The Portland daily press., 1875-01-07
TO THE PUBLIC.


The task of instructing and entertaining the peo-
pie in the science of Health, Strength and Beauty Is
one which very few physicians can find time 20 at,
tempt, but which every one who is intelligent ana
honest desires to have done as far as possible. Or.
Hebbard (whose reputation is well known to the
Portland Public makes business of doing this He
makes an abstruse science as plain of prehension
as the alphabet. He makes his humblest hearers IA
mar with the technicalites he uses and teaches in
mon ills OF ife and what habits are destructive to
health and happiness. He is an educated man, a
gentleman, is welcomed by resident physicians; and
everywhere he goes is patronized by all the best peo
pie; and therefore, in placing DR.. Hebbard before
the public of this city instructor and entertain
er of course thorough understanding of his charac
ter his ability, and his objects is needed by the
thoughtful in order to insure their interest in the
theme proposed for dscussion and It is for this pur-
pose that the Manager of DIR. Hebbard's business
calls the attention of the public to the following
STATEMENT.
After having graduated in the leading college of
New England and practiced his profession for years
in Boston, the Doctor received an honorary member
ship from Wittenberg College in 1856. 1t was in the
latter part OF this year that his first lecture was de-
lvered in fremont Temple Boston, before the Fra
ternity'' course, and the city papers were full OF
his praise that the said lecture called for and de-
lvered in one hundred cities of the Union dur
ing the same year. The year following he opened in
fremont Temple his full course of Physiological Lee
lures, and that immense hall was crowded for thirty
three consecutive nights, at the conclusion OF which
some three hundred citizens made him present OF
bust OF himself, and over thousand OF his hearers
pettioned the Lowell Institute to make sure of his
lectures in that highest American Literary Institu
tion After giving his Course of Lectures in Frovi-
dence, R. l., the audience masse made him pres
ent of full length, fe-sze $1,000 portrait OF him
self.
After holding an audience of nearly three thousand
people in Cooper Institute, New York city, in 1861
for fifteen evenings ian accomplishment which Mr..
Cough himself confessed his inability to do) he re-
ceivad from the Genealogical Soc etv of that city
in 1872 the compliment Of urgent request for the
"honOr of his name in furthering the interests OF
their great book" entitled 'The Representative Men
of Boston, In the summer of the same season the
Doctor received the degree of LII. ID. from Austin
College, The enthusiasm created at times by his lee
lures has been so great that ia Taunton, Mass, in
1867, and in Pctou and Halifax, N. s., the past sea-
son, the audiences in their endeavor to gain admis-
case overturned reserved Seats drove ont the ushers
and took possession. In st. Adams, VT, 1872, as
well as in other places he was obliged to move to
larger hall to accommodate the immense conc purse
of people who fecked to hear him. His reception
at the hotel were crowded by the best people
OF the place, not only for professional services but
social converse Throughout the Dominion OF Cana
da families of the old NObleSSe headed by Her Maj
esty's Government Official, have expressed their
hearty approval of these lectures, under whose pat
ronage they have been given the past season.
To make the Statement short, and show proof
to DIR. Hebbards claims to public patronage we sub
nit the following names and testimonials 0he orig
inal autograph letters of which now in the hands
of the editor of this paper for public nspection):
VIM. Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Wendell
Phillips, j. G. Whittier, Rev. Father Sherwood
Healy, Rev. Father Lyndon, v. g., Hon. John Hook
er, Hon. John Boyd, Gov. Morgan, Gov. Bullock
Hon. j. 2. Goodrich, Prof. III. w. Longtellow
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