Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-08

ch must Interest the Wei.
Boston Traveller
~ mas oeen estimated that there i. o,,, o,o
49, neAitny person in every four tbou.an nd
no. snere are today over four million mon
ah1 chiioren In this country sick with
haI.,s'' diseases, over one million who are
SICK and burden and care 10 9th.
,ho su., mere are hundreds and hundred. of
c.n 10 our land sick. eaten up win
hon.,.. aou consumption, in danger Of death
nsn.;. m heaf1 disease, ruined with dys.
1 ;dn nerves shattered. aching and diseased
oppressed with tumors, deformed nv
..;.s slsm; every drop of blood teeming
iuioos poison, morbid circulation.
dying '''' 'eai' 0iind and
II Is fact that the number of healthy mo,
and women is growing less every vsa, Ia
me sick more numerous. In the fsce ~ 49,
.acts, 1t might be noted that the conn,,y :.
luii OF doctors and full of drug stores tho,
lhese doctors and drug stores increase eysrv
year, and in heavy ratio the sick and dxng
increase also. "'"s
IL would seem like ignorance and arro.
eshce combined for any physician or school
VI physicisns to claim a mopopolv in tho
plactlce OF medicine. when all physician, of
AL the schools of medicine combined are
po"eriess IN curing but a fair percentage of
acute, ana still less OF chronic, diseases.
AND instead of doctors opposing new di..
to'erles, condemning new systems of nrac.
Iice, they should welcome them. for no one
Knows better than the doctor himself how
poweriess he frequently is to cure or even aid
in the sick room. "'N
ihere Is good in every religion. No one
;hurch mas a monopoly of all that is good.
neither does any one school of medicine con.
am all that Is valuable There is undoubt
euiy good IN every school of medicine. and
system or Therapeutics and the man who il
Iioerai and progressive enough to appreciate
me good IN one school as readily as he would
Inc good IN every other, or anything valuable
ne might discover which is in no way connect
60 with any school, and fearlessly defend
Inc valuable ard right because it is valuable
and rlght, wherever he may be found, will al
ways be the successful and popular physician
of his age, the physician the sick will seek
out, wherever he may be, who will cure where
others tail, and be loved and honored by the
world though he receives the anathems of
Jealous professionals.
Obedient TO your instructions to write up
ne work of some leading ply stefan, minister
and leading lawyer, l have decided t. let nv
1rst letter be about
The Doctor
| have selected as the subject of nv sketch
DR.. X. c. Flower Of Boston, whose Offices are
At 1862 Washington Street, corner of East
Chester Park. The reason of this selectio1
Is that, after thorough investigation of the
practice and success of several eminent phvsi-
Clans of different cities of the East, an inves-
.igaton which would do credit to any article
IN any Journal | have ascertained beyond Ca
vii or doubt that DIR flower stands at the head
Of the largest and most successful practice in
this country. He has more patients than any
1ozen doctors have any knowledge of, and
hat he cures more abandoned and supposed
cases. and has crowding upon his
lime and seeking his service more patients
than you might suppose 20 physicians could
attend to, is fact known to every one who
knows anything Of this enormous practice.
DIR Flower may have his enemies, those
who are j 'alous OF bis success, aud who
" ould delight in hi. jury but one thing is
sure, DR.. Flower has never had
A RIVAL
Since investigating the work of the Doctor
have seen among his patients more happy
and grateful men and women than have seen
N all my life put together. | have seen those
few months and years age, were nearly
eaten up with cancer and consumption those
,nce in the thross of death with heart disease
IN the border of insanity with nervousness;
helpless with paralysis, deformed by rheuma-
ism, cured, we'll, happy, and clothed in their
light mind. hese l have seen, talked with
~:
earned the history of their disease and their
cure.
I have visited number of DR. Flowers
PATIENTS These patients had nearly every
sind of chronic disease known flesh is heir to.
will here give a digest of the savings of
ew, and will add. in order to settle the point
Is to whether the cures are permanent, that
III of the cases here referred to were treated
wo or more years ago:
N. d. Whitney, ons of fremont streets
srgest merchants, said: have known DR.
Flower intimately for years | first became
acquainted with him as 4 patient, and he
,ured me of malady which was just break
ng me down. l regard him as skilled
,hysician and elegant gentleman. You only
nave to know him to admire him.
7. Willard Rice of the firm of Rice.
Kendall & Co. OF Federal street, large paper
said: | have been acquainted
With DR.. Flower for many years. | have
Known him intimately in many of life's rela
ions. but most intimately as a physician He
q a remarkably successful and skilltul
,hysician; outside of nv own people have
,nown of his performing the most remark
,ble and wonderful cures. He has practice
yhicb surpasses anything | have ever known
n heard. and it grows larger all the time.
There is bat one DR.. Flower, and l don't
,elieve there will ever be arother. He Is
thoroughly responsible for anything he may
Undertake. in every sense of the world
nost reputable gentleman and valued friend.
MIR. G. Seabury, president of Trust and
[,oap Company. "A fremont street, SAID
Yes sir. I should say did know DR.. Flower.
regard him as one of the most wonderful
,bvsicians of the world. He cured me OF
mig trouble when help had failed me from
very other source, and | had believed my
,ase incurable. have known of many
,ther most wonderful cures.
A. A. Rowe, Esq.,, forwarder Vnd COM
MISSION merchant, India wharf, Boston,saId;
H. EIower cured me years ago of whan |
- all INV friends believed to be an incurable
naladv. 1t was wholly physical, but had
,,,arlv prostra,ed my nerves and threatened
nv mind. | had doctored with several lead
mo- nhvsicians of this city and Philadelphia,
:, v.,rv heavy expense, but received no
,enef,t When consulted with DIR. Flower
20 told me nv troubles without asking me
NV questions, took nv case. treated II with
, ~ a.oh and cured me permanently.