The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-02-25
MEDICAL
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL.
ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE FROM
QUACKERY.
THE ONLY PLACE WHERE A CURE
GAN BE OBTAINED.

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GAN BE OBTAINED.
DIR. JOHNSTON has discovered the most certain
speedy, and only efectual remedy in the world fol
Weakness of the Back or Limbs, Structures, Alice
tions of the Kidneys and Bladder, Involuntary dis
charges, Impotency, General Debility, Nervousness
Dyspepsia Languor, Low Spirits, Confusion of Ideas
Palpita.on of the Heart, Timidity, Trembngs, Dim
ness of Sight or Giddness, Diseases of the Head
Throat Nose or Skin, Affections of the Lungs, Stom
ssh or Bowes-those terrible disorders srrsing from
the Solitary Habits Of Youth-lhose secret and soil
song of Syrons to the Mariner of Ulysses, bightnR
their most brilliant hopes anticpations, rendering
marriages, &C., impossible.
YOUNG MEN,
Especially, who hayo become the victims of Solitude
Vice that dreadful ard destructive hrbt which annu
ally sweeps to an untimey grave thousands OF Young
Men fthe most exalted talent and brilliant intellect,
who might otherwise have entrance1 listening Sen
ates with the thunders of eloquence, or walked to
ecstacy the living lyree, may call with full conf
dence.
Married Persons, or Young Mon contemplating
marriage being aware of physical weak ness, igauc
debilities, deiormities, &C., speedily cured.
He who places himself undor tho care OF Di. j.
may religiously confdo on his honor as gentlemer,
INDEPENDENTLY rely upon his skill as physician
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.
Immediately cured and full vigor restored.
This dreadful disease-whch renders life miserable
and marriage impossibe-is the penalty PAID by the
victims of improper indalgencies. Young persons
are too apt 10 commit excessos from not beng aware
of the dreadful consequences that may ensue. Now,
who that understands the subject will pretend 10
deny that the power of procreaon is lost sooner ny
those falling into improper habits than by tire prn.
dentf Besides being deprived of the pleasures Of
healthy offspring, the most serious and destructive
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system
becomes deranged the physical and mental functonA
weakened, loss of provocative power nervous rrita
blity, dyspepsia, papitation Of the heart, indiges
tion constitutional debility wasting of the frame
coughs, consumption, &c.
oYFIoa No. SOUTH FREDERICK STRKkT,
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, q few
doors from the Fail not to observe the name
and number
Letters must be paid and contain stamp. The
Doctors Diplomas hang in his Office.
DR.. JOHNSTON,
Member 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
most astonishing cures that were ever known; many
troubled with ringing in the head and ears when
ssloep great nervousness, being alarmed at sndden
sounds bashfuness with frequent bushing, attended
sometimes with arrangement of the mind, wore
80 " TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
DR.. J. addresses all those who have injured them
selves by improper indulgenoieB and solitary habts
which ruin both body and mind, uniting them fer
eithor business, study, society or marriage
These are some of the sad and melancholy efects
produced by early habits of youth, viz Weakness of
the Back and Limbs, Pains in. the Head Dimness of
Sight Loss Of Muscular Power, palpitation of the
Heart Dyspepsia, Nervous Irritabilty, Derangement
Of the Digestive Eunctiens General Debility, Symp-
toms of Consumption.
The fearful effects on the mind arc much to be
preston of Spirits, Evil Forebodings Aversion TO
Society, Sefdstrust, Love of Solitude, Tinidity, &c.
are some of tho evils produced.
Thousands of persons of all ages can now Judge
hiatt tia ro ~ hair no
their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and ema
,iated, having singular appearance about the eyes
cough and symptoms of consumption.
YOUNG MEN
who have injured themselves by a certain practice
n6ulged in when alono--a habit frequently learned
rom evil companions or at school, the effects of which
ire nightly felt, when asleep, and if not cured
lenders marriage impossible, and destroys both mind
md body-should apply Immediately.
What q pity that young man, the hope OF his
country the pride of his parents should be snatched
rom oil prospects and euoyments of life by the con-
sequence of deviating from the path of nature and
ndulging in o certain secret habit. Such persons
MUST, before contemplating
MARRIAGE,
reflect that sound mind and body are the most nee
sssary requisites to promote connubal happiness; in
ioed without taese, the journey THROUGH life becomes
weary pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens TO
the yiew the mind becomes Swallowed with dispair
and filled with the melancholy reflection that the
happiness of another becomes blighted with own
DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE.
When the misguided and imprudont votary of
pleasure finds he has imbibed the seeds of this pain
full disease 1t too often happens that lltimod
Of shame or dread of discovery deters him from APP
plying to those, who, from education and respeota-
biity, can alone befrend him. He falls into the
hands of ignorant and designing pretenders who IL
capable of curing, fitch his pecunary substance keep
him trihing month after month, or as long rs the
smallest fee can bo obtained, and with dspar loave
him with ruined health TO sigh his calling die
appointment; or, by tho use of that deadly poison
Mercury, hasten the constitutional symptoms of the
terrible disease, such Affection of the Head,
Throat, Eose Skin, ETC., progressing with frightfu
rapdty till death puts period to his dreadful suor
Ing by sending him to that undiscovered country
from whose bourne traveller returns.
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS
The many thousands cured at this institution
within the last eighteen years, and the numerous
Surgical Operations performed by DR.. Johnston, wit
messed by the reporters of the ua" aud many other
papers, notices of which appeared again and again
before the public, besides his standing gentle
man Of character and responsibility, is sufficient
to the afflicted.
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CUREn
Persons writing should be particular in direcIng
their letters TO hts institution In the following
nsr:
JOHN M. JOHNSTON NJ. D.,
Baltimore Lock Hospital,
aug5-Iy Baltimore MARYLAND.