Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-15
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SN'V'lAsnlSsGToN August Dir.
William "A. Hammond, Of this city,
experimenting with the elixir Of
life recently discovered by Dir.
Brown -Sequard, Of Paris, and thus
far he says the results are fully equal
to the promises given out by the
great Paris physician. DR.. Ham
mond was sitting on the yeranda Of
the fine new hospital, which he has
just built outside the city limits,
when the correspondents called on
him tonight.
"Itis true" said the doctor, "that
when DR.. Brown Sequard' s discovery
was first reported to the Amnrica,.
people, / was rather dubious and in
clined more or less to think as others
had limited, that either the report
was French joke or that Dir.
Brown-Sequard was another good
man gone wrong. The first report
did not give a complete idea of the
treatment. 1t indicated, rather, that
the elixir was compound made
from various glands Of various ami
mails, and on that showing I was will
ling to say that the thing was I'M
possible. But whcnI obtained fur
ther and more accurate details,
was willing to believe that there
might be something in it.
81 was willing at all events to put
it to the test, and about q week ago
Istarted to experiment.. DR.. Brown
seqnard uses only selected portions
Of the rabbit or Guinea pig, simply
because, | suppose, these are the ami
mails upon which experiments are
usually made in French laboratories,
but have adopted the lamb, which
| think is better. The lamb, you
know, is an animal that is good to
eat, but we don't eat Guinea pigs.
The preparation of the medicine and
the treatment of the patient is very
simple. I take the select i portion
of a lamb freshly killed and pound
it into pulp in a mortar; with this
| mix a teaspoonful or two of water,
and the result | filter through fine
Swiss filtcring paper. The fluid,
slightly thicker than water, comes
through. perfectly pure and limpid.
The filtering must be carefully done,
for if any shred or any part of the
pulp were injected under patients
skin it would form abscesses and do
harm.
"Fhe extract from a single lamb
will be sufficient for dozen inicc-
tions. 1t does not matter to what
part Of the body the application is
made, but the most convenient place
is under the skin of the forearm
where the skin is comparatively
slack. 1t would hardly be safe to
inject the fluid derived from the
body twenty-four hours after the
killing Of the animal. The inicc-
ton of blood and of the Juice of
beef into wasted patients has been
common for many years, and it is
wcll-known that to inject the essence
of dccaycd beef would kill the man.
GAS soon as the lamb is slaught-
cred by the butcher no time is vast
ed in pounding and filtering, and
within an hour of the killing of the
lamb the juice is circulating through
the patients veins and mingling
with his blood. I began my expert
ments first on myself to assure my
self that it was not dangerous to the
patient. Since then ] have applied
the elixir to several old gentlemen
without their knowing what it was.
One man about sixty years of age,
had had his arm so nearly paralyzed
with rheumatism that for nearly g
year he could not raise his hand to
his head. Soon after the elixir was
injected into the arm he was able to
WELD it any direction and almost
as vigorously as he had ever done.
cup to the present my expert
mcnts have been made without the
patients knowledge, but tomorrow
| am going to begin treating a man
in this way at his own request. Of
course, it is too early yet to draw
any sweeping conclusions from the
result obtained, but as far as l have
gone the results are remarkable.
When | have continued my expert
mcnts longer shall be able to draw
conclusions with more confidence.
DR.. wn-Sequard's calculation is
that an injection once month will
suffice to keep man twenty or
thirty wears yOunoor thon ho rao11y