Some disorders have been many years in proceeding to such a degree of malignancy as cannot be eradicated in a few weeks; therefore it is in order to encourage steady perseverance in the use of proper means, that Messrs. Perry have adopted the plan of packing into boxes, THREE LARGE BOTTLES, containing the quantity of twelve at 11s. for Five Pounds, by which £1. 12s. are saved.

Those who wish to have the £5. cases of medicine direct from Messrs. Perry, can (as the most safe way of remittance) obtain a Post Office order for £5., or any sum under that amount; or, if more convenient, the money may be enclosed in a letter, and upon payment of one shilling at the Post Office, the same will be registered, so that persons sending any amount will be indemnified against loss.

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Patients who correspond with Messrs. Perry, should always preserve the same signature to prevent trouble and delay, as the letters are carefully arranged alphabetically, and must be examined previous to any medicine being prepared; and this is important, not only to the patient's recovery, but to facilitate and expedite the process of the medicine intended to be sent, as reference must be had to the former letters upon every occasion.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR TAKING THE

CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM.

In all cases where the CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is administered, the Patient should take one table spoonful half an hour before breakfast; about eleven o'clock; five in the evening; and about an hour after supper; by itself, or in a wine-glassfull of water, until health is perfectly renewed. And when the Cordial Balm of Syriacum is taken for the cure of weaknesses, debility, deficiency of natural strength, and relaxation of the vessels, by too frequent indulgence of the passions, PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS should be administered also, in doses of two Pills at night, and one in the morning.

In respect to the Cordial Balm of Syriacum, it should be understood, that its effects on the various complicated diseases are as surprising and singular as the means by which we became acquainted with it; we therefore wish to impress upon the minds of patients taking the same, not only is perseverance necessary, as it corrects and purifies the whole mass of blood and juices, but because it is not at all uncommon for the patient to take half the quantity for a radical cure, before he perceives ANY material benefit.

There is a very important observation to be made respecting a Public Medicine, that unless its operation be gentle, safe, and efficacious, it must and will speedily sink into oblivion; and it requires the strongest conviction of their intrinsic worth and physical excellence, by long and great experience, to induce an in

ventor or proprietor of any Medicine to incur the serious and certain expense of making it known by advertisements; an expense of no less than £5,000 annually to Messrs. Perry & Co., independent of £6,000 a year paid for Government Stamps affixed to their Medicines, which a very great and general demand can only defray; and which nothing short of fatuity could induce any one to enter upon without such previous conviction; for it were of no avail to enter upon the task and vast expense of making known that remedy, whose merits will not support its character when known.

THE SILENT FRIEND.

PART II.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC DISEASES,

IN THEIR MILD AND MOST ALARMING FORMS,

INCLUDING

SECONDARY SYMPTOMS, GONORRHOEA, GLEET, STRICTURE,

AND A VARIETY OF INCIDENTAL DISEASES;

WITH INTERESTING REMARKS OCCURRING IN A MOST EXTENSIVE
PRACTICE, AND OBSERVATIONS

ON THE ABUSE OF MERCURY.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE

VENEREAL DISEASE.

THE nature of the specifie contagion, which constitutes the disease we are now treating upon, and which has the property of inducing, in the individual, a secretion possessing the same character, presents to us, on all sides, a variety of difficulties, springing principally from the various shapes it assumes, according to the constitution of the patient, the malignity and virulence of the poison, its duration, the

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occult, causes.

length of that duration, and many other, perhaps We know that it arises from the absorption of a specific morbid poison, generally imbibed during the action of coition with a person actually infected; and that thus produced, it is capable of receiving that variety of forms which it exhibits in different constitutions, and which, depending on the nature of the virus, and the constitution receiving that virus, gives rise to that multiplicity of symptoms, which in some constitutions are slight and in others malignant. This pre-disposition to contagion is powerfully manifested in some constitutions, while in others the power of repulsion or an inaptitude to the contagion is equally exhibited; for how frequently do we find, that one individual shall transgress with a female actually infected, and no symptoms of disease follow; while another less fortunate, under similar circumstances, and even in some cases with the same female, shall have the disease in all its violence; in short it is an indisputable fact, that every venereal case, is a case sui generis, for in no class of disease do we meet with cases less similar to each other, either in regard to the period the disease takes to develope its action, or the character it shall display ; which contrarieties appear to be greatly influenced, by the existing state of the individual system at the moment of contagion; a knowledge of these facts, however, points out the necessity of the adoption of an early and unequivocal line of conduct in the first stage of our fears, so that we may not afterwards regret, that the want of more decisive symptoms betrayed us into an indifference that leads to future embarrass