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Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2116, 15 October 1864, Page 4

FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, In lets to suit purchasers. THE undermentioned Lands in the Province of Wellinglon. CITY OF WELLINGTON.— Town Acres, Nos. 615, 872, 283, 28-i, 1045, 104*3, 10? I, ami port of 154. LOWER HUTT DlSTßlCT.— Sections Nos. 6, 15, 70, 77, and pnrts of No, 38, KAI WARRA WARRA DISTRICT.— Part of Section No. 3. HARBOR DlSTßlCT.— Sections Nos. 10, 17 and 18. PORIRUA DISTRICT — Sections Nes. 47 and 52 HOROKIWI DlSTßlCT.— Sections Nos. 7 and 2G. For further particulars apply to, C. B. BORLASE, Solicitor, Lambton Quay, Wellingtou. June 4, 1264. FRUIT TREES FOR SALE. PEARS, Plums, Cherries Grape vines, fig trees Gooseberries and Currants English laurels, hollies, quicks Trees very strong. To be sold Cheap. Apply to John Houghton, Willis-street; or to S SIOCKBRIDGE, Ohiro Nursery, near \\ sllington. IMPORTANT TO BUILDERS AND CON TRACTORS. BEST I-ORTLAND CEMFNT FOR HOME AND FOREIGN TRADE. MESSRS. HARWOOD AND HATCHER, Northfleet, Kent, are prepared t» supply thr Best Portland Cement adapted for stuccoing, brickwork, breakwaters, tidal, and every description of building work. AGENTS FOB THK COLONIES WANTED. Harwood & Hatches, Northfleet, Kent, England TO LET, the premises lately occupied by Krull & Co., at Plimmer's Wharf, suitable for a large wholesale busiuess and the nearest store to the Custom-house and Queen's Wharf. Likewise, a .Retail Store opposite the Bank »f New Zealand. Enquire of JOHN PLIMMER, Plimmer's Wharf. JHly 29, 1864. "[VTEW ZEALAND BANK, STEAM, and other JLN SHARES purchased and sold at the highest market price by th 3 undersigued. J. H. WALLACE, Stock and Share Broker, Wellington. ATORNAGHI and CO., Mathematical and • Optical Instrument Makers to tbe Surveyor General's Depai tment, Sydney Observatory, kc Jewellery, Watches, Clocks, and all kinds «f the abovo instruments «n hand and manufactured and repaired au the premises. Photographic Materials, Lenses, and Cameras on sale. All articles guaranteed and forwarded with despatch t« order. — A. Tobnaghi & Co., 312, GeorgeSireet, Sydney. [29.6 JUST PUBLISHED, Price, 2s 6d ; by post, 3s 6d, No. 1 of a Series of Works, each complete in itself. DR. L. L. SMITH "ON THE MEANS OF PROLONGING LIFE AND AVOIDING DISEASES." H, T. Dwight, publisher, and all Booksellers ; or direct from the author. CONTENTS : Chapter I. Causes of Diseases. — Intemperance in this colony, action of a ' nobbier' on the liver, peculiarity of this climate, difference between functional and sructural derangement of organs, instances of longevity, death at the age of 370 years, Nature's means of repelling diseases, imperfect nourishment, diet with children, lollies, &c ; infant deaths in the colony. Impure air — ' Choke damp' amongst our diggers; foul air amongst shopmen, printers, &c. Over exertion — Heenau, the prize-fighter, continued wakefulness, anxiety, quartz. miniug speculators. Want of exercise — Brahmins of India, accumulations of fat. Climate of colony — Long-continued heat, effects on muscles, the heart, liver, bile, dysentery, diarrl.cea Eflecls of cold — Infant mortality during our winter, eflects on lho aged. Congestion, &c. Hints to mothers as regards dress. .Spirit-drink-ing — The stomach of habitual drunkards. Hypochondriacs, depression of mind, nmlades imngi-nai'-es, faith, action of the mind on diseases and their cure. Electro-biology, mesmerism ; defective cleanliness, perspiration. The skin — Enamelling ; Madame Rachel. Ventilation — Dr Arnold; 'The Times' : hint for ventilation on simple principle. Diseased food — Pleuro-pneumonia meat, poisonous fish, sausages, parasitic mutton, measely pork, &c. Draiuage — The