The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-09
An Interesting Boston institution
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ihO "iiOeI was never more impressed
with this fact than when, in Boston re-
! Gently, he had occasion to visit the office
of the well-known DIR. Greene, the great
specialist in the cure of nervous and
Chronic complaints, located at 81 Temple
Place, and found that the doctor and his
able staff of skilled specialists we're treat
ing 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 mail
but such we found to be the case. When
we expressed our surprise over this
new departure the Doctor assured us
that it was no new departure for
them whatever, for the great system
OF practice was founded more than for
ty years ago, had been constantly on
the increase and, as the doctor put it,
elf we had not met with the greatest de-
| gree of success our business would not
have grown to its present enormous pro-
portions"
The doctor having moment to spare,
we sat and chatted with him in regard to
his practice. He said that while of course
they had a large Office practice, having
among their list of patrons many of the
| first fam lies in Boston and vicinity. there
were large number of people sick and
suffering all over the country who could
not come to his office. To help these peo-
pie from a distance he had instituted what
would be known as home treatment His
specially is chronic and nervous diseases
of all kinds, That he may treat you I'M
derstandingly he sends you on application
| a symptom blank which, when filled out,
gives the trained specialist perfect idea
of what the ailments are. A 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 1t makes no differ
ence whether Che person writing resides
within FIVE or a 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 81 Temple Place. The
best thing that we noticed about the whole
establishment is the laboratory, right in
the rear of the doctors private consulting
room, where every ounce of medicine pre-
scribed is carefully compounded from tine
lures of roots and herbs. 1t may or may
not be generally known that the doctor
uses no drugs or poison, but all his re me-
dies are extracts from pure roots and
herbs, and that reminds us that these arc
prepared by wholesale in the five-story
brick laboratory at 615 Albany street,
where the doctor keeps an immense guam
tity of native and imported roots and
herbs, that his long practice has satisfied
him are best suited to 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 rene
dies compounded. But in our praise of
the laboratory we had forgotten further
description of the offices. The centre
front room finished and furnished 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 pre-
scriptions compounded more than forty
different standard professional remedies
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 Nervura being one of the
forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the
corresponding rooms where the physicians
after carefully considering the case of
each individual patient prepare the re-
plies to their questions and explain the
siSoehCho PiopooCos ANO OLC WIN has |
not been favored with a 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
cure and the price of the necessary medi-
cine required to effect that cure are all
carefully and alphabetically given and it
is then for the patient to decide for him
self whether he had better take another
step and be cured.
There has probably been as much adj
vance made in regard to the manner in
which disease, pain and suffering are
looked upon by the masses as in any other
field of investigation. When l was boy
sickness was looked upon as QUE of the
lis of life to be endured and little or no
thought was taken to effect cure unless
he end seemed to be near, when efforts