Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-11
An Interesting
Boston Institution.
Correspondence

Correspondence
Surely this is an age of Advancement
The writer was never more impressed
with this fact than when, I'm 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 "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 he treated successfully and scien-
tlhcally 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 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 its present enormous proper
tions."
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
vicinity,
there were a 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 had in
sututed 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 a symptom blank
which, when filled out, gives the trained
specialist a perfect idea of what the all
ments 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 within
nVe or a thousand miles, the case can be
treated with equal success.
Dr. Greene has very spacious and finely
ht'ed offices for carrying on this enor-
nous practice, and he occupies two entire
doors of the block at "a Temple place
The best thing that we notice about the
whole establishment is he laboratory
rlght IN the rear of the doctors private
consulting room, where every ounce of
medicine prescribed is carefully COM
pounded from tinctures of roots and
herps. 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 thar re-
minds us that these are prepared nv
M"oiesdle IN the hve story brick labora-
tory at 6l5 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
10 supply the needs of the wasted body
supply from this wholesale labora tory
u oplalhed 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 further description of
the otnces. The center front room fin
lshed 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 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 DIR. Greene and used with
great success in his practice for MANY
years are put up. the weli-known Dr.
! Greenes Nervura being one of the forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the
corresponding rooms where the physf-
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
iul 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 IL 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 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
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 insidious foe against which
we should battle. and defeat IL If ii is a
possible thing; hence when DIR. Greene
receives a list of answers to questions,
and he sees at a glance at the sheet that
the patient is suffering from a severe at
tack of catarrh he readily and conscien-
tiously warns the person. be he young or
old, that catarrh is the first stepping
stone to consumption and that a cure
now comparatively easy. simple and in
expensive will be entirely out of the
question a few years later, especially IL
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