Yarra ; Dr Farre on sanitary measures. Chapteb 11. Nature of Disease. — Exemplification, tracing ' a cold' to 'consumption'; quantity of perspiration eliminated, sympathy of kidneys and other organs with skiu. Derangement of digestive organs — tracing the progress of food till it becomes part of the animal ; pbysiology and pathology of digestion ; chyme, chyle, tobacco, Americans, gastric diseases, mental emotions, and tbeir influence on tlie stomach; boiling food ; a word to our Collins-street meiclianis | ami city men; the serpent at the Zoological Gardens ; inadequate mastication ; action of fluids on tbe stomach ; warm lea, &c ; improperly cooked ! food; different styles of cooking , rules for eating ; digesting; Dr Mandeville, Sir F. Burdett, the London Alderman ; flatulency, acids, heartburn ; excess of food, its efFects, aud deficiency ot food; derangement of liver, &c ; gymuastic exercises; injurious effects of cricket, a warning; continued wakefulness. Diseases ofthe main, how engendered; frequency in this colony; giving piizes atom- schools ; excessive evacuations ; their action on the brain; grief; Her Majesty; the ploughboy; the Americans; the silent prison system ; Ernest Jones, tbe Chartist; Vernon; Peutridge; influence of tho mind; Lr Beddoes. Insanity, symptoms ; how to discover it ; how to promptly remedy it ; incipient insanity ; treatment easy in early stage. Chapter 111. Means of Avoiding Disease. — Laws which govern health, importance of Diet, quality ; Italian, French, and Englishmen t s _iet ; Garrick, Macready, Wellington ; report of health of navy ; quanlity, Dr Abercrombie ; indigestion, over-feeding, its effects ; the stomach pump ; laws concerning feeding ; Ute Laplander, Sir Walter Scott, Canaro, Stilites, Hilario, Dr Spark, the sagacious Irishman, cose ofthe English miller, Dr Robertson, toujours perdrix ; starvation ; digestibility and indigestibility of food; diflerent kinds of food and digestibility of same; table showing length of time of digestion of the dif. forent articles of iood usually consumed, and mode of preparation ; fat. Ths culinary art — a hint to cooks, Dr Chambers, cooking and cooks, high estimation in wbich they havo been and are held; France, Rome, Careme, Gsorge the Fourth, Em- i perors of Prussia and Austria, Baron Rothschild, Mark Antony, Sir Henry Halford. List of different i indigestible kinds of fond ; digestibility of animal in i contradistinction to vegetable food, paralysis of stomach, nutritious and innutritious food, portable i soups, inhabitants of Africa, Asia, North America, 1 aborigines, racehorses, different kinds of nutritious I food, list of them and quantity of nutriment con- 1 tamed ia each shown. Clothing — stays, the Mcdi- < cean Venus, tight-lacing, crinoline, disease engendered by it, Dr Lankester, mothers ; culpable manner in which they dress their ohildren ; mackintosh coverings, woollen coverings, sun-stroke, head coverings. Light — its influenoe on health and disease, * etiolation.' Air Bagshaw Ward, Commis- ' on the State of Towns Report, Duputien. ( Sir J ames 1 Wylie, experiments of Dr Edwards. Free vintila- \ tiou — Melbourne lodging-houses, our inspector, c Sanitary condition of Adelaide, Hobart Town, Mcl- J bourne, Dr Southwood Smith's opinion. Draiuage \ — Stagnant water, miasmata, the floods, contagion, c infection. Quarantine laws, tbe late Emperor of J Russia, black vomit, itch, syphilis, &c, contagion, ' inoculation, small-pox, measles, hooping-cough, I typhus, means of avoiding infection, rules for bath- ( ing, swimming, waut of sleep, infants, the nervous \ system, palpitation of the heart, the Turkish bath, ( Eerated bread. Sold by all booksellers aud direct from the author, i Dr L. L. SMITH, 144, Bourke-street, east, Melbourne. Prioe, 2s 6d. '