The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
NEW TO-DAY.
A NOTED PHYSICIAN,
And One Whose Practice Ex.
tends Into Many For.
eign Lands.
FLATTERING TESTIMONY.
Interesting Interview With the
WeIl-Known Specialist. DR..
FL. SweaDy.

A physicians life is one OF constant
study and self-denial OF many of the
pleasures and recreations of life, provided
he feels desire to achieve high degree
of success and to occupy pre-eminent
position in his profession. To better un-
derstand and appreciate how successful
physician must be thoroughly devoted to
his patients and to their treatment the
following interview had yesterday with
the well-known specialist, DIR. F. L.
Sweany of 737 Market street. Will afford
interesting reading.
The doctor was found in his Office busily
engaged with throng of patients. and
after some hesitation decided to grant few
minutes interview upon the subject of his
immense and highly successful practice.
DR.. Sweany is man OF flne appearance
and possesses frank open face that at
once inspires confidence on the part OF his
patients. When asked what his special
ties are as physician, he replied:
'I treat blood and skin diseases, female
complaints, structure, liver, lung, stomach
and heart diseases, piles, ruptures, hydro
cele, varicocele and kindred troubles and
most of all give attention to that baneful
ailment so common to mankind in this
country, viz, nervous debility, or as it is
often called, lost manhood.
II am" he continued, "a graduate of
several of the foremost medical colleges of
this country, and in addition have had an
extensive experience in the hospitals of
this country. | find that with all this ex-
perience and all this schooling it is possi-
BILE by constant study to improve upon
=, Hu for o,,x;,,
diseases and for the relief of suffering
humanity.
"There are, / know, many physicians
who are content to continue in the old rut
and to follow, year IN and year out, the
same old rule for treating different kinds
of sicknesses that they learned when first
attending medical schools. With me my
profession is of such all-absorbing interest
and am so devoted to it and so anxious
to discover the best methods of treatment
that | am willing to and do constantly
make explorations in the fields of science
and medicine on my own account. As
result of these repeated and continuous
! investigations and experime nts | feel that
! when ] undertake the treatment of
| patient am going to cure him; and from
no other source or from no other physician
can my remedies and methods of treat
ment be obtained.
81 have, as a matter OF course, had
many complicated cases come under my
care during my long practice, but I can
truly say that [ have invariably cured all
whom / have treated, where my instruc-
tions and treatment have been followed
out. There are, to be sure, some cases
| that are incurable, and WREN a patient
applies to me W no is afflicted with an in
durable disease frankly tell him, as any
honorable physician should. that he is
beyond all hope. But in the line of dis
eases to which l give special attention l
have never vet found a case, no matter
how stubborn, that would not yield to my
treatment"
When asked in regard to tbe extent of
his practice Doctor Sweaney said that
while this City and Coast was field of a
great portion of his practice. yet it was
not by any means limited by the bound
aries of the United States, and here the
doctor showed letters from patients resid.
ing in Germany. Italy. London, England
and even in South Africa. Continuing the
doctor said: II am daily in receipt of any
quantity of letters ordering medicines and
applying for treatment, but the most
precious missives that come to me in my
mail are those which testify to my cures
and which come from patients who tender
to me their sincere and heartfelt thanks
for saving them from lives of suffering and
despair. Leading the way to his corre-
spondence-room the doctor took up from
huge stack of letters number that con-
tanned testimonials of a most tiattering
character and of which any physician
might well feel very proud.
He said that it was his invariable rule
never to divulge the names of his patients
or their diseases. yet he made an excep-
tion in the case of the writer merely to
convince him of the genuiness of his
cures.
The following are few extracts copied
verbatim from the original letters. and
they tell their own eloquent story of DIR.
Sweany's skill and ability as specialist: