The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-21
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DR. JOHNSTON,
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
OFFICE SOUTH FREDERICK STREET

OFFICE, 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET
From his extensive practice in the great Hospi-
tails of Europe and the first in this country, viz
England, France, Philadelphia and elsewhere,
can offer tho most certain, speedy and effectual
remedy in the world for ~
DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.
Weakness of the Back or Limbs, Structures,
Affections of the Kidneys and Bladder 1nvolun-
tary Discharges, Impotency, General Debility,
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits,
| Tinidity Trembings, Dimness of Sight or
or Giddiness, Diseases of the Head, Throat, Nose
or Skin, Affection of the Lungs, Stomach or Bow
els-those terrible disorders arising from the Sol
| tary Habits of Youth-those secret and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims than the
song ofSyrens TO the Mariner of Ulysses, blighting
their most brilliant hopes or anticipations, rem
derng marriage, &c; impossible
YOUNG MEN,
Especially, who have become the victims Of
Solitude Vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
which annually sweeps to an untimely grave
thousands of Young Men of the most exalted
talent and brilliant intellect, who might otherwise
have entranced listening Senates with the thun-
ders of eoquence, or walked TO ecstacy the living
lyree, may call with full confidence.
MARRIAGE.
Married Persons, or Young Men contemplating
marriage being aware of physical weakness, or
ganic debilites, reformation, &C., speedily cured
He who places himself under the care of DIR. j.
may religiouSly conilde his honor
gentleman and confidently rely upon his skill MS a
physician. IL H
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.
immediately cured and full vlgor restored
This dreadful dsease-whch renders life mise
rable and marriage impossible--is the penalty
paid by the victims of improper indulgencies.
Young persons are too apt to commit excuses
from not being aware of tho dreadful conse
quenccs that may ensue. Now, who that under
stands the subject will pretend to deny that the
power of procreatiOn is lost sooner by those fall
ing into improper habits than by the prudent2
Besides being deprived of the pleasures of
healthy offspring, the most serious and destruc-
tive symptoms to both body and mind arise The
system becomes deranged, the physical and men
tai functions weakened, loss of provocative pow
er, nervous ir1itabiiy, dyspepsia, palpitation of
the heart, indigestion, constitutional debility, a
wasting of the frame, coughs, consumption, de-
A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS.
Persons ruined in health by unlearned preten-
ers who keep them trifing month after month,
taking poisonous and injurious compounds, should
apply Immediately.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Loh-
don, graduate from one of the most eminent Col
leges in the 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 We're ever known; many troubled with ring
ing in the head and when asleep, great
nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds,
bashfuness, with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with q arrangement of the mind, were
TAKE PXRTICULAR NOTICE.
DIR. J. addresses all those who have injured
themselves by improper indulgencies and soita-
ry habits, which ruin both body and mind, unfit
ting them for either business, study, society, or
marriage.
These are some of the sad and melancholy eff
fects produced by early habits of YOUTH viz
Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Paius in the
Head, Dmncss of Sight, Loss of Muscular Pow
er, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsia Nervous
IrritabiJity, Derangement of the Digestive Func-
tions, General Debility, Symptoms of Coasulnp
MENTALLY a
The fearful effects the mind much TO be
dreaded Loss of Memory Confusion of Ideas
Depression of Spirits, Evil Forebodngs, Aversion
10 Society, Selfdistrust, Love of Solitude, Timid
ity, &C., some of the evils produced
Thousands of persons of all ages can now Judge
what is the cause of their declining health, loosing
their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous, and
emaciated having singular appearance about
the eyes, eough and symptoms of consumption.
7 YOUNG MEN ftAs 3b i}e'
who have injured themselves by certain prac
tiee INDUCED in when alone--a habit frequently
learned from evil companions or at school, the
effects of which are nightly felt, even when
asleep, and, if not cured, renders marriage i'm
possible, and destroys both mind and body,
sh Guild apply Immediately. 9. 1850
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his
country the pride of his parents, should be
snatchcd from all prospects and enjoyments of
life by the consequence of deviating from the
path of nature and INDUCING in certain secret
habit. Such persons, MUST, before contempla-
ting l .4tf
reflect that sound mind and body are the most
necessary requisites to promote connubial hapi-
ness indeed, without these, the journey through
life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the prospect
hourly darlsens to the view the mind. becomes
shadowed with despair and filled with the mel
ancholy reflection that the happiness of another
becomes bliohted with your own
When the misguided and ilnprutent votary of
pleasure finds he has imbibed the seeds of this
painful disease, it too often happens that an i'll
timed sense of shame or dread of discovery de-
tiers him from applying to those, who, from edii-
cation and respectability can alone bcfiiend him.
He falls into the hands OF ignorant and designing
pretenders who incapable of curing, fitch his
pecuniary substance, keep him triiiiig month
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