The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-28
A RACE FOR LIFE.
An Exciting Ride Across a CONT
nent-Bft by q Deadly Insect
An Accident saves
a Life.

whose whiskers and dress would indicate
that he belonged to the cloth. At my
left sat a group of a dozen, of various
ages, discussing the wonders of modern
phenomena. After various experiences
had been related. the clerical gentleman
to my right, who was no less a person
than Rev. E. o. Gillett, said:
"Gentlemen, have witnessed in this
line of wonders that which would cost
ones life to repeat 200 years ago.
SIN the spring of 1888 I was in San
Antonio, Tex, for my health, my disease
having been pronounced consumption,
and that fair, soft, Italian climate was
my only hope | was sitting in front of
the Menger House, when, from a carriage,
hastily driven from the depot, two gen
tlemen emerged One was an elderly.
we'll dressed gentleman of about CO. His
face was swelled to three times its nat
ural size; his eyes and mouth almost
closed. The other gentleman, who was
his attendant, asked me and my COM
panion if we could refer him to first
class physician. l recommended him TO
the physician who was then attending
me. and 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 physicians of San Antonio he
was seemingly cured About two months
ago a growth appeared in the glands of
the left side of the neck. This was re-
moved by an operation, but Immediately
reappeared. Four DAYS ago a conference
of doctors reported he could not live a
Oh Id -skk
all possible speed to Boston, Mass, to
consult noted specialist of that city.
We are now en- route for Boston but our
train is delayed few hours on account
of a wreck
"Who are you going to see in Boston?
l asked.
ODE R. c. Flower was his reply,
''and MIR. Mildredge believes that bad as
he is and as near death as he is, if he
can only see Dr. Flower he can be
cureI.'
"You would not see DR.. R. c. Flower
if you went to Boston, replied.
"'And Why
because he is not there; he is in San
Antonio, at this hotel, right now.
What! muttered the suffering Mr..
B1ildredge between his half closed teeth,
EDr. r. G. Flower of Boston here. My
God! How fortunate! How fortunate
for me the wreck delayed u.s.
"Ie was shown to DR.. Flowers parlors.
I, 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.
''Dr. Flower being advised of the suf-
fering and Importance OF the new arrival
made an early examination of his case
"'It is my opinion, he said, that you
Nv of
the kind, but the treatment you mad
practically cured you. 1t is also my
opinion that your mother died with can
Ger, and more than likely a grandmother
too
"'Right,' exclaimed Mr.. Mldredge.
Furthermore, you had a bad case of
blood poisoning about six years ago and
was never properly treated
Fright again. said the old man.
"'About six months ago you had
blow on the left side of your neck, and
following that blow came this growth
"sGreat heavensv said Mr.. Mildredge,
now all excitement, Il did have a blow
about six or seven months ago, right
there pointing to where the sore was,
but l had forgotten all about it. But
how did you know these thing?'
"'Never mind how | know them re-
piled the doctor. 1T is enough to know
that you are at deaths door, and what
ever is done must be done quickly
"Dr Flower injected something into
the growth, something else into the
mans arm, put few drops of something
on his tongue, wrote a telegram for his
office in Boston to send him certain treat
ment, and then told him to lie down and
take sleep.
"That evening Mr.. Mildredge told me
he felt 500 per cent better. He returned
to his home the next day. Eight months
afterward l received a letter from him
in which he said DR.. r. Z. Flower had
cured him and that he was in better
health then than he had been in for forty
years.
81 need not say that changed doctors,
and in a short time DR.. R. c. Flower
cured me permanently.
81 met number of his patients while
in Texas, as l have in all sections of the
country l have ever been in. They all
tell of two miraculous features in DIR.
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. 1 don't believe there is a ply
stefan in the wide world who has the
diagnostic powers of DR.. r. c. Flower.
l know what 1 say when l say that DIR.
Flower can take any SICK person by the
hand and in few moments tell every
phase of their disease better than they
can tell him and easier than you would
read a book.
81 have recently returned from Texas,
where, in the interest of science, l have
been investig eating the work of this won
derful man.
Il have ascertained, first, that DR.. R. C.
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 n nety; fourth
that his patients, as a rule. have been
given up by other physicians as incura-
BILE, and yet these incurable malignant
| diseases seem to be handled by him with