injury; but ignorance of the peculiar circumstances, resulted in her death in the course of the next year.

A. B., a man of strong, robust health, seldom known to be sick, had undergone great fatigue, and, at the close of a hot summer's day, hungry and exhausted, he ate a hearty meal, and added to it fruits and iced milk-and died the next day of cholera morbus. He might have still lived, had he been aware of the fact, that a hearty meal in midsummer, in an exhausted condition of body, would be sufficient to destroy three men out of four.

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