The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-17
MEDICAL.
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 the most certain, speedy and ehectual
remedy p u ny sHs;u OF II IMpRuDENCE.
Weakness Of the Back or limbs, STRUCTURES,
Affections of the Kidneys and Bladder, inyolnn
tary Discharges, ImPotency, General Debility
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Lang,tor Low Spirits,
Confusion of Ideas, Palpitatiof OF the Heart
Timidity, Tremblings, pimnSss Oh Sign Nor OF
OF Skin, Affection of the Lungs stomach or Bow
els--those terrible disorders arising from the Sol
itary Habits Of Youth--those secret and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims than the
song ofSyrens to the Mariner of Ulysses, blghting
their most brilliant hopes or antieipations, rem
derins m"rriass Y;o s.; iPgp %ES. oi
Especially, who have become the victims %, o.
Solitude Vice. that dreadful and destructive habit
which annually sweeps to an untimely grave grave
talent and brilliant intellect, who might otherwise
have entranced listening Senates with the thnn-
ders of eloquenee or walked 70 ecsisey 'he living
lyree may call with full confidence.
- .'-s.o.i MARRIAGE. esaaf.5ls i.fs. ~
Married Persons or Young Men contemplating
marriage, being aware of physical wesEness, or
ganie debilties, reformation, &c, speedily cured
He who places himself under the care OF Dr j.
NAV religiously confide on his honor as n
gentleman and confidently rely upon his skill as
ORGANIC WEAKNESS. rs i.
Immediately cured and full vlgor restored.
This dreadful disease--whieh renders life mise
rable and marriage impossible--is the penaity
paid by the victims Of improper indulgencies.
Young persons are too apt to commit excuses
from not being aware of the dreadful conse
quenees 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 prudent
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 procreatlve pow
er, nervous irrtability, dyspepsia, palpitation OF
the heart, indigestion, constitutional debility,
wasting of the Frame coughs, consumption, de-
"a CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS.
Persons ruined in health by unlearned rreten-
ers who keep them trifiing month after month,
taking poisonous and injurious compounds, should
''ff'' = DIR. JOHNSTON ..s5-s
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, L0i.-
don, graduate from one. of the most eminent Col
leges in the United States, and tho 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 ring
| ing in the head and ears when asleep, great
| nervousness, being alarmed ut sudden sounds,
| bashfulness, with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with arrangement of the mind, were
| cured immediately s.-.....L3
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
| DR. J. addresses all those who have injured
| themselves by improper indulgencies and solita-
~ habits which ruin both body and mind, unfit
ting them for either business, study, society," or
| marriage 1888 - hst so --A iti.t -
| These are some of the sad and melancholy eff
| fects produced by early habits of youth, viz i:
| Weakness Of the Back and Limbs, Pains IN the
| Head, Dmness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Pow
| err Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsia, Nervous
| Irritablity, arrangement of the Digestive .func-
tions, General Debility Symptoms of Copsump-
| ton. -e..i t,s, s3t3 g.
a The fearful effects on the mind are much TO be
4 dreaded Loss of Memory, Confusion Of Ideas,
Depression of Spirits, Evil ForebOdings, Aversion
| to Society Self-dstrust, Love of Solitude, Timid
ity &c. are some of the evils prodncedoialN 8. ii
Thousands of persons Of all ages can now judge
their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous, and
| emaciated, having a singular appearance about
the eyes, cough and symptoms Of consumption
| who have injured themselves by a certain prac
| tice INDUCED In when alone--a habit frequently
learned from evil companions or at school, the
effects Of which are nightly isi, even %h i
possible, and destroys both mind and body
shonld apply Immediately. - J. VI ni
country. the he pride of his parents, should b.
snatched from all prospects and en1oyments o
life by the consequence of deviating from thu
path Of nature and indulging in a certain secre
habit Such persons, MUST, before contempla
\ NAe MARRIAGE i 2 20. "a
Il reflect that a sound mind and body are the mos
necessary requisites to promote coninubial hapi
ness indeed, without these, the journey through
life becomes weary pilgrimage the prospec
shadowed with despair and filled with the mel
4 ancholy reflection that the happiness OF anothe
becomes blighted with your own.
When the misguided and inprudent votary .
pleasure finds he has irnbibed the seeds of thi
painful disease, 1t too often happens that an III
timed sense Of shame or dread Of discovery az
cation and Responsibility, can alone befriend him
He falls into the hands OF ignorant ana ueslenin