The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1885-02-14
An Extraordinary and Interesting BOlk
About a More Extraordinary and
Interesting Character.
DIR. R. C. FLOWER, or BOSTON.
His wonderful Cures-Are rhoY Mir.
acles, or what Arc They?

work OF DIR. r. G.. FLOWER, of Boston
We have recently como into possession of n
pamphlet devoted TO the life and work of
DIR. FLOWER, giving numerous accounts Of
| his
Miraculous Cures
and almost supernatural tiiumphs over dis
case. We believe review of the same
would bo highly interesting to our read.
ere. Tho book reads more like fairy story
than anything else, yet every claim and as
sertion is substantiated by numerous facts.
We publish below number Of extracts
| from this book that our readers may know
moro Of the doings Of this wonderful physi-
cian who seems TO have stirred the earth
with his professional triumphs from centre
to almost circumference. Tho first chap
ter Is q biographical history of the Doctor,
which starts out w sa-ing
For somo years Dr.. II. G. FLOWER has
startled tho Eastoru world from time to
timc, by performing what has seemed
miraculous or supernatural cures. One
writer, in describing Dr.. FLOWERS
triumph In the sickroom, says: Sickness
is toy in his hands in a most phenomenal
way he sheds light into the darkened eye
life into the dying FORM and robs tho sick
room OF its sufferer and the coffin Of its
prey
DR. FLOWER has been called to consult
over important and bad cases from the
Rockies to the Chesapeake, from Canada to
tho Rio Grande. His greatest ability Is
seen in desperate cases, and his mightiest
toats and most miraculous cures at the death
| bed itself.
DIR. FLOWER is young man, bat 81
years of age, smooth face, medium size,
very large head. Ho is a hard student
deep thinker, man of remarkably quick
perception and intuitional faculty, which
are said to be marvellous. %
"a phenomenal feature in his practice Is
his method of diagnosing disease. Ho never
asks a patient his trouble, but the Instant
| he takes the hand of a sick person, he tolls
| most accurately the disease in all its rami-
| lcations. This phenomenal phase Of his
| practice has brought to him thousands
upon thousands of patients, and It is
claimed that out of upwards Of one hundred
thousand examinations he has never made
mistake.
In the business world DIR. FLOWER is as
great q wonder as he is in the practice of
medicine. His iutuitional powers in de-
tecting the actual condition OF the markets
seem almost infallible. If he buys stocks
they go up; if he sells they go down. He
has made fortunes for many of his friends,
| and saved many from ruin
"He is a man of great individuality, a
| man Of methods and man who, from all
| appearances, does the wCrk Of a hundred
| men,"
Following is an interesting biography of
| his professional career. Next is chapter
| upon his
Miraculous Cures,
which reads more like the curing of the
| sick, making the lame walk and the blind
| SEQ Of 1900 years ago than anything else
The chapter following, entitled
A Medical wonder,
| leads you still further into fascinating
| realms of what seems to be miracles.
| Among these startling accounts and miracu
| lous cures is recorded case of u gentleman
| for many years sufferer visiting DIR.
| FLOWER, as q last resort, in search of health.
| AS soon as DIR. FLOWER saw him he said
"You have live animal in your stomach,
| and one which belongs to Southern coun-
| try. You must have swallowed it many
years ago."
Tho or-strickcn man replied 81 was
| afraid j had" He then stated that he was
| in the army, during which time he fire.
| quently drank from the
Pools I'm the Florida Swamps,
and shortly after leaving there he felt tho
creature, as tho Doctor described it, in his
stomach, and that every minute of his life
| for tho last fifteen years he had been in per-
| feet dIead, and pretty much all the time in
| great agony. DIR. FLOWER took charge of
the case. 1t was soon apparent that the
| first remedy was q death blow to the crea-
| ture, and soon there began to pass away
| scales and bones and pieces of feet. The
| man received almost immediate relief and
| is to-day comparatively well and happy
| man.
The long letter, headed
Miracles, ir such Things are,
written by the editor of the Boston Trap-
Il aIIa.sI fnl. tH rs
| utable and conservative journals of the
East, after the most thorough investiga-
tion of DIR. FLOWER and his practice, must
always be, ut least to the sick, most in
terestiDg collection of facts. He says
"The readers of the Traveller arc we'll
acquainted with the name of DIR. r. c.
| FLOWER, of Boston, Mass. In fact no pro-
iessional man in America is better known
than this successful, energetic, skillful ply
sician of the Hub,
I'His Professional Standing.
Professionally, DIR. FLOWER stands very
high, and, with the progressive and liberal
physicians is pre-eminently leader. His
opinion IN very critical cases Is regarded
final distinguished Boston physician of
forty. years practice said to your corre-
spondent regard DIR. FLOWER the
most wonderful Of living physicians, aud
one Of the most wonderful of men. Why
sir, have called him at different times to
see twenty.one of my patients after | had
regarded them as incurable, and, further
more, after had submitted the cases to the
best medical talent in the city, only to have
them confirm my opinion, adding that life
could last but short time AT longest. Well,
out OF the twenty-ono cases, DIR. FLOWER,
after his examinations, pronounced four as
incurabe' Reporter And did they die p
Yes, sir; the longest only lived one hour
and fifty minutes. OF the other seventeen
he said in his judgment they would re-
cover II certain treatment was observed.
lie suggested treatment had never used
and in some instances never heard Of.
followed the directions to the letter. and, TO
my surprise, every one of the seventeen pa
tients got well. / tell you, sir there is
destiny in DIR. FLOWERS diagnosis of dis
ease he reads the internal condition of
patient the same rs you would an open
book
PERSONALLY, DIR. FLOWER is exceedingly
popular, aud his friends being largely of
the old, leading and representative families
OF the East, gives him great strength at his
home. lie Is young man, having lust
passed his thirty-iourth birthday though
to look into his clean shaved, smiling face
you would not Judge him over Twenty-Five" !"
lilo then gives number of cures per-
formed by DIR. FLOWER which would seem
to vic with the miracles of olden times. and
were IL not for the corroborating proofs
and the parties themselves still living
testify TO their truth, these seemingly
eXtraordinary claims would not be admis-