The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-03


faithfully was it attended to, and in ten weeks
and two days every cancer was removed clear
and clean from the breast and the one from the
lip, and the heart trouble well under control and
to-day she is in excellent health
Another wonderful cancer cure was that of
Mrs. w II. Shaw, Of Portland, Me. This phil
anthropic woman is we'll known throughout the
East, and by her friends well as her physi
clans regarded for some time as fneurable DIR.
+. with such skill removed the three large can
GERS as well Us thoroughly cleansing her system
that many regard the cure miraculous. Mrs.
Shaw told your correspondent that she wished
ever sick person IN the world knew what DR.
Flower had done for ner, and what he can do
and is doing every day for the sick. Why con-
tinued this enthusiastic lady, '1ook what he has
done for me. came to him nearly dead, to-day am
In better health than have been since early life.
He suatched me from the jaws OF death and
cured me of my diseases with the ease that a
March wind would lift q straw. l tell you, sir,
he is a remarkable man: to come into his pres
ence is health, to touch HIS hand IS cure Dr.
+. S patients are numbered by thousands. This
may sound loud, but it is true. He has thou
sands of patients all the time; of course the ma
jerity of these patients the Doctor has never
seen: they are treated at their homes in all parts
of the country.
The Doctor, neutrality-suspicious., acquafnts
himself thoroughly with the patients condition.
which enables him to treat at a distance Large
number of his patients as successfully as II they
were at his place, and when tell you he sends
patients in all parts of the world, may convey
some idea of his foreign practice. Among his
patients are all classes, from the millionaire to
the poor and helpless, and all receive alike the
same Just, impartial and tender consideration at
his hands. A noticeable feature is that
prominent among his professional patients are
ACTORS AND MINISTERS.
In the treatment ana cure of actors the Doctor
has been remarkably successful, and many of
our leading actors actresses and opera singers
owe not only their present ability to appear upon
the stage, but their lives, to DR.. F-'s superior
treatment Possibly one reason the Doctor takes
such an interest m ministers, in their sickness,
is that his father and two of his brothers are
ministers. At any rate. believe he cures more
ministers than any hundred doctors OF course
the gratitude of these ministers is very great,
and they bring to this healing SLOAN the sick of
their acquaintance from all sections | heard
the Doctor say on one occasion, after pitltul
case had left his door. Il tell you my heart
bleeds for these old preachers: they work hard,
don't get half paid and when they get old and
sick they are fortunate if they are not turned
out to shift for themselves To contribute
something to their comfort rs my JOY The fol-
lowing rs an extract from a letter written last
August BY the wife of one of the leading Uni
tartan ministers of Boston:
my Dear DIR. Flower-I can never express to
you nay sincere gratitude for your successful
treatment of my case. Oh what relief hsveex-
perienced-my Life is a pleasure NOW. Your
treatments were unsuccessful I sincerely hope
the sick and suffering everywhere will consult
you for their own good.
Believe gratefully yours,
I witnessed the treatment and cure of a lady
from Bloomington Ill. She came to see the
Doctor at the suggestion of
REV. J. W. PHELPS,
A distinguished Methodist minister of Chicago,
who has been patient of the Doctors himself,
and had been most happily cured of some very
serious troubles The difficulty of this lady
patient was the loss of her sight of the right
eye and partially of the left. the cause being the
settling of scarlet fever in the eyes They were
badly inhamed and swollen the right eye being
entirely closed. In this condition she had been
for months While making casual examina-
of the eyes, the Doctor queFied, Gould not
your home physician cure yog!' mo sir
What did they finally say about your recov
eryF They said would soon lose the use of the
other eye and then it would go to my brain, and
would be to
REMOVE MY EYES.
''Did you think L could cure your II hoped so;
yes, believe YOU can. '.As you believe so shall
it be- Then dipping his hands in water he held
them over the eyes for a few moments; taking
them off he said quickly, Open your eyes"
She did so, to the wondertuent Of all, and, what
was still better, she saw with both eyes. CLOSE
your eyes said the Doctor then putting
strong medieated bandage over the eyes, he bade
at the same time, then you win be well. Two
days after she could see perfectly, the infalnma
ton had all gone down, and she was sound and
well as she ever had been These, Mr. Editor,
are facts given in an unvarnished way; this is
an exhibition of his powers. Call it what you
may, but when it comes to a man standing in
the presence of dying patient all eaten up and
racked with pain, making a prophecy as to the
future of the patient, and then going to work
and fulfil his own prophecy, which is apparently
the changing of natural and inevitable events. /
say when it comes to man doing this constant
ly, it calls for the honest investigation of the
public rather than sneering criticisms from pro-
fessional rivals. DR. F. 8 greatest powers are
seen in desperate cases and moments of great
emergencies. He is frequently called from the
city to various places and at times to distant
points to either consult with other physicians
or as a last resort to save the life itself.
An old countryman came one stormy day
BREATHLEss TO THE DOCTORS OFFICE
II want to see Dr. r. G. Flower" he said,
with abated breath 81 am the Doctor was
the reply, ''what can 1 do for your We'll, sir,
L want you to go up to the hills of New Hamp-
shire and see my wife; it is last resort, though
l tell you she is nigh on TO gone. Some of the
neighbors think you can help her, and she has
an idea you might do something, but she is nigh
on TO gone, l tell you Say, Doctor, 1 am an
honest man, and propose to pay you whatever l
promise to, and would like to know what you
will charge me for the trip Il would charge
you one hundred dollars per hour if | go during
my Office hours; if l select my own time, after
the rest of the day work isover, would charge
fifty dollars per hour. About how long would
it take me to make the trip to your place and
baclzP "About ten or twelve hours" We'll,
selecting my own time, 1 would go for five
hundred dollars" THAT strikes me. as big
charge: our country doctor would doctor you
for six months for five hundred dollars " ''Your
home physicians charges have nothing to do
with my charges; my time is worth to me one
hundred dollars per hour during Office hours,
and from fifty dollars upward between Office
hours. If go with you viii have to neglect
great many patients whose lives, are Just as i'm
portant to them as your wife's is to you"
We'll" replied the old man, wait until after
your office hours, but start soon you can"
About 6 O'Clock that evening the Doctor started
with the old for his home, which they
reached about IL o'clock in
A TERRIBLE STORM