The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-28
MEDICAL.
nR. JOHNSTON,
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL.
OFFICE, SOUTH FREDERICK STREE

OFFICE, 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 effect,ai
| remedy in the world for
:. DISEASES OF INdPRUDENCE. SD.
/ weakness of the Back or Limbs Structures
Affections of the Kidneys and Bladder, Inyolun.
tary Discharges, Impotency, General Debility
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits
/ Confusion Of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart.
Timidity, Tremblings, Dmness of Sight or
or Giddness, Diseases of the Head, Throat, Nose
or Skin. Affection Of the Lungs, Stomach or Bow
els-these 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, blightne
| their most brilliant hopes authorizations rem.
dering marriages, &c. impossible.
| YOUNG MEN, "I.
| Especially, who have become the victims of
Sontude Vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
| which annually sweeps to an untiInely grave
| thousands of Young Men of the most exalted
talent and brilliant intellect, who might otherwise
nave entranoed listening Senates with the thun-
ders of eloquence, 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 debiiics, reformation, &C., speedily cured
he who places himself under the care Of DIR. J.
may religiously eonfide on his honor as a
gentleman and confidently rely upon his skill as
| physician.
| H.H ORCiANIC WEAKNESS. rTr SOS.
immediately cured and full vlgor restored
| This dreadful disease-which 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 the dreadful eonse
| quences 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-
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system becomes deranged, the physical and men,
| tai functions weakened, loss of provocative pow
er nervous irrtability, dyspepsia, palpitation Of
the heart, indigestion, constitutional debility a
wasting OF the frame, coughs, consumption. de-
cay and death.
A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS.
Persons ruined in health by unlearned preten.
| ers who keep them tritiing month after month,
taking poisonous and Injurious compounds, should
apply immediately. $50 TIT
DIR. JOHNSTON,
Members 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 were ever known many troubled with ring
ing IN the head and years when asleep, great
nervouess, being alarmed at sudden sounds
bashfulnss, with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with arrangement of the mind, were
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
DIR, j: addresses all those who have injured
themselves by improper indulgencies and soita-
~ habit, which ruin both body and mind unfit
ting them for either business, study, society, or
marriage 5iyv 80
These are some of the sad and melancholy of.
fects produced by early habits Of youth, viz
Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the
Hea d, Dmness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Pow
pp,at9n Of the Mear Nervous
tons, General Debility, symptoms of Consum,r
MENTALLY. M
The fearful effects ON the mind are much to be
dreaded (N.,Yfu ,f
Depression of Spirits, Evil Forebodings, Aversion
to Society, Selfdistrnst, Love of Solitude, Timd-
ity, &c, are some of the evils produced
Thousands OF persons of all ages can now nudge
what is the cause Of their declining health loosng
their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and
e 81 having singular appearance about
the eyes, cough and symptoms of consumption
YOUNG MEN r'
who have injured themselves by a certain prac-
tlee 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 inn
Psoss ,i,d ana destroys both mind and body
what a pity that a young man, the hope of his
country, the pride of his parents, should be
life by the consequences of deviating from the
path OF nature and indulging in a certain secret
habit Such persons, MUST, before contempla-
ting
MARRIAGE,
reflect that sound mind and body are The mos
necessary requisites to promote connubial hap M
HE becomes weary pilgrimage, the prospect
hourly darlxens to the view, the mind becomes
Swallowed with despair and filled with the mel
anchoiy reflection that the happiness of another
becomes blighted with your own
When the misguided and imprudent votaY of
pleasure finds he has in1bibed 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 edu-
cation and responsibility. can alone befriend him.
He falls into the hands Of ignorant and designing
pretenders, who, incapable of curing, fitch his
pecuniary substance, keep him trifiing month
after month, or as long as the smallest fee be
Obtained, and with despair leave him with ruined
health to sigh over his CALLING disappointment, or
by the use of that deadly poison Mercury, hasten
the constitutional symptoms of the terrible dis
ease, such as Affection of the Head, Throat
Nose, Skin, etc., progressing with frghtful rapid.
ity till death puts period TO his dreadful suffer-
ing by sending him to that undiscovered country
from whose bourne no traveller returns.
To such, therefore, Dr. Johnston offers the most
certain speedy pleasant and effectua remedy in
OFFICE, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, a few
doors from the corner. FAN not to observe the
name and number ~ 81
containing stamp to be used on the reply. Per-
sons writing should state age, and send portion
OF advertisement describing symptoms. r.li-
There are so many Paltly, Designing and
Worthless imposters advertising themselves as
Physicians, trifiing with and running the health
OF all who unfortunately fall into their power,
pecially to those unacquainted with his reputa-
ton, that his Credentials or Diplomas always
hang in his Office $500 - m -
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
The many thousands cured at this institution
within the last eighteen years. and the rune
rous Surgical Operations performed by DIR. John
ston, witnessed by the reporters of the "Sun"
and many other papers, notice of which appeared
again and again before the public, besides his
standing as gentleman of character and respon-
sibiliy is sufficient guarantee to the afflicted
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED. Fl3
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