Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-19
MEDICAL.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL
ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE FRoA
QUACKERY.

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ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE FKOA
QUACKERY.
THE ONLY PLACE WHERE A CURE
CAN BE OBTAINED.
DIR. JOHNSON has discovered the most
Certain, Speedy, and only Efectual Remedy IL
the World for Weakness of the Back or Limbs
Structures, Affection of the Kidneys or Bladder
Involuntary Discharges, Impotcncy, Genera
| Debility Nervousness, Dyspepsia DahguOI
Low Spirits, Confusion of Ideas, Palpitation OF
the Heart, Tmdity, Trembling, DimnesS 9i
Sight. or Giddiness Disease OF the HEAD,
Throat, No.e, or Skin, Affections OF the Liver LIVER,
Lungs, Stomach, or Boweis-tEose Ie.liOoe ti.s S
Disorders arising from Solitary Habits o
Youth-secret and solitary practices more iaIsI
| to their victims than the song OF Syrens 10 tnt
Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most orit
liant hopes or snticpatons, rendering Hai'
| riage, &C., impossible.
YOUNG MEN,
Especially, who have become the Victims oi
solitary vice, that dreadful and destructive
habit which annually sweeps to an ultlmeiy
grave thousands of Young Men of the most
excellent talents and brilliant intellect VINO
| might otherwise have entranced listening o9uA-
tors with the thunders Of eloquence, or WaKed
to estacy the living Tyre, may call with lUlI
confidence.
Married Persons, or Young Men comtempls-
ting marriage being aware Of Physical eak-
ness, Organic Debility, Deformities, speedily
| cured.
| He who places himself under the care OF Or
j. may religiousy confde in his honor rs
| gentleman, and confidently rely upon hls ski
as physician
ORGANIC WEAKNESS
Immediately cured snd full vigor restored. %,
This distressing affection, when renders nc nc
| miserable and marriage impossible Is the
penalty paid by the victims OF Improprlety.-
| Young persons are too apt TO commit e1-
cesses from not being aware OF the dreauIu!
| consequences that may ensue. NOW, VINO 'hA'
| understands the subject will pretend TO deny
that the power of procreation is lost sooner by
! those falling into improper hablti tnan Dy Ino
prudent? Besides being deprived OF the pleSs;,
ure of healthy offspring, the most serious anq
| destructive symptoms OF ooth pody anu H1.HN
arise The System becomes deranged, the
7 Physical and Mentsl Functions Weakened
| Loss of Provocative Power, Nervous lrrtaDGi-
| ty Dyspepsia, Pslpitatlon OF the dearI' lndI
| gestion, Constitutional Debility, and "ssthS
| of the Frame, Consumption, Decay ana Dca'H'
DIR. JOHNSON,
Mt.ober Of the ROYAL College of Surgeons
| london. Graduate of one Of the most eminehi
| Colleges in the United States, and the gresIer
| mart Of whose life has been spent IN the h-splt-
| ais of London, Paris, Phiiadelphla, ana eise-
where has effected some OF the most hStohsu55
| ing cures That were ever known, many lrouO!ed
with ringing in the head and ears When asleep
! great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden
sounds, bashtulness, with frequent blushlng! al
tended sometimes with arrangement OF mlnd
were cured Immediately.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
DR.. j. addresses all those who have Injured
themselves by improper indulgence ana son
| tary habits which ruin both body and mlnoi
uniting them for either business study, socle-
| ty or marriage.
These are Some of the sad and melancholy
effects produced by early habits OF youth, W.
| Weakness of the Back and Limbs Pains III IL
| Head Dimness Of Sight Loss of Muscular row
| er Palpitation Of the Heart Dyspepsls Ner-
vous Irrtabity, Derangement Of the DlgestIV-
| Functions, General Debility, symptoms
| Consumption, &c.
MENTALLY-The fearful effects on the mind
are much TO be dreaded. Loss Of Memory,
| Confusion of Ideas, Depression OF spirits, hVI
| Forebodings, Ayerson to Society, Sell Distrusti
Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c, are some "i
| Thousands OF persons Of all ages can no"
iud ge W hat is the cause of their declining health,
| losing their vigor, becoming weak, pale, her-
v3us and emac!ated, having singular appear,
ance about the eyes, Cough, and Symptoms oI
0'''''''' YOUNG MEN,
Who have injured themselves by u ceE
| tain practice, INDUCED in, habit ire
0uentiy learned from evil companions, or at
| school, the effects of which are nightly felt,
even when asleep, and if not cured, render
| marriage impossible, and destroys DOLE mihu
and body. should apply Immediately;
| What pity that = young man, the nope oi
his country, the pride of his parents, should De
snatched from al prospects and enJoymenls OF
! life by the consequence of deyiating from the
path of nature, and indulgng in II certain se-
cret habit Such persons must before contem-
plating n,,.rv
reflect that sound mind and body are the most
necessary requisites to promote connubla hap
| pness Indeed, without these the journey
| through life becomes weary pilgrimage the
! prosp ct hourly darkens to the Wow, the NINA
| becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
| the melancholy reflection that the happiness q
another becomes blighted with your own
DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.
When the misguided and imprudent votsry
| of pleasure finds that he has lmbibed the seeds
of this painful disease 1t too often happens that
| sn ill-tfmed sense of shame or dread OF dlscoY-
| erv deters him from applying TO those w
from education and respectability, can alone
befriend him, delaying till the constitutions!
| symptoms Of this horrid disease make their ap.
pearaace such as liberated sore throst, diseased
nose nocturnal pains n the head ana limbs
| dimness OF sight, deafness, nodes on the shin
bones and arms, blotches on the head, face and
extremities, progressing with irighttul rapIdlty
till ut last the palate OF the mouLh or IL -heS
of the nose fall in, and the victim OF TINS aWiuI
| disease becomes horrd object oI commlssers
ti0n. tiI death puts period to his dreadful suf
ferings, by sending him t. that Undiscovered
Country from whence 70 traveller returns.
tits MELANCHOLY FACT that thou
sands fall victims to this terrible disease, owing
10 the unskilfulness of ignorant pretenders, WHO,
| nv the use of that DEADLY POISON, MF r.
curry, ruin the constitution and max: the
residue of life miserable.
DR. JOHNSON,
OFFICE, No, 7, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET,
BALTIMORE, MD,
Left hand side going from Baltimore street
few doors from the corner. Fail not TO ooseFV'
~ o letters received unless post paid, an
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Persons Writing should state age rnd af9ns sena po
ton of advertsement descrloihS syIlPtolhs.