EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONIALS CONCERNING THE SKODSBORG SANATORIUM AND ITS WORK.
By J. C. Ottosen
We have printed a pamphlet of many pages containing testimonials from persons of influence. And in order that you may see how much they appreciate our work, I wish to quote a few extracts from some of these.
Prof. ——, known all over Scandinavia as a man of art, says, among other things:—
“It is not necessary to go to other countries to find that which we have just as good, if not better, here at home. In many things the Skodsborg Sanatorium stands fully abreast with the sanatoriums that I have seen in foreign countries, and in many respects it stands far above those. It is beautifully situated on the island of Sjælland, and is under the direction of Dr. Ottosen and wife, who have been educated at the world-famous sanatorium at Battle Creek. This place ought to be recommended before all others to those who are suffering.”
A superintendent of an old college and classical school in Copenhagen, a man well known as an author of works on history and grammar, writes:—
“I have had opportunity closely to examine the sanatorium and its work, and it is my opinion that the director, in a most able manner, is bringing the institution and its work up to a degree of perfection that certainly is exceptional.”
A widely known singer and teacher in singing, who several times has been called to sing before King Christian and King Oscar, and who for many years has had a leading position at the royal opera in Copenhagen, says:—
“That which did me so much good during my stay at the sanatorium was not only the natural and rational methods of treatment, void as they both are of old custom and modern humbug, but especially that love, sympathy, and interest revealed toward the patients by the leading ones as well as by all the helpers. I heartily wish that the institution may continue to thrive, for the blessing of suffering humanity.”
An old captain in the army, who has traveled all over Europe and visited many health institutions and health resorts, says, in his testimonial, that he has been cured of a disease of sixty-seven years’ standing, having been born with it. After a most hearty recommendation and expressions of thanks, he says:—
“I consider it a great fortune and a blessing for my country, and a great prize for the sick, to have such an institution. May success attend this work, and may it be a continual blessing to the suffering.”
An ex-college professor and later author and newspaper man in Copenhagen, was cured at our institution of several obstinate diseases. He says:—
“In the two summers that I was at the Skodsborg Sanatorium, I saw the most remarkable cures from nearly every kind of disease, and I am fully persuaded that almost every ailment, taken in time, can be cured by a stay at the sanatorium. The location of the institution, the apparatus, the efficiency and courtesy of the leaders, and the kindness of all the helpers,—all go to make the Skodsborg Sanatorium the best place in the country where the sick may be sure to find the greatest blessing of life—health.”
Colonel ——, a man known by nearly all here on account of his service and his eminence in politics, says:—
“I consider it fortunate for our country that we have, in the Skodsborg Sanatorium and the Frydenstrands Kuranstalt, institutions that have brought the blessings of the natural methods of treatment to us, and where energetic efforts are being made to spread the knowledge of the same among our people. Having made quite a lengthy stay at the Skodsborg Sanatorium, I can only speak very highly of the location, the treatment, the board, and the friendliness and cordiality of the workers, manifested in the interest and care shown to every patient.”
A pastor of the Methodist Church says:—
“Here are the very best conditions for good results of treatment given. And I most heartily wish that the Skodsborg Sanatorium may have great prosperity, and become a source of encouragement to those who have sacrificed work and money for the sick that may resort to this place.”
A counselor of justice, owner and editor-in-chief of a paper that goes into many homes in our country, says:—
“I must say that the method of treatment used at the Skodsborg Sanatorium far exceeds that of all the many institutions that I have visited in foreign countries.”
Two members of the legislative body, one a member of the House of Commons, and the other a member of the House of Lords, writes:—
“The Skodsborg Sanatorium, and the Frydenstrands Kuranstalt at Frederikshavn, have lately introduced a method of treating disease that works very successfully. This hygienic-dietetic method has, in the course of a very short time, wrought many great and remarkable results, and we know quite a number of instances where chronic invalids have been fully restored to health after all other methods failed.”
A lady from Finland who has the superintendency of a home for teachers, maidservants, etc., the home receiving support from the State, and who is known in her own and in other countries as an eminent woman and author of different works for the home and on temperance subjects, also editor of a small home journal, says:—
“I visited many health resorts in different countries. Each of these had seen one or more points of truth. But it was not until 1898 and ’99, when I visited the Skodsborg Sanatorium, that I at last found an institution that, according to my idea, has found and brought into practice the whole truth, as far as we now are able to see and understand it. . . . It would never occur to me to send sick people to any other institution. And it is my highest wish at present that my own country, Finland, might have an institution like this. . . . One thing surprises me, and that is that any sick person in Denmark who can visit the Skodsborg Sanatorium should fail to do so. The only reason is that they do not know the institution.”
A wholesale dealer from one of our provincial cities, writes:—
“At last I succeeded in obtaining a place at the Skodsborg Sanatorium, and I owe the truth to say that although since 1889 I have traveled all over Europe to visit health institutions, I have nowhere found anything so perfect, in the line of treatment and apparatus, as at the Skodsborg Sanatorium, and nowhere have I found so well-trained helpers as there; neither have I, although I have consulted a great number of physicians in these many years, received such a thorough and painstaking examination as the one Dr. Ottosen gave me when I came to that institution. The result was better, and the stay more pleasant, than at any other health institution.”
Many other testimonials might be added, but these few quotations will suffice to show how much the people appreciate our work. The work of this institution has become extensively known. This makes it so much the more important that we keep the work going. J. C. OTTOSEN, M. D.