American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-12-15

! and sfnce the Sd OF Apnl, 1859.
PROPRIETOR GF THE
FRENCH MEDICAL HOUSE. ~
I6 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, { Vest ssdo.g
TWO TREES BEFORE THE HOUSE, 7 {
! pG- THIRTY ODD YEARS of experience in :
! Paris and America have enabed this French Doctor I
to cure any form or stage of secret disease very
ebert but reasonable time. Strangers be your
qua Td Before you pay eHsrnous fees, read a com
pete treatise on secret diseases and destructive habit
| OF youths, called solitary vice, wuen and sold hv
the French Doctor Of the French Medical House, Is
South Frederick street, west side, two trees before
| the House. Price Of the book IS cents, Afflicted
remember that this French Doctor max es the only
medicine which will cure structure without bougias
and restore impOeRcy 10 prime vigor with strict hon
esly' Written guaranty and forfeiture If desired
Terms moderate.
| N. b. Diplomas from the n edica Faculties of Bal
| timore and Paris framed III the office.
! NO MERCURY OR COPAVIA. There are 1--WE
ways 10 treat a Secret disease the FIRST much
boasted of merely the temporary disappearance Of
The Symphonic, Ivy means of mercury or eopavia, and
requires but day TWO, but il s very injurious
deed; the second way is to eradicate it out OF the
system, slowly, safely and surely, without MerCaIy
or COpavia.
Victims of an improper treatment, and weaTfsd
with disappointment, may cSnfdenlaly apply. Per-
sons VINO have injured their Health by a certain Ers
tice called solitary vice, which brings impOteney,
will be restored 10 prime Vigor. This is The only
place in Baltimore where ssre cure be bad ok
written guaranty and forfeiture, with strict honesty
and terms moderate. The most espect city referT
snces will he given. Advice gratis.
CONFESSION. L. the subscriber, publicly eoa-
QfS0agH
ever since 1885, had thirteen eminent physicians
whose names are recorded at the French Medical
House; some OF them abated the disease but it i'd
ways returned worse than befoIe, until it carried
away both sides of my throat and pierced the too of
the palate. also lost several bones OF my nose aHa
was almost blind of an eye, and my face was cover
ed with an immense quantity of scabE between
which The skin was as red as scarlet, and was in
deed in most depOrabe condition, so much so that
the learned professor pronounced nae inc9rable.-
IL was obVioHS TO ne, then, that COMMON doctor
could not extricate me frem the jaws of death-Rox
they all follow the same Old routine with their TAIN
of mercury, mixtures or pills, invented by Ignorance
and continued by cupidy, and do good to any but
the UendeTS. Several persons recommended Rocto~
HUE1. of the Medical House, No. 10 SOUTH FIRE
DERlCK STREET, as a scientific nBn and a rare
genus IN those complaints. | went 10 him and bs
pledged to cure me on written guaranty. did NOT
hesitate at all on seeing so many likeResses of d.
uents who are living evidences of the many wonder
full cures he has performed in almost every kind Of
disease. Then he had my dagueneotype likensss
taken, and | took his medicine for about a wear
which completely cured ME. lie had thu my other
likeness taken, and both TO b. seeI at his Office
II this meets the eye Of some wrelched being in the
grasp Of death IS was, let him fly TO this pIaise
worthy phllantlIropst, whose deep knowesge of the
vital principles which animate and move the human
Frame are known in both hemsphores and believe
flom my very soul (pot forgetting thar am on OATH
that his exquisite geHiBs will discover many new
anu wen appropriated rehtoies as new diseases mar
be formed. HENRY Drummer.
Sworn before Justice VIM. McJilton the Sep, De
tOber, lS45, Baltimore, Md.
