persons of affectionate dispositions, and equals in birth and station, agree to pass the rest of their lives together, till, in fact, death, and not Sir C. C., them do part. In the higher grades of life beauty is often a binding tie; in the lowest ranks of life I do not think men deem personal appearance of any consequence. Much of the happiness in wedded life depends mainly upon the woman. She should be the sharer of his joys and the comforter in his griefs. She was made for him, not he for her; and her privileges as his companion are great and many. Now, what kind of woman, in a general way, is most capable of heightening his joys and lessening his sorrows?

Sir Lytton Bulwer has summed up what a man wants in a wife. He wants a companion. "He does not want a singing animal, nor a dancing animal, nor a drawing animal, and yet these three last accomplishments have cost many women years of painful toil to acquire; and they often marry a man who cannot appreciate any one of them." After forty, few women can sing, and few care to dance. A great proficiency in these accomplishments often leads a woman into expensive and dangerous society, where her vanity is fed by excessive praise.

What a man looks for most in the chosen companion of his heart and home, is that she should have added to a pleasing exterior a well cultivated mind. Let her have also the "mens sane in corpore sano," good health and good temper; for what we call happiness depends very much upon the temper, and state of the digestion,—much more so, I believe, than we are generally aware of. Avoid marrying, if possible, a woman of an hysterical temperament. A few tears may be very interesting during that treacle period called the honeymoon; but in after-life there is no misery for a man greater than to be united to a woman of delicate fiber and weak digestion, who, upon all occasions and no occasion, throws herself into that incurable and miserycausing malady-a fit of hysterics. In early life it may be cured, but if suffered to go on for any lengthened period, it causes the patient to be a curse instead of a blessing to all connected with her.

I perfectly agree with you in the opinion that literary ladies do not generally make good wives, although, of course, there are exceptions. Their time and thoughts are too much engrossed by studies needful for their profession to allow them to devote their time and thoughts to the daily comfort and well-being of their husbands. What Mrs. Hemans calls the dinner-ordering cares of life are often neglected by authoresses. I totally differ with you in your opinion, viz., that if there is to be a difference in rank the husband ought to be the lower. A woman sinks to the level of the man she marries. He can raise her, but she never can, and never does, raise him. Her pliant nature and yielding disposition accommodates itself to his status in life; and I think such marriages are productive of very little happiness.

It seems a hard and unchristian opinion that it is better not to marry the daughter of a divorced woman; but I believe that the sin of unfaithfulness is often inherited, as well as many other family diseases.

The poet Cowper says "that it is a wholesome rigor, in the main, that, by the loss of chastity, women lose their place in the social circle; though

"It seems hard for here and there a waif

Desirous to return, but not received!"

The pretty horsebreaker may be a pleasant companion in Rotten Row; but I much fear that, as a wife, she may end in breaking her husband's heart.

The French say that an English woman makes a better mother than she does a

wife, and they have some reason for so saying; as we often see, after the first year of married life, a woman becomes a slave to the nursery duties and neglects her husband and her personal appearance; and, in fact, sinking the duties of wife into those of the mother, and often regarding the husband as an incumbrance instead of treating him as the chief, the real, the only one requiring her care and love.

But, after all, men must remember that women have many sorrows and much suffering to contend with, peculiar to themselves. The small cares and domestic toubles of life fall largely upon them, and they require much love and affection to enable them to bear up against the vicissitudes of life. Men are the oak-women the ivy.

APPENDIX C.

Supra, page 149.

I have thought it better, for many reasons, to collect a few of the more usual prescriptions in an Appendix, than to encumber the Text with them.

R Ferri Citratis c. Strychniâ, gr. iii;

Quinæ Disulp., gr. j.

M. fiat pilula ter die sumend.

R Ferri Citratis c. Strychniâ, gr. xvj;

Ferri Citratis c. Quinâ, gr. xxiv;

Syrup., 3vj;

Aquæ ad. Ziv.

M. fiat mist. cujus cap. coch. ampl. ex cyath. vin. aquæ ter die.

R Ferri Ammon. Citratis, 3j;

Ammon. Sesquicarb., 3j.

