Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
An Interesting Boston Institution.


he had occasion TO Visit lne oHlce VI tno
we'll known DIR. Greene, the great special
isl in the cure of nervous and chronic
complaints, located at "a Temple Place,
and found that the doctor and his able
staff of skilled specialists were treating
patients, by correspondence, all over the
country. We knew that the ladies in
Maine bought their goods by samples IN
Boston but we had no idea that you could
be treated successfully and scientifically
for almost any disease through the man,
but such we found to be the case. When
we expressed our surprise over this new
departure the doctor assured us that II
was no new departure for them whatever,
for the great system OF practice was found
ed more than forty years ago, had been
constantly on the increase and as the doc
tor put it, - II we had not met with the
greatest degree of success our business
would not have grown TO ITS present enor-
nous proportions
The doctor having a moment to spare we
sat and chatted with him in regard to his
practice. He said that while of conrse
they had a large office practice, having
among their list of patrons many of the
first families in Boston and vicinity, there
were a large number OF people sick and
suffering all over the country who could
not come to his office. To help these
people from distance he had instituted
what would be known as home treatment.
His speciality is chronic and nervous dis
eases of all kinds That he may treat you
Understandings he sends you on applica-
ton a symptom blank which, when filled
out, gives the trained specialist perfect
idea OF what the ailments are. record
of each case is kept and when medicines
are prescribed the fact is recorded and each
and every symptom OF the patient from time
to time IS noted. Il makes no difference
whether the person writing resides within
five or thousand miles the case can be
treated with equal success.
DR.. Greene has very spacious and finely
fitted offices for Carrying on this enormous
practice, and he occupies two entire floors
Of the block at "a Temple Place. The best
thing that we noticed about the whole es-
tablishment is the laboratory, right in the
rear OF the DOCTORS private consulting
room, where every ounce OF medicine h.
carefully compounded from tinetures Of
roots and herbs Ii may or may not be
generally known that the doctor uses no
drugs or poison, but all his remedies are
extracts from pure roots and herbs, and
that reminds us that these are prepared By
wholesale in the tive-stOrv brick laboca-
tory az 6l5 Albany St., where the doctor
keeps an immense quantity Of native and
imported roots and herbs, that his long
practice has satisfied him are best suited
10 supply the needs Of the wasted body A
supply from this wholesale laboratory Is
obtained every morning SO that nothing
stale shall in any manner enter into any
OF the many remedies compounded. But
in our praise Of the laboratory we had for
gotten a further description OF the offices.
The center front room finished and fur
nished in the best of taste is the reception
room, where all patients are received. The
consulting rooms are on either side, and
back of them, as has already been stated,
is the laboratory where, in addition to the
prescriptions compounded, more than
forty different standard professional rem
edies that were discovered by DR.. Greene
and used with great success in his practice
for many years are put up,the well-known
DR.. Greene's Neryura being one OF the
forty.
In the rear OF the laboratory are the cor
responding rooms where the physicians
after carefully considering the case OF each
individual patient, prepare the replies TO
their questions and explain the treatment
proposed No one who has not been favor
ed with visit to this room can have any
idea of the thoughtful care and attention
that is given these replies. An opinion in
regard to any case, the cause of the disease,
the probability OF a cure and the price OF
the necessary medicine required to effect
that cure are all carefully and sympathet-
ically given and IL is then for the patient
to decide for himself whether he had bet
ter take another step and be cured.
There has probably been as much ad-
vance made in regard to the manner in
which disease, pain and suffering are look
ed upon by the masses as in any other
field of investigation. When / was a boy
sickness was looked upon as one OF the ills
Of life to be endured and little or no
thought was taken to effect a cure unless
theend seemed TO be near, when efforts
were then often too late. Now all this is
changed. Disease OF every sort and kind
is considered by intelligent people as an
insidious foe against which we should
battle, and defeat it II il is a possible thing;
hence when DR.. Greene receives a list OF
answers to questions, and ne sees at a
glance at the sheet that the patient Is suf-
fering from a severe attack OF catarrh he
readily and conscientiously warns that
person, be he young or old, that catarrh
IS the first stepping stone TO consumption
and that cure now comparatively easy,
simple and inexpensive will be entirely
out of the question few years later, es-
pecially II the patient is nearing or past
middle life One of our readers Is asking
US why the doctor is so positive of this
fact. II you were in his office today and
should ask this question he could take you
into his back Office and show you the
records of thousands of cases that started
in simple catarrh but being checked in
season an absolute and permanent cure
resulted. What is true in oatarrh is equal
ly true in hundreds OF other cases of va
rious chronic diseases that he treats so
successfully.
Nervous troubles of all kinds are
speciality with DIR. Greene and he has
shown conclusively that the condition of
the nerves has an all-important influence
| in all chronic troubles. His remedies act
upon the system through the nerves and
blood and being made entirely OF vege-
table ingredients they have demonstrated
! by the records in his Office their wonder
full efficiency.
Copies of each letter that he sends are
made part OF the records so that be the
correspondence long OF short, connected
or interrupted by an interval Of years. the
doctor can at moments notice inform
himself as to the history Of the disease as
though each case was the only one he was
treating; thus the reader will see how
rational and natural treating diseases by
correspondence is, and the doctors success
IS the best guarantee OF the feasibility OF
the plan. The consultations whether by
mail OF orally are free, the charges made
being simply for the medicines prescribed.
/ Thus II viii be seen that il will cost