Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-12
.MEDICALs
Baltimore Lock Hospital.
DIR. JOHNSTON,

Baltimore Lock Hospital.
DIR. JOHNSTON,
Physician of this celebrated institution, has dis.
| covered the most Certain, Speedy, Pleasant and
| Efectual Remedy in the world for a!l
DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.
Weakness of the Back or Limbs, Structures,
Affection of the Kidneys or Bladder, lnyolun-
tary Discharges Impotency, General Debility,
Nervousness, Dyspdpeia, Languor, Low Spirits,
Confusion of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart
Timdity, Trembling, Dimness Of Sight, Or Gid
Skin, TsS Afections Of the Liver, Lungs stomach
| or Bowels-those terrible Disorders arising
from Solitary Habits of Youth-secret and SOL
itary practices more fatal to their victims than
the songs of tha,Syrens to the Mariners OF Ulys-
ses, blightng their most brilliant hopes or an
YOUNG MEN.
Especially, who have become the Victims, OF
| Solitary Vice and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to an untimely
| grave thousands of young men of the most ex-
| alted talents and brilliant intellect, who might
otherwise have entranced listening Senates with
the thunders of eloquence or walked to extacy
the living Tyre, may call with full conhdence.
MARRIAGE.
Married persons, or Young Men contemplat
ing marriage, aware OF fhyyslcsi t. MeskIess Ness
vous Excita oility, Palptaton, Organic Weak-
ness, Nervous Debility, or any other Disquah
fcation, speedily relieved.
lie whJ places himself under the care OF DIR. d.
may religiously contde in his honor as gentle
man. and confidently rely upon his skill IS
physician.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.
Immediately cured and Full Vgor Restored.
This distressing Alection-which. renders life
miserable and marriage impossiblc-is the
penalty paid by the victims of improp'' II dulg,
encies. Young persons are too apt TO commit
excesses from not being aware OF the dreadful
consequences that may ensue. Now, who that
understands the subject will pretend TO deny tnas
the natural powers are lost sooner by those fall
ing into improper habits than by the prudentf
Besides being deprived of the pleasure of healthy
offspring the most serious and destructive symp-
toms of both body and mind arise. The system
becomes deranged, the Physical and Mental
Functions weakened. Loss of Procreative Power
Nervous IrEitsbity, DyspepsIa paiP'1stSon naS1, OF
and Wasting of the Frame Cough, Consumption
Decay and Death.
A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS
Relief in Six Hours No Mercuryl
Persons ruined by Ignorant, Triaing Pretenders
and their Deadly Poison, should apply lmmed-
ately.
DR.. JOHNSTON
Member of the Royal Collegeof Surgery Of Lon
don, Graduate of one oi the most eminent Coi.
eees in the United States, and the greater part
of whose life has been spent In the hospltash
London Paris, Philadelphia and elsewhere, haA
effected some Of the most astonishing cures that
were ever known; many troubled with rlngingin
the head and ears when asleep great atnervousaess,
being alarmed ut sudden sounds, bashtuness,
with freauent blushing, attepded sometimes with
arrangement of mind were cured Immediately
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
DR.. j. addresses all those, who have injured
themselves by improper indulgence and solitary
habits, which ruin both body and mind, uniting
than for either business, study, society or mar
riage.
These are some of the sad and melancholy ef-
(ects produced by the 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
Irritability Derangement Of the Digestive tunc,
tions, General Debility, Symptoms oI Consump.
ton, Sc.
MENTALLY.-The fearful effects on the mind
are much to be dreaded. Loss Of Memory, Con-
fusion of Ideas, Depression OF Spirits, Evil Fore
bodings, Aversion to Society, Self Dlstrust Love
of Solitude, Timidity, &c, are some OF the eVils
produced.
Thousands of persons Of all ages can now judge
what is the cause of their declining health losing
their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and
emaciatcd, having singular appearance about
the eyes, cough and symptoms OF CONSUMPTION
YOUNG MEN .>.
Who have injured themselves by certain prac
tice, already described, q habit frequently learn
cd from evil companions or at school, the effects
OF which are nightly felt, even when asleep ana
if not cured renders marriage impossible and
destroys both mind and body, should apply I'M
mcdlatey.
What pity that young man, the hope Of
his country the pride Of his parents, should be-
snat, b ID from Ill prospects ana enjoyment OF
life by the consequence of deviating from the
path of nature, and indulglng In perniclous
habits. Such persons must before contemplate
ing
MARRIAGE.
RoN.ct that q sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connublal
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view' the mino
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the me ancholy reflection that the happiness OF
anoths' is blightcd with our own.
DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE.
When misguided and imprudent votary OF
,l.ssl,r +! nds that he has imbibed the seeds of
ths Daiu ;ul disease, it too often happens that
ill-times ense Of shame or dread Of discovery de-
tcrs him from applying to those who, from educa-
ton and respectability, alone befriend him,
delaying tilt the constitutional symptoms of this
b0rrid disease makes their appearance, such as
liberated sore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal
pains in the head and limbs, ,dimness of sight,
Deafness nodes on the shin bones and n. ;, arms,
sTesns s1esshys with ini rgbtu rspdy til at last the
nnalate of the mouth the bones of the
nose n fall in, and the victim of this awful disease
becomes horrid object of commlsseratlon till
death puts d period 10 his dreadful suffering by
sending him to that undiscovered country from
whence no traveller returns"
1t is melancholy fact that thousands DIE
victims TO this terrible disease, through falling
into .hc hands of ignorant or uIskIt thl LII fhE
Poison, Mercury, SC, destroy, the constitution
and incapable Of curing, keep the unhappy suf'
fercr month after month taking their noxious