Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-14
The worlds EpileptiC institute.

Cor. Chicago Times, Aug, 10, 1871
While passing through st. Joseph,
and having heard great deal about
the Worlds Epileptic Institute To-
Gated here, | concluded to pay the
celebrated institution short visit.
We were met by DR.. Richmond, the
proprietor, who has gained reputa-
ton as broad as the land. BE is
rather small, yet progressing man,
of very afable and gentlemanly man
ners. He gave us a hearty welcome,
and took great pains in showing us
through his palatial and mammoth
institution. 1t is five. story build
ing, 200xl80 feet, with basement, and
contains over 300 rooms, and can ac-
commodate 500 patients, and each
and every room is furnished in the
most elegant and lavish manner. But
we will begin at the Office, which is a
large room furnished with rosewood
furniture throughout. In the Office
are thousands OF photographs of those
who have been benefited by the Ner-
vine. The walls are elegantly pa
pered, and are profusely decorated
with rich and costly pictures, re-
lieved here and there by busts
in stone and bronze of eminent
men of this and other countries. In
connection with the institute is
mammoth printing house and bindery,
occupying six or seven large rooms,
and score of presses are kept running
night and day turning out work for
the doctor. The Office is one OF the
finest and most complete in the West,
and he has the rooms decorated, car
peted and trimmed IN with as much
care and luxury as is his own private
Office. On the first floor of this nam
moth building is the doctors's private
Office, the printing department., bind !.
cry, tank room, packing, bottling and
consultation rooms, barber shop, drug
store, etc., all of which are fitted up
regardless OF expense, The second
floor has the hotel Office, dining, bill
lard and cooking rooms, many guest
chambers and several parlors. The
third and fourth floors are all rooms,
all of which are furnished with Brus-
sels carpets and the finest furniture.
The billiard room has six tables, all
of which are free to the guests of the
house and their friends. The bath
room is large and neat, and is also free
to guests. The entire building is sur.
rounded on the east and south by an
elegant five acre park, in which
are lovely trees, beds of rich and
rare plants, gravel walks and
drives, delicious arbors, and a
most beautiful summer house. There
are also number of fountains shat
add wonderfully to the beauty of the
park, which is truly one Of the most
lovely and attractive in the Western
country, and the Institute has no
equal for luxury and comfort in tho
world. Everything is perfection, and
the visitor is at once charmed with
the entire place and its surroundings.
An idea of the immensely of the Doc
tors business may be given when we
say that on the day we visited the In
stitute he showed us to his express
room, and we saw the expressing
take goods labeled to the followiuf
places, to say nothing Of hundreds O.:
orders from all quarters Of America;
Lyons, France Geneva, Switzerland;
Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgiumi
Cape Town, Africa; Shanghai, China,
Yokohama, Japan; Bombay, India;
Melbourne, Australia. The Doctor
employs hundreds of men and women
in his Institute in the several
branches, aside from the immense
force required to conduct the hotel.
1t is worth visit, and DR.. Richmond
extends to all cordial invitation to
come and see him. He and his won g.
derful medical discovery have given
to St. Joseph good name all over
the habitable globe.