The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-14
TIE LEE ELIx1R CRAZE.
Savannah Physicians Preparing for
Test of the New Discovery.
Nc Brown-Sennard elivir is IN q sub-

"a S@N ~f~N
The Brown-Sequard elixir is still a sub
/ ject Of study by the medical fraternity of
this city, and it is limited among them that
one Of their number has tried the elixir on
! himself, but with no corresponding gain.
/ This. however, has not discouraged the ply
sicians, who do not want 20 decry the elixir
( too hastily, and especially 20 as II is der
/ stood that the physician experimental with
the glands of a rabbit, very sLOrt-lived
animal, having an extremely nervous
organism, and not calculated t. stimulate
I vitality. as sacred writ mas noted that the
/ cOny are a feeble folk.
Another physician, II Is said, las ex-
/ pressed the elixir from the glands Of a
game fowl, and administeredit hypoderm-
| ically to an aged negro, VINO was 50 much
| exhilarated by the operation that be crowed
for JOY, and strutted up and down III high
feather.
Dr. J. A. W. Wegefarth said last night,
in reply u an inquiry of a MORNING News
reporter if he had yet experimental with
the elixir, that he had not, bat that
he has been studying up the
different formulae with q view 10 an early
test. Dr. Wegefarth says there viii be no
| trouble to find patien 3, and he has one IN
miad where permission be thinks, Will be
cheerful Y given. The doctor says he will
use d lamb TO supply the elixir, and ne
viii have his arrangements perfected in I'd
vance, SO that very shortly after the animal
has beeI killed the elixir Caa he used before
fermentation car possibly set in.
DIR. E. II. Nichols said that he intends
experimenting with the elixir soon, aid he
will take every precaution to make the ex-
pertinent before spOre life is developed.
Or. Nichols thinks he Will have a goa, sac
rificed on the altar of science. To retain
the vital essence Of the elixir. and AZ the
same time sterillze it, is the doctors idea of
using the preparation in this climate, if its
use is practicable, or, in other words, if it is
found to have the medical virtues which
have been ascrlbed 20 it, or if this is not
practical, then to maintain, artifcially, the
heat of the elixir 10 9Sls the normal tem-
perature in the life Of the animal from
which the elixir is taken.
The elixir craze, if such a term may be
properly applied to it, is rapidly spreading
over the country, and there is hardly a city
Of any considerable size in the United
States in which il has not been expert
mented with, and the reports are nearly all
of the most tialtering character. IL is not
safe, however, to delay using 1t too long.
A physician Of Cincinnati, who was
sufferer from insomnia, extracted the elixir
| from the glands of u limb on Thursday of
| last week. and administered it to himself.
As result he says he had not spent such a
restful night in years as that night, and his
slumber continued SO late in the morning
that his wife thought it best to
awaken him. After making his toilet
he concluded he would take another
| hypodernic injection, and was about to do
SO when he thought it best to take the pre-
caution to examine it under the microscope,
when he found Spores III which state, had
he applied it, death must have inevitably
resulted. This is why it is considered ex-
tremely risky in a climate so much warmer
The experiment Of using the elixir, how
ever, has been tried i'll Mobile, still farther
south than Savannah. in the last few days,
and favorable results are said to have fol
| lowed the treatment
DIR. Hammond aud other physicians, who
are inclined to take a conservative view Of
the new discovery, say that the elixir is a
tonic, and they do not expect lasting bene-
tits from ITS use, but other physicians think
it has greater vitalizing virtues, and that it
may lead up TO something higher than has
yet been attained i'll the scientific domain OF
| mdteri0 medicu.