AN APPEAL 
TO ALL THE CLERGYMEN, PHYSICIANS, LEGISLATORS, EDITORS, PUBLISHERS 
OF PAPERS, MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, AND PHILANTHROPISTS WHERE- 
EVER LOCATED, FOR AID IN BRINGING THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, 
IN A BODY, TO ESTABLISH AN ANTI-TOBACCO ORGANIZATION 
IN BOSTON, WITH THE PREMEDITATED PURPOSE OF EX- 
TENDING THE GOOD WORK OVER THE UNITED STATES. 
BY 
CHAS. TV. GREENE, XT.D. 
No. 178 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. 
In 1846, an audience at Ware, Mass, listened to my first regular lecture on the Use and 
abuse of the mouth and the organs of digestion. Since which time, I have continued the 
good work advising all young men and others to avoid any hygenic mistakes, es- 
pecially the ones of swallowing intoxicants, or using tobacco in any form. The hun- 
dreds of free lectures have been usually given at my expense, (in no way connected with 
any society or organization) for the benefit of humanity. Knowing that tobacco to-day is 
killing twice as many humans as whiskey; knowing that no man can use it in any form 
with impunity; knowing that the moment it enters the mouth that the injurious effects 
of the poison of nicotine commences; hence, I propose to enter the vast field to attempt 
to stay the maelstrom of devastation now having its own way in this, and other countries, 
viz: the killing power of tobacco. There is no affliction of the human body (with only a 
few exceptions) but what is being from day to day produced by the poisonous effects of 
sucking nicotine in contact with the salival glands of the mouth. Blindness, ulcerations 
and cancer of the throat, and cancer of the stomach and intestines, neuralgia in every form, 
enlargment of the heart, deafness, paralysis, and destruction of all the functions of life. 
The majority of sudden deaths among men, called heart failures, are the results of using 
this vile weed, more than double the number of deaths occur from the use of tobacco, 
than from the use of the alcoholic stimulants. While practicing medicine in Harrisburg, Pa. I gave a lecture on the above subject 
before the legislative body. This lecture, together with many more, induced three 
thousand persons in three years to apply to me to stop their tobacco habit. No physician 
has ever had so extensive an opportunity to study its ill effects. I was located in the 
midst of the tobacco growing regions. The annual crop of this weed in Dauphin Co. sells 
for more than $2,000,000. Among the thousands who applied, almost every form of disease 
was represented. Physicians as a class have not studied this matter. In the first place 
it is not popular to condemn the use of the pipe. In the second place there are over one 
hundred and twenty-five poisons found in any well fitted drug store, and physicians 
use them all in their prescriptions, and hence do not desire to proscribe nicotine. 
My belief is the following: No poison has any business to be given to any patient 
either in large or small doses, not in the mouth, or on the skin. I have been so teaching 
for nearly one-half of a century. I traversed Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, 
and gave free lectures in all the large towns and cities, in their halls and churches during 
the years 1853, 4> ar*d 5, and I am possessed of an immense bundle of experiences to prove 
my platform to have been founded on a correct basis. In 1876 while practicing in 
Reading, Pa. Hon. James Black (who was the first candidate of the Prohibition Party, 
for President of the United States) invited me to deliver two lectures on the above 
subject in his hall, and church at Lancaster, Pa. which I fulfiled, and the Lancaster Era, 
published them in full in their next issue, and soon after a gentleman connected with the 
Total Abstinence Society of this State, made an effort to get me to re-deliver the same 
throughout New England. 
The object of sending this circular to you, is to get your co-operation in forming Anti- 
Tobacco Organizations in Massachussetts first, and then all over our country, and in 
Europe. If you wish to aid in the matter, to use your pen and tongue to further the move- 
ment, correspond with the writer, or call upon me personally, and as soon as possible 
committees can be formed, and when ready, a convention, and when once the ball is set 
in motion its good results will be far reaching. I have recently issued a work upon the 
subject, entitled "The Tobacco Slave," and how to be liberated from its fetters. A book 
of 125 pages, and so far as I am informed, the first one ever issued by a physician upon 
the subject. All persons who have reviewed the brochure have made similar assertions 
to the one printed by the Boston Post, viz. " For information this work is invaluable." 
I propose sending this tract to all well-disposed persons, from whom I shall be glad to 
correspond, and I shall keep a list of all names. From those who are silent, I shall at 
the side of their names place N. S. M. (No sympathy with the movement.) 3 
CONSUMPTION. 
