The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-04
DO SICK NEED SUFFER 4?
MIRAcULoUs; on rs IT s0TBSCEs
T..,srnontes Of WeIIKnown and Promi-
mont Peopie-whxt Some Have Called
Modern Miracles.
from the Portland (Me.) August

| is safe 10 say uOckOI "Ontu 80 -,
| calomel: if that did not cure him he wouid
! get larger dose, the dose being repeated
or increased until the patient either
passed In his checks or got well. bleed
| Ing was common in ordinary practice; tine
| sick were bled for almost any disease, or
| as Sir Walter Tichwell says, My father
was a fat man and they bled him to re-
duce his fat, and my mother was n very
| thin woman aud they bled her to make
her fat" A few years ago the doctor
would not allow fever patient to nave
| water If by any gracious act he was
permitted to wet his lips, II must be with
warm water. But all these barbarous
practices have been done away with, or
| nearly 80, not because the profession out
| grew them. but because the patients re-
| fused to longer submit to such uncom-
Portable, poisonous and ruinous practlces'
BY degrees the profession OIL medicihe'
which was the most unscleheinc P'aiI;
sion in the world became more mtell-
gible Especially in the last few years
fine Announcements in medical pructlce
have been almost as great as IN anything
else and it would seem by the success or
some of the more skilled and advanced
physicians that the terrors OF sickness
and dread of the grave were almost over
come. a..
Our readers well know that for the
past ten years the most startling cures
have been made in the State OF Name
and elsewhere which almost wed win
ancient miracles, and which many de-
clared were miracles.
We have made a thorough invesuga-
ton Of some of these cures, noI through
people a thousand miles away, but
through prominent citizens of New Eng
land. known in all parts OF the state.
The investigations show that by DR.. r. ..
3 hn
cures have been continuously perIOrneu
all through the East for years;
d. T. Eaton, of Lewiston. Me, Dag-
gage master on the Maine Central, sad;
1T affords me great pleasure TO speak
of DR.. Flower. He has most successfully
treated aud cured my wife in his peculiar
and wonderful way, when all other meth
DDS of treatment failed TO give her re-
lief: and though her troubles were most
serious. yet under his treatment were
easily controlled DIR. Flower told my
wife all her troubles without asking her
n question. / consider him most skilled
and able physician, as well as remarka-
bic man"
Mrs. c. S. Pierce, of Stevens Plains,
Deerng. Me-, said: Or. X. &. Flower,
of Boston. cured me several years ago of
monstrous fbroid growth. besides
dreadful stomach and heart trouble,
WDeU every OblltI kluu VI eitdeht'hs
had failed to even give me any kind OF
relief. DR.. Flowers cures are quick and
radical He is man who understands
his business, and the moment ne sees you
he will tell you all your diseases without
asking you question.
Hon. Charles A. Smith, of Mattawam-
keag, Me. a man prominent IN politics,
business and high in Masonic affairs,
states that he was cured Of q dangerous
growth in the mouth by DIR. K. Y. Flow
er. after he had been abandoned a. in
durable by the best physicians in New
England; that when he visited Dr. Flow
er be was a wreck, suffering the utmost
agony day and night, deadening the pam
with narcotics as best he could while
awaiting the terrible end. Then he went
TO see DR. Flower as a last resort, and
with but little faith. He says:
LAS soon as / entered DIR. Flower
presence be told me without asking me
question my trouble. when hrsr no
ticed it, and all about its progress, be-
sides telling me several other things
about myself which satisfied me that he
knew more about me than l could tell
him. | put myself under his care, soon
began to improve, and in, the course OF
few months was entirely cured. | con-
slider DE-. 4. G. Flower the greatest 1y- 4
ing benefactOr to sick and suffering 4
world.
II know of several ip Nattawamkeag
he has cured in exactly the same way his
cures are miraculous-his examinations
marvellous. | cannot tell how he per-
forms these cures, but l am living eX-
enple that he does"
Mr. Studley, Of Boston, q prominent
business man, had a cancer removed
from his lip and mouth eight years ago
without the knife or pain, by DIR. K. &.
Flower after the leading physicians of
the city and hospital had pronounced it
incurabie. He has enjoyed the best OF
health ever since.
Hon. J. Willard Rice. of Boston. broth
g. of Ex-Governor Rice, was visited by
yCur reporter on his return from the Pine
Tree State. you have been patient
Of DR.. Flower we queried as we in
of him rs a doctor" A broad smile COW
cred the face of the fat and genial alder
man rs he leaned back in his easy chair.
Il think" was his reply, shat Dr. X. G..
Flower is one of the most able, learned
and skillful physicians of this age; be-
sides he is most genial and fascinating
man and as brilliant as a star"
Henry A. Follett, of WOonsocket X.
l.. said 81 have been n terrible sufferer
for twelve years with liver disease and
piles. / had tried the learned physicians
| resort l consulted DR.. r. c. Flower Of
Boston After ! had given up all hope
| Of getting we'll and had resigned myself
| to what | supposed would be either
months or years Of suffcring-a living
/ DEATH learned that by sending n two
! cent stamp to DR.. X. e. Flower 500
| Columbus avenue, Boston, a pamphlet
/ entitled Health and Happiness would
! be sent free. In a few days | had this
! little book. After reading IL hope re-
! turned to my soul | went to see Dr.
| Flower. Imagine my surprise as | walk
ed into his presence to have him tell me
all about myself; how my troubles began
and what they were-all this without
! ny telling him n thing | need not tell
you that | felt that / was in the pres
ence of a man who knew his business
and who knew my difficulties better than
! did ] placed myself under his care,
improved at once, and am to-day well
man. Others close to me have been
| cured IN the same marvellous way"
Your reporter returned 70 Boston for
the purpose Of seeing DR. X. {. Flower,
whom he failed to see on his first visit.
After waiting two hours he WAS shown
into the Doctors private parl0rs
Well, sir, what can l do for youw
was the Doctors greeting.
Il have come TO ask you a few cues.
| tons, was the scribes reply, as he
pulled out his book and pencil.
You must make your questions few