hile their bodily health is apparently
excellent, their procreative powers have prematurely declined.

The fact of the establishment in this city of an original institution
under reputable business management, each department of which is
presided over by a physician of special skill and qualifications, is
something of which every citizen should feel proud. And to judge by the
class of patients who may be found in their elegant consulting-rooms,
and the very large amount of express and mail matter they are constantly
receiving, we believe that they are appreciated.

With our magnificent hospitals, second to none in the world, our large
medical colleges and dispensaries, and the establishment of so large and
excellent an institution as the Civiale Agency, the main offices being
now transferred from Paris to this city, New York may justly claim to be
the great medical centre of the United States, and sooner or later of
the world.

We maintain now, as we have always maintained, that the surest and best
way to drive quacks and humbugs from any branch of medicine, is to have
some of our very ablest and most honorable physicians make such a branch
their specialty, and such is the course now being pursued by the Civiale
Agency.

The very fact that it takes its name from and is engaged in
manufacturing and prescribing the remedies of France's most illustrious
specialist, Prof. Jean Civiale, is by itself evidence enough of its
medical value and professional integrity. Our feelings upon these
matters, _i.e._, the great importance of their bearing upon both
individual and national vigor and prosperity, the necessity for driving
from this field of practice those quacks and humbugs who entrap the
foolish and ignorant, those cheap and worthless remedies that flood
the drug market--our feelings upon these matters are, we repeat, very
strong; and hence, when we find an institution for the treatment of
these diseases conducted upon the highest moral, medical and business
principles by men of undoubted medical and business standing and
integrity, we feel that we cannot endorse them too heartily.

The _Tribune and Farmer_, of New York city, in its current issue of
July 26th, 1884, says

"AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE."

"The propriety of devoting editorial space to the subject-matter of any
medical advertisement that may appear in our columns may be doubted by
some, and indeed, were it not for our personal knowledge of the skill
and