Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-09
DEFEATING DEATH.
A French Doctor Claims to be Able to do
sO-Dr. Brown -Sequard Says
He has Discovered an Elixir by Which He As
serts His Life has been Ex-
tended Ten Years.
New York World.

New York World.
aThe medical world is excited by the
statement of DR.. Brown-Sequard, the
great Frer CHI specialist in nervous dis
eases, who declared before the Biological
society of Paris, of which he is the presi-
dent, that after twenty years of: expert
menting he had discovered a true elixir
of life, substance that would rejuven-
ate the old and make strong the feeble.
He conterded that if.the living cells of a
young and vigorous beng could be in-
jected into another where the vital spark
was low his organism must vibrate in
unison with the fresh life. Many years
ago the doctor advanced views of the
same character in lecture before thu
medical faculty of Parls, and has since
been engaged in experimenting on the
subject by training old and worn-out an
imals.- Finally. as he states, he reached
such perfection that he tried his elixir
upon himself with startling results.
The doctor is now seventy-two years
Old and presumably subject to the weak
nesses andinfrmitles of age. His revi-
talizing substance, he explained, was
derived from certain organs or glands
taken, still quivering, from live animals
and reduced at once to pulp in mortar
with distilled water. From this conf
pound he extracts an essence which he
uses as hypodermic injection
The doctor administered to himself a
cubic centumetre with a hypoderGnic
syringe, just as morphine is injected.
He declares that the day following this
experiment, after two injections of this
vital essence, he felt himself trans
hour S work, standing up in his labora-
tory, exhausted him. Now he declares
he can study three hours uninterruptedly
without the least repose. His appetite
has increased, his sleep is sweet and re-
freshing, his stomach performs its func-
tons admirably and his intellectual labor |
is performed with wonderful ease and |
clearness- His feelings, also, have been |
youthful. DR.. Brown-Sequard declared |
that the dose he took was equivalent to
ten years regeneration.
Medical men in New York are skepti-
cal about the DOCTORS alleged discovery,
and smile incredulouslY when asked what
they think of it. While they admit that
all things are possible, they are far from
ready to give credence to the story as it
comes from France, or to accept the
statement without further proof than has
yet come to hand.
DR.. Edward F. Spitzka, himself spe-
cialist IN nervous diseases, said last night
that he could not believe the great
French doctor had yet descended to mere
quackery, though the announcement
sounded strangely like it.
cdr. Brown-Sequard is wonderful
man, - he continued, "and it is possible
that he has made some discovery that
viii be useful to science and the world -
sit is certain that changes occur in
animal tissue at the moment of death
hat are of a subtle, chemical character,
and are accompanied by the formation of
chemical bodies which, undoubtedly,
would have a powerful effect on the
nervous system Of another person if in
reduced into his circulation Certain
emotional conditions produce changes in
he secretions. Anger, for instance,
PRODUCES such a change in the saliva as {
o render it venomous. +
cit must be demonstrated, however,
hat the chemical bodies he extracts are '
+ constant and unvaryIng nature, and
heir effects on the human system uni /
orm in effect. That was one of the I
Mistakes Pasteur made. g
''This is an age of yoluptuaries, and O
ew stImulants for decayed vital forces {
re in demand, and a wide and most t
rofitable field is open for the rankest
as is evidenced by the many
9medies advertised for the weak and
hich find enormous sales. If the great
rench doctor has found a remedy that II
i'll make the old young or the weak 9
rong, he has found what will be far
lore valuable than all the discoveries in
ectricity combined - n
DR.. A. J Meuer was as inereduIous as d
lie others, but admitted the story was an W
teresting one. W
We are as anxious in this Nineteenth D.
entury, - he said, ''to find the foun-
in of youth, or its substitute, as ever W
once de Leon was. But [ am not one W
those who believe there is any special ia
rtue in quivering gland. 1t will be a o
eat day for the world when the Won d;
srful panacea comes that will do away
ith so many human ills, only fear new D,
oubles will come to take the place of ia
e old - n,
DR.. Landon Carter Gray was very A
optical as TO the discovery and felt m
ore like laughing at the story than ac- de
ptmg it seriously just yet. Though he
Is ready TO be convinced, he would not
interviewed on what he thought might Sp
merely piece of French nonsense.