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Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
Nervous Diseases , Liver and Stomach Complaints , Indigestion nnd Low Spirits , frc With Cases . B y George Robert Rowe , M . D ., F . S . A ., & c . Churchill , Princes Street , Sobo . Even in these days of bookmaking , when volumes so encumber the reviewer's table , that he wishes The Schoolmaster were really abroad , one occasionally rejoices in the sight of a modern work—a particular flower , aud sometimes a smail ^ and unpretending production , claiming special notice , because of its intrinsic worthand contrasting remarkablwith its
nume-, y rous and variously-coloured neighbours . It is so with us now . Our eye is attracted by a title that goes home to thousands ; one that addresses itself so eloquently to humanity ( as we find it in civilized life ) , that the most robust and most fearless among us cannot help pausing to consider how closely it applies to him , and the physically weak and mentally timid—a deplorable majority!—either sigh despairingly with the thoughts and sensations the words suggest , or shape them into a promise of escape from ills which " flesh is heir to . "
Nervous Diseases—low spirits—indigestion , what a train of troubles do they conjure up I AVhat real and imaginary evils eome inte this category ! What stories they tell of abuses early and late , of errors never seenof war against Nature , and Nature ' s retribution—of laws which mock refinement , and make worldly wealth and power ridiculous I You see the gourmand moan his loss of appetite , the sensualist his want of vitality , the intemperate his early decay , and the thoughtless his changed and indiscribahle symptoms of disorder I And the comparatively innocent , too , into reviewthe victim of labour
come : , and the victim of fashion—the sickly seamstress and the consumptive-looking lady—the puny child and the shattered adult . In the midst of all these stands the quack doctor , the only one among the throng who smiles , and well he may I for his is a profitable pursuit , and his customers are many , for the weakness of mortality is in his favour , and we all know how that prevails among high and low , rich and poor I Happily for society , however , there are practitioners who address themselves to the people we have described , with a higher aim than that of
making money by them , and other qualifications than those which unscrupulous medical adventurers , the most dangerous of all pretenders , go on and prosper upon , and Dr . Rowe is of that number . He takes his stand upon Common Sense — he furnishes himself with what Experience can afford , and Science justify ; he puts his appeal in plain terms , and the system he persues is that of a plain dealing philanthropist , as well as a skilful physician . An honorable principal is conspicuous in all he describes and recommendsand his orthodoxy is not that of a bigot
, , but the conviction of a liberal , as well as of a penetrating mind . Such a volume , then , as this ' we welcome for the good that it contains , and praise for the benefits it is calculated to bestow upon frail humanity . Anybody may 2-ead it to advantage , and thousands would do well to apply to it for advice and consolation . The doctor evidently writes for the nonprofessional reader , although he cannot forget that other eyes are upon him . Technicalities , and what would be to many , the mysteries of medicine , he avoids as much as possiblebut at no sacrifice of that information which
, bis title page promises . In the preface he observes , " I aim at nothing more than to point out a regular and decided mode of treatment in the cure of the Hypochondriac and Dyspeptic diseases , consistently with the concentrated opinions of the most eminent men in the profession . In doing this , I do not pretend to possess a knowledge superior to that of other practi-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
Nervous Diseases , Liver and Stomach Complaints , Indigestion nnd Low Spirits , frc With Cases . B y George Robert Rowe , M . D ., F . S . A ., & c . Churchill , Princes Street , Sobo . Even in these days of bookmaking , when volumes so encumber the reviewer's table , that he wishes The Schoolmaster were really abroad , one occasionally rejoices in the sight of a modern work—a particular flower , aud sometimes a smail ^ and unpretending production , claiming special notice , because of its intrinsic worthand contrasting remarkablwith its
nume-, y rous and variously-coloured neighbours . It is so with us now . Our eye is attracted by a title that goes home to thousands ; one that addresses itself so eloquently to humanity ( as we find it in civilized life ) , that the most robust and most fearless among us cannot help pausing to consider how closely it applies to him , and the physically weak and mentally timid—a deplorable majority!—either sigh despairingly with the thoughts and sensations the words suggest , or shape them into a promise of escape from ills which " flesh is heir to . "
Nervous Diseases—low spirits—indigestion , what a train of troubles do they conjure up I AVhat real and imaginary evils eome inte this category ! What stories they tell of abuses early and late , of errors never seenof war against Nature , and Nature ' s retribution—of laws which mock refinement , and make worldly wealth and power ridiculous I You see the gourmand moan his loss of appetite , the sensualist his want of vitality , the intemperate his early decay , and the thoughtless his changed and indiscribahle symptoms of disorder I And the comparatively innocent , too , into reviewthe victim of labour
come : , and the victim of fashion—the sickly seamstress and the consumptive-looking lady—the puny child and the shattered adult . In the midst of all these stands the quack doctor , the only one among the throng who smiles , and well he may I for his is a profitable pursuit , and his customers are many , for the weakness of mortality is in his favour , and we all know how that prevails among high and low , rich and poor I Happily for society , however , there are practitioners who address themselves to the people we have described , with a higher aim than that of
making money by them , and other qualifications than those which unscrupulous medical adventurers , the most dangerous of all pretenders , go on and prosper upon , and Dr . Rowe is of that number . He takes his stand upon Common Sense — he furnishes himself with what Experience can afford , and Science justify ; he puts his appeal in plain terms , and the system he persues is that of a plain dealing philanthropist , as well as a skilful physician . An honorable principal is conspicuous in all he describes and recommendsand his orthodoxy is not that of a bigot
, , but the conviction of a liberal , as well as of a penetrating mind . Such a volume , then , as this ' we welcome for the good that it contains , and praise for the benefits it is calculated to bestow upon frail humanity . Anybody may 2-ead it to advantage , and thousands would do well to apply to it for advice and consolation . The doctor evidently writes for the nonprofessional reader , although he cannot forget that other eyes are upon him . Technicalities , and what would be to many , the mysteries of medicine , he avoids as much as possiblebut at no sacrifice of that information which
, bis title page promises . In the preface he observes , " I aim at nothing more than to point out a regular and decided mode of treatment in the cure of the Hypochondriac and Dyspeptic diseases , consistently with the concentrated opinions of the most eminent men in the profession . In doing this , I do not pretend to possess a knowledge superior to that of other practi-