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OPHTHALMIC OINTMENT,

FOR THE CURE OF

INFLAMMATIONS, SPECKS, FILMS, AND OTHER EXTERNAL DISORDERS OF THE EYES AND EYELIDS,

In numberless instances has proved superior to every other specific, succeeding, as the following well-authenticated cures will show, after the treatment of the most eminent practitioners had signally failed.

SOLE PROPRIETOR

JAMES HOLLINGS, 4, HANOVER TERRACE, PECKHAM.

SELECTION OF WELL-ATTESTED CURES. REFERENCE IS PERMITTED ΤΟ ANY OF THE PARTIES MENTIONED.

Quebec, 7th October, 1857.

My daughter having suffered much from inflammation of the eyes, after trying several remedies without effect, a friend kindly furnished a small quantity of CHAMBERLAIN'S OPHTHALMIC OINTMENT, which very shortly effected a complete cure, and it affords me much pleasure in bearing testimony to its thorough efficacy. G. S. PIERCE, ACCOUNTANT.

Order from the Pacha of Egypt.

During the recent visit to this country of the Egyptian youths, who, at the express desire of the PACHA, had been sent into England to be instructed in the various arts, and the processes of the British manufactures, an application was made to an agent in Portsea for a supply of the specific in a case of Ophthalmic disease. So entirely successful was the result, that on the return of the Egyptian youths to their native country, an order was despatched, at the command of the Pacha, for an immediate supply of "CHAMBERLAIN'S OPHTHALMIC OINTMENT," that it might at once be introduced into his dominions. On the receipt of this communication, a supply of OPHTHALMIC MEDICINES, agreeably to order, was immediately prepared by the proprietor and forwarded to his Portsea agent, to be forthwith transmitted by him to the residence of the PACHA, by the first vessel sailing for Egypt.

Quebec, 9th October, 1857..

This is to certify that my son, aged seven years, was long troubled with sore eyes, and various cures were tried without any good effect, until, through the kindness of a friend, I received a small supply of CHAMBERLAIN'S OPHTHALMIC OINT MENT, which, after a few days' application, produced a decided change, and in three or four weeks a complete cure. CHAS. BRODIE.

The Case of John Sexton, of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk.

The wife of Mr. Wm. Sexton, miller, of Stoke-by-Nayland, whose son at the time was quite blind from a violent inflammation in his eyes, was induced during the last summer, as a last resource, to make a trial of CHAMBERLAIN'S CELEBRATED OPHTHALMIC OINTMENT for her son, and for that purpose sent for a supply from Ipswich. After a comparatively few applications of this Ointment, the inflammation entirely ceased, the eyes assumed a healthy appearance, and in a few weeks her son's sight was perfectly restored.

SOLD IN POTS, THIRTEENPENCE HALFPENNY EACH; Wholesale by Edwards & Co., Old Change; Post Free by the Proprietor, 4, Hanover Terrace, Peckham, for 16 Stamps.

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Criton, Hippocrates, and the ancient doctors, classed perfumes cines, and prescribed them for many diseases, especially those of a nervous kind. Pliny also attributes therapeutic properties to various aromatic substances, and some perfumes are still used in modern medicine.

"Discarding, however," says Mr. Rimmell, in his "Book of Perfumes," "all curative pretensions for perfumes, it is right at the same time to combat the doctrines of certain medical men who hold that they are injurious to health. It can be proved, on the contrary, that their use in moderation is more beneficial than otherwise, and in cases of epidemics they have been known to render important service, were it only to the four thieves, who, by means of their famous aromatic vinegar, were enabled to rob half the population of Marseilles at the time of the great plague.

"It is true that flowers, if left in a sleeping apartment all night, will sometimes cause headache and sickness, but this proceeds not from the diffusion of the aroma, but from the carbonic acid they evolve during the night. If a perfume extracted from these flowers were left open in the same circumstances, no evil effect would arise from it. All that can be said, is, that some delicate people may be affected by certain odours; but the same person to whom a musky scent would give a headache, might derive much relief from a perfume with a citrine basis. Imagination has, besides, a great deal to do with the supposed noxious effects of perfumes. Dr. Cloquet, who may be deemed an authority on this subject, of which he made a special study, says in his able Treatise on Olfaction':-' We must not forget that there are many effeminate men and women to be found in the world who imagine that perfumes are injurious to them, but their example cannot be adduced as a proof of the bad effect of odours.' Thus Dr. Thomas Capellini relates the story of a lady who fancied she could not bear the smell of a rose, and fainted on receiving the visit of a friend who carried one, and yet the flower was only artificial.

