The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-08-17
Y, IDAHO, SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1889.
YOUTH RENEWED.
hpexinents in the Line Of the Recont
French Discovery.

Experiments in the Line Of the Recon
French Discovery.
/. DR.. William A. Hammond of thi
city is experimenting with the elixi
oflife recently discovered by Brown
Sequard of Paris, and thus far, h
says, the results are fully equal tt
the promises given out by the grea
Paris physician. Hammond wat
sitting on the veranda of the fine
new hospital he has just built out
side the city limits, when the World
correspondent called on him to-
night.
ut is true" said the doctor, "that
when DR.. Brown-Sequard's discov'
cry was first reported to the Amer
ican people I was rather dubious
and inclined more or less to think
as others limited, that either the re-
port was a French joke or that DR..
Brown-Sequard was another good
man gone wrong The first report
did not give complete idea of the
treatment. It indicated rather that
the elixir was q compound made
from various glands from various
animals, and on that showing ! was
willing to say the thing was impos-
sible, but when / obtained further
and more accurate details I was
willing to believe there might be
something in it.
II 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 rabbit or guinea pig simply be-
cause, I suppose, these are animals
upon which experiments are usually
made in French laboratories but
| have adopted lamb, which. I
think, is better. The lamb, you
know, is an animal good to eat, but
we don't eat guinea pigs.
"The preparation of the medi-
cine and treatment of the patient
are very simple. I take the selected
portion of the lamb freshly killed
and pound it into a pulp in a NOR
tar. With this / mix a teaspoonful
or two of water, and the result l
filter through fine Swiss filtering
paper. The fluid, which is slightly
thicker than water, comes through
perfectly pure and limpid. The
filtering must be carefully done, for
if any shred or part of the pulp
were injected under the patients
skin it would form Assesses and do
harm.
"The extract from a single lamb
will be sufficient for a dozen injec-
tions. 1t does not matter to what
part of the body the application is
made, but the most convenient place
is under the skin of the forearm,
where the skin is comparatively
slack.
ut would hardly be safe to in
ject the fluid into q body twenty
four hours after the killing of the
animal.
1.-THE injection of blood and of
the juice of beefinto wasted patients
has been common for many years,
and it is we'll known that to inject
the essence of decayed beef would
kill.
"As soon as the lamb is slaught-
cred by the butcher no time is
wasted in pounding and filtering,
and within an hour from the kill
ing of the lamb the juice is circu-
lating through the patients veins
and mingling with his blood.
II began experiments FIRST on N.Y.
self to assure myself that it was not
dangerous to a patient. Since then
| have applied the elixir to several
old gentlemen without their know
ing what it was. One man, about
sixty years, had had his arm 80
nearly paralyzed 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 direction and almost as vigor-
ously as he had ever done.
"Up to the present my expert
ments have been made without the
patients knowledge, but tomorrow
| am going to begin treating man
in this way at his own request. Of
course it is too early yet to draw
any sweeping conclusions from the
result obtained, but as far as l have
gone the results are certainly re-
markable.
"When l have continued my ex-
periments longer shall be able to
draw conclusions with more conf
lence. Brown-Sequard's calcula-
lion is that an injection once a
month will suffice to keep a man
twenty or thirty years younger than
he really is"
Ruined By . Parrot.