The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-31
SKETCH OF DR.. r. C. FLOWERS
LIFE AND WORK.
American Spectator of Boston.

h pa4ionts under his care constantly, patier
. in almost every town and county in t
: United States, patients in every country {
ca rth? His enemies said some years ag
e "His fame is but short-lived; his practi
will soon subside." In this they were mi
/ taken. He has under his professional ca
to-day thousands of patients more than
ever had before His fame has extended IL
" to the old world, and to-day among his hal
py and grateful patients are those from tn
different European states, Bagdad in ASH
Bombay, China, Ceylon, and the home
7 the japanese. No one for moment doub'
that his fame as physician will ever live a
3 long as he cures when all others fail, an
snatches from deaths altar the sick and dy
ing when abandoned by all the medtca
world, given up to die. As long as he cal
diagnose disease, telling his patient hi
| trouble without asking question: bette
than the patient can tell himself, just so lonI
will the sick and suffering seek his aid from
all parts Of the earth.
The question difficult to solve is, How can
the doctor attend to all who seek his ser
vice? Aided by the best of help at his home
office, DR.. Flower has been enabled during
the last few years to make three or four trips
year across the continent, and occasionally
visit almost around the States, thus ena-
bling him to see tens of thousands of patients
VINO were unable to endure a Journey to
Boston. tits now believed that these trans
| continental visits will have to be abandoned
SO great, In fact unmanageably great has his
practice become at his home as TO demand
MS entire time. While DIR. Flower NAV not
absolutely discontinue his western and south
ern visits, he will do so at the earliest praeti-
cal period.
Ihe crowds which daily throng his Offices.
NO. l765 Washington Street, Boston, would
remind one of public entertainment or gath
erlng as they come and go. A closer exami-
jissilqp will soon reveal the true cause of the
lsreath, sioEe- are consumptives, short Of
les and Mountaineering the stons: paraly.
by erutches OF canes, t6e>,lipd' the ueai, ar sIs
manned are there In fact, every disease hesn
is heirto is daily reAesshted at Dr. flo"ef
| offices. .o,afn, ..a;oa Dr Flow
~ IT nostbods of practice h years, witnessed
5r9drsds OF examinations, Sgd been permit ~
n1 u; saanv c4ses to follow ne treatment 70
ted IN many would seem that DR.. Flowers
tne clQSe saculous success is tue result OF ms
allaoss amos .Hperienee; his almost supernatural
idGirnsSySsis of disease; ms eXtlaosulnaIy anu M
rs
abbsointe candor on all occasions. pr. Flow
ap never asks persons to describe tIeir dis
| ease. He can tell after once seelnS them
their trouble better than they can ten MEM
| selves. He reads the interior eondltlon and
| minutely describes the disease as the scnaOl
| boy would the open book. never knew nor
heard of Dr. Flower making mistake IN tne
examination of a patient: 1hlS statenienis t;l oia
| patients, who will say, YES he tod me,
| when he examined me, my troubles Detter
| than could tell them myself. How ne can
| with an unerring accuracy read a man us
| ease like an open page, is a secret, and one
| which any physician could well a1ford 10 elye
| four-ffths of his life to understand. Wnetn->
| er this is explainable as natural or snpernat-
ura do not know. DT. FloWer alsciaIi,niS s.s.sIaiu
| now he does it. But let this be as IL may,
able to detect ones disease and describe It IN
| all its detail it is not likely he Will make
mistake in the treatment Inc sreat trouoIo .
| in general practice has always been that DOC
| tors experiment with their patients. NOT
knowing what the disease is, they, more Ire.
| quently doctor them for troubles tney 40 not
have, than for the real disease ms ntseahe,
| for the reasons ABOVE given, uoes noS VOSuA
| with DR.. Flower.
| DR.. Flower spares nothing in the treatment
| and care of his patients; he never CONSIDERS
the cost. If he takes case the only tning,
done to cure my patients? His remedles are
OH ,scde FROM ingredients as ehelnlcal1X pure
L
Oughly liberal, and viii use anything in the
treatment of patient which will aid in the
| cure. whether in harmony with, or contrary
to- his or any other school of practice. His
position is this: that human life is. Of more
value than the sacredness of the ethical code
of any medical school; that the practice of
| medicine is largely experimental; that the
theories of the cause and treatment OF dis
ease are changing. The books change; and
he would rather cure his patients contrary to
all books, in opposition to the methods OF any
school, than to kill them or allow them to
die according to the books. This position of
Dr. Flower will meet with great favor at the
| hands of the many thousands of liberal think
ers-and as well with opposition by the big
| oted physician, who would rather his patieut
| would die than be cured by any method not
known to his school. Nevertheless, It Is the
| position of candnr and honesty, which the
sick and suffering all over the world will say
| is right. DIR. Flower was for years under the
instruction of Dr. Andrew Stone, of Troy,
| N. Y. Dr. Stone was noted physician OF the
regular school. In his later life he became
more liberal, and established, by special en-
dOwment, his private institute for students
| CDr. Stone was well known active practl-
TONER during the greater portion oi NJ ms S,d NE
Il er went through DR.. Stones lengthy course
Y of study and received his diploma from the
, hands OF his distinguished preceptor. He
afterwards graduated at the American
Health College, of Cincinnati, o., which rep
} Iresents one of the most liberal courses of
litudy in the country. Consequently, he
| hight be regarded one of the most liberal or
| hdical of the eclectic school. DIR. Flower is
| aEreat student and has always been, though
| believes that, at best, the most diligent
stdent in this life will approach only the
EIDE of the water of the great sea of knowl-
ede.
lies Dr. Flower cure all his patients? is
freqently asked He does not; nor does he
elai to. But that he cures larger number
or astly greater per cent than ma ald
elsewhere, is fact beyond any question or
doubt 1t should not be forgotten that the
| create portion of DIR. Flowers patients only
come him after they have been given up
by othe physicians, and their diseases pro-
| nOunce(incurable.
1t is SD that DIR. Flowers greatest power
. | is seen desperate cases. This am IN
3 clined tt think is so. have frequently
( known of his being called to the sick bed
8 after physicians had been changed, eonsulta-
A tions held,lnd death declared to be the ineV-
6 table and amOst immediate result. have
seen him ener these death chambers WITH
smile on hisfaee, take the dying sufferer Dy
the hand for few moments, then prepare
his remedies ,break the silence then by say
e | ing The wrist Is over; he Will be better
tomorrow, ant soon be well again.. have
| never known tlOSe death-bed predictions 10
. | fail. By what power he can go into the
| death-chambers, even when respiration is
growing labored, and the death. watchers
. | have taken their places, cause an immediate
. | cessation in the progress of the disease, ana
speedily bring the sufferer back to health
S and life, l know not. But that he has done
: so in almost numberless instances hundreds
J. | will attest.
The above facts have been furnished to the
). publishers by a professor well known III
!. Boston and vicinity, who has made, foI
years,ia careful study of DIR. Flowers prac
! | tice.
Those who may wish to know more of this
famous physician and his cures, will, by
sending two cent stampNto Deland an(
=, Barta, No. 81 Pearl ST., Boston, Mass re
II ceive copy Of their publication descriptive
i of his labOrs in the fields Of disease anC
death. ..
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