favor, for which they will always thank you.

We shall be particularly pleased to hear from men advanced in years, who
feel the necessity of counteracting growing weakness incident to their
age, and who know the worse than folly of resorting to pernicious secret
preparations, the effect of which is to give unnatural stimulation for a
brief time, to be followed by a dangerous, perhaps fatal, reaction.

TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

We make special terms on our instruments and treatment to physicians,
and cordially invite them to correspond with us. We will do all in our
power to serve the profession to their satisfaction. We have the benefit
of the best medical advice and facilities in certain lines not
attainable from any other source on the continent.

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND FAMILY PHYSICIANS.

We cannot refrain, before closing this chapter, from saying a word
or two about the incompetency of the large majority of "general
practitioners" and "family physicians," and their evident carelessness,
and in some instances, even disgust, in the diagnosis and treatment of
this class of cases.

The readers of this may be among that class who think the "family
physician" the embodiment of medical wisdom, and that if he has failed
to cure the case or pooh-poohed it away, there is no hope. But no one
M.D., however learned, knows all about the ills of flesh. In this, as in
the legal and other learned professions, a man may practice a score of
years, and still know little or nothing about various peculiar cases,
because they don't come under his notice; he has no opportunity to study
them practically, and little inducement to theorize. And the class of
cases we are now considering, it may surprise the sufferer to know,
are deemed by many "regular" physicians beneath their attention. The
physician's calling is a noble one, and he justly takes a high ground
regarding his duties. We honor the scruples of our medical friends, but
we do not understand nor approve the spirit which leads them to meet
these cases with ridicule or evasive answers.

That they do thus meet this class of cases, and that their course
is censured by the most eminent of the profession, we have abundant
evidence.

One of the best known medical writers of England, F. B. Courtnay, member
of the Royal College of Surgeons, etc., says in one of his works ("True
and False Spermatorrhoea" pp. 20-21):

"Again, some medical men * * * * affect to consider these