The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-08-08
DREAMED OF IT.
The Way Alehemlsis Discovered the
Elixir Of Lie,
A New York Physician Confirms Dr.
Brown -heauard'a Discovery,


WASHINGTON, Aug, g,-DL william
A. Hammond, OF this city, IL expert
menIing with the elixir OF life recently
discovered by Dr., brown sequard, OF
Paris, and thus far he says the results
are fnlly equal 70 tho promises given
out by lhe great Paris physician, DR.,
Hammond was sitting on tho yeranda
OF the fine new hospital, which no has
Just built outside the city limits, when
Il correspondent called on him,
ut 10 trne,' said the doctor, "that
when DR. lirown'SeQuaTda discovery
was irft reported 10 tho American peo.
Pic, / was rather dnblOua and inclined
more or less 10 think aA others had
limited, that either tho report was a
French Joke or that DR., Brown'se'
quard was another good man gone
wrong The llrat report dld not give 4
complete idea OF the treatment, ~
indicated, rather, that the elixir was q
compound made from various glanda
OF various animals, aud on that show
Ing | was willing W say the thing was
impossible, liut when ! obtained
further aud mofe accurate details from
the French medical Journals, was
willing 10 heliye that that there might
be something In II, 81.
III was willing NJ all eyenta 10 put II
10 the test, ana about q week ago !
started 10 experiment Dr, BroWnse'
guard uses only selected portions or tho
rabbit or guinea pig, hlmply because !
auppOae, these are the animals upon
witch experiments arc usually made IN
.he French laboratories, but | nave
adopted the lamb, which think lB bet
ter. The lamb you know IL an animal
good TO eat, hut We don't eat guinea
pigs. The preparation OF the medicine
aud the treatment Of the patient are
very simple. | take the selected pOr.
ton OF a lamb freshly killed ana pound
II into pulp In u mortar; With this !
mix teaapOOniul or two OF water ana
the result / litter through Ano Swiss III.
terlng paper The lluid, eighty thick
on than water, comes through perfectly
pure and lImpid. The altering must be
carefully done, for II any shred or any
part Of the pulp were injected undera
patients skin, u would form absceaaes
and do harm.
"The extract from q single lamb will
be sufficient for dozen injections, 10
does not matter 70 what part OF the
body the application 10 made but the
most convenient place IN under the
skin OF tho forearm where the skin iB
comparatively slack II would hardly
be safe 10 inject the fluid derived from
q body twenty'fOur hours after the kill
Ing OF the animal, The Injection OF
blood aud of the juice OF beef into
wasted patients has been common for
many years, and n 10 well'known that
10 inject the essence OF deoayed beef
would Kill tho man,
as soon no the lamb Ia slaughtered
by the butcher no time ~ wasted In
and llterlng and within an
h0urof the killing OF the lamb the juice
ia circulating through the patlenCe
veins and mingllng with his blood. |
began my experiments first on myself
TO assure myself that II was not dan.
gerous to the patient, Since then !
have applied the elixir 10 several old
gentlemen without their knowing what
10 was. One man, a. yut sixty years OF
age, had had his arm % nearly paraly2ed
with rheumatism that for nearly n year
no could not raise his hand TO his hand,
soon after the elixir was Injected Into
the arm he was able TO WELD II In any
direction and almost ~ vigorously as
he had ever done,
"Up to the present my experiments
have been made without the patients
but tomorrow am going
TO begin treating man Ia this way ~
his own request, or course, II Is too
early yet 10 draw any Bweeping con
from the re0ult obtained, but
as far as have gone the results are
remarkable, When | have
continued my experiments longer
shall be able TO draw conclusions with
more confidence, DR., Brown.Sequard's
calculation is that an injection once n
will suffice 10 keep u man twenty
or thirty years younger than he really
ia