The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-16
TO TRY ELTXIR'S VIRTUES.
Or. wEGEFARTH TO TEST THE
NEW DISCOVERY TODAY.

Physicians Anxiously Waiting the
Result ofthe Fxperiment-Dr. Long
fellows Formula to be Used-An
Old CoIo-ed Man Suffering with
rheumatism to be the Patient-How
the Test VIII be Made.
DR.. j. \. W. Wegefarth will make an
experiment this afternoon with the Browl-
Seouard elixir, which Is attracting so much
attention throughout the country.
The utmost precautions will be taken in
the preparation of the elixir, and the exper
iment will be made with a c1lored man 90
years old, who is a hopeless rheumatic
patient. corresponding closely t. the col
ored man # 20 so successfully treated by
DR.. Longfeliow of Cincinnati
Dr. Wegefar b says that he will follow
closely the formula Il DR.. LOngfellow, and
will nor use water. he has arranged with
a butcher to furnish the glands Of a lamb
Immediately after the animal has been
slaughtered, and they will be placed i'll
vessel antiseptically treated, and s. wrapped
up in cotton as TO preserve Us far as possible
the normal heat Of the glands.
THE ELIXIR ITSELF
A fast horse will be used in bringing the
glands to the city, where they will be first
chopped fine, triturated in "a much shorter
time by a chemist than Dr. Longfellow's
chemist took for trituratOu, the elixir ex-
pressed from the mass by pressure, and
within an hour from the time Of the ami
mails slaughter, the elixir, after first being
subjected to a close scrutiny under the
microscope, will be hypodermiealy adj
ministe ed to the patient, If the microscope
I Il
of spores or tuberculosis conditions.
A glass hypoderlic syringe, of a capac-
ity of one drachm, with small needle viii
be used, and one drachm Of the elixir will
be injected under the cuticle Ct the patient
who has consented to undergo the expert
ment. The treatment will se witnessed by
a few physicians and friends of DIR. Wedge
farth, and the result will be watched closely
by the medical fraternity, and the public,
aud if it should result favorably, the
Brown-Sequard elixir will have received a
big boom here.
OTHER EXPERIMENTS TO FOLLOW.
DR. Simmons assisted by Dr. J. g. Kel-
Ter, will test the elixir next week DR.. Sim
mons has completed a regular course in
medicine, supplemented by four years at
Bellevue hospital, New York, and has
located here. In the past two weeks he has
been investigating all that pertains to the
elixir. He proposes to use the glands of
a lamb for his experiment, and will
first be careful to satisfy himself that
no spore life exists in the elixir, and that
the glands are from none but a healthy
animal DR.. Simmons has been waiting to
note the effects of experiments by the medi-
cal profession in other cities, and if possible
to profit by any mistakes that have fol
lowed the use Of the elixir elsewhere. The
heat of this climate warns the medical fra
ternity that the experiment must be made
very soon after the glands have been re-
moved from the animal.
The reports are conflicting from the cities
OF the north. DR.. Longfellow of Cincin-
natl estimates that favorable results have
followed in 50per cent. OF his cases.
THE CINCINNATI TESTS.
DIR. Meade of Cincinnati reports two
successful cases treated last Tuesday, one,
business man so crippled that ne had been
unable to walk for two years and had to be
carried from his carriage into the physi-
cans office, in fifteen minutes after receiv-
ing the elixir arose from his chair and
without pain walked out of the office and
entered his carriage, while the second pa
tient who had been unable to walk, except
slowly and with great difficulty, few min
utes after the elixir had been administered
ran a square,
Drs. Bryan and Hunter of Wapakoneta
report a confirmed rheumatic cured in 2i5
hours after treatment. They also report
three other cures AS the Savannah ply
sicians are on the eve of experiments it may
be well for them to know how Drs BRYAN
and Hunter obtained the elixir They Sc
lected the glands Of two healthy 4-monUhs-
old lambs, and while yet warm triUurated
them in a mortar kept warm by standing
In warm water, and then expressed the
elixir from the pulp through white silk.
The result was a pinkish, milky-leoklng
fluid, which was used on nine patients i'm
medlately. From one to two drachms of
the elixir were used on each patient ac-
cording to the severity Of the case.
CURE FOR THE MORPHINE HABIT.
At Lima, O., the same favorable reports
are made, and il has been discovered that
the elixir will cure the morphine and opium
habit.
From Harrodsburg, KY, it is reported
that man of 72, unable to walk for years.
has been cured by the elixir, administered
In two injections with an hour interval be-
tween them. The old gentleman is SAID to
have afterward walked a mile, although he
had been hauled in a buggy to Dr. Wiley IS
Office.
Favorable results are reported from other
Ohio and Indiana cities. The experiments
at Philadelphia and Pittsburg have not been
favorable. The unfavorable symptoms re-
ported are high fever and assesses, but the
medical fraternity who are inclined not to
condemn too hastily, think that proper care
was not exercised in the glands selected in
the preparation of the elixir,
TOO MUCH FOR HIS FINGERS,