Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
American Physicians Not Proficient
In Injecting the Elixir.
IGNORANT REGARDING DETAILS.
His Studies Now Confined to q
Preparation for Women.
WILL UTILIZE DOG SUBSTANCES.
If 1t Proves Successful the World~
Renowned Remedy of Lydia
Pinkham vii, Have to Be
Relegated.
Male Dnus Doomed.

Special to The BEE. DIR. Brown.
Sequard, who recently returned to Paris
from Brighton, where he has been passing
his summer holidays, is still pursuing his
Investigations and experiments in reference
TO the methods of increasing vitality. His
studies are now directed toward accomplish
ing for women the same result that he main
tains has been reached in the case of men.
That is to say, the period of capacity for con-
ception can be prolonged BY sub-cutaneous
inoculations with substances primarily
obtained from male dogs.
These researches have not yet arrived at O
sufficiently advanced stage to convince DIR.
Brown-Sequard that practical application
can be made In this direction at present, but
several women have already called upon
him and offered themselves as subjects for
inoculations.
DIR. Brown-Sequard received me yester-
day afternoon at his residence in Paris. The
venerable academican was suffering from an
attack of acute muscular rheumatism of the
lower limbs that has kept him in bed for the
last few days. But he is now much better,
although his limbs are still stiff and painful.
AS / handed DR.. Brown Sequard volumin-
GUS cuttings from American papers referring
to the experiments made with his inocula-
| tions, he smiled rather sadly and said
"Why, thought knew your countrymen
| pretty well, but it seems that / was mis-
| taken. 1t never occurred to me that SO
! many Of them would go off at half cock, as
| it were and undertake experiments of this
| kind without first mastering all the prelimi-
| nary details"
| "Your elixir has certainly caused sensa-
| tion in America"
"Please don't make use of that word
/ ixyir Dr I'd
never made eof theword Elixir still less
| of the words, 'Elixer of Life. Those are
4 all expressions or inventions Of sensational
newspapers. If quacks or ignorant men in
/ America nave killed people, as
/ stated by the New York pa
| pers, they would have avoided committing
| those murders had they paid the leass atten
tion to the elementary rules as regards the
| sub -cutaneous injection of animal substances
or even if they had carefully read the paper
on the subject that appeared in the London
| Lancet of July 90"
''Are injections of animal matter attended
| with special dangerP'
| "No," replied DR.. Brown-Sequard, sim
i jectons of animal matter have no danger as
| a rule unless the substances begin to decom-
| pose. Whenethis condition of things exists
| no good can be obtained, and there is grave
/
death. There IS. Of course, also great dan
| ger unless the strictest attention is paid
to cleanliness Of all vases and instruments.
Persons wishing TO make use of my process
| ought to bestow on the small operation that
1t involves as much care as they would upon
an operation of the amputation Of the thigh,
for instance"
| "You seem to have got many letters from
America" remarked, glancing at hugo
pile of envelopes bearing United States post
age stamps
"Yes, receive about twenty-five letters
day from America. | have no private secre-
tary and never will have one. hate to have
any one about who thinks he knows all my
affairs, so that 1 answer as many Of
these letters as can myself
and let the rest remain till
another day. am prepared to say, with the
utmost frankness, that the appreciations Of
the method seem to me TO be either too laud-
atory-absurdly so, in fact-on the one hand
and too deprecatory, too vindictive, l may
say. on the other hand, Public opinion has
gone to the two extremes, There seems to
be no happy medium of criticism The Views
expressed by DR.. LOOMS, OF New York,
seem to me TO be very just"
''Do you think that your old anti-vivisec-
| ZIONIST enemies the cause of the vindic.
tive views expressed in reference to the
| process"
'Yes, / am afraid that the anti.vivisec-
tionists are at the bottom of great deal Of
it, but what annoys me most is that the ex-
periments should be made promisucously, as
it were, without proper study or precaution.
Why, while i was at Brighton an experiment
was made, and when blood poisoning ensued
from an utter disregard of the proper pre-
cautions taken in sub-cutaneous injections of
animal substances, the fact was made known
to me and my advice asked for. repiied;
THE mischief is done now. Why didn't you
ask me about 1t before the operationP".