Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-16
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
DIGGING INTO THE NEW DIS
COVERY

United States in the Brown-Sequard dis
covery of new tonic to invigorate man.
kind at the expense of the lower animals,
but we question if the United States is
at an Den1nu It's sister republic in general
testing of its merits, extending even to the
rural villages where single doctor watches
over the health of it's inhabitants. Both
the new ''elixir" and the method of its ap-
plication are SO simple that the reportssare
quite readable to the unlearned laity. The
medicine itself, if it can be called by that
name, is simply the provocative glands of
any young animal, taken as soon after
slaughter as possible, pounded in a mortar
for half an hour, and the resulting juice
an odorless fluid of pale pinkish white
placed in an air-tight vial. AS soon
as possible thereafter an hour it
practicable-it is injected under the skin
of the patient with a hyperdermic syringe
in from one to three punctures in different
parts of the body, each puncture taking in
a dram.
The experiments which have been made
are, so far, of course, but experiments, and
but partially conclusive. The temporary
benefit seems to be almost established be-
yOnd cavil; the permanent effect is not
established at all, except as possibility in
a new and untried field. The first expert
ment made by DR.. w. A. Hammond of
Washington, former Surgeon General of the
U. S. Army, was made with the glands of
a lamb, on a man sixty years of
age who, from rheumatism, had been I'M
able to even button his collar for many
years. The injection of thirty minims was
made at 8 P. M. July 80, and by the next
day the man was fully restored
the use Of bis arms. Up to this
time no relapse in his case is reported.
The second published experiment, was made
by DR.. Purman at Indianapolis, on August
Sd, on Noah Clark aged fifty, in low state
OF debility. In four hours the patient
showed remarkable state of exhilra-
tion, and was able to walk, run, and
read small type as he had not done for
twenty-five years. We have seen no report
as to the permanancy of that experiment.
In both Of these cases the elixir Oh tonic
was filtered In Cincinnati On August 8th
Dr.. Longfellow, Professor of Dermatology
in the Cincinnati College Of Medicine and
Surgery, made experiments On two men
Thos. Album, aged fifty five, who had for
years been lame from the effects of erysipe-
LIS; and Fielden Weir, aged seventy, whose
right leg was SO drawn by years of rheuma-
tism that he could not get his heel to the
ground, and whose right arm was similarly
drawn by it. In this case the fluid which
was prepared by two chemists, Prof. Lewis
Werner and Prof. Carl Langerback, was
not filtered. The injections were m ade on
the afternoon of the 9Th. Two punctures,
giving a dram each, were made in Albums
arm and leg, and three, giving the same
quantity, in Weir's arm and leg. At the
same time DR.. Longfellow injected a dram
into his own arm. That evening at 7:30
Album walked briskly from his residence
to the Doctors office, the lameness of the
leg having totally disappeared, and his
physical strength being that of young
man. The same night, Weir returned
to the office with his drawn limb
relaxed, and walking briskly. He danced
about the room with the activity of a
boy. Up to the night Of August 18th
the conditions of these patients had
not changed, except to further improve.
On the same day, August 9Th, that the two
patients named, received injections, a lady
sixty-one years of age who suffered with
rheumatism, was also treated, receiving
three drains of the fluid. On the morning
of August 9th she was able to dress herself
for the first time in three years. On August
9th lady aged forty-fve, subject to an at
lection of the heart-the pulsation of that
organ being 10s beats per minute, was treat
ed, and in five minutes after the injection
the pulsations had fallen to "a. In DIR.
LOngfellOw's own case the effect of the fluid
is described by him as something like that
following taking wine. In Cleveland (O.)
DR.. HI. C. Brainerd who had long suffered
from insomnia, on August 9th received the
injection, and that night had perfect and
continuous sleep all night. In the Kansas
City Home for the Aged, Drs. Bergen and
Adams, July 31st, gave injections to two
men aged SO and 81 years, without letting
them know what it was for-so as to avert
any action Of the imagination. The inn
provement was very marked and abiding.
DR.. Bergen is carrying on parallel expert
ment with two other old men with an
''elixir" made of brandy, cocoaine and
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produced by the new elixir is not merely
forced vitality, and will not leave the same
exhaustion when tides out that the brandy,
cocaine and opium will, when they are dis
continued. At private insane ASYLUM at
indianapolis, August 10th, DR.. w. B.
Fletcher, its Superintendent, and former
Superintendent Of the State Insane ASYLUM.
Tried the elixir on middle aged patient
suffering from melancholia with suicidal
tendencies. There was no change to he
noted in his patient on the first day. except
that wild and high pulse fell to a steady
6S beats and the contracted pupils of the
eyes regained normal dilation. On the Sec
ond day the patient became more laxative.
ate heartily and slept better. DIR. De Wolf.
the Health Commissioner of Chicago. ad-
ministered 1t to ten patients of them
physician-of whom one was noticeably
improved and the rest but very slightly. In
the Cincinnati County Infrmary DR.. VIZ.
Harper administered it to five inmates. all
i'll ignorance OF what it was. Three protested
to be benefited and two who We're eighty
five years OF age experienced no change