The Portland daily press., 1863-10-20
MEDICAL.

DOOU DIX if falling to cure IN less time than
any other physician, more efectually and perma.
icines, -''u'
SELF.ABUsE AND SOLITARY HABITS,
Their effects and consequences;
SPECIAL AILMENTS AND SITUATIONS,
Incident to Married and Single Ladies;
SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS;
Mercurial A aectiops Eruptons and all Diseases of
the Skin; Ulcers of the Nose, Throat and Body PIN.
pies on the Face; swelings of the Joints; Nervous
ness; Constitutional and other Weaknesses in youth
and the more advanced at all ages, of
BOTH SEXES, SINGLE OR MARRIED.
DR.. l.. DIX'S
PRIVATE MEDICAL OFFICE,
FL EndicOtt street, Boston, Mass,
is arranged that patients never see or hear each
other Recollect, the ONLY entrance to his Office is
sequently family interruption SO that ON no ac.
count can any person hesitate applying at his Office
DR.. DIX
boldly asserts land It cannot be contradcted except
by Quacks who will say or do anything perjure
themselves to impose upon patients) that he
srHE ONLY REGULAR GRADUATE PHYSICIAN Ap.
vERTIsING In BOSTON.
SIXTEEN YEARS
engaged in treatment of Special diseases, fact so
well known to many Citizens Publishers Merchants
Hotel Proprietors. &C., that he is much recommend.
ed, and particularly to
STRANGERS AND TRAVELLERS.
To avoid and escape Imposition of Foreign nd Ma
tive Quacks, more numerous in Boston than other
DR. L. DIX
proudly refers to Professors and respectable Phys
because of his acknowledged skill and reputation At.
tanned through so long experience, practice aud OBJ
servation.
AFFLICTED AND UNFORTUNATE,
be not robbed and add your suerin rs in being de.
ceived by the lying boasts, INTERPRETATIONS false
promises and pretensions of
FOREIGN AND NATIVE oUACKs
al diseases and LESS as to their cure Some exhibit
forged diplomas of Institutions or Colleges which
never existed in any part of the world; others ex.
not only assuming and advertising in names of those
inserted in the diplomas, but to further their imposi
non assume names Of other most celebrated physi.
clans long since dead. Neither be deceived by
QUACK NOSTRUM MAKERS,
through false certificates and references and rccom
mendations of their medicines by the dead, who can.
not expose or contradict them; who, besides TO
Iua cb n saer Poson copy from Medical books
different herbs and plants, and ascribe all the same
TO their Pills, Extracts, Specifics &C. most of which,
II not all contain Mercury because of the ancient
belief of its curing everything" but now known
TO "kill more than Is cured" and those not Killed
constitutionaly injured for life.
iONOhANNE Of YUAN DOCIOkS AND NOS.
TRUM MAKERS,
Through the ignorance of the Quack Doctor know.
ing no other remedy, he relies upon Mercury and
gives il to all his patients in pills, drops &C. SO the
Nostrum Maker, equally ignorant, adds TO his So
called Extracts Specific Antidote &C., both relying
upon its effects in curing few In a hundred 1t Is
trumpeted in various ways throughout the land but
ALAS nothing is said ofthe balance ;Nsome of whom
die Others grow worse and are left to RpgeV and sui.
fer for months or years, until relieved Sr-Aured II
possible by competent ply siciaDs.
BUT ALL QUACKS ARE NOT IGNORANT.
Notwithstanding the foregoing facts are known to
some 9uack doctors and nostrum makers yet regard.
less of the life and health of Others there are those
among them who will even perjure themselves con-
trxdictng giving mercury TO their patients that
is contained in their Nostrums that the usual
fee may be obtained for profcssedly curing or the
dollar Traction Of 1t" may be obtained for the
Nostrum. 1t il thus that many are deceived also and
uselessly spend Mge amounts for experiments with
quackery.
DR.. DIX'S
charges very moderate. Communications
crcdy confidential and all may rely him with the
strictest secrecy and confidence whatever may be
the disease, condition situation of any one mar.
red or single.
Medicine. sentby Maitland Expressto all palts Of
the United States. .
lletters requiring advice mustcontain one dollas
to insure an answer
Address DR.. L. DIX. No 81 Endicottstreet Boston,
Mass.
Boston, Jan. /. 1868. ly