Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-12

tar. They were then pounded TOT Hail
an hour with pestle, or submitted TO
what is technically termed tritura-
ton. After the pieces of flesh had
been thoroughly maeerated, the tritu-
rated mass, with the resulting juice
therefrom, gas placed in cloth
and submitted to cold pressure. No wa
ter or other fluid was added, and the
mass was kept at an ordinary temper
AZURE. Neither was the animal juice
filtered, the fear being that the germs or
baccilli might not pass through the pa
per- 1t was the doctor s idea, to insure
a satisfactory test, to secure the reten-
ton of all the supposed properties III the
fluid For this reason it was neither ex-
posed to heat or filtered through paper.
The mass spoken of was wrapped IN
muslin with fine meshes and then
PUT UNDER HIGH PRE- ssURE.
The result from the six organs was three
ounces of pure animal Juice. The fluid
was odoriess, of pinkish white color,
and of the consistency of sperm oil. 1t
was placed IN a wide mouthed bottle
with an aiT-tight cover. The process OF
Professor Werner was under the personal
direction of Dr. Longfellow and, with
few variations, closely followed the plan
laid down by Dr.. Hammond. The latter
added water to the mass, while DR..
Longfellow secured the unadulterated
animal juice.
When the chemist had finished his Ia
bors Dr.. Longfellow hurried with the
bottle over to his office. There in waiting
were his first two patients.
The man who has the credit of first sub
jecting himself to test of the ''eliXlr
is Thomas Album. He is an Englishman
by birth but has been in this country for
thirty years. A long time ago he eX-
perienced a severe attack of erysipelas
in the right leg. Since then he has suf-
fered
MUCH PAIN AND STIFFNESS
in the limb, so much so that he has been
very lame in the foot and hardly able TO
walk. His illness also left marks OF the
disease on his constitution, so that he has
been feeble and able to do only the light
est work about the house. He is about
fffty-five years old, of rather small stat
ure and perfectly bald except fringe of
very red hair just above each ear.
Dr. Longfellow had invited some seien-
tific friends interested in the new theory
to be present, and it was in their pres
ence that the experiments were con-
Quoted Album. who lives on Central
avenue near Fifteen street, was placed in
a chair in the doctor S rear office and his
right arm barred to the shoulder. Filling
his hypodermic syringe, which contains
dram, with the fluid the doctor plunged
the needle into the skin above the elbow
and pushed it along under the cutlcle.
The entire contents Of the
SYRINGE WERE THEN INJECTED.
Album said he felt no pain beyond
slight tingllng, such as would come from
puncture with a pin. The subjects
right leg was then barred, and the needle,
after the syringe had been refilled with
the elixir, - was inserted under the
skin just above the knee, where Album
complained of the most stiffness. An
other dram of the fluid was thus injected
into his system.
When Album arose and put on his coat
he said in response to the doctor s in
INQUIRY that the only effects he felt was
a slight tingling sensation in the right
leg. He was directed to again take the
car and return home, keep quiet, and
not exert himself If he experienced
any change IN the evening he should re-
port at the DOCTORS office.
THE SECOND PATIENT
was FieIden Weir, an old colOred man,
who lives az 1876 Court street. He is now
nearly fifty years old. For twenty years
or more he has suffered from rheuma-
tism, the disease having drawn up his
leg so that he could not touch his heel to
the ground The muscles of his right
arm were also contracted. A year ago
! he was bitten in the abdomen by dog,
and this greatly complicated his ailments
and increased his sufferings. Much of
! the time he has been confined to the
house. For six months, and until five
weeks ago, he has been able to move
! about slowly and only with the aid of
! crutches. These he discarded a month
ago, and since then has been compelled
! to use a cane. Yesterday afternoon at
| CLOCK he hobbled over to DR.. Long
| fellow s office, having consented to sub
nit to the experiment with the hope that
it might possibly
AFFORD HIM SOME RELIEF.
Weir was a tail, powerful man in his
| prime. In his later years he has been
! bent over with age and disease. His long
! beard Is gray Before the war he was q
! slave on farm in Kentucky, where he
remained until his former master died
| three years ago. Then he came to Gin
! cinnati with his wife and eight-year-old
| son.
| DR.. Longfellow gave him three injec-
tions each of drachm Of the liquid. The
! first was in the muscles of the left leg
! Just below the knee, the second in the
right arm, and the third in the right leg
near the ankle. Weir sat around for
two or three minutes, but said he expe-
rienced little or no effect. He was told
to return at 7 80 o'clock and report.
After these two subjects had departed
! DR.. Longfellow injected a dram of the
liquid
INTO HIS OWN ARM.
In less than half an hour he began to
! feel an unusual sensation. He hardly
! knew how to describe it better than to
say he felt like he had taken glass of
good old sherry There seemed to grow
| a pleasant warmth throughout his sys-
tenn. Up to late hour last night when the
doctor was seen by the reporter this de-
lightful sensation had not passed off.
Dr.. Longfellow was anxiously waiting
at his office last evening about o o'clock,
when the Enquirer reporter entered.
The physician betrayed some little ap-
| prehension as to the result of his after
moons experiments, and was momenta-
| rily expecting to hear from his patients.
| Gathered in the Office were a number of
| friends who had heard of the trials and