The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-18
MEDICAL,
baltimore LOCK HOSPITAL.
ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE From
QUACKERY.
TIM ONLY PLACE WHERE A CURE
CAN BE OBTAINED.


DIR. JOHNSTON has discovered tho most certain
speedy and only edectual remedy in the world fol
Weakness of the Back or Limbo, Structures, Ahec
tlons of the Kidneys aDd Bladder, Involuntary dis
charges Impotency, General Debility, Nervousness
Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits Confusion OF Ideas
Palpitation of the Heart, Timdity rremblingE, Dim
ness of Sight or Giddiness, Diseases Of the Head
Throat Nose Skin, Affections Of the Lungs, Stom.
sab or Bowelsthose terrible disorders arising from
the Bolitsry Habits of those secret and soli
tary practices more fatal to their victims than the
song of Syrens to the Mariner of Ulysses, bightng
their most brilliant hopes anticipationS, rendering
marriages, &c., impossible.
ar YOUNG MEN,
Especially, who have become the victims of Solitude
Vice. that dreadful ard destructive hrbt which annu-
ally sweeps to an untimey grave Thousands of Young
Men of the most exalted talent andbriant intellect,
who might otherwise have entrance1 listening Sem
ates with the thundors of eloquence, or walked to
eostacy the living lyree, may call with full conf
dencc.
Married Persons, or Young Men contemplating
marriage, being of physical weakness, ganic
Gebilities, deiormites &C., speedily cured.
He who places himself under tho care of d.. J..
may religiously confdo on his honor as gentlemen,
and confidently rely upon his skill as physician.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.
Immediately cured and full vigor restored. t..l u
This dreadful disoassvhich renders life miserable
and marriage impossibleis the penalty paid by the
victims of improper indulgences Young persons
of the dreadful consequences that may ensus. Now
who thet understands the subject will pretend to
deny that the power of procreaton is lost sooner by
those falling into improper habits thaa by the pru
dent! Besides being deprived of the pleasures Of
healthy offspring, the most serious aud destructive
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The systcn
becomes deranged the physical and mental functions
weakened, loss of provocative power, nervous rrta
bility dyspepsia palpitation of the heart indiges
ton, constitutional debility. wasting Of the frame
coughs consumption, &c.
0ryI0H Mo- Z ScurU EREDRprrK
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, few
doors from the corner. Fail not to observe the
and number.
Letters must be paid and contain q stamp. Ths
Doctors Diplomas hang in his Office,
DIR. JOHNSTON,
komber of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
graduate from one OF the most eminent Colleges in
tho United States and the greater Part of whose life
has been spent in the hospitals of London Paris
philadelphia and elsewhere has effected some Of the
troubled with ringing In the head and ears when
asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden
sounds, bashfuness with frequent bushing attended
sometimes with arrangement of the mind, wsrs
CURED Immediately
W TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE
DR.. J. addresses all those who have injured the
selves by improper ndulgencies and seltary habit
which ruin both body and mind uniting thorn fer
either business, study, society or marriage.
These are some of the sad and melancholy effects
produced by early habits of youth, viz Weakness OF
the Back and Limbs, Pains in, tho Hoed Dimnegs Of
Sight. Loss of Muscular Power. Palpitaticn Of the
Heart Dyspepsia, Nervous Irritability, Derangeneni
of the Digestive gunetens General Debility, asrsp
- : MENTALLY.
y The fearful eeeots on tho mind are much TO be
dreaded. Lose of Memory, Confusicn of Ideas, Do
precision of Spirits, Evil Eorebodings, Aversion tc
Sooisty, Selfdisrus Love of Solitude, Tnidity, 40
are some of the evils produced
Thousands of persons of all ages can now Judge
what ia the cause of their declining health, loosns
their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and ena-
oiatod, having singular appearances about the oyas
cough end symptoms OF consumption.
YOUNG MEN
who have injured themselves by a certain practice
INDUCED in whom alone--a habit frequently learned
from evil companions at school, the effects of which
nightly felt, even when asleep and, if not cured
renders marriage impossible and destroys both mind
and body--should apply Immediately.
What q pity tbat young man, the hope OF his
country, the pride of his parents should be snatched
sequence of desiating from the path of nature and
INDUCING in certain secret habit. Such persona.
MUST, before contemplating
MARRIAGE,
reflect that sound mind and body are the most neg
essary requisites TO promote connubia happiness in
doed without :aose tho journey THROUGH life becomes
o wesry pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens to
the view, the mind becomes Swallowed with diapair
and filled with the melancholy reelection that the
happiness of another becomes bghted with our own.
DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE.
Whom the misguided and imprudent yotary OF
pleasure finds he has mbbed the seeds Of this pain
u disease, it too often happens that ltimed
of shame or dread of discovery doters him from APP
plying to those, who from education Gnd respecta-
biiity, can alone befriend him. He falls into the
hands Of ignorant and designing preten,ers, who il
capable of curing fitch his pecuniary substance keep
him trilins month after month, or as long as the
smallest fee be obtained, and with dspar leave
him with ruined health to sigh his CALLING dis
appointment; or, By the use OF that deadly poison
Mercury, hasten the constitutional symphonic of the
terrible disease, such az Affection of the Head,
Throat, Nose, Skin, etc., progressing with frghtfu
rapidly till death puts period to his dreadful suffer-
Ing by sending him to that undiscovered country
from whose bourne no traysilar rsturns.
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
Tho many thousands cured at this institution
within tho last eighteen years, and the numerous
Surgical Operations performed by DE-. Johnston, wit
messed by the reporters of the 5ua" and many other
papers, notices Of which appeared again and again
before the public, besides his standing as gentle-
man of character and responsibility, Ii suficisn
guarantee TO the afflicted.
SKIN DISEASE5 SPEEDILY CURkn.
Persons writing should be particular in directing
their estsys to his Institution In the following
nor: f
JOHN M. J0HNsTON nj. D.,
baltimore Lock Hospital,
ang6-fy - 13Itituoro MARYLAND