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Rh rounds of newspapers, almanacs and handbills, far from home, long after the remains of their authors have mingled with the dust.

The advertisers of such nostrums often assure the public that their articles are used and recommended by regular physicians. This is never true to any extent, and should never be in a single instance. Sometimes the names of physicians are affixed to recommendations of some kind, and ignominiously paraded before the public in that condition; sometimes the wretches have had the culpable audacity to make use of such names as Mott, Bache, or Warren, without any authority; and sometimes ignorant or weak-minded practitioners have been silly enough to lend their names for such unhallowed exhibitions. But the public ought to know that, in these times, no physician who does not deserve a mad-house ever allows such use of his name.

But there is a shorter and easier way of getting up certificates of remarkable cures. It is this:—the proprietor represents just such a case as he chooses; he then appends the certificates of cure, and affixes such names as his fancy may