Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-02
WASHINGTON CyLLINGS.
4 Scheme Oh Foot to Move the POpu-
latiOn Of Iceland to Alaska.
BACHELLER'S CHINESE RULING.
Census Agents Appointed-Land
Decisions Affirmed-Knights
Templar-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE nEcoRD-UNoN.l
MAN MAN LIVE FOREVER.
Experiments Made by a Noted Physician
at the National CapitaI

Experiments Made by Noted Physician
at the National Capital.
WASHINGTON, August 1st.-Dr. William
A Hammond of this city. is experiment.
ing with the elixir of life recently discov-
cred by Brown-Sequard, of Paris, and thus
far, he says, the results are fully equal to
the promises given out by the great Paris
physician. Hammond was sitting on the
veranda of the fine new hospital he has
just built, outside the city limits, when the
World correspondent called on him to night.
at is true" said the doctor, that when
DR.. Brown-Sequard's discovery was first
reported to the American people | was
rather dubious, and inclined more or less
to think, as others limited, that either the
report was French joke or that DR.. Brown
Sequard was another good man gone
wrong The first report did not give
complete idea of the treatment. 1t indi-
Gated rather that the elixir was compound
made from various glands from various ami
mails, and on that showing was willing to
say that the thing was impossible, but when
l obtained further and more accurate de-
tails, / was willing to believe there might
be something in it.
HAmmoND's EXPERIMENTS.
II was willing at all events to put it to
the test, and about week ago / started to
experiment. Brown-Sequard uses only Sc
lected portions of a rabbit or guinea pig
simply because, suppose, these are ami
mails upon which experiments are usually
made in French laboratories; but | have
adopted lamb, which, think, is better.
The lamb, you know, is an animal good to
eat, but we don't eat guinea pigs. The
preparation OF the medicine and treatment
of the patient are very simple. | take the
selected portion of the lamb freshly killed
and pound it into pulp in mortar. With
this | mix teaspoouful or two of water,
and the result | filter through fine Swiss
filtering paper. The fluid, which is slightly
thicker than water. comes through per-
fectly pure and hmpid. The filtering must
he carefully done, fol if any shred or part
of the pulp were injected under the pa
TENTS skin it would form abcesses and do
harm. The extract from single lamb will
be sufficient for dozens injections. 1t
does not matter to what part of the body
the application is made but the most con-
venient place is under the skin of the fore
arm, where the skin is comparatively slack.
1t would hardly be safe to inject the fluid
derived from a body twenty-four hours
after the killing of the animal. The in
lection of blood and the juice of beef into
wasted patients has been common Tor many
years, and it is well known that TO inject
the essence of decayed beef would kill.
MUST BE DONE QUICKLY.
LAS soon as the lamb is slaughtered by
the butcher no time is wasted in pounding
and tiltering, and within an hour of the
killing of the lamb, the juice is circulating
through the patients veins and minglng
with his blood. / began experiments first
on myself to assure myself that it was not
dangerous to patient. Since then | have
applied the elixir to several old gentlemen
without their knowing what it was One
man, about sixty years, had his arm SO
nearly paralyzed with rheumatism that for
nearly year he could not raise his hand
to his head. Soon after the elixir was in
jected into his arm he was able to WELD it
in any direction and almost as vigorously
as he had ever done.
REQUESTED BY A PATIENT.
up to the present my experiments have
been made without the patients knowi-
edge, but tomorrow l am going to begin
treating man in this way at his own re-
quest. OF course it is too early vet TO draw
any sweeping conclusions from the result
obtained, but as far as | have gone the re.
suits sre certainly remarkable. When l
have continued my experiments longer
shall be able to draw conclusions with
more confidence. Brown Sequard's calcu-
lation is that an injection once a month
will suffice to keep man twenty or thirty
years younger than he really is