The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-15
DAN 5ER In THE ELIXIR.
TIE EXPERIMENTS OF TIE PHILA-
DELPHIA PHYSI JAMS.

DELPHIA PHYSI JAMS.
Assesses Formed in Five Cases Out
of 1T Treated-None Of the Patients
Enthusiastic over It-Blood Poison
ing Follows in Two Cases at Bir-
mingham.
PHILADELPHIA. PA, Aug. 1.-THE resi-
dent physical IS room of the Medico
Chirurgical h spital was crowded to-day
with patien,s who either had tried, or were
prepared to try the Brown-Sequard method
of treatment. Those who had tried it were
not in any sense carried away with it.
To a man, all patients who had
been treated declined to try alything
further in the sane line. Among thee
were Andrew Drumm md, aged g.. janitor
Of the college, and James Henderson. ed
Sc, who were eoch given an injection in the
arm on Monday. For to-day's clinic Prof.
Boenhings, the operating physician, had
prepared steriizoi solution of Brown
Sequard elixir.
OBJECT OF TIE EXPERIMENTS.
Prot. Boenhing said to-day that the OBJ
ject of the experiments that were being
whether the Brown-Sequard elixir had
therapeutic properties thai could be recog-
nized by their effects He repeated, with
emphasis, that the faculty of the college
was not committed to any belief concern
ing it. and would not apply 1t otherwise
than as an experiment upon patients who
were free to take i at their personal risk.
After treating several patients, the doctor
asked if any of the atieEts treated yester
daV GaSIra1 RI rapalVp annfha.s .tInu
dav. but there was not a solitary re-
Spouse. DR.. Boenhing announced
that there would be no further
public demonstration Of the Brnwn-Sequard
treat nent at the Mid co-Chirurigical C J.
lege at er to-day The patient treated to-
day would be heard from privately. The
doctor SAID that out of III cases operated
upon, five of hem had de veloped assesses.
Assesses, he said, were not always injurl-
Gus, and very generally they were beneficial
after a patient recovered from o g and the
Inflammation was drawn from it. So
that nothing definite could be based
one way or theI-other on the forming
of assesses. While he and his OCCASIONAL
associates were skeptical as to the thera-
peutic merits Of the so-called elixir, the
doctor said they were one and all open to
conviction if anything could be reve lied to
them to sustain what has been ascribed to
its remedial power. All the patients who
suffered more or less deleterious effects from
the treatment we're prescribed for. The two
newspaper men who undertook to test the
elixir are recovering under the care of DR..
Boerning himself. One was very much i'm
proved to-day and the other was still con-
fined to his bed
SYMPTOMS OF BLOOD POISONING.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. lion Mon
day night DR.. l.. Lichstein, recently of New
Vr,rIr nj Na1 IL
patient named l.. d. May with the Brown
Sequard elixir. Both are now writhing
mortal agony, the pain having begun
seve' al hours afterward, and il
creased ever since Nervous ess,
chilly feeling, and symptoms of
blood poisoning make their co. ditlon dan
gerous. The lamb had been dead one hour
and forty minutes before the Injection was
made. Other experiments by DR.. Davis
worked a marvellous cure of Alexander
Hunter, who had been i'll for twelve months
with chronic dysentery.
THE EFFECT ON COL. AVERY.
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. l4-Tbe Brown
SequaTd elixir experiment on Col. Avery
so far has caused no material change in the
condlt on of the patient beyond the fact
that he sleeps soundly, and shows a more
acute consciousness of pal an he has for
some time. Heretofore his flesh has seemed
dead to the touch, but now he
feels acutely the slightest pressure on
OF near tire spot where the injections were
made. These spots resemble the small in
famed 81 OTIS made by an insect sti &. The
injection will be repeated. Dr. Green, who
Is experimenting with Col. Avery, and
gave himself the same injection, has been
quite sick to-day vito hea iache and hot
fever, as the result, he thinks, of the elixir.
FULL OF BACTERIA.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14.-Dr. A. B. Shaw of
this city, " no has been making microscoplc
examinations of the Brow -Seguard elixir.
discovered, while experimenting Saturday
last, that the fluid was alive with countless
bacteria, although but three hours had
elapsed since the elixir was prepared Ba :
titus, tuberculosis, bacillus that is sup
posed to cause tube culosis were found in
great quantities, thousands being in single
drop Of the mixture. DR.. Shaw could
arrive at but one conclusion,
namely, that the glands were
from sheep infected with bacilli of tuhercle.
as the mortar pestle, and distilled water
had been thoroughly steri lied before the
mixture was made. Dr. Shaw estimated
that in drachm Of the injection milio s
OF these bacilll would have been put into
the system, each one CA able Of multiplying
itself indefinitely. Danger underlyl z such
tire tment can be readily seen, and he
chances would be ten to one that tubercul1-
SIS IN some shape or other would manifest
itself in a person i oculated. DIR. Shaw
has since made other experiments, and il
two Of them bacillus tuberculosis was dis.
covered. The rod-shaped bacilh were also
found il several sa Ipes # the mixture
made. DR.. Snaw said: II would lay down
the following rules for the use of the Q ixir.
in view of my discoveries:
Il. The laity should not use the injection
upon themselves.
''2. Physicians should not use it until it has
been submitted to horoscope examination
TO ascertain whether it is infested with
bacteria or not, and care should be taken
that the glands are taken from a perfectly
healthy animal
SO. All instruments and vessels should be
thoroughly sterilized, and even distilled
water should not be used until examined
SUMNER RATES OF THE SOUTH