Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-01
DIAGNOSING DISEASE
BLINDFOLDED.
Remarkable Career in the
Cure Of the Sick.
Holding an Angry Mob at Bay From
the Rear Platform of the Train.

the Chester Club Of Philadelphia the evening when
the subject for discussion happened TO be our
great men. And Col Olcott's mission to thi1
country to investigate the history of the diff
ferent types of great Americans, he called
upoa to respond. Il will respond to the physi-
cans," said the colonel In his English brogue.
My idea, gentlemen of a great physician is q
physician who is capable, and who does great
thiLgs, man Of great originality quick in percep-
tion cool In demeanor, strong in his convictions,
forcible In the presentation of his belief and
biased by sectarian prejudice, whether 1t be In
medicine religion politics. The physician re-
fer to Is certainly a wonderful physician as we'll
| 1s a remarkable personality.
He seems to possess a great intuition, which
ehabies Dim TO diagnose all diseases and describe
| these diseases without being told anything and
without asking any questions better than the pa
tient can tell him. have seen him in more than
| twenty cases, blndf1ded, and in this condition
| tell every person their diseases in detail without
asking a question. Consequently when he DOCTOR
| pateLt be doctors him for the right disease In
stead Of experimenting with him. / have seen him
| more than a dozen times while thoroughly blind
folded read a book as readily If be had the use
| of his eyes. 1 don't pretend to say how he does
these things. for don't know; but do know that
| he does them.
He examines thousands of sick people every
year, and tells each and every their trouble
that a nan who can read the inside of a sick per-
| son as he would an open book, without asking any
tient than the doctor who has to guess at the dis
ease ..s from what the patient may tell him.
| Boston, Mass You have all heard Of him many
times He has thousands of patients under his
United States and in other countries. Wherever
DR.: Flower goes crowds gather to see him OF the
ay at the following s 'h aou wera WASH S
ingt9n, pc; Exchange Hotel, Richmond, Va;
Jacksonville, Fla; fremont House, Galveston Tex;
mePser p a9use San Antonio Tex; Richeeu Hotel
Louis; SESoP Topeka ss Kan 0i flank In
eago, H.: Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich; Denison
f a01sl l3%dhis 6 Ind Grand Hotel Gin
this city, have all brought the answer that
wherever Dr. r. g. Flower visits their hotel great
and that tie people who come to him are gen.
orally the most prominent and wealthy people Of
and professional. Of life; and as far as any ex.
have F,Uo been heard they have been that
| that he told them their diseases without asking
The physician who took Antonio Casenero. tbs
Cuban prince and his wifi. 10 see DIR. r. c. Flower
IN 1883. described to me the first interview between
tell me anything said the doctor, as he took the
womans hand in his and looked directly into her
doctor, slowly. that you were bitten by a Vicious
Taar Some if years ago and eams very near losing
CURED you received blow in your left breast.
Soon lump appeared. This in time was pro-
returned with four or i've other growths and ' SPe
under the arm You have had at leest two. and I
sidsred by physicians generally as ineurable' You
are right In every particular said the woman but
| Never mind how know them. / see you now have
seven or eight growths coming in the breast around
| and two unde' the arm. Your disease has now
reached state where You are in constant suffer-
| needle with mixture Of Iachesis permaneanate of
potash thymol and refined green tincture OF sten-
These injections he repeated every third dsy for
.nnee weeks. when every trace Of the cancerous
stitutloLaly for eight months, from which time
MI ..Tb oeseRero has enjoyed perfect health.
of the eadng south 19 'ae gHed p States from one
worthy friend on my left that he believed Dr. d..
cure the sick when all Other Efforts failed; that
h ne ana his family were patients OF Or. Il. G.
miraculous mir I hold in my hand letter from the
late Ex-Governor Bishop of Ohio, in which he says:
them daily have seen him examine scores Of
women SICK death with cancers and tumo ora
country to die, cured by Dr. R. q Flower Of in unis
M SdGfs me o without the knife without pain and
! cures OF paralysis, rheumatism, heart and nerve
ipS or The Governor closes this letter by
family whose lives are full OF promise b. O.
OF the Arena, but there is but one DR. r. C.
Flower, and there will
Never! Never! Never.
Be another. He has built up his present great
practice which is without doubt the largest and
most extended practice In the world OF this
great practice be is its head, its life, its center
and its source Other physicians Of skill are as
ISOLATED with him. He is the most cheerful man
In the sick room ever knew. The moment YOU
come into his presence you feel that he will cure
you, de is the most pleasing gentleman 1 ever
sician.' f"'
mni this DR. city the rSEs 0 Th fSs
railroad OF hopeless paralysis. From that day TO
try at frequent Intervals such cures as that D Of
Miss Ella Belts, South Norwalk, Conn. from help
Lonely Of washington D. C of n mslgn MrS Srod
growth Of the womb. and all of these perma-
land Me- Of John straw Of Stove, Vt Of t MRS.
Ssna ssP5nsG Of q snS SGG
vile, Ind; the wife of the Hon William Mix Of
louisville L, Ky is evidence beyond dispute that
chronic diseases Is a master; that most Of his
cures are men and women given up by other ply
examiner and consulting physician of this great
practice, while the treatment and details at
Your worthy secretary, who has known Or. r.
G. Flower for f., many years, has told me many an
Practice of the law. For, as some OF You know,
the Doctor was educated for law practiced several
medicine, and has been able TO quit Il. II
in 1874 60 years ago. that DIR. II. c. Flower,
not practicing physician then, called to
Mobile to defend man under arrest charged with
arson. After desperately fought he sue
ceeded in acquitting his client. on his return
North, of little station south of Franklin, Tenn,
a mob of Infatuated men surrounded the Sheriff,
who was endeavoring TO get negro. on the train.
thousand men, many Of them with masks
their faces, cried out:
Hang Him! Hang Himv
A rope was thrown around his neck and in an
other moment he would have been swinging to a
limb, when r. c. Flower, moving his hand, cried
out from the platform: Gentlemen, hear
me before you hang this man. You are Southern
men, and am glad as such to address YOU This
great crowd is represented by soldiers who few
years ago both the gray and the blue. Your
records those OF courage OF dariag and valor.
You brave men then, and believe you are
brave men today. You are Southerners-men OF
chivalry-men easily excited, quick TO resent
evil, but, gentlemen,
You Are Not Murderers.
And don't believe you want to murder this
In cold blood You don't want to establish a
precedent of mob law which may some day be
visited upon some of you. Let the law, beg you,
take its course You will feel better you think
il over; better when YOU go TO your beds tonight,
and better I'm the silence Of your last night
earth At this the leader of the mob cried out,
as he threw the rope down: reckon you
right, young We will let the law take its