DESTRUCTIVEHABIT. How manV yeuth spoS
their health by the hateful and dangerous practice az
solitary indulgence. This is very injurious 10 ME ia
dividqals. whose compilations becoming pale, and
their bodies feeble, bad Digestion their stomaebs very
windy, and some pains are to be felt in the stomach
many times in III lungs and elsewhere ACCORDING N
the duration of this destructive vice. / have saoa
great many youths carried TO their graves before
twenty seven years of age, for not having gait and
be relieved in time.
Study frequently produces this affection, since the
head strongly taxed rit ties the entire nervous sys
tenn although there is little propensity in natHre 70
pursue this vice daring Sleep dreams are ready b.
seduce the senses Of the young victim until he in
voluntarily becomes guilty OF the weakness, from the
effects OF which all the skill of the edical pfOfes
sion has much difficulty in saving him. 1t is This So
RES of circumstances which gives rise 10 the aau,e
the result Of which terminates in nocturnal excise-
ment.
During nay residence in Paris, whieh lasted more
than score of years, | had occasion 10 examine n
great many thousand of those hich asouaiat
ed me with ali the peculiarites Of that detestable
and injurious habit which or late will kill the
patient, or what worse still bring him to kill him
self
Among the very many which have trsatsd and
cured there, recolect man affected with this mis-
cradle com plant, who On the of suicide aase h
see me; the reading of scientific journal which l
published at that time, gave him rays of bone
and he detailed me his complaint as TO lows:
am a Of thirty odd years old, a portrait vain
ter by trade, and in easy circumstances but the mess
miserable being in mind that ever lived, never had
any intercourse with any being whatever but myself.
From my boyhoOd sought lonely places and induig-
ed in this wee OF nature, but soon after my digestive
organs became weak and windy, hard digestions
feebleness and above all nervous that the least
noise made me jump with feaTfalness, though nod
no fear.
You were right said he to call this complaint noe
turnal, for il was at night that INDUCED the nost In
that horrible practice, which debiltated me to such az
extent that was unable to walk half mile without
taking some rest, my parents were alarmed at the
state of my health called doctor who suspected me
of this practice for he turned every way TO find euk
the truth, denied all, even the knowledge of it, but
resolved to quit 1t, but It was in vain for resisted all
the day long, but al night the dreams to seduee
my senses and ruined me. thought i'll got married
tmight change the vice. Therefore sir have como
to the conclusion 10 put myself uniesevedly uader
your care and if you don't fl me to get married and
have family, will EooH be out Of this world
First thing had 10 do, was TO re establish The dis
orderly organs of digestion, then to strengthen the do
bilitated organs in question, then another kind of
medicine 10 break the vclated habit of nature ater
which the patient found himself of mere lively dis
position got Aarrisd and had several children before
left Paris.
will row cite another case which occurred latelv
in my practice in Baltimore. The patient presentsl
me the following eertiheats amer b, ing cured
TO THE AFFLICTED OF THE SOLITARY
VICE. | am man of thirty years of age, and have
been addicted in nay boyhoea TO the destructive hakf
teTned Solitary Vice; have learned il fron bad boys
and practiced for about ten years, but thank God
have gait 1t and recovered nay health and strengtk
once more. Soon amer the Commencement Of This
abeminable practise instead of growing strong, heax-
~, and blooming as youths generally de, my health
impaired, my body feeble, and ny digestion difficult.
1t was sot Icing before nay parents were somewhat
alarmed and sent for physician who pfoRounssd
me affected with Liver Csnplaint-several other
doctors were called in succession, some treated me
for Consumption and others for disease of he Hears.
however they all agreed that had the Dyspepsia
When about 90 years of age became ffetful, usms-
ling at the least nose and Stunned all COM any par
tcslary that OF Females l choosed to he alone
though was not company to myself, and thousands
and thousands of times secretly desired that deatA
would come 10 rid me Of my miserable existence 10
say no moTe) The perusng Of little treatise trans
lated from the French which fortunately fell into nap
hands, instructed me on the true of my suffer
ing then resolved to quit this nocturnal practice aHs
accordingly did so for several years. but that Internal
vice did lot leave me, and il committed its depreda-