The evening world., 1889-08-15
EFFECT.
DR.. LOOmiS'S Ten Aged Subjects Say
They Feel Better for II.
Going to Try 1t Upon Ninety Others
Before Reporting,
The Experiments Being Carried TN at
the University Medical College.

An EVENING WORLD reporter visited the
LOOMS laboratory of the Medical College of
tho University of New York to-day full of
curiosity as to the effect of the injection Of
DIR. Browu-Sequnrd's elixir of life into the
thighs of ten debilltated aud ancient citizens.
But tho physicinns who are conducting the
experiments and who will try it OH with one
hundred patients, Rrc not ready to report. nor
Will they until n sufficient tost has been made
upon the one hundred subjects.
The patients who have been operated upon
ere kept III perfect ignorance OF the nature
of the operation, but all Of them claim that
ther have experienced relief from their ro-
spcctlye ailments and feel better nll over.
Or. II. L. Looms, assisted 10y DIR. Byron,
are conducting the experiments.
The glands Of sheen are used in making the
elixir. The odor OF the glands il simply nw-
tul, but the operators manage to stand II by
constant washing Of hands md instruments
III bi-chlorIdc of mercury. 1t is poun ed in
n mortar i'll n little sloriIizcd water and FL
tered and retiltcred until II is ready .or use
in reyitalizing wasted tissues. when 1t is Of
the color of milk and a triile thicker.
The elixir is injected with n hypodermic
syringe. Frederick Miller. a Young man. and
very deaf. has been operated upon twice, aud
he says that n bad stomach has been sweet
ened and furnished with IN appetite. his
sleep has been improved and he feels alto
gether better.
Peter Buckler, IN Sthmatl man OF sixty
five years, claims TO have been much relieved
since an injection of elixir. He says he
breathes ensier, coughs lebs and is getting
well at last.
Matthew McKerren. seventy-fve years old,
and suffering only with old age, is in Belle
Vue Hospital. He was given one injection,
and developments are awaited with much
interest.
James Fogarty clamored for a second dose,
claiming that yesterdays injection must have
Ind whiskey III IT, it made him 10 trisky.
He is n white-baired old man, and Is only
suffering from old age.
DIR. LOOMS has little faith in the elixir
has experimental upon. Two-year-old sheep
are selected, that being the stl ongest period
of q sleeps life. Much care must be exer-
cised 30 that no disease may be injected into
the patient. and with proper care, the doc
tors say, no harm can come to the patients
from the experiments, ut least, while they
may accomplish some good.
In view of the reports from st. Louis that
DR.. Shaw found bv the use of O powerful
microscope that the elixir WINS literally
crowded with bacteria, and that five of III
patients operated upon ut a Philadelphia
hospital had developed assesses. the success
OF DR., Brown-Sequard's discovery Ia CUES
tionable.
DIR. Lichstein OF Birmingham, Ala. reports
that he injected some of the elixir into his
own arm and that Of n patient aud both are
said to have suffered exquisite torture and to
have narrowly escaped denth as the result.
while Alexander Hunter, another patient,
was marvCllously cured Of a dyBentery which
was of twelve months standing.