Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-04
An Interesting Boston Institution
Editorial Correspondence.

ment. Inc WrlCeT was hoNo
pressed with this fact than when, ~
Boston, recently, he had occasion =.
visit the Office of the well known ~.
Greene, the great specialist IN the cure
of nervous and chronic complaints, ~,
Gated at "a Temple Place, ana touha
|, FRAT the doctor and his able staff OF
skilled specialists were treating Pa,
tents, by correspondence, all over the
country We knew that the ladies IN
Name bought their goods by samples
in BOSTON but we had no idea that you
could be treated successfully and sci
entifically for almost any disease
through the mail, but such we found
to be the case. When we expressed
orr surprise over this new departure
The doctor assured US that it was no
new departure for them whatever, for
the great system of practice was found
ed more than forty years ago, had been
constantly on the increase and as the
doctor put it, eff we had not met
with the greatest degree of success our
business would not have grown to It's
present enormous proportions. y
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 a large office practice,
having among their list of patrons
MANY of the first families in Boston
and vicinity, there were large num-
Der 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 Instituted
what would be known as home treat
ment. His specially is chronic and
nervous diseases of all kinds. That he
may treat you Understandings he sends
you on application 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 recorded and
each and every symptom of the patient
from time to time is noted. 1t makes
no difference whether the person writ
ing resides within five or thousand
miles the case can be treated with
equal success
DR.. 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 we no
ticed 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 compounded from tinctures of
roots and herbs. 1t may or may not
be generally known that the doctor |
uses no drugs OF poison, but all his |
remedies are extracts from pure roots
and herbs, and that reminds US that
these are prepared by wholesale in the
five story brick laboratory at 6l5 AL
bany street. where the doctor keeps an
immense quantity of native and inn
ported roots and herbs, that his long
practice has satisfied him are best
suited to supply the needs of the vast
ed body. A supply from this whole
sale laboratory is obtained every morn
ing 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 forgot
ten further description of the offices.
The center front room finished and fur
nished in the best of taste is the re-
ception room, where all patients are
received. The consulting rooms are
on either side, and back of them, as
has already been stated, is the labora-
tory where, in addition to the pre-
scriptions compounded, more than
,
that were discovered by DR..
Greene and used with great success in
MS practice for many years are put up, !
5he we'll -known DR.. Greene's Nervura
being one of the forty.
In the rear of the laboratory are the ,
rooms where the physi- /,
,ians after carefully considering the =.
case of each individual patient pre- :
Dare the replies to their questions and :
explain the treatment proposed. No =
me who has not been favored with a !.
'isit to this room can have any idea of =
he thoughtful care and attention that :
$ given these replies. An opinion in :
egard to any case, the cause of the
disease, the probability of cure and :
he price of the necessary medicine re-
uired to effect that cure are all care {
ully and alphabetically given and it :
S then for the patient to decide for =
himself whether he had better take an
ther step and be cured, ;,
Thore has probably been as much ad- t
ance made in regard to the manner in I
hitch disease, pain and suffering are 8
BOXED upon by the masses as in any n
Their field of Investigation. When | n
as boy sickness was looked upon as 3
ne of the ills of life to be endured II
nd little or no thought was taken to a
fleet cure unless the end seemed to +,
e near, when efforts were then often h
% late. Now all this is changed. p,
disease of every sort and kind is CON n
dered by intelligent people as an in ri
dious foe against which we should -,
attic, and defeat it if it is a possible IL
ling; hence when DR.. Greene receives r.
list of answers to questions, and he
es at glance at the sheet that the h
itient is suffering from a severe at Ia
eek of catarrh he readily and consci- W
ltiously warns that person, be he 81
Jung or old, that catarrh is the first 20
epplng stone to consumption and tr
at cure now comparatively easy, es
mple and inexpensive will be entire en-
out of the question few years later,
pecially if the patient is nearing or an
st middle life. One of our readers in
asking us why the doctor is so pos w
We of this fact. If you were in his w,
ice to-day and should ask this ques- ~
IN he could take you into his back RI
ice and show you the records of thou o.
nds of cases that started in simple Il,
tarrh but being checked in season an I'll
solute and permanent cure resulted. an
hat is true in catarrh is equally true