The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-04
AN INTERESTING BOOK.
Telling About the Cures of DR.. R. C.
Flower, of Boston.
Statements of Some of the Wonderful Cures
Made by This Extraordinary Practitioner
Many Are So Marvellous That They
Seem To Ee Almost Miraculous.


seem To lie Almost Miraculous.
We published short time ago quite lengthy
article about the professional work of DIR. r. G.
Flower, of Boston. We have recently come into
possession of pamphlet devoted to the life and
work of DIR. Flower, giving numerous accounts
of his
MIRACULOUS CURES
and almost supernatural triumphs over disease
We believe review of the same would be high
ly interesting to our readers. The book reads
more like fairy story than anything else, yet
every claim and assertion is substantiated by
numerous facts.
We publish below number Of extracts from
this book, that-our readers may know more of
the dongs of this wonderful physician, who
seems to have stirred the earth with his profess
siopal triumphs from center to almost circum-
ference The first chapter is biographical his
tory of the Doctor, which starts out by saying:
For some years Dr. r. G. Flower has startled
the Eastern world, from time to time, by per-
forming what has seemed miraculous or super
natural cures. One writer in describing Dr.
Flowers triumph in the sick room, says:
sickness is a toy in his hands; in most
ened eye, life into the dying form, and robs the
sick room of its sufferer and the coffin of its
prey"
DIR. Flower has been called to consult over i'm
portant and bad cases from the Rockies to the
Chesapeake, from Canada to the Rio Grande
His greatest ability is seen in desperate cases.
and his mightiest feats and most miraculous
cures at the death bed itself.
DR. Flower is young man, but thirty four
years of age, smooth face medium SIZE very
large head. He is hard student deep thinker
man of remarkable quick perception and intu-
itional faculty, which are said to be marvellous
"a phenomenal feature in his practice is his
method of diagnosing disease. He never asks
patient his trouble, but the instant he takes the
hand of sick person he tells most accurately
the disease in ali its ramifcations. This phe-
nomenal 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 a
mistake.
s.In the business world Dr. Flower is as great
a wonder as he is in the practice of medicine.
His intuitional powers in detecting the actual
condition of the markets seem almost nfallible
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 man of great individuality man of
methods, and a man who, from all appearances
does the work of hundred men,
Followingis an interesting biography of his
PROFESSIONAL career. Next Is q cndpIef upon MS
MIRACULOUS CURES
which reads more like the curing of the SICK
making the lame walk and the blind see of 1900
years ago than anything else
The chapter following, entitled
MEDICAL WONDER,
leads you still further into fascinating realms of
what seems to be miracles. Among those
startling accounts and miraculous cures is re-
| corded case of gentleman for many years a
e. H.
search of health. AS soon as DR.. Flower saw
him he said: You have a live animal in your
stomach, and one which belongs to a Southern
country You must have swallowed it many
years ago."
The rorstricken man replied, ST was afraid
/ had" He then stated that he was in the
army, during which time he frequently drank
from
POOLS THE FLORIDA SwAMPs,
and shortly after leaving there he felt the Great
ure, as the doctor described it, in his stomach
and that every minute of his lite for the last
fifteen years he had been in perfect dread, and
pretty much all the time in great agony. DR.
Flower took charge of the case 1t was soon
apparent that the first remedy was death blow
to the creature, 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 we'll and happy man.
The long letter, headed
MIRACLES If SUCH THINGS ARE,
written by the editor of the Boston Traveller
| (which is one of the largest most reputable and
conservative journals of the East, after the
most thorough investigation of Dr. Flower and
his practice must always be. at least to the
sick, most interesting collection of facts. He
says:
'"The readers of the Traveller are we'll ac-
quainted with the name of DR.. X. c. Flower, of
Boston, Mass. In fact, professional man in
America is better known than this successful,
energetic, skillful physician Of the Hub
'HIs PROFESSIONAL STANDING
professionally DR.. Flower stands very high,
and, with the progressive and liberal physicians
is pre-eminently a leader. His opinion in very
critical cases is regarded final A distinguished
Boston physician of forty years practice said to
your correspondent: I regard Dr. Flower the
most wonderful of living physicians, and 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 in
durable, and furthermore, after l had submit
ted the cases to the best medical talent in the
city, only to have them confirm my opinion
adding that life could last but a short time at
longest Well, out of the twenty-one cases. Dr.
Flower, after his examinations pronounced four
as incurable. RepOrter-'And did they dieP Yes
sir; the longest only lived one hour and fifty min
utes. OF the other seventeen he said, in his judg
ment, they would recover if certain treatment
was observed. He suggested treatment /
had never used, and in some instances never
heard of. l followed the directions to the letter.
and to my surprise every one of the seventeen
patients got we'll. tell you, sir, there is destiny
in DR.. Flowers diagnosis of disease; he reads the
internal condition of patient the same as you
would an open book
Personally DR.. Flower is exceedingly popu-
lar and his friends being largely of the DID,
leading and representative families of the East
gives him great strength at home He is a
young man, having just passed his thirty fourth
birthday, though to look into his clean shaved