The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-17
THE BROWN-sEoUARD ELIXIR

the newspapers nave Deen Iull OF mater II
regard TO late discovery In medication
which few enthusiasts have gone so fal
as to pronounce the long sought Elixir OF
Llfe-the dream of the medieval alchem-
lists
The Wanted Elixir derives especial i'm
portance from the high character of III
alleged discover, who Is no less a person
age than the famous French chirurgist and
savant, DR.. -Sequard. For thirty
years, at least, he has stood at the head OF
the profession In France-has been It's
Napoleon In research, discovery and new
conquests, and though now past the allotted
age Of three score and ten, Is active and
enthusiastic as ever; and though the in
firmities of age had begun to assail him, he
claims that by few tests upon himself of
his newly discovered elixir, he had been
fully set back TO the bodily and mental
buoyancy and yigor of twenty years ago.
How the great French savant happened
upon his discovery is not stated. Perhaps
he was Illuminating upon the notion of the
old achemists that the eating of healthy
organs and tissue of animals tended TO in
crease the tone and health of similar organs
In the human body, and was thus led to ex-
periments in the way of impregnatlng the
body Of aged and decrepid humans with
the Essence of youth" extracted from the
body of notably clean and healthy young
animals Anyhow, his experiments result
ed In preparation after this fashion: A
gland is taken warm and quivering from a
clean, healthy young lamb, guinea pig or
rabbit, placed In mortar and trlturated.
Then the contents of the mortar. Trimmed
by the addition Of little distilled water,
are emptied into glass funnel over which
large wad of absorbent cotton has been
placed and the liquid slowly filtered into a
wine glass. The liquid Is then given sec.
ond filtration through q folded paper filter
into second wine glass. The liquid thus
prepared Is of about the consistency of
water, limpid, opalescent, with a pearly
iridescent look when held toward the
light
The mode of administration is TO inject
1t with small hypodermic SYRINGE the
case of rheumatic or other local ailments,
into the limb affected; In cases OF general
ailment near the centers of circulation.
The peculiarly of the elixir is that 1t is
quickly asslmilated and becomes part of
the blood of the person into whom It Is in
jected,
The announcement OF the discovery and
some of Its marvellous effects naturally led
to Immediate and numerous trials In this
country Among the first to enter the field
was the celebrated DR.. Hammond, surgeon
I general of the L. S. army, an old friend,
student of, and great believer In the
science, skill and good faith of his great
French master. The elixir was prepared
by DR.. Hammond strictly after the formula
given him by BrowH-Sequard himself, and
thus far administered to a dozen or more
of patients. Among them was man so
matism of his left arm that prevented his
raising 1t above his head. His arm was
much better within an hour after the ap-
plicaton, and the man Is confident of a
permanent cure. The details of the other
cases are not given, but in nearly all strik-
ing beneficial results are claimed.
OF course experiments with the elixir
are being made by leading physicians In
many other cities. In Chicago, the emil
nent DR.. De Wolf, so long the distinguish.
ed head of the Health Department of the
city, and, with DR.. Hammond, also former
student of Browns equard, announces him.
self an enthusiastic believer In the virtues
of the new discovery. Among others upon
whom he has experimental with marked
beneficial results Is DR.. o. p. hathaway
formerly of this city, of whose serious
bodily intirmities many of our citizen:
have long been aware. Numerous Other
patients have been experimental upon by
DR.. De Wolf, and In regard to all of them
he says: 81 am bound to say, that either b,
some agency do not understand, or by ,
medication of the Imagination, there is ,
decided improvement In the physical con-
dition of all the PATIENTS
In Louisville, an old man of 20, troubled
with rheumatism and general debility
forty.eight hours after an application, wa
30 rejuvenated that he declared he had no
felt so we'll In thirty years and calls him
self "a new man." At Lima, Ohio, Dr.
Herman, progressive physician" among
other surprising successes, completed.
cured of her habit and restored TO full
health confirmed morphine eater, for owe
twenty years the helpless victim of tn
drug; and In another case-that of MI
George Buchanan, a leading business mar
|. who had been run down for years by ger
eral debility,-after one application, "hi
cheeks began to get flushed and bright
ness commenced filling his eyes. The goo
effect increased until he appeared like
nav Inan was liyelier In shirts and acte