Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-14

solution of the sulphate of iron, and ne
mentioned stimulation bp absorption I'M
| der the skin as one of its possible uses.
| During the past twenty years Profess
sor Bartholow II D., of the Jefferson
medical college Philadelphia, has writ
| ten scores of articles on hypodermio med
| ication, and DIR. Hammond S lamb juice
is but practical continuance OF the
views held Up by the distinguished Bar
| tholow, who strongly urges stimulation
by that method, and the whole matter
was precognized by DR.. Praraz in Paris,
quite forty years ago, as above stated.
Every surgeon has time and again ny
podermIcally injected alcoholic sub
| stances as stimulants, and each time
with success, provided the real elixir of
life, the vital spark itself, had not run
down too long. When such is the result
real elixir will revitalize an almost dy-
ing man; but up to this time no one has
ever found it, and no one ever will not
withstanding Brown Sequard s claims,
and the statement Of others following
his wake. Many times have 1 resorted
! to the hgpodermie syringe for the pur-
pose of stimulating patients who could
not swallow, and who also were too weak
to risk absorption of stimulents by the
stomach, and under such urgent cireum-
stances l have used whisky brandy beef
essence, Hofman's anodyne, solutions
of quinine, and they were frequently and
successfully tried.
Professor Brown Sequard has not dis
covered anything approximating the
elixir of life, and, Notwithstanding his
claims for such distinction, l extremely
doubt if he would bring his discovery to
a crucial test by submitting his elixir Of
life to be tried by committee of scien-
tific men to practically experiment with
it upon subjects Gold people, who do not
know why the hypodermics are being
used. l predict BrOwn-Sequard will al
ways decline it; also that he will not at
tempt to claim renewal of life, a real
regeneration, because that means new
teeth, new hair, new strength, neY
tivities, new powers, ply S
steal and Physiological. -
Stimulation is not renewal of lifes#iS
is not an elixir of life; and whsr6 The
hopes and Imagination of patientApar-
ticularly an old, decrepit man-are
thoroughly eliminated in the test, even a
stimulation will not amount to any per-
manent result-one wherein the patient
can demonstrate the regeneration of al
functions and its retention as a renewed
the use of the so-called elixir of life
restore lost sight. lost hearing, lost
elasticity, lost vigor, lost muscular
strength, or even a los. reputation, such
as the professor of physiology once had
in the School of Medicine in Paris. The
time is not yet for Sequardism to any
thing beyond the senile chatter of poor
old man without common sense, " 10 pos
sesses a wonderful forgetfGlness of the
facts be has taught from his professional
chair for quite a number of years
with fair amount OF success.
The elixir of life is yet to come, and,
when it does, man will have been.
thoroughly and radically changed, au7s
his organization viii be based on
different basis from his present cellular
structure. Until then, farewell elixir of
life
There is an elixir III life, not of life.
It desires no pareDtage of science and
research, as it is coeval with man. Con-
science with digestion and sleep with
contentmenJ unite to give US the sweet,
clear waters of an elixir-one which
never fails to tighten the labors, tolessen
the trials, by giuing man what?-that
true elixir OF life, happiness.
Another large consiagsafzSf Of ice cream
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