Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-01-20
The Peabody Medical Institute and
its Quarter Century's Work.

One of the self-evident propositions re-
-garding most, if not all, human institu-
tions, 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 combat the ordinary Ills to which the
flesh is heir, we have good physicians by
the thousand and hospitals by the hun
dred but there are ailments of SO subtle
a nature, many OF which infest society
like dry rot, that require special skill
and care in their treatment, that the
specialist alone-and he must be man
of rare qualidcations-can best treat
them. OF such ailments those which
have their origin In disorders OF the ner-
vous system are usually the most diihcult
to deal with, or to treat successfully.
Their origin may be remote to the eye OF
the ordinary practitioner, while TO the
eve of the specialist it may be plainly in-
dicated by the nature of the manifesto
tions At any rate, they are always more
or less difficult of treatment, requiring
peculiar methods and patient and pre-
! severing attention on the part of medical
| man. To treat such nervous maladies
was the object of the founder OF the Pea
| body Medical Institute, when some %
years ago, he established it at No. 4 Bull
|
to this day, and where IL will, no doubt,
continue for many years to come, it being
an established fact in the history of med
/ ical Institutions that where they are emf
nently useful to humanity they become
permanent. It's mission being largely
philanthropic, it was named after that
eminent American philanthroplst, the
late George Peabody, whose beniticence
gladdens and will continue to gladen
thousands of his fellow-beiugs on both
sides of the Atlantic for ages to come 1t
has had a 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 pursued in the conduct of the busi-
ness pertaining to the institution that il
can treat by letter at any distance the
most obstinate cases Of disease which
come within the scope of its treatment.
The Peabody Medical Institute, alsu
has done a vast amount of philanthropie
work in its publications, which, while
being standard medical works, are yet
written for the purpose of bringing
about that most necessary condition oil
self-knowledge that is embodied in the
motto, ''Know Thyself" Indeed, there j.
no estimating the value of such publica-
tions, written as these are for popular
; comprehension, for they disseminate the
information that is most essential TO the
man or woman who would lead moral
sober and viTtuous life.
Filling such useful sphere in the edu
: cation and enlightenment of the world
and administering to the mind diseased
as well as the body, as in the case In
most nervous diseases, IL Is not To be
: wondered at that the Peabody Medica
Institute lives and thrives, but the won
der would be that 1t should not live anf
extend It's Influence In hrhalf of suffering
humanity - Boston, Miss Hsrald, Dec
49, lssP,