ADVERTISEMENT. 



JOHN C. BENNETT, M. D., 



PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PLYMOUTH, MASS.; 



FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY, AND 



THE DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN ; 



AND 



LECTURER ON MEDICO-LEGAL SCIENCE 



IN THE 



" Willoughby University of Lake Erie," and in the Cincinnati " Lit. and 

 Bot. Med. College of Ohio," 



Continues the practice of his profession in all its various departments. He received his 

 first medical diploma A. D. 182o, since which to the present time he has been continuously 

 engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, (embracing a period of twenty-five consec- 

 utive years,) having enjoyed the most extensive opportunities in medicine, in various cli- 

 mates, lx>th in private practice and in public institutions; and the most ample means, from 

 the nature of his official position, in field-military surgery. 



He takes this opportunity, therefore, to offer to the public a few choice compounds for the 

 alleviation of human suffering, which cannot be procured elsewhere, and which long and 

 extensive experience has proved to be both safe and efficacious. 



COUGH DROPS. This invaluable compound is equally applicable to colds, coughs, 

 consumptions, and all kindred affections, and has effected the most astonishing cures. The 

 reputation of these drops is co-extensive with the American Union, and they are now exten- 

 sively used in most of the States of the Republic. 



Directions. For an adult, the medium dose is 100 drops in four table-spoonfuls of cold 

 water, or warm tea, morning and evening once in twelve hours but the morning dose is 

 not to betaken, usually, until after breakfast. If this does not control the cough, increase 

 the dose to 200 drops, and some will even bear 300, and require the dose to be repeated once 

 in eight hours, or three times a day, but such cases are rare. Should the medium dose pro- 

 duce vertigo, or nausea, diminish the quantity to 50 drops, or even less. The medicine 

 should be well shaken every time it is used, and it is best to commence with one half of the 

 medium dose, and gradually increase as the patient will hear it. The proper dose for infants 

 and children may be reckoned at the following rates : One drop for a child fifteen days old ; 

 two drops for one a month old ; four drops for one three months old ; eight drops for one eight 

 months old ; sixteen drops for one a year old ; twenty-five drops for one two years old ; thirty 

 drops for one three years old ; forty drops for one four years old ; fifty-five drops for one ten 

 years old ; and so on ; in a little cold water or warm tea. These doses are prescribed for 

 children who are altogether unused to this medicine ; the power of bearing more may be rap- 

 idly increased by habit. The same is true of adults. 



Price. Thirteen cents an ounce; one dollar and fifty cents a pound; two dollars and 

 eighty cents a quart ; five dollars for two quarts ; and nine dollars a gallon, for the medicine 

 only phials or bottles to be charged extra. 



RHEUMATIC DROPS. This preparation is unsurpassed in the speedy cure of rheuma- 

 tism, gout, or pain of any description. Its virtues have only to be known to be appreciated ; 

 but, for the satisfaction of strangers, we append one of the many voluntary certificates of its 

 alutary effects : 



"Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 13th, 1849. 

 " To whom it may concern : 



' About the 1st of Sept., 1847, I returned home from the Q,uereau Banks, severely afflicted 

 with rheumatism, and from the 5th of that month, to the 28th of March, 1848, I was entirely 

 incapable of performing ordinary labwr on account of said affliction, all the remedial agents 



