The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-30
A BOSTON INSTITUTION.
The Peabody Medical Institute and
It's QuRffer CenturY's Work.

One OF the self-evident propositions regard.
ing most, ii not all human institutions, is that
their survival indicates their fitness to exist.
In other words, when an institution best serves
some good purpose it is apt to live while such a
purpose is to be, or should be served. To com.
bat all the ordinary Ills to which the flesh is
heir we have good physicians by the thousand
and hospitals by the hundred but there are
ailments of so subtle nature, many of which
infest society like dry rot that require special
| skill and care in their treatment, that the spe.
cialist alone-and he must be man OF rare
qualifications-can best treat them. OF such
ailments those which have their origin in dis
orders of the nervous system are usually the
most difficult to deal with, or to treat snccess-
fully. Their origin may be remote to the eye Of
the ordinary practitioner, while to the eye of
the specialist 1t may be plainly indicated by the
nature of the manifestations. At any rate,
they arc always more or less difficult of treat
ment requiring peculiar methods and patient
and persevering attention on the part of the
medical man. To treat such ner vous maladies
was the object of the founder of the Peabody
Medical Institute, when, some 25 years ago, he
established II at No. Bnlinch street. Boston,
where II is located to this day. and where II will
no doubt, continue for many years to come II
being an established fact in the history of medi-
cal institutions that were they are most emf
nently useful to humanity they become per-
manents. Its mission being largely philanthrop.
ic, it was named after that eminent American
philanthropist the late George Peabody, whose
benehCence gladdens and will continue to glad
den thousands of his fellow-beings on both
sides of the Atlantic for ages to come. 1t has
had wonderful history OF success has this
Peabody Medical Institute and it has extended
its usefulness not only throughout the length
and breadth of this land, but in the countries of
Europe and Asia. So systematic are the meth
ods persued in the conduct of the business per
tanning to this institution that it can treat by
etter at any distance the most obstinate cases
of diseases which come within the scope OF its
treatment
The Peabody Medical Institute, also, has done
a vast amount of phianthropic work in Its pub.
! locations, which, while being standard works
are yet written for the purpose of bringing
about that necessary condition of self-knowl.
edge that is embodied In the motto, Know
Thysclf." Indeed, there is no estimating the
value OF such publications, written as there are
for popular comprehension for they dissent
nate the inform alton that is most essential to
the man or woman who would lead moral, so
Der and virtuous life.
Filling such a useful sphere in the education
and enlightenment Of the world, and in "min
istering to the mind diseased as well as tC
the body, as is the case in most nervous di
seascs, 1t is not to be wondered at that the Pea
body Medical Institute lives and thrives but
the wonder would be that it should not live and
extend its influence in behalf of suffering hu
manity.-Boston, Mass, Herald, Dec. 10, 1889.