The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-02
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
DIR. w. A. Hammond Believes
in BrOwn-Sequard'S Theory.
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN MONTREAL
y Over the Behring Sea Seizures ovation to
Harrison Queen NataIie-A Big Receipt
Sullivan Goes to Mississippi.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. DIR. William A.
Hammond, of this city, is experimenting
with the elixir of life recently discovered
by DIR. Brown-Sequard, Of Paris, and thus
Tar he says the results are fully equal to
promises given out by the great Paris
physician. Hammond was sitting on the
verandah Of the fine new hospital he has
lust built outside of the city limits when
the World correspondent called on him last
night sit is true" said the doctor,
THAT when DR.. Brown-Sequard's discovery
was first reported to the American people
by the World 1 was rather dubious,
and inclined more or less to think as others
limited, that the report was either French
loke or that DIR. Brown-Sequard was
another good man gone wrong
The first report did not give a
It indicated rather that the elixir was a
compound made from various glands from
various animals, and on that showing was
willing to say the thing was impossible,
put when l obtained further and more
accurate details from the World itself, and
rom French medical journals, l was will
ing to believe there might be something in
It; ] was willing at all events to put it to
: the test and about a week ago l started to
experiment. Brown-SeQuard uses only
selected portions of the testicles of the rab-
cit or guinea pig, simply because, suppose,
snOSe are the animals upon which expert
me Is are usually made IN French labora-
tories, but l have adopted lamb, which is
better. The lamb, you know, is an animal
good to eat, but we don't eat guinea pigs.
The preparation of medicine and the
Of ba r,afianf ora vol Cinnlp
7 take selected portions of lamb freshly
killed and pound it into pulp in mortar.
With this | mix a teaSpOOnful or two OF
water, and the result l filter through fine
Swiss filtering paper A fluid slightly
thicker than water comes through per-
fectly pure and limpid. The tiltering
must be carefully done for if any shred or
part of the pulp were injected under a
patients skin, it would form assesses and
90 harm. The extract from a single lamb
win be sufficient for dozen injections. 1t
does not matter to what part of the body
application is made, but the most con-
Went place is under the skin of the fore
arm where the skin is comparatively slack,
and it would hardly be safe to inject the
1uid into a body twenty four hours after
she killing of the animal. The injection of
blood and of the juice of beef into wasted
a patients has been common for many years,
n and it is well known that to inject the
7 Essence Of a decayed OK would kill.
LAS soon as the lamb is slaughtered by
the butcher no time is wasted 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 experiments first on myself to
assure myself that it was not dangerous to
patients. Since then [ have applied the
elixir TO several gentlemen without their
knowing what it was. One man, about
sixty years old, had his arm so nearly par
alyzed with rheumatism that for nearly
year he could not raise his hand to his head.
Soon after the elixir was injected into his
arm he was able to WELD it in any direc-
zion, and almost as vigorously as he had
ever done. Up to the present my expert
ments have been made without the patients
knowledge, but tomorrow am going to be-
gin treating a man in this way at his own
request. OF course it is too early yet to
draw any sweeping conclusions from the
results obtained, but as far as have gone
the results are certainly remarkable. When
have continued my experiments longer 1
shall be able to draw conclusions with more
confidence. Brown-Sequard's calculation
IS that an injection once month will sui
dee to keep a man twenty or thirty years
Younger than he really is"