The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-04-25
A RACE FOR LIFE.
An Exciting Ride Across Continent-Bit
by a Deadly Insect-An Accident
Saves q Life.

L
Y. NJ. @. A., of Philadelphia. At my
right was sitting an elderly gentleman
whose Whiskers and dress would indicate
that he belonged to the cloth. At my left
sat a group of dozen, of various ages,
discussing the wonders of modern phenO-
mena After various experiences had
been related, the clerical gentleman to my
right. who was no less a person than Rev.
T.. o. Gillett, said:
"Gentlemen, | have witnessed in this
line of wonders that which would cost
ones life to repeat 200 years ago.
"In the spring of 1888 was in San An
tonic. Texas, for my health, my disease
having been pronounced consumption, and
that fair, soft, Italian climate was my only
hone. | was sitting in front of the Men
ger house, when, from carriage, hastily
driven from the depot, two gentlemen
emerged. One was an elderly. well-dress-
ed gentleman of about GO. His face was
sweled to three times its natural size; his
eyes and mouth almost closed. The other
gentleman, who was his attendant, asked
me and my companion if we could refer
him to a first-class physician. | recon-
mended him to the physician who was
then attending me, anu at the same time
asked him about the disease of his friend
| we think he was bitten by some kind
of a spider last summer, was his reply.
we thought at the time he would lose his
life, but by the skill of one of the best
pbysicians of San Antonio he was seem
! ingly cured. About two months ago a. a
growth appeared in the glands of the left
Side of the neck. This was removed by
| an operation, but Immediately reappeared.
| Four days ago conference OF doctors re-
| norted he could not live a month, when
| decided him to go with all possible speed
no Boston. Mass, to consult noted
snecialist of that city. We are now en-
route for Boston, but our train is delayed
"Who are you going to see in Boston
asked.
cdr r. G. Flower was his reply,
and Mr.. Mildredge believes that, bad as
he is and as near death as he IS, II ne
can only see Dr. Flower he can De
cured
"You would not see DR.. Flower if you
went to Boston," l replied.
"'And why|
Because he is not there; he is in San
Antonio at this hotel, right now.
"'What! muttered the suffering Mr..
NIildredre between his half-closed teeth
DIR. r.. C. Flower of Boston here. My
God! how fortunate! How fortunate
for me the wreck delayed use
"He was shown to DIR. Flowers par
lors. |, with others, accompanied him.
In these rooms We're about 100 patients,
from all points of southern and western
Texas, waiting to consult the doctor
CDR. Flower being advised OF the sur
ferng and Importance of the new arri-
val made an early examination OF MS
case.
est is my opinion he said, that you
were bitten by a spider or something oil
the kind, but the treatment you had prac-
tically cured you. 1t is also my opinion
that YOUR mother died with cancer, and
more than likely a grandmother, too
"'Right,' exclaimed Mr.. Mildredge.
Furthermore, you had bad case of
syphilis about six years ago and was
never properly treated
"'Right again. said the old man.
"'AbOut six months ago you had blow
on the left side of your neck, and follow
ing that blow came this growth
"'Great heavensr said Mr.. Mildredge,
now all excitement, L did have blow
about six or seven months ago, right
there, pointing to where the sore was, but
| had forgotten all about it. But how did
you know these things?
"'Never mind how l know Them re-
piled the doctor. 1T is enough to know
you are at deaths door, and whatever
"Dr. Flower injected something into the
growth, something else into the mans
arm, put a few drops of something on his
tongue, wrote telegram for his office in
Boston to send his certain treatment and
then told him to lie down and take a
sleep.
"That evening Mr.. Mildredge told me he
felt 800 per cent better. He returned to
his home the next day. Eight months
afterward | received a letter from him
in which he said DIR. r. G. Flower had
cured him and that he was in better health
then than he had been in for 40 years.
81 need not say that | changed doctors,
and in a short time DR.. r. G. Flower
| cured me permanently.
81 met a number of his patients while
in Texas. as | have in all sections of the
country | have ever been in. They all
| tell of two miraculous features in Dr.
| Flowers practice: His unerring ability
to tell a patient his disease without ask
| ing a question and the speed and ease
with which he cures the most malignant
diseases. | don't believe there is a ply
stefan in the wide world who has the
dagnostic powers of DR.. r. G.. Flower
| know what | say when | say that DR..
Flower can take any sick person by the
hand and in q few moments tell every
phase of their disease better than they
can tell him and easier than you would
read book.
81 have recently returned from Texas,
where, in the interest of science. l have
been investigating the work of this Won
derful man.
81 have ascerained. first, that DIR. r.
| G.. Flower has some 100 patients in the
State of Texas; second, that he examines
all his patients without ever asking a
question, and third, that his books show
in connection with the investigation of the
| facts that in cancer consumption, tumor,
paralysis, fatty degeneration of the heart,
kidney and nervous diseases, he does not
lose one case in ninety; fourth, that his
patients, as a rule, have been given up by
other physicians as incurable, and yet
these incurable malignant diseases seem
to be handled by him with the utmost ease
and uniform success"
| "ly Investigations have proven the
permanent cures in Texas alone include
over 4OO-of prominent peOple-of the
diseases l have just named, when given
up as incurable. | will name you few:
IS. +. Hunt of COnrOe, Tex, was cured
of terrible liver and stomach trouble,
which had resulted in nervous exhaustion;
Mrs. Hattie Racquet, Tyler, Tex, most
lovely and gifted woman. cured of a nerve,
heart and blood troube-trOuhle which
had nearly wrecked health. life and BRAIN
Mrs. K. s. Curtis, Rusk, Tex, of a COM
pucation of diseases which had brought