The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-17
LIMBERED UP BY ELIXIR.
THE NEW REMEDY TRIED ON a
CONFIRMED RHEUMATIC.

Nathan Bryan, an Old Colored Man,
Straightens His Legs for the First
Time in a Long While After Taking
the Blixir-The Full Result OF the
Test Not Yet Known-The Cas- g
| Closely Watched by Physicians
/ How the Test was Made.
The first experiment with the Brown
/ Sequard Elixir in this city was made yes
| terday afternoon, and while 1t would be too
much to say that the effect was miraculous.
/ it is not too much TO say that at 0:30 O'Clock
/ last night, FIVE hours after the experiment,
the patient was. by comparison, much i'm
/ proved in condition over tho night before.
| The patient experimental upon was Ma
| than Bryan, a colored rheumatic, who had
attained his Goth year on Thursday, and if
| the experiment is not successful in his case,
there is little hope of it being successful in
any, for he certainly got the be eft of
careful and exceedingly precautionary treat
ment
Bryan is a confirmed rheumatic, and be
| fore the treatment lie was unable to raise
his right arm % his head, or to move his
lower limbs in bed except by the aid Of
his hands.
THE ELIXIR TAKES EFFECT.
The elixir was administered to him at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, aud at four
| hours be could use his right arm, and could
use his lower limbs without assistance.
a MORNING News reporter who was
present at the treatment saw Bryan at 10
O'clock, and, while the old MAJ was con-
sentative he said: 81 tell you, b lss, | could
not move my leg last night without helping
II up with my hand He experienced no
trouble in moving his rheumatic limbs after
the treatment, aud to satisfy the reporter
he got up out of bed and walked across the
room. DIR. Wegefarth, who administered
the elixir, was present, and after eXamiu-
ing Bryan, the doctor said that his pulse
was remarkably str ing, whereas 1T was
feeble before the test.
One thing is established by the statement
of Bryan. He said that be suffered excru-
ciating pain from his rheumatic troubles
until last night and ne added that the pains
had then gone, and the only pain he felt
was soreness where the hypodermic injec-
ton was administered.
HOW THE TEST WAS MADE.
The test made by DR.. Wegefarta was one
Of the most car eful and scientific vet re-
ported. The patient Bryan had been, by
previous arrangement, brought to DR.,
streets, and he had consented to the test.
The glands Of a young and healthful lamb
were obtained from Bakers slaughter house,
half mile south of Battery park. The
glands were removed from the animal be-
fore its death, and they were brought to
DR.. Wegefarth's office in antiseptic cotton,
in nine minutes. and half hour had not
elapsed when the test was made.
The glands had been kept at their normal
temperature by wrapping in the cotton.
After separation from their envelope the
glands were cut in small pieces, and the
fluid was extracted in DR.. Wegefarth's
Office by Mr.. Robert A. Rowlinski, chemist
with Reid & Co.
PREPARATION OF THE ELIXIR.
The fluid was expressed by means of q
meat press and immediately passed through
filter of artificially heated asbestos d
raw cotton. A filter pump was used at
pressure of five pounds, the fluid passing
through a6 once, everything being kept at
temperature approximating So. Messrs.
SolOmons a. Co. furnished all the necessary
appliances for the test. and Mr.. Rowlinski
expressed the juice.
There were present at the test DR.. Nichols.
Lawyers Osborne and Morrison and nine or
ten others. Dr. Wegefarth first injected a
drachm of the elixir in Bryans left leg,
next in his right leg, and finally in his right
THE EFFECT NOT IMMEDIATE
No immediate effect, beyond the rising
pulse, was noticeable, but five hours later,
as has been seen, there was greater supple
ness Of the old mans muscular system. and
| as he sat up in the bed and moved his limbs
with ease, DR.. Wegefarth was elated over
the result of the experiment. The doctor
had taken every prec9ution for insuring
critical test. The table and vessels used had
all been antiseptically treated, and inside
of twenty-five minutes from the removal of
the glands the juice had been expressed,
without trituration, and administered with
out danger. The case will be narrowly
watched by the profession, and if the de-
crepit Old man Bryan should be relieved by
the treatment, it will tend to make the
Brown-Sequard elixir popular in Savannah.
Bryan rooms in Broughton street lane, op-
posite the Ludden & Bates music house.