New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-17
THE ELIXIR FOUND WANTING.
MEDICAL EXPERTS STILL sCEPTICAL.
NO pERcEprrs1E IMPROVEMENT FOLLOWS ITS
INJECTION BY DIR. LOOMS.

NO PERCEPTIBLE IMPROVEMENT FOLLOWS ITS
INJECTION BY DIR. LOOMS.
The experiments in the Of the Brown-Sequard
elixir were continued al the LOOMS laboratory In East
Twenty -slxthst. yesterday afternoon by DIS II. L.
LOOMS ami Byron. Subsequent of the reluvenat-
ing huid has not convinced tho physicians that IL is
the long sought spring Of eternal life They are IN
fact as sceptcal as ever but stl determ ned to give
thorough scientific trial which will show its merits.
If 1t has any, or It's worhessness. The paieuts who
We're first lnoculated showed faith in the elixir by
reappcanng the laboratory yesterday afternoon at
the appointed hour After the genial janitor hal puf-
chased the freshly Slaughtered sheep and taken IL TO
the operating desk, the fluid made as In the former
instances and prepared for use. The pat EMS were
anxious to continue the treatment, about which most
Of them have now read and no longer In ignorance
Of the nature Of the fluid which is injected peneath
the skin of their thighs
There little If any Improvement noticed In
the aprea ance of the pat ents who assembled In the
waiting room over that OF last Wednesday Inc
deaf stll unable % hear, the lame man SUI
mped, and the old man still feeble and had not
cast away his crutch ;. What subsequent trials may
bring forth IS of course matter OF conjecture one
thing seems 10 be certain, That the eA-
perimens In the LOOMS laboratory, which are carried
on I'm the most scientific manner, are not productive
of those instantaneous cures which have been re-
ported from OTHER cites The list of would be patents
Increases however, and Dr.. LOOMS VIII certainty
have no difficulty securing proper number TO make
an accurate and thorough test. 1t was his Intention
Yesterday TO continue his experiments also at the
Charity Hospital but at ate hour they were post
poned until today or tomorrow.
Assistant surgeon Percy Crandall, Of the Navy,
at present attached TO the sOopof-war Caena at the
NAVY Yard has also been making some experiments
with the elixir After devotng some time TO the study
of the subject lie compounded the fluid and took for
his first patient a man about fifty years old living
in this CITY business who suffering from
martial nervous exhaustion due 10 overwork and brain
worry.
surgeon Crandan says that he first injected into his
patent three mnims Of the elixir from an ordinary
byrodermic syringe and on the following day the
man went to his business with renewed energy and
with no feeling Of exhaustion such as he had eX-
ucrienced for several months On the second day the
man was able TO make thorough inspection OF his
factory and did his other work without feeling fatigue
The man has continued to improve DR.. Crandall says
and appears be ten years younger as lar AS DOdy
activity is concerned.
surgeon Crandal had another patient, he says,
an importer who has been in poor health and uiaDie
In attend 10 his corresp Ondence for long tmc.
While the results in this were not 50 satisfactory
as in the other, yet he found nat his patent was
able TO do much work than he usually DID, Win
ease and pleasure, and he also felt more youthful