The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-02


second Advent or the Apostolic AGe-The
Lame walk, the Deaf Hear, tho Blind
SEQ, and the Cripple RsstOred-W0nder-
fuI Cures Performed BY New York
Ply sictan-Terrific Assault ON Ancient
ASsculapian Battlements-The Faculty
PsrpIcxcd and Troubled, &c.
In fashionable paatia residence, No. 80 East Eight
eenth street. New York. immediate vicinity Of tho
great artery Of metropolis there at present resides
man whose name is already on the tongues OF
thousands, and Is destined to BIO stu wider known
throughout the community Tots is ]. R. Newton, NJ D.
who calls himself practical ply stefan for the cure Of
chronic diseases and processes be possessed Of
10 relieve all sorts OF "ls to which flesh heir" Dur
ny residence of eight months In Boston, DR.. Newton
registered over 10 900 PATIENTS large portion Of whom
lad previously been given by ordinary practtion
CTS incurabe The most extraordinary circumstance
with these cases s that the mst obdurate ones
have frequently been cured by single effort
Dr. New op is a Of about forty five years OF age
of pleasing presence, and rare urbanity Of
He speaks deliberately and unpretendngly Of the great
powers which he and general subjects con
verses with ease and huency which claim for him
the close attention Of those who CONVERSE with him
Speaking of his odus curandi he says that his system
OF treatment Ia peculiar to himself by II vital forces
peC0mo
given and surgical operation performed II takes
but from I've to thirty minutes for inveteate Ases OF
amost any durable chronic disease and 20 sure 10 the
effect that but few diseases require second operation
excep ting deafness, epilepsy and consumption.
eptiors are also made to these almost instanta
nsous cures, to broken bones, dislocations, bad
curvatures OF the sppe and matterated tumors Even
these will be much bepentted-always relieved from
pain and sometimes fully cured. Diseases that most
certain OF being cured with operation he states to be
weak spines prospsus utsr falling Of the womb, and
nj kinds Of sexual weakness internal ulcers loss Of voice,
dseAsed LIVER kidneys heart weakness of limbs, dys
pepea rheumatism bronchitis, diabetes and nervous de-
biy Paralysis the most slow and uncertain with
this treatment Sometimes, though rarely, they have
been fully restored with operation; they are how
ever, always benefited
At the early age Of ten years he first conceived the
idea that he was possessed of the healing power
in great and extraordinary degree. At that period
OF his youth however, 1t hard for him to impress his
belief grown persons and not until he bad per-
frrmed come that awakened their ast0nishment
that they began give hs operations any attention His
troublesome excTescences the human skin, in which
he succeeded beyond expectation. He did not at fret
make his cures known to the general pubc b rather
confined them to select circles OF friends and acqusint
BY degrees he became notorious and wherever he
known 10 be he followed by crowds OF people,
aOoring under every form Of disease, to the most Of
whom he gave substantial and sometimes final
relef. Ire principal neld8 OF the DOCt0rs operations
have been Boston, Macs and Cincinnati, where he has
left behind thofands Of witnesses OF the force and utility
OF his skill Since his appearance in New York he has
taken the faculty by storm nasmuch people Of every
and condition of life whom they have declared ut
terry incurable have found out his quarters and
every day pouring by hundreds into his operating
He makes no vain boat OF his seeming triumph
regular practitioners, but assumes it as matter of
course Some CT tine he has record are truly
Startling. A gentleman employed in q large house ia
th's city, who had nearly lost the use OF his limbs for
two years suffering ntolerabe and excrutiating agony
n ha nh md In had ham yfyn
raj physicians, entirely cured 10 two
operations Another resident Of this city, who had been
reduced by the inroa5s Of cough to frght!u state of
exiserce was entirely cured in ten minutes, and has
been well ever since lady from Jersey City who had
isr ears been suffering from gotena painful affection
Is nov perfectly well This lady was grateful for the
benefit conferred upon her that she left portraits
De added TO the Doctors collection and any - visiting
ma residence may the patient she VAs before
she was operated upon and as she was after the
This gentleman-who until anything to the contrary is
proved must be cons Of the extraOrdna-
~ and doctors avedoes not seek to ntrude
himself upon the public by any means, but Ia, on the
contrary srguarly retiring and simple in his manners
he lives IN fashionable houge 1t is true he line
linen and for all we know, he may fare sumptuousy
every day. But thse conventional pr or
leEe followed by all who afford to indulge in them.
the unfortunate people whom be been instrument
tai in bringing back health and happiness this
more apparent when the immense crowds Of diseased peo
pie who swarm about his residence on every day Of the
week taken into consideration He advertises
his cures he appeal to the public in the way
some OF our modern physicians.
In large upper room Of his residence Dr. Newton has
several hundreds OF sticks and cruches left with him
sn Dy those s bsv under his
need Of their wooden supports. This coiec-
ton Of crutches would be- one Of the
fnest investments that Barnum could make, and we
ehould not be II he were to nose them out be-
fore long, although it is very much to be doubted
trophies Of and successful grim
disease 10 almost every form. But seriously the
exclam, seeing ihem:-"s it possible that this man
could have cured all tie former of these complicated
arrangements" There ehort crutches and long
clutches, crutches stuffed with velvet and sotened with
cotton, crutches Of ancient make and Of modern
trivance, and an abundant supply q sticks and props Of
DEPOSIT with the name Of the Ms psos Of resi-
d. and the nature of the disease with which he she
had been afflicted abe sufferers principally labored
aud swellings of the oe femors They were relieved in
one operation and finally entirely cured leaving their
crutches aa memorials Of the past.
There several OF the recent patients Of
the Doctor who still visit him at his resi-
dence, and when there they are quite willing
to the nature Of their cures and the amount and kind
OF suffering they endured before they had been cured
Our reporter conversed with several or theseades and
gentemen-and could find no reason for doubling their
testimony, which was generally as clear and precise as
could be.
The walls Of Dr.. Newton's parlcr are penhrully
adorned with portraits Of Of his leading CAGES
Some OF them preeent features Of terrible suffering.
On being questioned MS TO his means OF curing, he
stated that it was utterly impossible for him to
ccnvey any adequate idea Of the vitality which
he brings into use he was satisfied that he
possessed this curing power in his system 10
such degree that it would be impossible for him to ope
rate upon diseased subject without impartng to hun
considerable portion Of bis vital force.
In treating patient all he does Is to lay his hands on
him and rub affected parts with considerable vigor
tie sufferer of wincng and lodging under the
powerful aid unaccommodating arm OF the operator.
or these occasions the muscles Of his body become dig
tended to surprising extent the exers and exensors
OF his arm becoming firm es whip cord. In cases OF
Deafness places piece of white and another OF blue
flannel over the ard head, mGnpuates rapidly for
several minutes, and then blows into the ear
Our reporter several Of these cases, which, TO al
snces In from five 10 six minutes as
the patients when they entered could not heara word,
cut hearing questions and Heripg them with