Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-02
A MEDICAL MYSTERY.
THE REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF =
DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIAN.
Ills skill in Diagnosis Absolutely Incom-
prebensibIe-Pntient All Ovcr New
England Intervicwed-Ths strange Ex-
perience of Hartford Medical Man.
From the Albany, n. v, Journal.1

"What will be the end of this mans mir
aculous work if he continues to cure these
almost dead and incurable diseases Cor the
next ten years as he is doing now ~ was
the question asked of prominent Hartford,
Conn, physician.
The Doctor knit his brows took from his
mouth his half-smoked Havana, aud in his
slow and measured way OF talking, said
young man, you have raised question
that don't like to, aud at the same time do
like to, talk about. lie is misunderstood
and believe never to be understood medi-
cal wonder. IIe is n puzzle an unsolved
riddle. He will look at sick man and tell
him HIS disease AZ readily as | would look
at you and tell you you had a nose on your
face. He examines people in his own way
and different from anybody else. his method
being this He takes the patient by the
hand minute and then tells him all his
troubles in the most marvellous and fasciua-
ting way withou asking him question.
This know to be fact, and thousands
and tens OF thousands all over this country
know it to be a fret. There is no reason
for Dr. X. c. Flower experimenting with
his patients, for as soon he takes the hand
he knows the interior condition as well as
the exterior.
al have known him to euro tho worst
casos OF chronic diseases, such as tumor,
cancer, consumption, paralysis and nerve
troubles when given up by the host medi-
cal skill Of the country az lncurable-and
when tho patients have given up all hopes
| themselves and in some instances where
they didn't want to get well and wanted to
die ~
Tell me- Doctor, how you became ac
nv tod with nr Elowor and what Won
know about him..
Throwing his cigar in the CRATE and arts
ing from he chair he said, For years
dsbeIieved and ridiculed the claims made
! for the doctor by his friends. | had always
! heen taught to look with disfnvor upon any
methods differing from the regular prac-
tice. In fact | looked upon every kind OF
! practice outside of my own school as quack-
cry. | had often said that DR.. Flower
and all ire Sular practitioners and special
lists should be stopped by law, and more
/ than once | have tried to SECURE medical
legislation which would etfectually stop all
| physicians from practising WAC were not of
the regular school.
"Well, continued my friend as his face
grew serious, you know it is an old saying,
that sickness and death msi, towards of us
all. had a very dear lady friend, ono
|
sumption | did every thing for her | could
but she grow steadily worse. | took her TO
the best ply sicians in New York City only
TO hear them tell me | had done all for
her that could be done Some of them sug-
gested that a climate like California might
| prolong her life for abort time. | sent
! her to southern California; but it failed and
she soon returned home TO die in very
much worse and weaker state than wnen
she went away.
lone night while was sitting by her
side talking to her that might keep her
mind off the approaching and fatal end,
she laid her feverish hand in mine and,
looking up into my face sald in a nervous
way, DO you know what | was thinking
about :: and without waiting for me to ans
wer, continued.
- Il was thinking Of how would like to
consult Dr. r. c. Flower OF Boston Just
feel that he eau help Inc AMI | thought per
haps you would take me to see him. You
have all given mo up to die.
"Imayine my position.
''It any of my patients had suggested any
thing of the kind would have talked then
out of it. But here sweet life going
out and one which pulled hard at my hear
strings and, though | had no desire to see
DR.. Flower, and no faith that he could dc
har any 1ood I did not hive tina psrva +,
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