Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-15
Patients Who Tried the Elixir,
The Good Effects Continued.
Most of the Subjects Reporting Rene-
fetal Results-Imprnyement Most
Marked in Those of Advanced
Years.
Dr.. Longfellow's Office Thronged with the At
fiieted Throughout the Day-Several Other
Tests were Made of the New Discovery.
oineinnati Enquirer. aug. 10.

| a surprising sensation.
Not only was the local medical world
agitated, but among the public generally
the matter was discussed with great in
terest and freely commented upon.
The effect upon the medical fraternity
is shown by the fact that Professors Ian
genbeek and Werner, the chemists who
supplied the medicine used in Thurs
days trials, were kept busy
yesterday preparing the ''elixir. -
-FOUR WELL KNOWN PHYSICIANS
having engaged their services. The pro-
cess followed was the same by which was
secured the fluid used by DR.. Longfellow
Much of the success in the Cincinnati
cases may be due to the fact that the
pure animal Juice was injected without
having been adnlterated with water, as
was the fluid used by doctors in the East.
Another contributing advantage was that
the ''elixir'' was administered to the
patient very soon after the exhilarating
ingredients had been taken from
THE SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS.
Several physicians yesterday were
quietly pursuing an investigation of
Brown Sequard IS discovery, and many
more were making arrangements for
tests. They all are following the plan
was described fully in yesterdays En-
quirer. As most easily obtainable they
are using the glands of young lambs,
which can be readily secured at any of
the slaughtering houses. They must be
fresh, and if secured warm from the ami
NAL, SO much the better. Scientists say
THE sUICEs OBTAINED
from these organs are equally as effiea-
eiGus as those secured from the guinea
pig, which DR.. Brown Sequard uses,
The g elixir'' decoinposes very rapidly,
and the doctors do not regard its use as
safe or beneficial more than two hours
after it has left the chemist s laboratory,
For that reason, and for the further fact
that it is prepared with considerable trou-
BILE and Inconvenience, local physicians
hardly think the ''eliXir'' will come
into general use.
THERE is A MISTAKEN IDEA,
said well-known doctor, who has been
making experiments, ''that it will pro-
long life or restore you to youth. The
qualities claimed for the elixir, as it is
now popularity termed, are that it has
exhileratng effects on the system. AS
far as the experiments have progressed it
can only be ranked as a tonic'
DR.. Longfellow, professor of derma-
toIogy in the Cincinnati college of medi-
cine and surgery, to whom belongs the
credit of having made first practical test
in this city, was kept busy yesterday an
swering inquiries from other physicians.
His Office on Ninth street, near Race,
WAS THRoNGRD ALL DAY
with afflicted and curious persons, who
wished to put themselves under his care
and submit to test of the new elixir
They were of all ages, conditions, classes
and circumstances, and from all parts of
the city and suburbs. Fully leo wanted
to try the elixir Most of the callers
were of the poorer classes, but few
came in carriages. For a while the side
walk in front of his Office was blocked.
Some were on crutehes, some supported
themselves with canes, and all plainly
showed the effects of disease, One lady
came to see the doctor about her mother,
an aged woman living IN CummnsYllle,
who has been confined many years to the
house with rheumatism
DR.. Longfellow administered the fluid
yesterday to eight patients. Two of them
were sixty years of age, and one hobbled
in on eFutches. The doctor will watch |
their cases very closely,
AMONG THE PATIENTS
who submitted to the experiment Thurs
day was lady sixty-one years of age, |
who lives in comfortable circumstances |
in the western part of the city. For |
nearly twenty years she was a school |
teacher, and is therefore a person of in |
telligence. For this reason the |
report on her case is all the |
more important. DR.. Longfellow |
gave her three hypodermic injec-
tons of the fluid. Her ailment was
rheumatism, and the disease had stiff
ened here right arm and shoulder. For
three years past she has been able to
dress only by the aid of her maid, and |
could raise her arm but slightly Dr.
Lopgfellog called to see his patient at 10
O CLOCK Yesterday morning, She in
formed him that for the first time in over
three years she had dressed herself yes
terday morning. TO show the great
change worked in her condition she
raised her right arm above her head and
reaching around touched her left ear
The lady expressed her firm belief in the
efficacy of the new remedy,
THE NAN Album,
the first subject tried by the doctor,
walked down to the office yesterday from
street and Central avenue and
reported that the good effects he first felt
continued and increased. The beneficial
effects were so wonderful that he oouIdn t
describe them.
The colored man Weir of No. 126
Court street was as lively yesterday and
as loud IN praise of the elixir as he was
Thursday evening. Weir was so over
joyed over his restoration to strength and
Yigor that he went about town showing
his friends and relatives that he was a
new man. He would dance, kick. and
work his arms, to show how supple his
limbs were. The consequence was that
when he reached home at a late hour he
was sore from his physical exertion.
He FELT 80 PAIN,
however, and the soreness soon passed
off and he slept snundly for several
hours. When seen by an Enquirer re-
porter yesterday afternoon he declared
that he had never felt better in mis- life,
sYen in his youthful days. CT only trust
10 God - he ferrentIy remarked, 'sthat
the good feeling wiz eontinue.'' His
joints are lonsened aud his limbs move
freely as if he had never suffered from
in its worst form. For the
first time in four years he was able TO
move his toes freely and at viii,
throughout his system he experienced
the most exhilarating sensation
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