Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-03
AN INTERESTING BOSTON lNSTI-
TUITION,
Especial CorrespondenceO

The writer was never more 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 treating patti
ents, by correspondence, all over the
country. ] knew that the ladies in Maine
bought their goods by samples in Boston
but had no idea that you could be treated
successfully and scientifically for almost
any disease through the mail, but such
found to be the case. When expressed
surprise over the new departure the doctor
assured me 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 sue
cess our business would not have grown
to Its present enormous proportions
The doctor having moment to spare
l 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 families in Boston and vicinity, there
were a large number Of people sick AMI
suffering all over the country who could
not come to his office. To help these peo-
pie from n distance he had instituted
what would I've known as home treatment.
His specially Is chronic and nervous dis
eases Of all kinds. That he may treat you
on application symptom blank which.
when filled out, gives the trained special
list a perfect idea of what the ailments
are. record of each case is kept and
when medicines are prescribed tho 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 within five or thousand
miles the case he claims can 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 entire
floors of the block at "a Temple Place.
The best thing that l 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 compoun-
ded 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 reminds me that
these are prepared by wholesale In the five
story brick laboratory at 615 Albany st.
where the doctor keeps an immense guam
tity of native and imported roots and
herbs, that his long practice has salts
fed him are best suited to supply the needs
Of the wasted body 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 praising the lab
oratorl / had forgotten a further descl ip-
ton 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. rs has
already been stated is the laboratory
x.hG in, adA IN 10 10 Ia M
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.
Greenes Nervura being one of the forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the
corresponding room where the physicians
after carefully considering the case Of eac h
individual patient, prepare the replies to
their questions and explain the treatment
proposed. No one who has not been fav-
ored with visit to this room can have
any idea of the thoughtful care and at
tenton 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 care
carefully and sympathetically given and
1t 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 ad-
vance made in regard to the manner in
which disease, pain and suffering are look
ed upon by the masses as in any other
field of Investigation. When ! was 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 uni IS
the end seemed to be near, when efforts
were then often too late. Now all this is
changed. Disease Of every sort any kind
is considered by intelligent people an
| insdious foe against which we should bat
! tie, ard defeat IL IL is a possible thing,
hence when Or. Greene receives list of
| answers to questions, and he secs at a
glance. at the sheet that the patient is
suffering from a severe attack of catarrh
he rcdily and conscientiously warns that
| person, be he young or old catarrh is the
first stepping stone to consumption and
that a cure now comparatively easy, sim
| pie and inexpensive will be entirely out
Of the question few years later. espec-
| tally If the patient is nearing or past mid
| die life.
One of our readers is asking us why tho
| doctor is so positive of this fact. If you
were in his office to-day 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
| cataIrh but being checked in season an
| absolute and permanent cure resulted.
What is true In catarrh Is equally true in
| hundreds of other cases of various chronic
diseases that he treats so successfully.
| Nervous troubles of all kinds are a
| speciality with DR.. Greene and he has
shown conclusively that the condition of
| the nerves has an all-mportant influence
! in all chronic troubles. His remedies act
| upon the system through the nerves and
| blood and being made entirely of vegetable
| ingl edients they have demonstrated by
the records in his office their wonderful
| efficiency
Copies Of each letter that he sends are
| made part of the records so that be the
| correspondence long or short, connected
or interrupted by an interval of years,
| the doctor can at a moments notice in
| form himself as to the history of the dis
ease as though each case was the only
one he was treating; thus the reader will
see how rational and natural treating dis
cases by correspondence is, and the doc
! tors success is the best guarantee of the
| feasibility of tho plan, The consultations
| whether by mail or orally are free. the
charges made being simply for the medi-
| cines prescribed. Thus 1t will be seen that
| 1t will cost nothing to have the doctor s
| opinion on your case and then you can
use your own judgment in regard to order
| ing the medicines that he states will effect
| the cure.
Some will ask how 1t is that DR.. Greene
| can treat case that he has never seen
more successfully than the family ply
| scan, who has known the patient from
birth. That is just the question that |
| Put to the genial doctor, and here is his
reply: Your family physician has OF