Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-08

editorial Correspondence of Turf,
Farm and Home).

1 81 IL anu 11OuiSJ.
| Surely this is an age of concentra-
ton. The writer was never more i'm
pressed with this fact than when in
Boston recently he had occasion to
visit the office of DIR. Greene. located
at "a Temple Place, and found the
doctor and his able staff of trained
specialists were treating patients by
correspondence all over the country.
We knew that the ladies in Maine
bought their goods by samples in Bos-
ton 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 business that was founded by his
father, Dr. Reuben Green, more than
forty years ago, had been constantly
on the increase and as the doctor put
. d
of success our business would not
have grown to it's present enormous
proportions" DIR. Greene, the elder,
was a typical Vermonter. You had
only to see him to be assured Of his
. sterling integrity and worth. 1t
would do a sick man good just TO
: look at the venerable practitioner as
we recall him quarter of a century
/. ago. counterfeit presentment of
his rugged features is to be seen in
? the reception room of the office he so
long occupied. Even to look upon
his face today inspires life and cour-
!. age.
+ The Doctor having moment to
I spare we sat and chatted with him in
5 regard to his practice. He said very
Lhad a large office practice, having
, among their list of patrons many of
:. the first families in Boston and vicin-
Y lily there were a large number of peo-
: pie sick and suffering all over the
country who could not come to his
office. To help these people from IL
A distance he had instituted what would
S be known as home treatment. His
: specially is chronic and nervous dis
, eases of all kinds, and he is especial
IL careful that no one should associate
1 his treatment with necromancy or
e clairvoyance or any species of mind
> reading, Christian Science and the
= like. He goes through no such TOM
|, foolery as calling for a lock of your
o hair or the year you were born. or
Ianything of that description, but that
Il he may treat you understandingly he
q sends you on application a symptom
: blank which, when intelligently filled
: out, gives the trained specialist good
. idea of what the ailments are. If for
= any reason there is any hesitancy
further questions are asked SO that
$ the case may be treated in the most
:, intelligent manner. A record of each
case is kept and when medicines are
: prescribed the fact is recorded and
k each and every symptom of the pa
:. tient from time to time is noted. II
n makes no difference whether the per-
son writing resides within five miles
9 with equal success.
e DR.. Green has very spacious and
q finely fitted offices for carrying or
this enormous practice, and he occu-
O pies two entire floors of the block at
/. "a Temple Place. The best thing
: that we noticed about the whole es-
y tablishment is the laboratory right in
:. the rear of the Doctors private con-
sultng room, where every ounce OF
t medicine prescribed is carefully COM
e pounded from tinctures of roots and
herbs. 1t may or may not be gener-
ally known that the doctor uses nc
. drugs or poison but all his remedies
S are extracts from pure roots and
: herbs, and that reminds us that all
= these are prepared by wholesale IN
h the five story brick block at 615 AL
t bany street, where the doctor keeps an
: immense quantity of native and i'm
ported roots and herbs that his long
lpractice has satisfied him are best
3 suited to supply the needs of the
o wasted body. A supply from this
wholesale laboratory is obtained every
5 morning so that nothing stale shall
Y in any manner enter into any of the
f many remedies 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
s taste is the reception room, where all
!. patients are received. The consult
ing rooms are on either side, and bach,
. of Them as has already been stated,
is the laboratory where, in addition
to the prescriptions compounded, more
than forty different standard profess
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