The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-28
ONDAY MORNING. APRIL 2S.
THE BOSTON GLOBE REPORTER,
MAKES A VISIT TO The
GREAT HEAD, THROAT AND LUNG IN
STITUTE
MAKES a vIsIT TO rHe
OF sosToR.
[From The Boston sunday Globe

In all the wide realm of journalism and
literature there is no subject treated of in
which such general interest centres as that
which pertains to the health of mankind
Great political, social and scieutiic events
occur, and the world talks and speculates
about them for awhile. but even the greatest
oil these cease to be of interest to the average
man and woman at some time. It is not so
with anything that affects their own we'll
being, and of all that personally applies to
humanity, there is nothing so abiding and
omnipresent as the subject of the ills that
flesh is heir to, and how the multitude of
these may be cured or prevented. How
many are there on every hand who would
exchange all the wealth they possess aud all
the worldly enjoyment they ever had for the
strong physique, the elastic step and the per
fect system that once was theirsl
II you could see the human panorama
That daily passes before my eyes in this room
you would find the text for many a strong
ana pathetic newspaper Sermon" said DR..
". +. Hall to a Globe writer, as he sat in
his cosy consulting room at the Polypathic
Medical Institute the other day. sit is the
lot OF the average physician to look upon life
In Its saddest and most curious phases; but
1t is reserved for the practitioner whose sue
cess has made his headquarters Mecca for
all the lame and halt and afflicted to have an
overwhelming experience of this kind" he
continued. "Since we opened our establish
ment here, many years ago, have learned
the practical meaning of the term time is
money for such has been the demand upon
both myself and my colleague, DIR. Brown,
Win our corps oil assistant physicians, that
we have been compelled to systematic and
work In the most rigid manner. Why, |
suppose the visitors we have here each day
will average nearly 400, and all the time
we can possibly, give this large CON
can judge from this what busy men we
are. Not that we complain of this at all,
for we are very proud to realize that we are
able to do SO much good in the community.
II you should spend few hours here you
would see the fashion of the Back Bay roll
up in handsomely appointed carriages, the
business man and the mechanic, the laborer
and the shop girl, while on Monday and
Tuesday, the two days in the week that we
have specially set aside for the free treat
ment of poor people, you would see pro
cession that would move the heart of a ty-
rant to pity The very word by which our
institute Is called means the science of
many, or varied treatment and our work
means just what that implies. Do we per-
form all this stupendous amount of work un-
aided? or course we do not, for that would
simply be human impOssibility. Associa-
ted with us we have a large staff OF assis-
tants, without whose aid we could never ex.
pect to cope with the demands that are made
upon us. There are eminent specialists
among this corps-not quacks, mind you
but graduates from regular schools of medi-
cine-whose name and reputation are the
best OF advertisements in themselves. They
combine knowledge of the most scientific
methods OF progressive medicine with that
which is taught by the old school, SO called
and can thus treat the cases that are given in
most broad-minded and intelligent way. In
this building we have every appliance for
conducting our business that money can buy,
and everything except, of course, outside
iC 60,-
our own roof. Here we have our own
laboratory, a small apothecary shop
IN Itself, In charge of our own chemist.
II is the most complete private lab
oratory OF its kind In the country, and
many of the medicines are imported by our
selves. Our methods are simple, and there
is nothing that need repel the least sensitive.
a patient comes to us, and simple glance at
him or touch is sufficient to tell us what he
needs. You look incredulous, but this is a
fact, and there is no cairvoyancy or mind
reading about 1t, either. We ask him no
questions, for that is not necessary, AID per-
more than anyth'n ing else. Having diagnosed
the case, we prescribe the proper remedies
and keep on with our treatment until the
disease is eradicated. And if there is any
doubt In your mind that we have effected
the cures we allege. we can show you not
only the signed testimony of hundreds of
prominent people, but send you directly to
them for their own cheerfully rendered evil
dence. Moreover, when we loo& patient
over, as explained to you just now, and |
find that his case is a hopeless one, we tell |
him so at once and refuse to treat him. 1t |
is hard thing to do but it is the only honest |
way. and no reputable physician can afford
to hold out hopes of recovery to person who
plainly has foot in the grave already.
by DIR. II. Nelson Brown and
myself that would startle and amaze
you, and to every patient that comes
to us we will accord like favor, You can |
tell your friends and the readers of your pa
per that no matter how deeply seated their
disease may be of the head, throat or
lungs they can never know their true condi-
ton or have exhausted the last remedy until |
they have been examined by us, aided by the |
lately improved instruments owned and con- |
trolled by us, even though others have failed |
to relieve them. They will all be received |
courteously and attentively, for one of the |
rules OF our institute is, Our work will be as |
expeditions as possible, and each patient will |
be called in turn, regardless of their station |
in society, bank account or the clothes they |
wear
At the urgent request of many prominent |
citizens of Portland it has been decided to |
send our chief consulting physician w. Flet- |
cher Hall, M. d., in company with the presi- |
dent OF the above Throat and Lung Institute |
III. Nelson Brewn, M. D., to Portland, where |
at their parlors, Falmouth Hotel, they will |
examine such cases as have already received |
appointments every Monday and Tuesday, |
commencing Monday, May 9TH. During |
these visits any who have no appointments |
and desire to know their true condition can |
call, and all time outside of their appoint |
ments they will devote to such cases. The |
fee for all examinations while in Portland, |
Will be 80, which is one half the price |
charged at the Institute. A written diagno- |
sis of all cases furnished the patients as re- |
sulting from the instruments patented and |
owned and only in use by this Institute.
Falmouth Hotel, Mondays and Tuesdays.