St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-09
AN INTERESTING BOSTON INSTI-
TUITION.

Surely this is an age of advancement
The writer was never more impressed
with this fact than when, in Boston re.
Gently, he had occasion to visit the office
of the well-known DR.. Greene, the great
specialist in the cure OF nervous and
chronic complaints, located at 81 TEN.
pie 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 mail, but such we found to be
the case. When we expressed our surprise
over this new departure the doctor as
sured us that it was no new departure
for them whatever, for the great sys-
tenn of practice was founded more
than forty years ago, had ben con-
stantly on the increase and as the
doctor put it, If we had not met
with the greatest degree Of success our
business would not have grown to its
present enormous proportions.
The doctor having a moment to spare
we sat and chatted with him in regard
to his practice. He said that while of
course they had large Office practice,
having among their list OF patrons many
of the first families 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 people from a distance he
| mad instituted what would be known as
home treatment. His speciality is chronic
and nervous diseases OF all kinds. That
he may treat you Understandings he
sends you on application 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. 1t makes no difference
whether the person writing resides with
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be treated with equal success.
DR.. Greene has very spacious and finely
! fitted offices for carrying on this enor-
nous practice, and he occupies two en-
tire floors of the block at 81 Temple Place.
! The best thing that we noticed about
| the whole establishment is the labora'
tory, right in the rear of the Doctors
| private consulting room, where every
ounce of medicine prescribed is carefully
| compounded from tinct ures of roots and
| herbs. 1t 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 FIVE story brick labora
| tory at els Albany street, where the
doctor keeps an immense quantity 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
remedies compounded. But in our praise
of the laboratory we had forgotten a
| further description OF the offices. The
centre front room finished and furnished
in the best OF taste is the option 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
| III ii ,ar,,aI;ac !,
discovered by DR.. Greene and used with
great success in his practice tor many
years are put up, the well-known DIR.
| Greene's Nervura being one OF the lorty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the
| corresponding rooms where the physl-
clans 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 favored with a visit to this
room can have any idea of the thought
full 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 medicine required to effect that
cure are all carefully and sympathetically
|
eide for himself 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 one
oil the ills of life to be endured and little
or no thought was taken to effect cure
unless the end 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 peo
pie as an insidious foe against which we
| should battle, and defeat it ii it is pos
| sible thing; hence when DR.. Greene re-
Celves a list OF answers to ques ions, and
he sees at glance at the sheet that the
| patient is suffering 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 inexpen-
sive will br entirely out of the question
few years later, specially if the patient
is nearing or past middle life. One of our
readers is asking us why the doctor is so
positive of this fact. If 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 catarrh is equally true in hundreds of