The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-09-18
BRoWN.sEQUARD IN NEBRASKA.
THE PATIENT ACTS LIKE A SURLY OLD
RAM, EATS GRASS AND BUTTS DOC
TORS AND VISITORS OUT
OF TIE HOUSE.

"A AouSPPaAuo'iAiS1 ANco'3 oP|SioA '"JS'
This village has been thrown into state
of great excitement by the wonderful and
unexpected results which have attended
the administration of the Brown-Sequard
elixir by DR.. L. K. Buckworth. Quite a
number of patients have been treated by
DR.. Buckworth within the past three
days. He has been administering the ia
nous elixir, and several of the patients
have expressed themselves as having
been very much benefited by the treat
ment. But the most astonishing case
turned up yesterday, and has set the
neighborhood fairly wild with eTcite-
ment. An old man named Woolley, who
lives about four miles in the country,
came to town suffering with rheumatism
in the right shoulder and applied to DR..
Buckworth for treatment. He was very
anxious to try the elixir, and the doctor
administered the liquid in tho right arm
just below the shoulder. For half an
hour after the remedy had been applied
Mr.. Woolley sat on the ola in the doe
tors Office in kind of stupor. He did
not appear to suffer any pain but refused
to talk. He would occasionally nod or
shake his head in answer to questions
The crowd of people gathered at the doc
tors office became very much interested
in his case aud no other patients were OPP
Grated on during the day. After Mr..
WoOllcy had been in a Stupor or sleepy
like condition for half an honr he sudden
ly began to shake himself and open his
eyes widely. He stood up moment and
looked wildly about the room. Then he
shook himself from head to foot much as
q dog does when shaking off the rain.
Next he dropped on his hands and feet
and began to bleat like q sheep. He then
shook his head violently and made dash
across the room at DR.. RuckwOrth, butt
| ing him off his chair and clear out of the
door, which was open. The crowd in the
office began to dispense In confusion, and
the crazy patient made several attempts
to butt different ones, and succeeded in
knocking three or four of them off their
feet. When the Office was cleared the
man sheep ran into the street on all tours
and began to eat grass along the side
walk. Every few seconds he would look
up, shake his head after the fashion OF a
cross old ram, and then nibble away at
the tufts of grass that grew along the
walk. After the first spell of consterna
ton had passed over three strong men
volunteered to capture the cra2ed pa
tent. They had hard struggle. He
had become very powerful, and they were
repeatedly knocked headlong by his fear
full butting.
Fully five minutes they struggled with
him and all the while he kept up IA bleat-
ing so like that of an angry sheep that a
person not seeing the actual source of the
sound would have certainly been deceiv-
ed as to the creature producing it. Mr..
Woolley was finally overpowered and his
hands and feet were tied. He was re-
moved to quiet dwelling oway from the
crowd and an9sthetics were administer
ed. He is now in comatose condition,
and DR.. Buckworth is of the opinion that
when his patie-t awakens he will have
regainee his human reason and act like a
man instead of sheep.
1t has been ascertained since the won.
derful experience of Mr.. Woolley has be.
come the talk of the neighborhood that
DR.. Bnckworth really tried new remedy
or applied the remedy in different form
from that prescribed in the Brown-Se-
guard method When the doctor went
out to the pasture. abolt three miles from
town, to sl;,y the lamb from which to Sc,
cure the liquid for the experiment he con.
ceived the idea of taking full grown
sheep instead of a lamb, so he selected q
late last years buck and from this animal
he secured the medical injection used
upon Mr.. Woolley. The sheep was fine
looking specimen and just about one veal
old, very healthy and in good condition
The ultimate results of this wonderful
case are awaited with the most intense
interest. Newspaper correspondents arr
arriving on every tram and the town is
in tumult. Some of the ladies VIII,
were at DR.. Bnckworth's office yesterla,
morning are almost Frustrated with thu
thought of their narrow esaope from ;
most humiliating experience.
u Bauer s. Wells goods are fresl
from The factories. They do keep OLE
goods on hand. Their prices are the low
est. Mammoth stores Oh Front street
opposite Ferry landing. Now is the time
to call on them.