The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-28


after aszaeF | xss abe ~ work ara =
write tar sn fEon- aud a hsiS = vsarr :,
paper on = disacnl. subject 30,
mare fhsss Ewenss years | had uexs,
t%e0 abse - do as much. M
frsrsssis know that owing 20 crr.
tain carraass taftres sns. sfrsaSr
hasssss. ] have tar thirty az forty
ear ge.ae 20 fssI very ssYiv and done
nay writing wors Ia the sssuTniur. h@-
ginning Il generally s~sgesn 3 ansi |;
o'slss.S- For a great mAus wears |
had lost all power af dong anv sersoas
mental work after iinner- >insse usv
art susesssareosas - ions | have
VERT frequently been anle "a do such
work TOR two. three. and ume evening
for nearly tour hours Frum a
natural inIpegao>itv. and also n asofs.
losing tisae, had. tsil Was 90 years
osi, the habit of ascending and de-
scsndfng stairs 20 rapidly that nav
movements were rather those OF run
ming than Of walking This had grad
uaiis zngess, and | had come 20
move siewlY up and doxn stair. hay-
ing To bold the bannister in difficult
stsireases. After thu second injection
found that had fully rsgairrsi nav
Old powers and returned To NV preyi-
oas habits in that respect.
NV limbs. testesi with a siynameue-
ter, Tor week before my trial and
during the nasnth following the FIRST
injection. showed reciaess ea,a Of
strength. The average unnltsr pi kil.
ogramraeS moved ~ the stexorS az the
night forearm hetore the first inl,sc-
tain was about thirtv-four and a t,alf
ttrons fh,rty-tsa 80 thlyty-seyenl and
alter that I'M 'ciiun for q one tfruRa
thifty-nine 10 iarty.fouri, the gain be-
ing FROM six 4, eight siiograaulne~
E La that respect tie forearm fiexur~
reaoauirea. IN a great measure. the
strength they hai when | Was living
IN London tunore than tsentx-six
wears agel. The average number al.
kisogrammes moved BY those muscles
IN London ia lsss WAS foYty-thfee
t'orty 10 foFiy-six kilogrammes. 1
have record of the strength OF my
forearm. begun in March, 1850. whea
tirst established myself in London.
/ From that time 10 IsS2 | occasionally
moved as much a. fifty kiiogranmes.
During the last three wears the maxi
mum moved was thirty-eight kilo-
gratnnes. This year, previously 10
she tirst injection. the maximum was
ihirty-seyen kilogrammes. Since the
Question IL has been forty-four.l
oae OF the most troublesome missr-
les of advanced life consists in the
diusinRtion OF the power Of DELEGATION.
TO avoid repeating the detail. have
elsewhere given IN that respect. | will
simply say that after the first DAYS of
my experiments | have had greater
improvement With regard 10 the ex-
pllsion OF fecal matter than in any
other function. In TACT a radical
change took place. and even on DAYS
OF great constipation the power long
ago possessed had returned
With regard ~ the facility 81 intel
/ lectuai labor. which had diminished
within the last fen years, return 10
my previous ordinary condition be-
came quite manifest during and after
the first two or three days of my ex-
periments.
Ii i evident from these facts aud
some others that all the functions de
pending on the power of action Of the
the nervous ceniers. ans. especially os
the spinal cord. were notably and
rapidly improved. BY the injections I
have used. The last of these mice
tons was made on June 5, FIVE weeks
and a half ago. c a-ed fnakiag use
OF them for the purpose OF aSeer-
tanning how long their good effects
would last. For four weeks no
marked change occurred, bet grasiu-
ally. although rapidly, from the 81 of
this month tjulyl | have Witnessed
almost complete return OF
the state OF weakness which
existed before the first injection. This
loss OF strength is an excellent coun-
ter proaf as regards the demonstration
Of the Influence exerted on me hy the
subcutsneous injections of sper-
matte fluid.
My FIRST communication 10 the Paris
Biological Society was made with the
wish that other medical men ad-
yaaced IN lie would make on ihetn-
selves experiments similar to mine, 80
a. to ascertain. as ! then stated, if the
effects had observed depended or not
on any special idiosyncrasy or on a
kind of auto-sugsestion without
Approximation due to the conviction
which | had before Nperimenting
that | should surely obtain great
part at least of these effects. This last
supposition found some ground in
many OF the facts contained In the
valuable and learned work Of pr
Hack Take on the Influence OF the
Mind over the Body" Ready as
was To make on my own person ex-
peri.nents which. II they were not
dangerous, were at least exceedingly
painful, | refused absolutely To yield
to the wishes OF many people anxious
e. obtain the effects ! had observed on
myself. Bat, without asking my ad-
vice, DIR. Nariot, a physician who be
iieved that the suocutaneous la Iectionz
OF considerably diluted speFmauc fluid
tin nay third communication at tie
biological Society. said that both the
intense psiu each injection has caused
me and the Inflammation IL bad pro-
iuced would lie notably diminished ii
the liquid employed were more iii
lufess The three cases OF DIR. Nariot
have proved the exactitnde OF my
statement. lie made Use OF a much
larger amount ot water. aud hi. pa
tients had Ia suffer no very great pain
and no intiammatioul could do no
harm, has made trial of that methoi
on three odd mef4--one 81. another 81.
and the third - years old. iIhe paper
Of ibr Sariot and nay remarks upon il
have appeared in the Completes ser-
dus lie la Societe de Blologie. No. ~.
5 Juliet. isSsl. PIP. Al and IS. } On
each Of them the effects have been
found n be- very nearly the Ssase IS
those | have obtained on myself DR..
/ Nariot made use Of the testcles 81
rabbit, and guinea pigs.
These facts clearly show that il was
pot To a N culiar idiosyncrasy 81 mime
that the effects have pointed cat
we're due. A regards the eypiana-
ton of those eifeets by an auto-sng-
geStion, il i hardly possible 10 sccrpt
{ ID iu the case of the patients OF DR..
+ yariot They had no idea II what
was b.ing done, they kneE nothing
oi nv exps rlment>. and wefe only
told that they we're receiving fDrtiiy-
+ ing injections To find oat II thi~
f qualification bad anything 20 do With
+ the effect. produced. pr. Eariot, since
the publication Of his paper. has en-
,soyesi similar words of encourage
rnrnt xhile making entertainments in-
+ ieetlons OF pare . alter on two other
patients. sho obtained thereby no
STRENGTHENING effect whaisver. tSincc
wrsiiEsg the Ah1ve ! have received a
letter from isy. NaFIos announcing
that, after injecting the hqgi4 into
these two individuals. be has 8t-
1aineA ths same strengthening effects
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