Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-27
DIAGNOSING DISEASE BLIND
FOLDED.
Remarkable Career in The Cure Of the Sick
Holding an Angry Mob at Bay From the
Rear Platform of the Train.

Col. Robert G. Olcott of London was the
guest of the Chester Club of Philadelphia
the evening when the subject for discussion
happened to be our great men. And as
Col. Olcott's mission TO this country was to
investigate the history of the different types
of great Americans, he was called upon to
respond. II will respond as to the physi-
cians," said the colonel in his English
brogue.
'My idea, gentlemen, of a great physl-
clan is physician who is capable, and who
does great things, man of great original
ity, quick in perception. cool in demeanor'
strong in his convictions, forcible in the
presentation of his belief and unbiased by
sectarian prejudice, whether it be in medi-
cine, religion or politics. The physician l
refer to is certaialy a wonderful physician
as we'll as remarkable personality.
''He seems to possess a great intuition,
which enables him to diagnose all diseases
and describe these diseases without being
told anything and without asking any ques-
tons better than the patient can tell him.
l have seen him in more than 20 cases
blindfolded, and in this condition tell every
person their diseases in detail without ask
ing question. Consequently. when he
doctors a patient he doctors him for the
right disease instead of experimenting with
him. have seen him more than dozen
times while thoroughly blindfolded read
book as readily as if he had the use OF
his eyes. don't pretend to say how he
does these things for l don't know, but l
do know that he does them.
"He examines thousands Of sick people
every year, and tells each and every one
their trouble without asking a question.
Now it seems to me that man who can
read the inside of sick person as he would
an open book without asking any questions
is far more capable of treating the patient
than the doctor who has to guess at the dis
ease from what the patient may tell him.
1.-THE gentleman l refer to is DIR. r. c.
Flower of Boston, Mass. You have all
heard of him many times. He has thou
sands of patients under his care. These
patients are distributed all over your United
States and in other countries. Wherever
DR.. Flower goes crowds gather to see him
of the incurable sick from every part of the
world. Inquiry at the following hotels
Riggs House, Washington, ID. c.; Elk
change Hotel, Richmond, Va; Kimball
House, Atlanta, Ga; St. James Hotel, Jack
sonville, Fla; fremont House, Galveston,
Tex Menger House, San Antonio, Tex.
Richelieu Hotel Little Rock, Ark; Guyosa
Hotel, Memphis, Tenn; Gait House, Louis
Vile, KY; Beers Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.
Throop Hotel, Topeka, Kan. Planknton
Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis. Palmer House
Chicago, ILL.,; Cadillac Hotel, Detroit
Mich; Denison Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind
Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, O.-and the Con
tinental Hotel in this city have all brought
| the answer that whenever DR.. r. c. Flower
visits their hotel great crowds of the sicl
and suffering come to see him, and that the
people who come to see him are generally
the most prominent and wealthy people OF
the country, representing all the positions
! business and professional Of life; and a:
far as any expressions have been heard
they have been that DR.. r. c. Flower ba.
cured or is curing them, and that he told
them their diseases without asking ques
| ton.
The physician who took Antonio Case
nero, the Cuban prince, and his wife to see
DR.. r. C. Flower in 1888, described to me
the first interview between DR.. Flower and
the princes wife: You need not tell me
anything said the doctor as he took the
woman's hand in his and looked directly
into her eyes for a minute. 1t is my opin-
ion, said the doctor slowly, that you were
bitten by vicious cat some years ago and
came very near losing your life from the in
jury. Shortly after this occurred you re.
ceived blow in your left breast. Soon 8
lump appeared. This in time was pro-
nounced cancer and you had it cut out
1t soon returned with four or five Other
growths and are under the arm. You have
had at least two, and | believe three opera
tons. Your case is now considered by ply Isl
clans generally as incurable.' You are right
in every particular. said the woman, but fol
Gods sake how did you know these things.
! Never mind how know them. see you
now have seven or eight growths coming in
the breast around the edges where the OPP
erations were performed and two under the
arm. Your disease has now reached 8
state where you are in constant suffering.
Without delay the doctor filed bypod
ernie needle with a mixture of lachesis,
permanganate of potash, thymol and re.
fined green tincture of stillenger, and made
an injection into each growth. These in
| jections he repeated every third day fol
three weeks, when every trace of the can
cerous growths were gone. He treated the
system constitutionally for eight months
from which time Mrs. Casenero has en-.
| joyed perfect health.
1.-The Minister to the United States from
one of the leading South American Repub-
lies told my worthy friend on my left that
he believed DR.. r. C,Flower of Boston was
inspired of God to cure the sick when all
other efforts failed: that he aud his family
were patients of DR.. r. c. Flower, and his
| treatment of their cases was miraculous.
| hold in my hand letter from the late ex-
Governor Bishop of Ohio, in which he says
| If miracles have ever been performed in
modern times then DR.. r. G. Flower of
Boston performs them daily. l have seen
him examine scores of patients without
asking question and tell each one in de-
tail his trouble. l have seen men and wo-
men sick unto death with cancers and
tumors, after given up by the leading medi-
cal skill of this country to die, cured by DR..
R. &C, Flower in n short time ithout the knife