Of this Country and France.

A NOTABLE MEDICAL INSTITUTION.

_From the New York TRIBUNE AND FARMER, Nov. 22, 1884._

It is a well-recognized fact by writers upon longevity that the men of
the present day, both old and young, are less manly and vigorous, less
able to resist the attacks of acute disease, and not only less likely to
produce healthy and vigorous offspring, but in the majority of instances
producing a fewer number as well as a less vigorous and robust progeny.
The ratio of births to deaths has fallen off some 12 per cent. in births
in the past fifteen years. This fact, coupled with the equally startling
consideration that the mortality of infants has increased about 11 per
cent. in the past ten years, must needs fill the mind of a lover of his
kind with dismay and alarm. Although invested and thickly hedged about
by ideas of false modesty and pseudo-propriety, in reality the whole
fabric of national and individual prosperity, health, vigor and
enjoyment, as well as the very important perpetuation of our species,
depend upon perfectly strong, healthy and vigorous procreative powers.
As an oak cannot grow from a flower seed, neither can weak, puny and
debilitated parents give birth to strong, vigorous and mentally sound
and active progeny.

The subject of Procreative Pathology deserves more careful and extended
study and observation than the majority of our physicians have
heretofore been inclined to give it. Most of them have let the more
numerous and oftentimes the more trivial cases daily coming under their
notice crowd this most serious matter from sight, and when applied to
for advice or treatment by sufferers from these disorders or debilities,
have either pooh-poohed it or have given some simple (or useless)
placebo, believing the trouble to be more imaginary than real. Is it any
wonder, then, that such patients have walked blindfold into the arms of
quacks and charlatans who profess the most tender interest in even their
minutest symptoms?

We have been led to make the foregoing remarks by what we have just
finished reading in a very interesting and able work upon this subject
recently issued from the press of the Civiale Remedial Agency, of 174
Fulton street, this city. The subject matter of this book cannot fail to
interest every man, young or old, and must prove of special interest to
men just married, and to that large class of middle-aged men who find to
their surprise and chagrin that w