The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-17
(Frons Tie st. Louis Repu5lic.)

specialist IN nervous diseases, declared
before the Biological Society of Paris,
of which he is the president, few days
ago, that after twenty years OF expert
menting he had discovered true elixir
of life, substance that would reJuve-
nate the old and make strong the feeble.
He contended that if the living cells OF
a Young and vigorous being could be IN
iected into another where the vital spark
was low, his organism must vibratc 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 worn out
animals. Finally, as he states, he
reached such perfection that he tried his
elixir upon himself with startling re-.
suits. The doctor is now y years OLD
and, presumably, is subject to the weak
nesses and infirmities Of age. His re-
viving substance, be explained, was de-
rived from certain organs or glands
taken, still quivering, from live animals
and reduced at once to pulp IN a NOR
tar with distilled water. From this
compound he extracts an essence which
he uses as hypodermic injection. Tie
doctor administered to himself a cubic
centimetre with :: hypodermlc syringe,
Just as morphine is injected. He de-
clares that the day following this expert,
ment, after two injections OF this vital
essence, he felt himself transformed.
Before that time half an hours work
standing up in his laboratory exhausted
him. Now he declares he can study
three hours uninterruptedly without the
least repoSe. His appetite has increased,
his sleep is sweet and refreshing, his
stomach performs its functions admlra-
bly, and his intellectual labor is per-
formed with wonderful ease and clear
ness. His feeling has also been youthful.
DR.. Brown -Sequard declares that the
dose he took was equivalent to ten years
regeneration.
The statement by so eminent a doctor
as DR.. Brown-Sequard that he has dis
covered a means of renewing life IS we'll
calculated to cause the furry it has ID
scientific circles. DR.. Brown-Sequard
used to be well-knowr IL Washington,
and in fact, throughout America. len
years ago he was probably the Leading
authority on nervous diseases. He had
great many personal and professional
friends, and is a widely read medical
author.
Surgeon General Hamilton was asked
by the Republic correspondent what ne
thought of the announcement that had
cone from Paris. 81 saw it," said DR..
Hamilton, ''and am very much sur
Or bEriseaS it is true that DR.. Brown
Sequard made such a statement as ne
has been reported to have made to the
Biological Society, I should ascrlbe 1t to
the wandering fancies of an old man in
his dotase. DR.. Brown-SeQuard is some
eighty years old and, naturally, his
mind is not so clear and vigorous as 1t
Used to be. I used to know him well up
: to eight or ten years ago, and l know
that he had never made any experiments
in the direction indicated by this story.
80 the statement that he has expert
meated twenty years must be exagger
ata5. This effort to find some drug that
win extend life or rejuvenate people Is,
as every sensible person as we'll as every
physician must admit, chimerlcal. EN-
perimentation to this end in the line IN
d.cated by this story of DR.. Brown-Se,
is essaes:issl ". a hsl.sa ahsnra
that am satisfied that DR.. Brown-Se.
Guard would never contemplate it seri-
orsly unless he is, as fear in this case,
getting into his dotage. Why, if he did
Kill any animal and from a part OF ITS
body made distillation to inject into a
living persons blood, instead of pro-
longing the subjects life it would poison
him. By the decomposition which sets
in after death the portion of the body
taken for the elixir would become
poisonous aud dangerous instead of life
sewing Every physician is anxious to
proloog the lives of his patients. Desire
for long life is universal, but no physi-
can in his right mind would think of
injecting decoetions of defunct animals
into patient in the hope of extending
his life. The way to strengthen life Is
to conserve it-not to try 10 renew it
think that it is impossible to p1olong
life Indefinitely, but the way to do is no;
tie way indicated by this story about
DR.. Brown-Sequard.
ssWhat causes death? The wearing ont
of the organs of the body. If we can
prevent or retard the wearing out of
these organs we can prevent or delay
death. Now, suppose it is possible to
find accurately by experiment the
amount and kind Of food necessary to
the performance of a certain amount
and kind of labor. Then you sit down
with a pencil and a piece of paper and
make a schedule of your days work:
Suppose you say you are going to read
one hour, that you will write three
hours, that you will talk two hours, that
YOU Will drive two hours and sleep eight
hours. ThenEhen you have your pro
gramme for the day,S exertiOns all made
out. YOU find out how much brain food,
how many ounces of muscle food, how
much heterogeneous food, how much of
each kind of food is required to 90 the
work you have to do. Find out what
food will best do the work, find out first
how much of it you need to do the work
YOU are going to do, and then act ac-
cordingly. Then eat nothing but what
is necessary to do the work. In cold
weather yon aust eat food to keep you
warm, too. Drink only what is neces-
sary. In this way you reduce the wear
on the organs of your body to just what
is replaced by the food and there is no
surplus nourishment to get rid OF. OF
course it is not possible to find out just
what food and just how much of it Is
necessary to do your work. Il it was,
you might prolong your life indefinitely
if you liked, according to this plan.
But even if you could find out all this,
don't you see there would be other diff
cultiesa Suppose you had taken your
daily supply of food to do a days work
according to the programme we have