Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
OCCULT MYSTERIES.
Rare and Peculiar Powers Of Fa-
nous Boston Physician.
AN UNEXPLAINABLE GIFT.
Numerous Authenticated Stories Of His
Remarkable skill
EXPERIENCE OF A WASHINGTON WRITER

From the Washington Post.l
"Look back of you three Seats" said my
friend Judge Goodspeed just before the
limited express from Boston pulled out ol
the Providence depot "You see that gen.
tleman with glasses putting on his travel
ing cap?"
"Yes, see him, he has a look between
the eyes similar to that of Beecher, Bob
1ngersoll and Edison. Who is hep
"Well. sir, he is one of the best known
He is one of the most brilliant. brainy and
remarkable men of his age"
BY this time was full of curiosity and
wanted to know first who he was, and sec
ond all about him.
The Judge, in cool and contrary mood,
replied: 81 will first tell you about him,
then will tell you who he is He is a
young man somewhere about the fortieE
He is a practicing physician and enjoys, as
is generally conceded, the largest practice
of any physician in the world. In his uni
versity course he was admitted for the law,
for medicine and the ministry, and few
minutes conversation with him would
satisfy you he was we'll qualified for either
"As an orator he has no superior in the
land. he is logical in his reasoning and
irresistible in his appeals. He is the man
of whom Hon. NJ. C. Kerr, ex-Speaker of
not believe an American jury could be
found who would hang q man it he had the
opening or closing speech. When he ap-
pears before the Legislature for or against
o measure it is signal for a crowd that no
hall in the State House could hold. He
appeared against a measure before the
Massachusetts Legislature few years ago.
The bill was represented by the ablest
counsel in the State. The committee were
known to be favorable to the bill, with
perhaps one exception. When the bill
came up for hearing numerous counsel for
the petitioners responded. Then this gen.
tleman arose, and stepping forward, said:
'Mr. Chairman and gentlemen Of the judi
ciary committee. I appear for the re-
monstrants. This remark was spplauded
for it meant to the audience an oratorical
duel to the death. After the petitioners
had presented their side of the case, and
everybody thought the bill as good as
passed, this gentleman for three hours ar
gued against the bill. He presented his
side of the case in such q light that it
looked as though q disgraceful, infamous
and outrageous law was being forced upon
the State. His sarcasm at times was so
severe that one felt pity for his opponent
of their feelings in the matter.
One minute the whole house would be con-
vulsed with laughter and the next every eye
would be moistened with tears. Over many
of his eloquent climaxes his bitterest op.
ponents would cheer loudly, forgetting
what they were doing. ! need only add
that the committee voted against the bill
without any delay.
"I started out to say" continued the
Judge, 'that he was as a physician disap-
pointed aud disguised with the ordinary
methods of practice that made a speciality
OF chronic diseases He has broken away
from the old methods, using, as he states.
the good from every school and the good
outside of all schools. He is q man of
means, and consequently has everything
that money can purchase to aid him in his
practice. He has enjoyed an extensive
practice, and had an extended and varied
experience. He is man of travel, re-
search and broad education. His special
lies are said to be cancer. consumption,
tumoE, paralysis, rheumatism, heart and
nerve diseases. These he seems to, treat
with wonderful success, and his friends
affirm that he will cure patients of these
malignant diseases who are given up by
other methods of practice to die.
II nave understood from the most relia-
Bile authority that he averages upward of
lS, 900 patients under his care all the time.
He has several physicians in his employ,
and all the facilities necessary for a great
and extended practice.
"Young as he is, it is safe to say he is the
highest authority in the East on chronic
diseases. THERE'S nothing higher in all
his country: If he says man will die he
S pretty sure to die, but the hope for the
lick man who goes to him lies in this, that
ne seldom thinks sick man incurable, and
o him they seldom are; when other ply
icians pronounce their cases incurable, he
will take them and cure them In the most
astonishing and miraculous way. Many
people in New England believe his cures
ire miraculous-though he stoutly denies
hat they are anything of the kind-while
lie refrains from saying how he performs
hese most wonderful cures"
''But, Judge, you have not told me who
le is"
"He is Dr. R. C. Flower, of Boston,
'fYou don't mean to tell me that this is
u. R. c. Flower, of Boston, who several
ears ago startled the world by curing, in
apparently miraculous way, the President
II the Pennsylvania Railroad, also Joseph
Jefferson, the great actor?"
''The same man"
''Why, thought he was an old ma9f'
Everybody thinks So"
'But how old is he?"
81 don't know. I told You I thought he
Tas about the forties He may be q thou
and for aught I know, but he only looks
ike boy"
"Well, Judge, how do you come to know
o much about DR.. Flower?'
"Well, sir, will tell you. There. was a |
ime disbelieved everything I heard |
bout him, being prejudiced, presume,
galnst him, but had friend, one very |
ear and dear to me, who was taken down |
nth quick consumption. He was a man |
f ample means and tried the best physi- |
ians the world produced, but he grew |
Iorse rapidly. His physicians told him |
nally there was no hope for him-to set his |
ouse in order, that he could not live more |
han six or eight weeks at the best, and as
lost of his family had died with |
we accepted their opinion as |
he ultimatum. As last resort, to pass |
We the hours of the death watch he went |
o see sDr. Flower. The doctor told him |
hat it was his opinion that he could cure |
i'm, though 1t would take several months |
ress my friend and his wife that they re-
nrned home believing he would get well, |
nd, strange to say, that man, almost in
he throes of death, feeble skeleton, arose
1to health as if touched by charmed |
cepter, and to-day he is q well man.
''Shortly after this occurrence my step
aughter had q cancer come in her lett |
reast. It developed very rapidly. Her |
lmily physician sent her TO specialist in
lew York. he pronounced it malignant
ancer, and that he could do nothing for
er She then visited DR.. Agnew of Phil
deIphia, who told her husband that he
ould cut it out, but it would come again
nd that there was no cure for her. As