The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-06
HAS he ABOLISHED DEATHq
DR.. Brown-Sequard Claims to Have
Discovered the Elixir of Life.
Do, NJ, u.

FROM the Ne3C YORK World.
The medical world is excited by the state
ment Of DR. BroRn-Seduard, the great
French specialist III nervous diseases, who
declared before the Biographical Society of
Paris, of which he is the president, that
after twenty years of experimenting he had
discovered true elixir of life, a substance
that would rejuvenate the old and make
strong the feeble. He commended that if the
living cells of young and vigorous being
could be injected into another where the
vital spark was low his organism must vi
brate in unison with the fresh life.
Many years ago the doctor advanced
views Of the same character in lecture
before the medical faculty of Paris, and has
since been engaged in experimenting on
the subject by treating old and WORKOUT
animals. Finally, as he states, he reached
such perfection that he tried his elixir upon
himself with startling results.
The doctor is now u years old, and pre-
sumably is subject to the weaknesses and
lutirmlties eff age. His revltalizng sub
stance, he explained, was derived from GER
tain organs or glands taken, still quiverng,
from live animals and reduced at once to a
pulp in a mortar with distilled water.
From this compound he extracts an essence
which he uses as hypodermic injection.
The doctor administered to himself
cubic centlmeter with hypodermic syringe,
just as morphine is injected He declares
that the day following this experiment.
after two injections of this vital essence, he
felt himself transformed Up TO that time,
half an hours work, standing up In his
laboratory, exhausted him. Now he de-
clares he can study three hours uninter-
ruptedly without the least repose His
appetite has increased, his sleep is s&eet
and refreshing, his stomach performs its
fnnntIT1C aA h xy III
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 rejuvenation.
Medical men in New York arel skeptcal
about the doctors alleged discovery, and
| smile incredulOusly when asked what thew
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 a special
ist in nervous diseases, said last night that
he could not believe the great French doc
tor had yet descended to mere quackerv.
though the announcement sounded strange
| ly like it.
| SIDE. Brown-Sequard is a wonderful
man, he continued, land it is possible that
| he has made some discovery that will be
useful TO science and the world.
| 1t is certain that changes occur in ami
NAL tissue at the moment of death that are
Of a subtle, chemical character, and are &C
| companied by the formation of chemical
bodies which, undoubtedly, would have a
| powerful effect on the nervous system of
another person if introduced into his circu-
lation. Certain emotional conditions pro-
| duce changes in the secretions. Anger for
| instance, produces such a change in the
saliva as to render it venomous.
| ut must be demonstrated, however, that
| the chemical bodies he extracts are of a
| constant and unvarying nature, and their eff
| tects on the human system uniform in effect.
| That was one of the mistakes Pasteur
made.
| This is an age of voluptuaries, and new
stimulants for decayed vital forces are in
| demand, and wide and most profitable
field is open for the rankest quarkery, as is
| evidenced by the many remedies advertised
| for the weak and which find enormous
sales. If the great French doctor has found
a real remedy that will make the old young
or the weak strong he has found what will
be far more valuable than all the discover.
les in electricity combined
! Or. Al. Meuer was as increduious as the
others, but admitted the story was an in
teresting one.
we are as anxious in this nineteen tn
century" he said. ''to find the Fountain of
| Youth, or its substitute, as ever Ponce de
| Leon was. But / am not one of those who
believe there is any special virtue in quiz
ering gland. 1t will be great day for the
world when the wonderful panacea comes
that will do away with so many human ills,
only l fear new troubles will come to take
the place Of the old.n
DR.. Landon Carter Gray was very skep.
teal as to the discovery, and felt more like
laughing at the story than accepting it Sc
| riously just yet. Though he was ready tc
be convinced, he would not be interviewed
on what he thought might be merely piece
of French nonsense.