Etheris Chlorici, zij;
Sp. Lavandula C., 3vj;

Aquæ Piment. ad. 3vj.

Sumat coch. j amplum ex cyath. vin. aquæ horâ 11 a.m. et horâ

4ta p.m. quotidie.

R Acid. Phosph. dilut.,

Syrup. Zingiberis,

Syrup. Aurant., aā 3ss.

M. fiat mist. cap. coch. j min. ter die ex cyath. vin. aquæ.

R Syrup. Ferri Superphosph., Zj;

Acid. Phosp. dilut., Ziss;

Mist. Acaciæ, 3iij;

Sp. Aurant., 3s8;

Aquæ Anethi ad. viij.

Two tablespoonfuls to be taken twice a day, at eleven and four,

with a tablespoonful of Cod-liver Oil.

R Soda Hypophosph., 3vj;
Syrup Aurant., Zij:

Aquæ, ad 3vj. Capeat Cochl. Med. j ter die.

R Ext. Cannabis Indicæ, gr. j;

Pulv. Glycyrrhizæ, q. suf.

M. ft. pil. horâ somni sumend.

R O1. Phosphuret., 3j;

Ol. Morrhuæ, vij. M.

A teaspoonful, gradually increased, for a dose.

R Tinct. Cantharid., Ziss;

Sp. Lavandulæ co., 3j;

Etheris Chlorici, 3j;

Aquæ, ad viij. M. ft. mist.

Two tablespoonfuls to be taken three times a day; at eleven,

four, and at bedtime.

In cases where a local stimulant is necessary, I have found the following answer well:

R Tinct. Sinapis Comp. 3ss;

Eau de Cologne, 3j. M. ft. Embrocatio.

APPENDIX D.

Supra, page 160.

I had hoped to have been able to give some additional and valuable facts on this part of my book. Their arrangement would, however, have so long delayed the issue of the volume, that I have been compelled to postpone their insertion until the appearance of a new edition. W. A.

APPENDIX E.

Supra, page 231.

EXPOSURE OF THE QUACK SYSTEM.

BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT.

July 30th, 1857.

(BEFORE MR. LEFROY, DEPUTY-JUDGE.)

v. KAHN.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a clerk in a mercantile house, against the defendant, Dr. Kahn, proprietor of the Anatomical Museum in Coventry Street, to recover the sum of 201., alleged to have been fraudulently obtained under the following singular and extraordinary circumstances.

The case has excited a great degree of interest in the medical world, and the

court was crowded with spectators, anxious to hear the result of the trial. Among the company were several eminent medical practitioners.

Mr. Bowen May, solicitor, of Russell Square, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. BARNARD, Counsel, conducted the defense.

In opening the case, Mr. MAY said: This action is brought to recover the trifling sum of 201. The particulars of the plaintiff's demand set out that it is for damages occasioned by the defendant's improper treatment during the months of August and September, 1856, while employed by the plaintiff to cure him of a complaint under which he was then laboring, whereby the plaintiff was put to useless expense and pain, and the plaintiff claims the said sum of 201. for money had and received, and fraudulently obtained of the plaintiff by the defendant.

The learned counsel for the defense here suggested the propriety of all females leaving the court, which having been complied with,

