Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
ToLIyE FOREVER.

by DIR. Brown-Sequard, OF Paris. and
thus far he says the results are fully
equal to the promises given out by
the great Paris physician. DR.. Ham
mond last night, when a New York
World correspondent called on him,
said:
1t is true that when DIR. Brown
Sequard's discovery was first report.
ed to the American people l was
rather dubious and inclined moro or
less to think as others had limited,
that either the report was French
joke or that DIR. Brown-Sequard was
another good man gone wrong. The
first report did not give complete
idea of the treatment. 1T indicated,
rather, that the elixir was q com.
pound made from various glands of
various animals, and on that showing
l was willing to say the thing was
impossible. But when I obtained
further and more accurate details
from the World itself and from the
French medical Journals, L was will
ing to believe that there might be
something in it.
1 was willing at all events to put
it to the test, and about week ago 1
started to experiment. DIR. Brown
Sequard uses only selected portions
of the rabbit or guinea pig, simply
because, 1 suppose, these are the
animals upon which experiments are
usually made in French laboratories,
but l have adopted the lamb, which
think is better. The lamb, you
know, is an animal that is good to
eat, but we don't eat guinea pigs.
The preparation of the medicine and
the treatment of the patient are very
simple. L take the selected portion
of lamb freshly killed and pound it
into pulp in mortar; with this 1
mix teaspoonful or two of water,
and the result L filter through fine
Swiss tiltering paper. The fluid,
slightly thicker than water, comes
through perfectly pure and linpid.
The filtering must be carefully doue,
for if any shred or any part of the
pulp were injected under n patients
skin it would form assesses and do
harm.
The extract from single lamb
will be sufficient for a. dozen iniec-
tions. 1t does not matter 10 what
part OF the body tho application is
made, but the most convenient place
is under the skin of the fore arm
where the skin is comparatively
slack. 1t would hardly be safe TO in
ject the fluid derived from body
twenty Tour hours after the killing of
the animal. The injection of blood
and of the juice OF beef into wasted
patients has been common for many
years, and it is we'll known that to
inject the essence of decayed beef
would kill the man.
AS soon as the lamb is slaughter
ed by the butcher no time is wasted
in pounding and iltering, and with
in an hour of the killing of the lamb
the juice is circulating through the
patients veins and mingling with his
blood. L began my experiments first
on myself to assure myself that it
was not dangerous to the patient
Since then l have applied the elixir
to several old gentlemen without
their knowing what it was. One
man, about sixty years of age. had
had his arm SO nearly paralyzed with
rheumatism that for nearly year
he could not raise his hand 70 his
head. Soon after the elixir was in
jected into the arm he was able to
WELD it in any direction and almost
as vigorously as ne had ever done.
Up TO the present my experiments
have been made without the patients
knowledge, but tomorrow am go.
ing to begin treating a man in this
way at his own request. Of course,
it is too early yet to draw any sweep.
ing conclusions from the results OBJ
tanned, but as far as I have gone the
results are certainly remarkable.
When l have continued my expert
ments longer shall be able to draw
conclusions with more confidence.
DIR. Brown Sequard's calculation is
that an injection once month will
suffice to keep a man twenty or thir-
ty years younger than he really is.