Read the cure of Mrs. Long on page 24 of the appendix to a Brief Essay, made in 
1883, and let me say that I received from her a letter written Dec. 18, 1891, in which she 
says, "Several days since, I received a letter from you, was very glad to know that you had 
remembered me all these years, I am now at the head of a dry goods store. You would 
not know me, I am such a strong hearty woman. How I wish I could see you. I may 
go East in the spring, and shall certainly call upon you. Hope you, have an extensive 
practice. I am your friend and patient, Mrs. A. O. Long." 
AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES A. GREENE, M. D. ON HIS 
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HEALING. 
[From the Boston Commonwealth of February 18, 1892.] 
A reporter of this paper called recently upon him, and obtained the following interest- 
ing interview: 
"Is it not strange," said Dr. Greene, " passing strange, and almost incredible, that we 
have right here in Boston, a physician who is a regular graduate, a member of some of the 
most noted societies of this city, and is in possession of information by which cures can be 
made of (what are termed) incurable infirmities by applications of non-poisonous 
remedies on the outside of the body, and who is prepared to prove his declarations by 
statistics and testimonials that are uncontrovertible, and yet he is ignored by the great 
family of physicians, and is doing comparatively little work, when if recognized and assisted 
by his profession, thousands of persons who have died (prematurely) would have regained 
their health. And the only reasons in the wide world why he is not welcomed by his 
professional brethren are: 
"First: He claims that God never intended the alimentary canal of men, women, 
bipeds or quadrupeds to be used as pill repositories, or for any indigestible drug, but 
exclusively as receptacles for good food and moisture, to be afterwards converted into 
good blood. Knowing that the heart beats 80,000 times a day (in the healthy adult) to 
force fifteen times every hour of our lives the blood through the arteries and veins of 
our body, and that a million pounds of calomel, quinine, arsenic, blue pill, or morphine 
will not (entering the intestines) make one drop of this principle, called five minutes in 
the bible, ' The life of the flesh thereof: ' hence, have no business (under any considera- 
tion) in the body. 
" Second : In consequence of his success in curing Consumption, Bright's disease of 
the kidneys, Chronic cases of Dyspepsia, Constipation and a host of diseases now 
treated fruitlessly by regulars and empirics all over the world ; together with his printing 
of circulars, and magazines containing the names of thousands of such cases cured by his 
system which he denominates Omnipathy. These reasons have debarred him from his 
fellows. They look with holy horror on any departure from the medical ethics laid down 
by their ancestors. To let the world know of your medical discoveries through the 
agency of the press, is to disconnect yourself with any medical society or organization. 
" The Doctor has published quite a number of pamphlets, the last one of 75 pages, 
costing him for the first issue of 1,000, together with plates, $250, which one with others 
he is willing to give to anyone interested without any charge, in which pamphlet he makes 
startling statements, a few of which are introduced into this article. 
"He gives you the names of nearly all of his preceptors. His first one was Dr. Osgood 
of Templeton, Mass, with whom he studied medicine in 1842, (fifty years ago). He in- 
forms you that he studied six years with nine physicians before he graduated in 1848 at 
the Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield, Mass, that Dr. O. W. Holmes was formerly 
connected with the same College, and was for fifty years a professor in the branch of the 
Harvard in this city, that he was his preceptor in the College when it was located in 
Mason Street of this city, and that Dr. Greene's ancestors came (over two hundred years 
since) to this country and settled in Malden, Mass. That about one and one half centuries 
ago his great-great-great-grandfather-viz. Rev. and Dr. Thomas Greene-removed from 
Malden to Worcester County, Mass, when it was inhabited by the Indians and made a 
settlement there, built the first Baptist Church (now standing) and preached to and 
doctored his congregations in what is now Greenville, in Leicester; and that the brother 
of his ancestor went to Rhode Island (being a Quaker) and settled in Warwick, from 
whom Gen. Nathaniel Greene, (the compatriot and associate of Gen. Washington) de- 
scended. That taking advantage of the laws of absorption, and the use of the 
emunctories or pores of the body (over 9.000,000 in number) he has by the application of 
less than fifty remedies (taken from the thousands found in the Materia Medica and all 
applied to the skin) produced most marvelous cures, treating all patients for all affections, 
on the same general principles. First, He stops them from making a wrong use of their 4 
mouths, such as swallowing drugs, whiskey, any intoxicants or tobacco. Second, By the 
use of his baths he forces out of the pores (simulating the chimney to a house) the effete 
matter, the debris, the calomel, nicotine etc. and third, he gets the organs of assimilation 
to do their duty, and thereby increases the volume of healthy blood, and the blood pro- 
duces the cure. 
