Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-04
AN INTERESTING BOSTON INSTITUTION

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 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 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 scien-
| tifically 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 1t 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 in
crease and as the doctor put it, "If we
had not met with the greatest degree of
success our business would not have
grown to It's present enormous proper
tons"
The doctor having moment to spare
we sat and chatted with him in regard to
his practice. lie said that while of course
they had a 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 distance he had in
stituted what would be known as home
treatment. His speciality is chronic and
nervous diseases of all kinds. That he may
treat you understandingly he sends you
on application symptom blank which,
when filled out, gives the trained special
I st 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 difference whether the per-
son writing resides within five or thou
sand miles, the case can be treated with
equal success.
DR.. Green has very spacious and finely
fitted offices for carrying on this enor-
nous 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 prescribed is carefully COM
pounded from tinctures 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 re.
minds us that these are prepared by
wholesale in the five story brick labora-
tory at Gl5 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
to supply the needs of the wasted body.
A supply from this wholesale laboratory
is obtained every morning so that moth
ing 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 center front room fin
ished and furnished in the best of taste is
the reception room. where ell patients
are received The consulting rooms are
on either side, and back on them, as has
already been stated, is the laboratory
where. in addition to the prescriptions
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 DIR.
Greene's NervuIa being one of the forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the
corresponding rooms where the physi
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 prob
ability of a cure and the price of the
necessary medicine required to effect that
cure are all carefully and sympathetic
cally given and it is then for the patient
to decide for himself whether he had
better 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
looked 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 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
people as an insidlous foe against which
we should battle, and defeat it if it is u
possible thing; hence when DR.. Greene
receives list of answers TO questions,
and he sees at a glance at the sheet that
the patient is suffering from severe at
tack of catarrh he readily and conscien-
tlously warns the person, be he young or
old, that catarrh Is the first stepping
stone to consumption and that cure
now comparatively easy, simple and in
expensive will be entirely out of the
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