The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-18
VIRTUE IN THE ELIXIR.
THE OLD CoLORED MAN BRYAN'S
STIFF JOINTS LINGERING.

from the IreaGmenL the only IncOn-
veniencs Experienced-Expe
With the New Discovery in Other
Cities and the Results.
The old colored man, Nat Bryan, who
was treated with the Bro Sn-Sequard elixir
! Friday afternoon, was seen last night, aud
he said that he has not felt single pain in
his rheumatic arm since the treatment. and
he can now use the arm, raising it readily
TO his shoulder and head, something he said
that he was unable u do before the elixir
treatment. He has not had any rheuma tic
pains in his right leg since F. iday after
noon, and he can lit the leg without pain,
whereas, before be had to liftit up gradually
with his hand.
Before the elixir injection Bryan suffered
excruciating pains in the joint of his left
knee, bus he said that they have entirely
disappeared, and the greatest inconvenience
IS from the feeling of Soreness where the
needle was inserted in his left leg, as the
elixir dOesnot APPEAR TO have been SO readily
absorbed as it was III the arm and right Leg.
HELPED BY THE TREATMENT.
The old man was closely questioned as to
| his condition, ald he said that it could not
be denied that his right arm and leg had
| Joint was gone, but he seemed to be appre-
! heaslva of the SORENESS, and a flaXseed
| porltice was pre- ,cribed to relieve it.
Quite number Of people went to see the
old man yesterday. He was asked if ne in
tended to be treated again with the elixir,
and he replied that be wanted to wait and
| see what would come of the soreness
about the place where one Of the injections
was made, and if that passed off without
any trouble and his present improved con-
dltion was maintained, he would try it
again.
Bryan was certainly one of the most pro-
nOuuced rheumatic patients ever expert
mented on. as he was as full of pains and
cramps as ever ProsperO'S servant in the
cave was afflicted by the magic of his mas
ter.
A HARD CASE TO TACKLE.
Bryan, who is carpenter from Gaines
vile, has been a victim. of rheumatism for
the past two years, and as he says himself
SO atfi that often he would fall helpless
when be would attempt to walk. His sur
roundings are not such as to make the elixir
experiment favorable, for heoccupies small
| room, which was heated last night beyond
blood heat by fire in the open fire place,
where laundry woman, who had been
| giving him lodging, has been ironing all Of
| yesterday. The old man said that ne did
not want to go to the hospital, because he
| had been there, and the treatment did not
! suit him.
Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania phy5i-
clans are continuing their experiments with
the elixir, and varied results have followed
Among Cincinnati physicians, Dr.. Long
| fellow reports decided signs of improve
| ment in one Of three patients treated
last Thursday. Dr.. Geppert reports a re-
markabe change for the better in a woman
afflicted with heart trouble, and Of six
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| success only in one case the patient having
had st. Vitus' dance. A Mrs. Kaibock, Of
| Newport, KY, ha- entirely recovered from
| rheumatism fort y-eght hours after the
treatment. DR.. Marcus of Cincinnati
says that some irritation and inflammation
follow all hypodermlc injections, followed
| by assesses.
LAUGHS AT THE BA CILLUS THEORY.
DIR. Fletcher of indianapolis, and other
| physicians of that city, after experiments,
say that the elixir acts like a nu.riment,
but mas no remarkable stimulating effect.
| DIR. Fletcher scouts at the idea that bacillus
| Of consumption has been developed in the
elixir extract and that no bacillus tuber-
cuIosis exists in the elixir from lamb
glands whether Immediately after the
elixir has been compressed or later
Three tests made at Circleville, O.
| Thursday were uufavorable There was an
invigorating effect after some hours, fol
lowed BY relapse and high fever. John
Read, a Petersburg, Qnd.) man, bent with
rheumatism, claims to have been cured by
the injection of half drachm of the elixir.
Seven experiments at Lawrenceburg,
Ind, proved valuless, and the physician
who tried it on himself was made quite sirl,
and all complained of severe soreness a bout
the seat of the injections.
Three physicians of Xena, O., tried the
elixir Thursday on as many patients, all
old and well-known citizens, and rheumatic
sufferers. One was entirely relieved of
pain, a second partially relieved and the
third was not much benefited. They all
want to BE- treated again.
RELIEVED IN HALF AN HOUR.
At Hartford city two physicians, by the
use Of the elixir, cured victim of rhema-
tlsm, one of whose limbs had been par
alyzed for twelve years, and S. S. Correll,
a wealthy real estate agent of that place,
was relieved of rheumatic pain in half an
| hour after treatment. Chief of Police Kahn
of Liberty, Ind, was relieved ofspain after
| treatment.
George Robertson of Mount Carmel. O..
given up by his physicians from infiamma-
ton of the bowels, was given an injection
of the elixir III the breast when unconscious.
rallied shortly after and was given second
injec ion in The arm. He moved and com
planned Of the pain. He lived all the next
day, but died that night.
Lafayette 1nd.) dispatch says that a
shoecutter by the name of Colby, for eigh-
teen months paralyzed from his hips down.
and unable to lift his feet from the floor
was able to walk after treatment, and said
that fer year and half he had not any
sense of feeling in his toes until the elixir
was administered.
The wife OF w. ]. Morden, general mana
ger OF the Morden Frog aud Crossing Works
OF Chicago, writing from indianapolis, saws
that her her husband, who has been unable
to walk from a stroke of paralysis received
elghG months ago, in an hour after treat
ment arose and walked about the room.
SEEN THROUGH THE MICROSCOPES.
The experiments of Dr.. A Miesse of
Lima, o., with the microscope, will be of
interest, not only to the laity, who should
not attempt to experiment on themselves
but also Of interest to the members of the
profession, that they may be careful to see
thai the elixir is pure. Dr. A. Miesse pre-
pared some of the elixir, and to remove all
impurities he passed it through filtering m
per and began his microscope examination,
and found it pure. His examinations were
repeated every fifteen minutes, and at
forty five minutes from the time the
elixir dropped from the filter he
discovered cells one hour, germ of bacteria
IN small numbers (microzymes); one hour
and fifteen minutes, many of them, aud
nloplaSm; one hour and half a perfect
mass OF living animals. In making this re-
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