The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-11
EOACAL.
baltimore LOCK HOSPITAL
ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE FROM
QUACKERY.
THE ONLY PLACE WHERE A CURE
GAN BE OBTAINED.

DIR. JOHNSTON has discovered the most certain
speedy, and only effoctual remedy In The world for
| Weakness of the Back Limbs, strictuos, Affec.
tions of the Kidneys and Bladder, Involuntary dis
| charges, lmpotency, General Debility Nervousness
Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits Confusion of Ideas
Paptation of the Heart, Timdity Tremhlings Dim
ness of Sight Giddiness, Diseases OF the Hoad.
Throat Nose or Skin, Affections of the Lungs Stom.
ash Bowesthose terrible disorders 0rrising from
the Solitary Habits of YouIh--those secret and soil.
tary practices fatal to their victims than the
song of syrons to the Mariner Of Ulysses blghtinR
their most brilliant hopes or antcipatiOns rendering
marriages, &C., impossible.
YOUNG MEN,
Especially who have become the victims of Solitude
Vice. that dreadful and destructive hrbit which apnu-
ally sweeps to an untimely grave thousands of Young
who might otherwise have entranoei listening Sem
ates with the thunders of eloquence, or walked to
ecstacy the living lyree, may call with full conf
dence.
Married Persons, or Young Mon contemp lating
marriage being aware Of physical weakness OF ganic
debilities, deiormities, &C., speedily cured.
He who places himself under the care of Di, J.
may regously confide on bis honor gontlemor
and confdently rely upon his skill as physician
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.
Immediately cured and full vfgor restored.
This dreadful disease--which renders life miaerable
and marriage impossible-is the penalty paid by the
victims of improper indulgenoos! Young persons
are too apt to commit excesses from not being aware
Now.
who that understands the subject will pretend to
deny that tho power of procreaon ia lost sooner 10y
those falling into improper habits than by the psn.
dentf Besides being deprived of tho pleasures al
healthy offspring, the most serious and destructIso
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system
becomes deraDged the physical and mental functions
weakened, loss OF provocative power nervous irrita
bity, dyspepsia palpitaton Of tho heart. indigea
ton, constitutional debility, wasting of the frame
coughs, consumption, &c.
OFFICE No. SoUTH FREDERICK STREET
doors from the corner Fail not to observe the nains
and number.
Letters must be paid and contain q STAMP rhs |
Doctors Diplomas hang in his Office
DIR. JOHNSTON,
kember of the Royal College of Surgeons, London |
graduate from one of the most eminont Colleges In
the United States and the greater part of whose fa
has boon spont 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 |
asleep, great nervousness being alarmed at Sudden
sounds, bashfulness, with frequent blusng attended
sometimes with arrangement of the mind wsrt
cured Immediately.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
DR.. j. addresses all those who have injured them
selves by improper indnlgencies and solitary hnbty
which ruin both body and mind, uniting them fer
either business, study, society marriage.
Those are some OF the sad and melancholy offects
produced by early habits of youth viz; Weakness OF
the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head. Dimuess Of
Sight, Loss of Muscular Power Palpitatiop of thr
Heart Dyspepsia, Nervous Irrtsbility, Derangemsnt
toms OF Consumption.
MENTALLY.
The fearful effects on the mind are much to b.,
ireaded. Loss OF Memory Confusion of ideas Ds
preston OF Spirits, Evil forebodings Aversion u
society, Selfdstrust, Love of Solitude Timidity SC
ire some of the evils produced
Thousands of persons of all ages can now juuge
shat is the causo OF their declining health, loosng
heir vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and eina,
dated, having singular appearance about the eyes
ough and symptoms of consumption.
YOUNG MEM
Who have injured themselves by a certain prectjcs
nculged in when alone-a habit freQuently learned
rom evil companions or at school, tho effects of which
re nightly felt even when asleep, and if not cured
enders marriage impossible and destroys both mind
nd body-should apply Immediately.
What a pity that young man, the hope OF his
ountry the pride of his parents, should be snatched
rom all prospects and enoyments of life by the con-
equence of devatng from the path of nature and
adulging in certain secret habit. Such persons.
lust, before contemplating
MARRIAGE.
effect that sound mind and body are the most nso.
ssary requisites to promote connubia happiness in.
eed, without these, the journey THROUGH life becomes
weary pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens TO |
he view, the mind becomes Swallowed with dispair
nd allied with the melancholy reflection that the
appiness OF another becomes blighted with our own
DISEASE OF IMpRUDENCE
When the misguided and imprudent yotary OF
leasure finds he has imbbed the seeds of this pain
i disease 1t too often happens that an iltaed
shame or dread of discovery detors him from ap-
lying to those, who from education and respeots- !
llity, can alone befriend him. He falls into the !
snds of ignorant and designing pretendors, who liz
,pable of curing, fch his pecunary substance keep
i'm trifins month after month, or as Icing AZ the
nalles fee can DO obtained, and with dispar leave
i'm with ruined health to sigh over his CALLING tlis-
2pointment or by the use of shat deadly poison i
ercury, hasten the constitutional symptoms of the
rrible disease, such as Affection of the Head, 4
hroat Nose, Skin, etc, progressing with rrightfnl
pidity till death puts period to his dreadful suffer-
g by sending him to that undiscovered oeuntry
ON whose bourne no traveller returns.
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS
Tho many thousands cured at this institution A
thin the last eighteen years, and The numerous A
lrgical Operations performed by Dr.. johnston Wit
ossed by the reporters of the 'un" and many Other
spers, notices of which appeared agein and again
'fore the public, besides his standing as gentle.
an Of character and responsibility Ia sulicieut
iarantee to the afflicted.
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY oURGn
Persons writing should be particular ia directing
eir letters to his institution in the following maa
,r:
JOHN III. JOHNSTON NJ D.,
BaltEaors Lock Hospital, r