Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-05-28
Baltimore Lock Hospital,
DOCTOR JOHNSTON.

Baltimore Lock Hospital, s
DOCTOR JOHNSTON, j
TINE founder of this Celebrated Institution offers =
the most Certain, Speedy, and only efectual q
remedy in the world for elects Structures, Seminal
Weakness, Pains in the Loins, Constitutional De- :"
bility, Impotency, Weakness ofthe Back and Limbs, :"
Affections ofthe Kidneys, Palpitat ion of the Heart, :
Dyspepsia, Nervous Iritability, Disease of tie 7
Head, Throat, Nose, or Skin and all those serious
and melancholy Disorders arising from the Des- o
t~ructive habits of Youth, which destroy both body
and mind. THESE SECRET and solitary practices !
more fatal to their victims than the song ofthe Sy-
rens to the mariners of Ulysses, ~blighting their 4
most brilliant hopes of anticipations, rendering
Marriage, &C., impossible.
Young Men.
especially, whe have become the victims of Solita-
~ Vice, that dreadful and destructive habit,
which annually sweeps to an untimely grave
thousand of young men of the most exalted talents
and brilliant intellect, who might otherwise have
entranced listening Senates with the thunders of
elouuence, or walked to ecstacy the living Tyre,
may call with all confidence.
Marriage.
Married Persons, or Young Men contemplating
maria e, being aware of Physical Weakness,
Organic Debility, Deformities, &C., should imme-
diately consslt DR.. j., and be restored to perfect
health.
he who places himself under care of DR.. john
SON may religiously confde in his honor as a gen.
tleman, and confidently rely upon his skill as a
physician.
Organic Weakness
Immediately cured, and full vigor restored:
This disease is the penalty most frequently pald
nv those who have become the victims OF improp-
er indulgences. Young persons are too apt to
commit excuses from not being aware of the dread
ful consequences that may ensue. Now, who that
understands the subject viii pretend to deny that
the mower of Procreation is lost sooner by those
falling into improper habits by the prudent. Be
sides being deprived the pleasure OF healthy on
spripg, the most serious and dest. uctiye symptoms
hotEb hodv and mind arise. The system becomes
deranped. the physical and mental powers weaken
ed. nervous debility, dyspepsia, palpitatlon OF the
heart. Indigestion, a wasting of the frame, cough
symptoms of consumption, ect.
Nervous Debility.
Weakness of the system Nervous Debility and
premature decay generally arise from the Des-
~tructive habit of youth, that solitary practice SO
fatal to the healthful existence Of man, and it is
the young who are most apt to become its Victims
from an ignorance of the dangers to which they
subject themselves. Parents and Guardians are
often mislead with respect to the cause or source
of disease in their sons and wards. Alas how
often do they ascribe to other causes, the wasting
of tAe frame, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspep
sy, indigestion, arrangement of the Nervous Sys
tenn, Cough, and Symptoms of Consumption, also
those serious Mental effects, such as loss of mem
ory, depression of spirits or peculiar fits of Melan
choly, when the truth is they have been caused b.
indulging in Pernicious but alluring practices, des
tructive to both Body and Mind. Thus are swep
from existence, thousands who might have beer
of use to their Country, a pleasure to their friend
and ornaments TO Society,
OFFICE No. Z SoUTH FREDERICK ST.,
f left hand side going from Baltimore street, z door
from the corner.
;, rs Be particular in observing the name an
number, or you will mistake the place.
ne Take notice, observe Name on the Door an
. Windows.
A Cure Warranted, or no Charge Made, i
r from One to Trio Days.
!, NO MERCURY OR NAUSEOUS DRUGS USEI
DR.. Johnston.
e Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lol
) don, Graduate from one of the most eminent Co
leges of the United States, and the greater pa
n of whose life has been spent in the first Hospita
Of London, Paris, Philadelphia, and elsewher
has effected some of the most astonishing cur
ID that were ever known, many troubled with rim gil
or in the head and ears when asleep, great neryou
l. ness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, and bas
Is fulness, with frequent b~lushing, attended som
times with arrangement of mind, were cured il
I'd mediately.
lie A Certain Disease.
When the misguided and imprudent votary
" pleasure finds he has imbibed the seeds of Il
p painful disease, it too often happens that an
ne timed sense of shame, or dread of discovery, 6
1g tiers him from applying to those who, from educ
e, ton and respectability, can alone befriend hi
~ oCLdJ ing I'LL II . hPlOho Va II
L horrid disease make their appearance such as
nd cerated sore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pa
If. in the head and limbs, dimness of sight, deafne
las nodes on the shin bones and arms, blotches on
ere head, face, and e~xtremities, progressing with frig
of full rapidity, till at last the palate of the mouth
the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim of t
TX awful disease becomes a horrid object of commise
ion tion till death puts a period to his dreadful sud
raj ings by sending them to :" that bourne from whel
ere no traveller returns" To such therefore
The Johnston pledges himself to preserve the most
the violable secrecy, and from his extensive pract
les in the first hospitals in Europe and America,
lis can confidently recommend a safe and speedy c
for to the unfortunate victim of this horrid disease
de- IT is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall
re- Tins to this dreadful disease, owing to the uns
fulness of ignorant pretenders, who, by the us
that dreadful poison, mercury, ruin the const
ton, and either send the unfortunate sufferer
an untimely grave, or else make the residue of
dox life miserable.
nan Take Particular Notice.
,eo' DR.. J. addresses all those who have injured tn
selves by private and improper indulsencies.
These are some of the sad and melancholy eff
OF produced by early habits of youth, viz: Weak
say of the Back and Limbs, Pain in the Head, D
N ness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Power, Palpita
= of the Heart, Dyspepsia, Nervous Irritability,
NY rangement of the Digestive Functions, Gem
hlch Debility, symptoms Of Consumption, &c.
la'e MENTALLY-The fearful effects upon the Il
anne are much to be dreaded, LESS of Memory, Coz
. sion of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil Forel
lHSS, AHeTSloH ii COClety, sell DlSlFuSl, Low
!. Solitude, Timidity, &C., are some Of the evils
o.. duced.
81 IN Thousands of persons ofall ages, can now j.
ierai what is the cause of their declining health.
QUO ing their vigor, becoming weak, pale and ema
ted, have a sin gular appearance about the c
cough and symptoms of consumption.
y of DR.. Johnston's Invigorating Remedy
to its Organic Weakness.
n, By this great and important remedy, veal
20 800 of the organs are speedily cured, and full
80 restored. Thousands of the most nervous an,
:, III bilitated, who had lost all hope, have been i'm
IS lately relieved. All impediments to Mari
~ III" Physical or Mental Disqualification, Nervou,
!, ~ ~ritability, Tremblings and Weakness, or exha
from n 49,. 'P'eUHJ 0"0'
[E. Young Men,
Mis- Who have injured themselves by a &c
Drug Practice INDUCED in when alone-a habit Fl
atent emily learned rom evil companions, or at 81
Us, at the effects (which are nightly felt, even
ST. asleep, and if not cured, renders marriage in
sible, and destroys both mind and body, ST
" Dr anply immediately