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knowledge of the human body in its healthy condition, and 

 the morbid chancres which occur in its organization and the 

 performance of the various functions which the Deity has 

 assigned to it ; and not upon any of the nonsensical theories 

 which the Empirics of the present day impose upon the 

 public. 



Having been regularly educated in every branch of the 

 Medical Profession (as his numerous Testimonials from 

 some of the most illustrious men in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land will certify), and also actively engaged in the perform- 

 ance of the various duties of his profession for the last seven- 

 teen years, likewise as the author of upwards of twenty 

 works on the most important branches of medical science, 

 besides numerous papers on the nature and treatment of 

 diseases in the different Medical Journals ; and as a public 

 Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy, Midwifery, 

 Zoology, &c. ; he trusts his claims to public confidence are 

 not solicited without some solid foundation. 



DISEASES PECULIAR TO FEMALES. 



" The maladies incidental to Females, destroy more than two-thirds of 

 the Fair Sex ; either from their complaints not being properly compre- 

 hended by their medical attendant ; and in many cases from their own 

 neglect in the earlier stages of disease." Dr. Denmnn. 



The sedentary lives led by the majority of females in this 

 country, not unfrequently produce either an obstruction of 

 an important monthly function, the due performance of 

 which is necessary not only to the health of the sufferer, but 

 likewise to place the female in that condition which nature 

 requires in the married state, to enable her to become a 

 mother; or sometimes we find that nature has been too pro- 

 fuse, thus in both these cases we find a constitution in itself 

 naturally delicate, severely debilitated, and unless it is at- 

 tended to, on scientific principles, organic diseases are 

 engendered, and the amiable sufferer is thus consigned to 

 an early grave. 



There is another series of diseases, which, if not of so 

 dangerous a nature as the preceding, are as important, viz. 

 "Leucorrhtea," To sufferers from this affliction,but little need 

 be said to point out the necessity of an early cure, for un- 

 less it is speedily checked, cancer and other diseases of the 

 womb occur, which whether the patient be married or single, 

 a state of mental and bodily suffering is induced, and which 

 is only terminated by death closing the melancholy scene. 

 By the method of cure pursued by Professor Dewhurst, 



