Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-07
A FAMOUS DOCTOR

Samuel A. Buckland, M. D., the dis coverer of the famous method of extracting from OATS medical essence, containing three new and very active medical extracts that have re-
 markabie and peculiar action on the brain and nerves of man and animals Experiments at L'Ecole de Grignon, reported to the Acadamy of Medicine,
 February a4th isss1, was born in small connecti cut town (Milford) January 9th, 1894, and died at
 operation for varicose veins in the leg After grad.
 uating from the Medical college at the age of twen- ty-six he settled down into laborious country
 practice but devoted all his spare time to the study of diseases of the brain and nervous system ac-
 of animals SaVng ted up tas for hmses rude but useful laboratory in his barn.
 articles on these special subjects to the medical journals which showed the results of deep study.
 special aptitude for experimental research His de
 vstion to his patients, his long rounds country physician his late hours and hard work a stII- dent and superintendent resulted most dsastrously
 for him. for in is4e at the age of forty-hye he was left side of his body, accompanied by great ner-
 vons exhaustion and mental weakness.
 had been searching for a vegetable remedy that and nerves and yet, while powerful, be free from
 all the dangers attending the of narcotics such feet of common oats on horses he believed that locked up in that grain was the great medicinal
 that time so fruitlessly. He had just succeeded in making extract of the oats that he believed to contain this principle when he was struck down by For eight months he lay upon a bed of pain a ble (after the prolonged of electricity and all known remedies) by the best men in the profession It was then that, last resort and practically without hope, he decided to make trial of his
 Extract or Oats upon Sr himself GeeIS He began ii in crsasing them to @ larger ! and larger ones her laws inexorable alike to all, but science the fairy he bad been working so long to proRitiats, evil symptoms melted away before the effect of the avenesca: rapidly the paralysis fled, sweet sleep
 worn out brain came strength and vigor. In brief. five months after commencing the use of what has lively inactive Essence or Extract of oats. this paralytic QyiRg helpless and moonless in bed threatened with softenng of the brain and imbecil ity, and looking forward to death as happy re- leass) was up and moving about his room, was see. short began again the study and practice of his profession; year later and every trace of his was the same bright intelligent physician he was before the attack.
 Such astounding results are not everyday occur renees in medical annals and we'll worth chron- icling. Dr. Buckland needing but little the furor among both his medical brethren and circle of snd od sSt s hse a to s fS
 ieving as has since been proved by the best chem Scotland either from peculiarly of soil or climate contained the largest percentage of the medical ten, CReyreu1 and the extract from the report on oats made to the French Academy of Medicine by
 Ss ap OF of @ 6ss scaeb oa ecotch Oatmeal and recommencsd his extractive
 
 use of new distilling and percolating apparatus
 By the time that he had succeeded in extracting a new supply of increased strength, purity and acEiv- several physicians and many patients that they and nerve diseases. Among these were four cases of epilepsy or falling fits" two of St. vitus dancs two of paralysis, twelve of neuralgia four of chronic headache, one of softening of the brain three of sciatica and many other minor cases
 It cured perMat ently two of the epileptics great Iv benefited one and failed in the fourth it Cured one case of St. Vitus' dance and helped the other. it succeeded in of paralysis and failed in the other; of the twelve of neuralgia it per- manently cured seven, gave immediate relief in three cases and failed in two it cured the four cases of chronic headache, two of the three cases of sciatica and failed in the of softening the brain.
 In several of the cases where it failed it was af- tsrward clearly demonstrated that cure by any means was wholly impossible. As, for instance, in the case of the woman whom it failed to cure of epilepsy, it was found upon making post-mortem examination for she died about eight months later) that her falling fits were due to piece broken ekull that had been driven down upon the brain causing pressure by reason of the fall upon her head of heavy bucket while drawing water from a well.
 Both during Pr. Bucklands lifetime and since his death his Essence of Scotch oats has heeu successfully used in thousands of cases of brin and nerve diseases of the moss diverse nature ard at all ages from the infant at the breast with and the grey haired and trembling oc- togenarian, palsied, aleePless or neuralgia. X