Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-14
An Interesting Boston Institution.

impressed with this fact than when,
in Boston recently, he had occasion to
visit the office of the well-known DR..
Greene, the great specialist in the
cure of nervous and chronic COM
plants, located at "a Temple Place,
and found that the doctor and his able
staff of skilled specialists were 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 dis
| ease through the mail, but such we
found to be the case. When we ex-
pressed 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 forty
years ago, had been constantly on the
increase and as the doctor put it, "If
we had not met with the greatest de-
gree of success our business would not
have grown to it's present enormous
proportions"
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 a
large number of people sick and suf-
fering all over the country who could
not come to his office. To help these
people from a distance he had insti-
tuted what would be known as home
treatment. His speciality is chronic
and nervous diseases of all kinds.
That he may treat you understand
ingly he sends you on application
a symptom blank which when filed
out, gives the trained specialist
a 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 ev-
cry symptom of the patient from time
to time is noted. 1t makes no differ
ence whether the person writing re-
sides within five or thousand miles
the case can be treated with equal
success.
DIR. Greene has very spacious and
finely fitted offices for carrying or
this enormous practice, and he occu-
pies two entire floors of the block al
"a Temple Place. The best thing that
we noticed about the whole establish
ment is the laboratory, right in the
rear of the DOCTORS private consulting
room, where every ounce of medicine
prescribed is carefully compounded
from tinctures of roots and herbs. II
J may or may not be generally known
that the doctor uses no drugs or poi
son, but all his remedies are extracts
: from pure roots and herbs, and tina
, reminds us that these are prepared
by wholesale in the five story bricf
! laboratory at 615 Albany St., where
the doctor keeps animmense quantit.
' of native and imported roots anC
herbs, that his long practice has sat
isfied him are best suited to suppl.
the needs of the wasted body. A sup
ply from this wholesale laboratory i
!, obtained every morning so that moth
: ing stale shall in any manner ente
h into any of the many remedies com
: pounded. But in our praise of tn
laboratory we had forgotten furthe
: description of the offices. The centr
: front room finished and furnished il
: the best of taste is the reception room
where all patients are received. Th
Il consulting rooms are on either side
J. and back of them, as has already beer
stated, is the laboratory where in ad
: dltion to the prescriptions com
pounded, more than forty differen
standard professional remedies tina
were discovered by DIR. Greene an
. used with great success in his practic
= for many years are put up, the well
huOWu LII. OI60n 1NOl OOlnS Oh
=, of the forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are tn
corresponding rooms where the ply
sicians after carefully considering tn
case of each individual patient pre-
, pare the replies to their question
= and explain the treatment proposed
No one who has not been faVOre
= with visit to this room can have an
|. idea of the thoughtful care and atten
: ton that is given these replies. A
q opinion in regard to any case, tn
cause of the disease, the probabilit
of cure and the price of the neces
sary medicine required to effect ths
cure are all carefully and sympathetic
ally given and it is then for the patier