"Were any other argument wanting to vindicate perfumes from the assertions cast upon them, I would say that we are prompted by a natural instinct to seek and enjoy pleasant odours, and to avoid and reject unpleasant ones, and it is unreasonable and unjust to suppose that Providence has endowed us with this discerning power, to mislead us into a pleasure fraught with danger, or even discomfort."

CHOICE OF BOOKS.

Southey says on this subject-"Young readers, you, whose hearts are open, whose understandings are not yet hardened, and whose eelings are neither exhausted nor encrusted with the world, take

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from me a better rule than any professors of criticism will teach you. Would you know whether the tendency of a book is good or evil, examine in what state of mind you lay it down. Has it induced you to suspect that what you have been accustomed to think unlawful may after all be innocent, and that may be harmless which you have hitherto been taught to think dangerous? Has it tended to make you dissatisfied and impatient under the control of others, and disposed you to rules in that self-government without which both the laws of God and man tell us there can be no virtue, and consequently no happiness? Has it attempted to abate your admiration and reverence for what is great and good, and to diminish in you the love of your country and your fellow-creatures? Has it addressed itself to your pride, your vanity, your selfishness, or any of your evil propensities? Has it defiled the imagination with what is loathsome, and shocked the heart with what is monstrous ? Has it disturbed the sense of right and wrong which the Creator has implanted in the human soul? If so, if you have felt that such were the effects that it was intended to produce, throw the book in the fire, whatever name it may bear on the title-page! Throw it in the fire, young man, though it should have been the gift of a friend; young lady, away with the whole set, though it should be the prominent furniture in the rose-wood book-case!"

THE INVALID'S CALENDAR.

Bitter is the wind in March;
April winds your frame will search;
Go out most cautiously in May;
In June, you'll go out every day;
July-you are free at length!
August air will give you strength;
September now begin to mind;
October is not often kind;
November-now you close shut up;
December-patiently receive your cup;
January-watch, and wait;

February think upon your state,
And thank God every month and year
That He still doth leave you here;
Yet willingly prepare to go,

If your Father wills it so.

Nor be impatient to be

Be content to linger on

gone,

If that should be your Father's will-
He forgets not you are ill.

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The cold bath used on rising in the morning is intended to give a gentle stimulus to the system, somewhat enervated by the repose of the night. But because of that very enervation it should be taken with caution. Due allowance must be made for season, and for the re-actionary powers possessed by each individual. This morning bath should, therefore, in all cases, be of short duration, to be followed by plentiful friction to secure the restoration of the circulation to the surface. The blood temporarily thrown in upon the vital organs must be solicited to return with all speed; and the glow of red, even if it be like that of a boiled lobster, will be a welcome sight, as indicating that the re-action is already accomplished. If the whole body is immersed, three minutes will be long enough for every good purpose; if for a longer time, it might be followed by too great depression. If nothing more severe than a sponging bath be used, the regulation "tub, then from three to seven minutes may be required in order to cleanse well the whole surface.

HOW TO GET RID OF A NEWLY-CAUGHT COLD.

Dr. Hall, in his Medical Journal, says :-"A bad cold, like measles and mumps, or other similar ailments, will run its course of about ten days, in spite of what may be done for it, unless remedial means are employed within forty-eight hours of its inception. Many a useful life may be spared to be increasingly useful, by cutting a cold short off in the following safe and simple manner :-On the first day of taking a cold there is a very unpleasant sensation of chilliness. The moment you observe this you go to your room and stay there; keep it at such a temperature as will entirely prevent this chilly feeling, even if it requires 100° Fahr. In addition to this, put your feet in water, half limb deep, as hot as you can bear it, adding hotter water from time to time for a quarter of an hour, so that the water shall be hotter when you take your feet out than when you put them in; then dry them thoroughly, and put on thick, warm, woollen stockings, even if it be summer, and for twenty-four hours eat not an atom of food, but drink as largely as you desire of any kind of warm teas, and at the end of that time, if not sooner, the cold will be effectually broken without any medicine whatever."

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