Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-17
THE SICK HANS PARADISE.
bost0n's palafiaI Home iof The Siek thai
viii Sarpass my IKE Institution
IN The Word.
An Interesting Lsttss from the Hub


Il f14AEty az I1Dt1L&41 tezA1kA A@~r ~
| rgprssenfsag sar,oas trades and Prstssssoas-
/ have bern sHaassrSossly enxage'i IN SasaAns
| forward, wirh the greatest psSssisls despatch
this important balLdlax. shieh. When eorn
pl@,e, will be saG<thiag Of which The Hat
may justly be proaai. Il viii sEansasaFaeAy
eeiipss IA beauty and e1alpiesen~ss any health
/ Institute IN the wsri4- IL 10 sErangxs sA<n
oss ssoys ID reflect, that there IL not n the
cities u ssw York, Philadelphia. BossGa, %
any other greas eentre Of life aed weAita, =
similar hone for inxalisis- InG@ed. The sorbd
has become 80 accustomed 10 tae great sards
/ In hospitals Or .naxIl and gsoomy rooans Ia
/ sanltzrtsnas, that IL l. with feeling Of dread
that oae eeatemplatss visiElnx a health iassi-
sars. Here. ho~sysr. everything . reversed
sae rooms are Large aSd aisy. hxns and ehssr-
| fsl- They siIi De riesly Furnished 2nd In
every say
as MasSiFtcksr As raE APAkrxESrs OF
OCx GnEAf PALATTAL HoTELs-
The spacious parlors. eorriJor,, diaing-
rooms and h4ii-~ay Oh the nrst roor SUI.
~hen complete, be mOixls Of elegance and
beauty. tndsr the careful psrsoaai super
vision Of ore Of tina most competent artists IN
Boston, everything Wall harElonlzs in a man
ner that will be something unique in interior
decoration. In fAcr, judging from the plans
an specifications which | had the pleasure
| of examining I imagine shai the SICK ~ho
si.si this Mecca will nod themselves Installed
| IN a palatisl home, whsre every thing that can
| hasten their recovery sill be called into re-
QUESTION A few days ago vent over the
| building with the gentleman In charge CIV
INK az a pretert for my Intrusion the lnteres;
1 had IN q sick relative whom | thought
would desire 10 visit the Palace AS soon as IL
81 xhiaE trus ] w nile
there I had the pleasure OF meeting the
President and Treasurer Of the X. {. Flow
or Medical Company from these gentlemen
| obtained a very clear insight into every
thing pertaining To this magnificent home
for the afflicted. aud was very much i'm
pressed with the rational methods and meas-
ures to be employed.
BIZ DR. r. C. FLOWER ~ Tnis GREAT In
IssrrurE.
For instance In converting with the treas
urer. he said DIR. Flower lays the greatest
possible stress on true hyglenic measures,
and by these he does not mean starving the
patient or prescribing set Of rules for all
persons to follow, but rather he endeasors
to fortlfy and reinforce nature IN every pos
sible manner, and TO bring the patient as
thoroughly a. possible into harmony with
good food properly prepared, plenty fpnre,
fresh air, the proper kinds of baths, and the
peculiar exercises that his condition indi-
Gates, and he will require comparatively little
medicine And, continued the gentleman,
working on this principle, VIC are placing in
oar building
An ENTIRELY NEW System OF VENTILATION,
the plant of which has cost US over fifteen
thousand dollars. BY this system every
room in the entire building will be kept sup
piled with a great abundance Of pure, fresh
air which is drawn down great steel pipe
into a large hot chamber, where, when
sufficiently heated and moistened, II Is
forced into every apartment, while all the
foul air is drawn out by means OF blowers
In the summer season, instead of conveying 4
the fresh air into hot chamber, II will be /
carried into great refrigerating room,
where. after being chilled, il will be sent on
its mission Of life and comfort. Thus our
patients will not suffer with heat, no matter
how hot it is elsewhere. The immense
advantage of having every room IN build
ing like this abundantly supplied with pure
air will be readily appreciated by all who
understand how much health and life are
dependent on fresh. pure air and venture
\
a short time revolutionize ventilation. was
further informed that in point of diet,
patients would here be treated In a manner
Numerically opposed to the conventional
methods that are employed in most santa
RUINS, whereby invaIids are half starved to
death. DR. Flower proposes TO supply his
table with a great abundance Of
Tur FtNesr Foops THAT Can Be PRo-
pucEp.
He believes in giving patients plenty of
good nutritious food, so prepared as to be
appetizing to the most delicate stomach,
The baths connected with this establishment
will be one of the interesting features of
Boston to visitors. as they will be open to
the public and will be the most perfect on
the globe: models of beauty, comfort, and
completeness Here will be given, in the
most scientific manner Turkish, Russian.
Roman, hot sea. sulphur, electric, and
many other kinds of baths, the names of
which am at present unable to recall.
The great plunge bath will be
D,uY FILLED WITH PURE SEA WATER.
In the course of my conversation, the Pres
ident of the Company Informed me that the
property was valued at two hundred and nifty
thousand dollars when they commenced the
present work upon it, and that the remodel
ing, decorating, equipping, and furnishing
would cost fully as much more but that when
complete it would be- he felt. an honor to the
city and blessing to the sick
This work he continued, sis the legiti
mate outgrowth of nr. Flowers great prsc-
tee. For several years he has contemplated
establishing just such palace for the affiict-
ed, but he desired to visit the great cities of
the old world. and inspect their sanitarium
bath houses and homes for invslids before he
erected his institute. This last autumn he
was enabled TO do, snd on his return he i'm
mediately entered into negotiations for a
suitable site on which to erect his Health
Palace He has long been impressed with
the conviction that if the sick could be
brought into palatial home, surrounded by
| all kinds of comforts, and where the very
atmosphere was conducive TO health, where
all influences. methods, and treatments which
/ he has found TO be successful could be en-
ployed to the best possible advantage, that in
| a remarkably short time sickness would dis
appear, and through the system lately racked
with pain. and enervated by disease, the pure
blood of health would course in its construc-
tive and DEMONSTRATING mission.
/ During the past few years, DIR. Flowers
practice has steadily ami rapidly grown, until
his patients now may be numbered by the
thousands in almost every State in the Union.
What is his speciality | asked. There is
no particular chronic disease that DIR. Flower
treats TO the exclusion of all others. replied
mv informant "He has made his greatest
reputation, however" he continued, lin cur
ing diseases pronounced by the old school
doctors incursble, such as
;. BRrsHr's DISEASE. CoSsrxPTfoS, AND
CAScER,
In the treatment of all of which he has been
! euipeptty successful. One of the fatal errors
made by the profession is supposing that
: these diseases are incgrahle because several
. famous physicians before them have failed,
: and settling down in this belief. instead of
bending every thought and energy TO check
the inroais Of the invader, and at the same
time 50 reinforce nature that she can assert
herself With sufficient power to overcome the
disease. DR. Flower has demonstrated time
and again that these sccalled disease
. can be cured His great reputation to-day rest:
: very largely in the performance of thousands
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