The Press., 1902-04-10
An Interesting Boston Institution
Editorial Correspoaadence.

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Editorial Correspondence.
Surely this is an age of advancement ]
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 "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 scien-
tifcally for almost any disease through
the mail, but such we found to be TIE
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 1t, ''lf we
had not met with the greatest degree OF
success our business would not have
grown to it's present enormous proper
tions."
The doctor having 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
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 instituted
what would be known as home treatment
His speciality is chronic and nervous dis
eases of all kinds. That he may treat
you understandingly he sends you oniap-
plication a symptom blank which. when
filled 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 re-
corded, and every symptom of the patient
from time to time is noted. It makes no
difference 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 on this enormous
practice, and he occupies two entire floors
Of the block at "a 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 615 Albany-st., where the doctor
keeps an immense quantity of native and
imported roots and herbs, that his long
to supply the seeds of the wasted body.
A supply from this wholesale laboratory
Is obtained every morning SO that nothing
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 Of
fees. The center front room finished
and furnished In the best of taste Is the
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received. The consulting rooms are on
| either side, and back of them, as has al
ready been stated, Is the laboratory where,
In addition to the prescriptions COM
pounded, more than forty different stand
ard professional remedies that were dis
covered by DR.. Greene, and used with
great success in his practice for many
years, are put up, the well-known DIR.
Greene's Nervura being one of the forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the
corresponding rooms wherethe physicians
after carefully considering the case OF
each individual patient, prepare the re-
plies to their questions and explains the
treatment proposed. No one who has not
been favored with a visit to this room
can have any idea of the thoughtful care
and attention that Is given these replies.
An opinion In regard to any case, the
cause of the disease, the probability of q
cure and the price of the necessary medi-
cine required to effect that cure are all
carefully and sympathetically given, and
it is then for the patient to decide for
himself whether he had better take an
other 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 I 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 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 peo-
pie as an insidious foe against which we
should battle, and defeat it, If 1t is pos
sible thing; hence, when DIR. Greene re.
ceives list Of answers to questions, and
he sees at glance at the sheet that the
patient Is suffering from severe attack
of catarrh, he readily and conscientiously
warns that person, be he young or old,
that catarrh Is the first stepping stone to
consumption and that a cure now CON-
paratively easy, simple and inexpensive
will be out Of the question few years
later, especially II the patient Is nearing
or past middle life. One of our readers
Is asking as why the doctor is SO positive
of this fact. II you were In his office to-
day and should ask this question he could
take you into his back office and show