The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-17

soston,s PaIatial Home for the Sick
that VIII Surpass any Like In
stitution in the World.
An interesting Letter from the hub.

have been industriously engaged in pushing |
forward, with the greatest possible despatch, |
this important building, which, when COM |
plete, will be something of which the Hub |
may justly be proud as it will immeasurably |
eclipse in beauty and completeness any |
health institute in the world 1t is strange, |
when one stops to reflect that there is not in |
the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Bos- |
ton, or any other great centre of life and |
wealth, similar hope for inyalids. Indeed, |
the world has become so accustomed to the |
great wards in hospitals, or small and
gloomy rooms in sanitariums, that 1t is with |
feeling of dread that one contemplates Wis |
iting a health institute. Here, however,
everything is reversed; the rooms are large,
airy, light, and cheerful; they will be richly
furnished and in every way
AS MAGNIFICENT AS THE APARTMENTS OF
OUR GREAT PALATIAL HOTELS.
The spacious parlors, corridors, dining
rooms and hallway on the first floor, will,
when complete, be models of elegance and
beauty Under the careful, personal super
vision of one of the most competent artists
in Boston, everything will harmonic III a
manner that will be something unique in in
terror decoration. In fact, judging from the
plans and specifications which had the pleas
ure of examining, | imagine that the sick
who visit this Mecca will find themselves in
stalled in palatial home, where everything
that can hasten their recovery will be called
iuto requisition. A few days ago went
over the building with the gentleman in
charge giving as pretext for my intrusion
the interest had in sick relative whom
thought would desire to visit the Palace as
soon as it was opened, all of which was true.)
While there l had the pleasure of meeting
the President and Treasurer of the r. G.
Flower Medical Company; from these gen.
tlemen l obtained a very clear insight into
everything pertaining to this magnificent
home for the afflicted; and was very much
impressed with the rational methods and
measures to be employed
| BY DIR. r. C. FLOWER IN THIS GREAT INsTI-
TUTE.
For instance, in conversing with the treas
urer, he said, Dr. Flower lays the greatest
possible stress on true hygenic measures,
and by these he does not mean starving the
| patient or prescribing set of rules for all
persons to follow, but rather he endeavors to
| fortify and reinforce nature in every possible
1
oughly as possible into harmony with the
laws of life. Give sick man plenty of good
food, properly prepared plenty of pure,
fresh air, the proper kinds of baths, and the
| peculiar exercises that his condition indi-
Gates, and he will require comparatively lit
tie medicine. And, continued the gentleman
| working on this principle, we are placing in
| our building
AN ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEM OF vENTILA-
| TON,
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 great abundance of pure, fresh
air, which is drawn down great steel pipe
into large hot chamber, where, when suffi-
GENTLY heated and moistened, it is forced in
to every apartment, while all the foul air is
drawn out by means of blowers. In the
summer season, instead of conveying the
fresh air into hot chamber it will be car
ried into a great refrigerating room, where,
after being chilled, it 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 adj
| vantage of having every room in building
like this abundantly supplied with pure air
will be readily appreciated by all who un-
| derstand how much health and life are de-
| pendent on fresh pure air, and l venture
| the prediction that this new system will in a
short time revolutionize ventilation. | was
further informed that in point of diet
patients would here be treated in manner
Numerically opposed to the conventional
methods that are employed in most sani-
tariums, whereby invalids are half starved
to death. DR.. Flower proposes to supply his
table with great abundance of
THE FINEST FOODS THAT CAN BE PRO-
| DUCED.
lie 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
DAILY FILLED WITH PURE SEA WATER.
In the course of my conversation, the
President of the Company informed me that
the property was valued at two hundred
and fifty Thousand dollars when they COM
menced the present work upon it, and that
the remodeling, decorating, equipping, and
furnishing would cost fully as much more,
but that when complete it would be, ne felt
an honor to the city and blessing to the
sick.
"This work." he continued, sis the legti-
mate outgrowth of DR.. Flowers great prac-
tice. 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 invalids before
he erected his institute. This last autumn
he was enabled to do, and on his return he
Immediately entered into negotiations for
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 at
mosphere was conducive to health where all
Influences, methods and treatments which he
has found to be successful could be employ
ed to the best possible advantage, that in
remarkably short time sickness would dis
appear, and through the system lately rack
ed with pain, and enervated by disease, the
| pure blood of health would course in its con-
structive and DEMONSTRATING mission.
During the past few years, DR.. Flowers
practice has steadily and rapidly grown, un
| til his patients now may be numbered by the
thousands in almost every State of the
Union. what is his speciality" asked.
There is no particular chronic disease that
DR.. Flower treats to the exclusion of all
Others" replied my informant. HE has
made his greatest reputation, however" he
continued, Sin curing diseases PRONOUNCED
by the old school doctors incurable, such as
BRIGHT's DISEASE, CONSUMPTION, AND
CANCER,
in the treatment Of all Of which he has been
eminently successful. One of the fatal err
rors made by the profession is supposing
that these diseases are incurable because
several famous physicians before them have
failed, and settling down in this belief, in
stead of bending every thought and energy