Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-13
Patients Who Tried the Elixir.
The Coed Effects Continued.
Most of the Subjects Reporting Bene-
fetal Results-ImprOvement Most
Mar6ed in Those of Advanced
Years.
Dr. LongfeIlow's Offiee Thronged with the Al
fiicted Throughout the Day-seYeral Other
Tests were Made of the New Discovery.
Cincinnati Enquirer. Aug. 10.

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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
genbeck 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
thaying been adulteTated 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-SequaTd s discovery, and many
more were making arrangements for
tests. They all are following the plan
pursued by DR.. LongfelIow, and which
was described fully in yesterdays En-
quiTer. AS most easily obtainable they
are using the glands of young lambs,
which can be readily secured at any of
the Strengthening 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 efica-
ciOus as those secured from the guinea
pig, which DR.. Brown-Sequard uses.
The elixir decomposes very rapidly,
and the doctors do not regard its use as
safe or beneficial more than two hours
after it has left the chemist IS 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 a weIl-known doctor, who has been
making experiments, THAT it wiz pro-
long life or restore you to youth. The
qualities claimed for the elixir, as it is
now popularity termed, are that it has
exhilerating effects on the system. As
far as the experiments have progressed it I
can only be ranked as a tonic. -
pr. LOngfellow, professor of derma-
tology in the Cincinnati college of medi-
cine ana 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 THRONGED 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 ali parts of
the city and suburbs. Fully 100 wanted
10 try the elixir. Most of the callers
were of the poorer classes, but a few
came in carriages. For a while the side
walk in front of his office was blocked.
Some were on crutches, 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 Cummmsvllle, |
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 crutches. The doctor viii watch |
their cases very closely.
AMONG THE PATIENTS
who submitted to the experiment Thurs
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
For this reason the
report on her case is all the
more important. DR.. LongfeIlow
gave her three hypodermic injec-
tions of the fluid. Her ailment was
and the diseaseA 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..
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
of the new remedy.
THE MAN Auburn,
the first subject tried by the doctor,
walked down TO the office yesterday from
Fifteenth street and Central avenue and
reported that the good effects he first felt
continued and increased. The beneficial
effects were so wonderful that he couIdn t
describe them.
The colored man Weir of No. 126
Court street was as lively yesterday and
Is loud IN praise of the elixir as he was
Thursday evening. Weir was so over
Dyed over his restoration to strength and
-igOr that he went about town showing
lis friends and relatives that he was
lew 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
vas sore from his physical exertion.
he FELT NO PAIN,
however, and the soreness soon passed
IF and he slept SoundIy for several
lours. When seen by an Enquirer re-
porter yesterday afternoon he declared |
hat he had never felt better in his life,
ven in his youthful days. 81 only trust
o God - he feryentIy remarked, ''that
he good feeling VIII continue - His
oints are loosened and his limbs move
RELY rs if he had never suffered from
rheumatism in its worst form. For the
lrst time in four years he was able TO
move his toes freely and at viii.
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