Mr. MAY proceeded. The action is to recover the sum of 201., fraudulently obtained from the plaintiff, but in spirit it is brought for the good of the public and society at large. The plaintiff is clerk to an eminent firm in this city, and is a very respectable man. The defendant is one of those gentlemen who live upon human nature, by frightening weak-minded people, and reducing them to such a state of alarm as to be enabled to act upon their credulity. He is not a qualified practitioner, but avows to the world that he is a physician, and it is under that representation, I shall show, that the public are induced to go to him. Directly he obtains his fee, he does not care one farthing for the cure of the patient, and he also presupposes that persons are laboring under "spermatorrhoea." Now, your Honor, this young man in a weak moment went to Dr. Kahn, and the first thing Dr. Kahn said to him was, "You have spermatorrhoea; what money have you? You see this is a very dangerous disease, and I am the only one who can cure it; but if I cure you, it must be for a good amount. However, as you are a poor man, I'll do it for 201." And nothing more was said then, but a panacea was given-supposed to contain antimony, the effect of which is to depress the patient to such an extent, that a person laboring under its influence for any period would believe anything. Then by a microscope the doctor discovered some animalculæ. This is one of the microscopic dodges, which frighten nervous people. He produces this before the man, who said, "What am I to do?" He answered, “I shall want 501." Then when he finds this poor young man is acted on in this way, who could not give 501., as he said, the doctor exclaimed, "Your brains are passing out into your water, and you will die." (Laughter.) And thus the young man was reduced to that state of melancholy that he would believe anything that was told him, and when he came again, he found that he was was worse instead of better. No man goes to these quacks unless his mind has been acted upon previously, and then nothing is too gross for him to be made to believe. Now, it is a singular fact, that directly the plaintiff left off the medicine, he got better. He went to a regular practitioner, and in about three weeks he was well. Sir, I will show to you that this is a common occurrence with Dr. Kahn. I shall show you a case where he got a heavy sum of money from a person under precisely similar circumstances.

The DEPUTY-JUDGE.-No, no; that will be quite unnecessary, because we are trying this case upon its merits.

Mr. MAY.-But, your Honor, I shall show complicity, not only that this case is a fraud, but that it comes forth with a fraudulent intent. I shall satisfy you that

this defendant lives upon the vitals of young men by the money that he obtains in this identical way. I shall examine Mr. Hancock, a gentleman of great repute as surgeon to the Charing Cross Hospital

The DEPUTY-JUDGE.-Your case is, that he really obtained money by fraudulent pretenses.

Mr. MAY.-If I bring an action against an unqualified man, I must show that he professes that for which he is not legally qualified.

The DEPUTY-JUDGE.—But you have no right to go into other cases where he obtained money; that has nothing to do with the present case; and if you prove what you have opened, I do not see that it is necessary to prove anything more. You surely have opened quite enough.

Mr. MAY.-This is a matter of public importance. It is not merely a matter of 201., which only forms a little ingredient. The sum obtained was 517.; the first sum was 17., and he gradually gets money until he obtains that amount in the aggregate, which is the customary practice of these charlatans. If he were a quali fied man, then he would not be entitled to what he has charged. I shall show that the most he can charge is a guinea; whereas we pay 501. for not being cured, but, on the contrary, actually being made infinitely worse. The fact is, he is one of these advertising quacks, and it is not for the trifling sum that we come here to-day; but we wish, by the judgment of your Honor, which I have no doubt will be in favor of the plaintiff, to suppress this monstrous system of traffic and trading upon young men. I shall prove to the court that he is in the habit of getting thousands of pounds from clergymen and other young men who are ashamed to state what their cases of disease are. I shall also prove that the plaintiff had scarcely any malady upon him at all; but that he was reduced to this state merely for Dr. Kahn's purpose, that of putting money into his pocket. First, I shall call the plaintiff, to show your Honor that he was to be cured for 207.; that there was a compact; and medical evidence to prove that the patient's symptoms could only be produced by the medicines administered to him by the defendant; and I shall satisfy you that when persons labor under disease produced by such treatment, they fall into a state which occasionally leads to insanity. Perhaps the most atrocious part of this case is, when the young man said, "You've not cured me; give me back my money !" and the doctor replied, "If you dare ask for that, I shall accuse you of masturbation" (sensation), which was utterly false, and a piece of rascally conduct on the part of the defendant.

THE DEPUTY-JUDGE.-Oh! even if it were true, it would be a monstrous thing for a medical man to assert. (A burst of applause for a moment followed this remark from the Bench, but which was immediately repressed.) I say, whether it be true or not, it is a breach of confidence, and a monstrous assertion to make.

The plaintiff was then sworn, and examined by Mr. May.

I believe you went to consult Dr. Kahn? I went in the month of August, 1856. Did you believe he was a regular practitioner?

Mr. BARNARD. I object to that question.

Mr. MAY.-In what capacity did you go to him?-I went to consult him about my health.

But for that you would not have gone to him?-No; and I waited an hour before I could see him. He asked me what was the matter; and I told him that I had had the "clap," and that I did not think that I was cured of it.