Again from an 1872 edition of the Troy Daily Whig, we have an advertisement for the “Old Established Hospital” at 5 Beaver Street, quite near Broadway, in Albany. “Hospital” didn’t necessarily mean then what it means today, and in fact this was the practice of a single physician, or maybe not even that.
“Young men addicted to secret habits, who have impaired their health, and destroyed the vigor of their minds, thus depriving themselves of the pleasures of married life, are notified that in consulting Dr. Teller they will find a friend to console and a physician who has cured thousands in almost every part of the United States, who applied to Dr. T., broken down in health now rejoice in all that makes life desirable and man happy. The reader is of course aware that the delicacy of the subject will prevent a more minute description of this terrible disease.”
For just 25 cents, he’d give you his great work, including hundreds of secrets never before published. Persons at a distance can be cured at home!
“Dr.” Teller appears to have been trained by a charlatan named Ezra Reynolds. They both make an appearance in the story of Dr. Francis Tumblety, titled “Prince of Quacks.”