Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-18
q ~ SICK NEED I! SUFFER-
Is It Miraculous or Is It Science?
Testimony Of Well kneus Maine People.
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IL a man got SICK II Is sale 10 say w W.
would give him calomel, it that did not cure
him he would get a larger dose, the dose
being repeated or increased until the pa
iient either passed in his cheeks or got well.
bleeding was common in ordinary practice !;
the sick were bIed for almost any disease,
or a. sir Walter Tichweli says. My father
was fat man and they ble1 him TO reduce
his fat and my mother was very thin
woman and they bled her 10 make her fat.
4 few years ago the doctor would not allow
IA fever patient to have water. If by any
gracious act he was permitted to vet his
lips, il must be with warm water. But all
these barbarous practices have been done
away with, or nearly so, not because the
profession oufgrew them but because the
patients refused TO longer submit to such
uncomfortable, poisonous and ruinous prac-
tees.
BY degrees the profession of medicine,
which was the most unscientiic profession
IN the world, become more ineligible
Especially in the last few wears the adj
sancements in medical practice have been
almost AS great as in anything else AMI il
woGld seem b, the success of some of the
more skilled and advanced physicians thai
grave were almost overcome.
cur readers well know that for the pas
ten Years the most startling cures have
been made in the State of Maine and else
where which almost We'd with ancien
miracles, and which many declared were
miracles.
We have made a thorough investigation
of some Of these cures. says the Argus
not through people a thousand miles away
but through citizens of Maine known in al
parts of the State. The Investigations show
that by DIR. X. {. Flower of Boston, the mos
marvellous cures have been coniinuousl
performed all through the State for years
Hon. J. ID. Hopkins of Ellsworth, Maine
prominent politician rs well as bushes
man said. Il regard Dr. L. E. Flower o
Boston the most remarkable, brainy ant
brilliant physician of thi, age. Why. sir
he is a wonder. NV wife and | consulte'
him some months ago, since which time w
have been treated by hm and cured.
need not 70 into the details of our troubles
they were serious but he has remove,
them cant say when have felt bette
than 90 now not only cured but | seen
to have returned to my youth. DIR. Flowe
derful and marvellous way, when given ~
TO die of very ugly internal cancer.
know many of his patients, and they al
hold him in the same high esteem we do"
DO YOU know, Mr.. Hopkins, anythin.
about DIR. Flowers ability to tell Il sicl
person his disease without being told:
That is Just what he can do. Whcr
Mrs Hopkins and | went TO see him, h,
to us otr diseases IN detail without askin:
a single question Why, sir it Is just al
easy for him to read the inside of maj
and tell him all about himself as it is t,
read u book. 1t would seem that his ability
to thus examine lis patients was nothin.
less than IL divine gift.
\ well know Bangor lady, who asked u
not to publish her name. said she too has
been cured in most wonderful manner hl
DIR. Flower, when numerous other p'lvsi
clans hal failed to even give her relief
She further stated that she knew scycra
who had been cured rs She had, anon!
them a cousin of hers who WAS cured By
telegraph when in the throes of death, an:
h,i been given up TO die by the most skille'
ply, clans of the country. The cure wa
almost instantaneous. and We think il moth
inc less than miracle added the lady.
Mrs. Fry, of l3S Oak street. Lewiston
Me. said, We eau never thank l)r. Il. e
Flower. of Boston for what he has done f1
u.s." "Do vou see that little girl, she said
=" For several years She was troubled witt
a growth in her nose. which had been grad
uallv filling up. We frequently had Il
have it partially removed 50 she coui'
breathe The last year It grew RAPIDLY
,ti ,l,us
We were advised to have an exlcu'le1
operation lis the only thing that could saw
her health and life, ard with no certaint,
that it wonlI be- successful. Dreaaing suci
an operation. my husband took our laugh
ter to Or. Flower. The doctor looked a
the chill a meu,"nt. put his hani ON he
nose. then turning 10 her father said
Your chill will get well now She vii
never have any more trouble. And SUR
enough" continued Mrs. Fry, this mon
strous diseased growth faded away, entirely
disappeared and the little girl has been il
perfect health ever since"
y. +. Eaton, baggage master On Tia,
Maine Central, said, 1T affords me grea
pleasure to speak uf DIR. Flower. He hal
most successfully treated and cured N,
wife in his peculiar and wonderful way
whom all other methods of treatment failet
IN yive Irr relief and though her troubles
| w.re mast sermons. We, under his treatmen
they were rasily@ controlled. Or. FloweI
told nv wife nil her troubles without ask
,,. her n ouc.,;op. consider him mos
skilled and able nly,i.ian =. well a. ;
ron,,rt,bie man
=. we'll known lady OF Stevens Plains
pecrin,r Me said '.pr. II. &. Flower. ot
Bos,op ,ured me several year. agn of :
u,,ns,rous fbro;l srnw,h of the uvarics an.
won,b bcs;des , dreadful stomach an,
be.rt trouble when every other kind O.
! treatment had failed TO even give nr an,
lind of ,e,;.f Dr. FI,wer's cures ar,
,,;ct and r,,Ii,.al He is Il man who I'm
,t.r.t,nd. his b,isin;ss. and tho moment h,
s.a. v,,,, IL, viii ion vou all -FOUR disease,
" thou, ,sk;n,r y,u a uue.tiou.
I NJ II Rro,ksof lul Sherman st. said
II an, an ,amirer of DIR. Il. C.. Flower.
| ronsider h;a the ablcst phvsician of tn.
! ,,,r Wbvg Dir. h, can tell n sick person
ms dis,as,, w;,ho,,, know jn- ANYTHING abyr
him. or asking him a question lust as cas-,
| N he vouEi read his name. lie has mos
| suc,e..rnlty treated aul cured me of a yer,
~ ,sro ,hy a '"S "ot en" , y mm "H