" During the 44 years that he has been practising Omnipathy, he has made every con- 
ceivable effort to get his medical brethren to investigate his novelties, and notwithstanding 
some of them, (probably 1,000) have signified their desire to study his system, they have 
not, as a body, made any effort to aid him in the establishment of a College where his in- 
valuable conceptions could be taught to thousand of other medical gentlemen ; and if 
they had, a revolution in the practice would long ago have been brought about, and man- 
kind world live out their alloted years. Premature and sudden deaths would cease, the 
major portion of the drug stores could be closed and the proprietors, with physicians and 
undertakers, would decrease, greatly in numbers, and they could follow more agreeable 
vocations. 
" Over and over again has Dr. Greene prepared articles (similar to the above) and sent 
them to the medical Journals of this and other countries only to waste his valuable time. 
Over and over again has he appealed to the annual meetings of the Medical Societies to 
listen to his stories, to test his declarations ; but they have thrown his written applications 
into the waste basket. The proprietors of Medical Magazines claim to keep them abreast 
of the times, but they have never done so. They have not dared to publish his documents. 
His associates at Monson, Mass, in 1840 were the present proprietors of the Scientific 
American, of New York City. In an editorial article on Scarlet Fever in their issue of 
May 3d, 1879, it says, "While internal medication is recognized as thus far a failure." and 
yet Munn and Beach have refused to let the world know the medical discoveries made by 
their playmate, though importuned to do so many times. So the Doctor has been 
struggling all these years to collect together money enough to erect a College (in this 
vicinity, probably Arlington, Mass, where he resides,) to perpetuate his conceptions. He 
is sixty-seven years of age, member of the Arlington Boat Club, the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, etc. 
" The Doctor treats all of the afflictions of the body successfully (with a few exceptions) 
■without seeing or visiting his patients, and his books contain hundreds of cases cured 
after the abandonment of the patient by the family physician, and they are in the vicinity 
of his offices, in Boston or its suburbs, where /hey can be readily interviewed - not in 
Skowhegan, Maine, or Galveston, Texas. 
"A few instances will give you an idea of his startling cures. On the 5th of May, 1890, 
Mrs. Wm. Lawson of 15 Brewery Street, Cambridgeport, Mass, was in bed, dying, with a 
complication of diseases, every part of her body disorganized, every organ out of order. 
She had an ovarian tumor, and was induced to have it cut out; but she knew of so many 
who after the cutting died, that she refused to accede to the request of her friends. She 
had dropsy in its worst form. Two and one half gallons were removed from her at one 
time only to reform again. Nine times she submitted to this useless surgical experiment. 
Thirteen physicians had drugged her to their heart's content. Her husband had used up 
all his hard-earned gains (over $500) when a former patient of the Doctor, who had been 
cured of consumption, called upon Mr. Lawson, and advised him to try Dr. Greene. In 
nine days the dropsy disappeared and Mr. L. entered Dr. Greene's office, exclaiming, 
"Here comes my dead wife," which was on the 14th of May, and she then first saw Dr. 
Greene, and thanked him for saving her life. On the 31st of December, 1891, she called 
upon the Doctor and again thanked him, and notified him she had moved to Methuen, 
Mass. The 5th of next May will be two years since she was lying in bed, dying, without 
even a hope of recovery. 
"The Doctor says he has no knowledge of any similar cures ever having been made by 
any one. Notwithstanding he asks the incurables (so called) to become his patrons, he 
has in three years only lost three patients by death. Among the thousands he has treated 
have been over three hundred cases of influenza. The Doctor says that he never to his 
remembrance, in all his long medical career, had a sudden death, like so many that now 
fill our newspapers." 
DEAF FROM CHILDHOOD 
Mr. G. C. Scott, (son of Rev. Scott, a Presbyterian Clergyman of No. 19 Ware St. 
Cambridge,) has been deaf from childhood, and has been under some of the so-called 
skilful Specialists, or Aurists, one on Boylston Street, (ten years since) also one of the 
miracle workers who shows off in Tremont Temple, also one in California. All his money 
so far has been thrown away. On the 28th of Nov. 1891, he began using Omnipathic 
remedies, and in nine weeks his hearing returned and his throat and catarrhal troubles 
were gone.