The National tribune., 1886-02-25

late secrecy here, to a who consult u.s. as to their
identity. may also add that guarantee certain
relief in every case that undertake after per-
sonal examination"
By the way, doctor, do you treat such diseases
as Bright's, cancer or consumption?n
4 do not, sir, because the diseases you name as
well as many others, belong to the class of incur
ables, and have neither the time nor the DISPOSE
ton TO devote my energies to line of cases where
/ can accomplish no good. when can be doing a
good work in the line have chosen"
Il presume, like all successful specialists you
have had more or less opposition from the profess
sion''
Yes have met with mean kind OF profess
siona jealousy but less of late years than formerly
may say that L have quite as many physicians
under treatment as any other class considering
their proportion to the community"
- have read your Science of Life with great
interest, and consider work of vast interest and
Importance to humanity at large. May ask if it
has had a very large sale2"
Yes In the past the sales were very large.
Now they are even larger than they have ever BEEN
You can form an idea OF the vast number of copies
of that work which have been printed and sold
when tell you that we have worn out four sets of
electrotype plates in producing them. The present
revised and enlarged edition of 1906 copies viii
not meet the orders for the coming year. The sales
of the woik have been as high as 10000 copies per
month"
A call being made for the doctor by a new pa
tient, he babe the writer a courteous adieu and
hastened to his consulting room, and the visitor
departed.
Meeting Dr. A. II. Hayes, at his Office, As Water
street, inquiry was made of him in regard to DR..
Parker, his treatment of nervous affections, and
the results of such treatment. He replied that he
had known DR.. Parker for more than 20 years and
considered him by far the best physician and sur
geon in Boston, i'll the broad acceptation of that
term, and, as specialist in nervous diseases he
believed him to be without peer anywhere. DIR.
Hayes said he personally acquainted with Dr.
Brown-Sequard, of Paris and DIR. Winsow Forbes
OF London, and he believed that DR.. Parker had
cured more cases than both of these world-re-
nowned physicians " Maj.-Gen Hooker told me-"
said Dr. Hayes, that DR.. Parker, when in the
army, could keep more men their feet and able
for military duty than any five surgeons that he
ever knew" In summing up, DR.. Hayes said that,
from his Intimate knowledge of DIR. ParE<ers prac-
tlee, he knew him to be very skillful physician
and an honest man, always worthy of implicit
confidence.
The writer afterward met Hon. Daniel Foster
Farrar, member of the city council of Boston, and
incidentally mentioning his visit to Dr. Parker Mr.
Farrar stated that he had known the doctor from
boyhood; that he was a bright, smart scholar an
ardent student and came from family Of able
physicians and intellectual men. When a student
In Harvard College, it was predicted that he would
hkelymade great reputation as a physician. " and
now," said MIR. f., am proud to say that there is
evidence that this prediction has been more than
fulfilled, and that DIR. Parker is indeed a great
physician. whose work as a specialist and an au-
thor has accomplished more good for humanity
than can be estimated in his lifetime or in the gem
erations Immediately following it."
Conversations with other gentlemen in regard to.
DIR. Parker only confirmed the opinions above,
expressed. and the whole matter is so remarkable
that the writer has thought that what is here given
was at least worth recording.-Boson Herald, Feb
8, 1886.