Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-01-02
A Boston Institution.
TIRE PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE AND ITS
QUARTER CENrURY's WORK.

TIRE PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE AND ITS
QUARTER CENTURY's WORK
One of the self-eyident propositions re-
garding most, if not all, human institu-
tons, 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 purpose is to
Ice. or should be served. To combat 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 a nature, many of
which infest society like a dry rot, that
require special skill and care in their treat
ment. that the specialist alone-aud he
must be man of rare qualifications
best treat them. OF such ailments those
which have their origin in disorders of the
nervous system are usually the most diff
cult to deal with, or to treat successfully.
Their origin may be remote to the eye of
the ordinary practitioner, while to the eye
Of the specialist it may be plainly ndica ted
by the nature of the manifestations AT
any rate, they are always more or less
difficult of treatment requiring peculiar
methods and patient and persevering atten-
ton on the part of the medical man. To
treat such nervous maladie> was the object
of the founder of the Peabody Medical
Institute, when, some % years ago, he
established ii at No. 4, Bulfnch street,
Boston, where it is located to this day and
where it will, no doubt, continue for many
years TO come, 1t being an established fact
in the history of medical institutions that
where they are eminently useful to human
lty they become permanent. Its mission
being largely philanthropic. it was named
after that eminent American philanihropist,
the late George Peabody, whose beneh-
cence gladdens and will continue to glad
den thousands of his fellow beings on both
sides of the Atlantic for ages 10 come. IL
has had a wonderful history OF success.
has this Peabody Medical Institute, and II
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 methods pur-
sued in the conduct Of the business per
tanning to this institution that it can treat
by letter at any distance the most obstinate
cases of diseases which come within the
scope of It's treatment
The Peabody Medical Institute. also, has
done a vast amount of philanthropic work
in lis publications, which. while being
standard medical works. are yet written
most necessary condition of self-know-
ledge that is embodied in the motto,
Know Thyself." Indeed, there is no
estimating the value of such publications,
written a. these are for popular compre-
hensiou tor they disseminate the nforma-
ton that is most essential to the man or
woman who would lead moral sober and
yirtuous life.
Filling such a useful sphere in the e u
cation and enlightenment of the world
aud in "minlstering to the mind diseased >"
well the body, as i the case in most
nervous diseases, it i not To be wondered
al that the Peabody Medical Institute lives
and thrives, but the wonder would be that
il should not live and extend its influence
in behalf of suffering humanity Boston,
Mass. Herald, Dec. 49, 1889.
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