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ars. INVALID LIVES may be Assured at rates proportioned to the risk. Claims paid _thirty_ days after proof of death, and all Policies are _Indisputable_ except in cases of fraud. Tables of Rates and forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. _99. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London._ * * * * * The Twenty-eighth Edition. NEUROTONICS, or the Art of Strengthening the Nerves, containing Remarks on the influence of the Nerves upon the Health of Body and Mind, and the means of Cure for Nervousness, Debility, Melancholy, and all Chronic Diseases, by DR. NAPIER, M.D. London: HOULSTON & STONEMAN. Price 4d., or Post Free from the Author for Five Penny Stamps. "We can conscientiously recommend 'Neurotonics,' by Dr. Napier, to the careful perusal of our invalid readers."--_John Bull Newspaper, June 5, 1852._ * * * * * PULLEYN'S COMPENDIUM. One Volume, crown 8vo., bound in cloth, price 6s., THE ETYMOLOGICAL COMPENDIUM: or, PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINS AND INVENTIONS; relating to-- Language, Literature, and Government. Architecture and Sculpture. Drama, Music, Painting, and Scientific Discoveries. Articles of Dress, &c. Titles, Dignities, &c. Names, Trades, Professions. Parliament, Laws, &c. Universities and Religious Sects. Epithets and Phrases. Remarkable Customs. Games, Field Sports. Seasons, Months, and Days of the Week. Remarkable Localities, &c. &c. By WILLIAM PULLEYN. The Third Edition, revised and improved, by MERTON A. THOMS, ESQ. London: WILLIAM TEGG & CO., 85 Queen Street, Cheapside. * * * * * SPECTACLES.--WM. ACKLAND applies his medical knowledge as a Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company, London, his theory as a Mathematician, and his practice as a Working Optician, aided by Smee's Optometer, in the selection of Spectacles suitable to every derangement of vision, so as to preserve the sight to extreme old age. ACHROMATIC TELESCOPES, with the New Vetzlar Eye-pieces, as exhibited at the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The Lenses of these Eye-pieces are so constructed that the rays of light fall nearly perpendicular to the surface of the various lenses, by which the aberration is completely removed; and a telescope so fitted gives one-third more magnifying power and light than could be
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