The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-03
YOUTHS FOUNTAIN.
Medical Opinions on the New
Ponce de Leon.
UnEs MARAUDING IN COLORADO.
Protests Against Mexican Lead Giant Powder
EXplosion-The Royal Grants Bill
Boulangist Leaders.

Especial to the HERALD Examiner Dispatch.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 3 The leading
physicians of this city are much startled by
the report of DR.. Hammond's experiments,
based upon Brown-Sequard's alleged dis
covery of the elixir of lite. Many of them
do not take so kindly to the idea as DR.. La
Place. However the opinion of this dis
tnguished physician, it is conceded, must
have weight. Here are some of the doubt
ing Thomases:
DR.. Charles K. Mills, professor of mental
diseases of the University of Pennsylvania:
Frankly, L doubt whether there is much
in it. DIR. Brown-Sequard is principally a
Psychologist and is not distinctively a
practitioner. He has always borne a high
scientific reputation, and it seems almost
incredible that he should advance this
theory think it is a result of advanced
years. He is in his dotage, for ne GER
tainly would not have advanced it dozen
years ago.
An elixir of life, in the very nature of
things, Is an impossibility. An Individual
may be temporarily improved in health by
stimulating injections of various sub
stances, and such result, Joined with an
affected mental condition, gives rise to a
temporary delusion in the mind of the
patient that he is rejuvenated. This theory
IS far fetched; it is nothing more than a
shade OF the middle ages without any
reality. Ii belongs to the same category as
perpetual motion and squaring the circle.
and Is but a modern version of Ponce de
Leon IN search of the magic pool No medi- !
cation can absolutely restore degenerated
blood vessels and played-out nerve cells. |
particularly. when individuals are under |
going the natural processes of dissolution |
winch accompany advancing years In |
other words, life cannot be made eternal |
From the very essence of things we are |
doomed to decay and pass away, and all |
theories to the contrary are mere decisions. |
Only the rivers of the gods run upward. - |
DIR. ]. Ewing Mears, demonstration of |
surgery in jefferson college: my opinion |
in a few words is that DR.. Brown Seduard
is in his second childhood, and that DR.
Hammond, as he is known in his profession.
is fraud. 1t was impossible for this theory
TO be successful as it is to reiuvenate an
old decayed trunk Of a tree by ENGRAVING
it with young tree. The theory is not
worthy of a scientific investigation. II is
simply absurd, and DR.. Hammond knows
it as well as / do. He is doing it for the
money that is in it.
''The medical profession are averse to
ouGH ldhCS. w ny. ULeN DESTROY 4
confidence in medical practitioners and as
such are deserving of the severest censure.
The theory is unworthy of any credence
and is not based on scientific inyestiga-
tion.'
Dr. William H. Pancoast, dean of the
faculty of the Medico-Chirurgica college:
Il know Brown-Sequard very well. and I
AVE great regard for him, but would +;
Ike to have his theory proven before | :
Tut my faith in it. The theory does NOT
eem to me to be rational believe that
he action of a hypodermic injection of this 8
iuid excites the Imagination which tempo :
arily induces the patient to believe he is i I
egenerated. l have patients who have y
aten the delicate portions of lamb for :
ears of which the fluid is made, and Ihaye !,
ever noticed any effect upon them any !
1ore than ordinary food. The food which
nters the stomach affects the body in the :,
anne general line as that which is hypo- =
ermically injected. / have, therefore. no !,
aith in it, and it will have to be proved be- Il
ore l believe in it.'
DR.. Parvin, professor of obstetrics in JEFF
erson Medical college: ''One of the :.
agaries of a senile old man, the theory has Y
10 value whatever. DR.. Brown Sequard, r
n my opinion, is not practitioner but >,
My dabbler in physiology. Put all such :,
heories where they belong-back to the =
stone, to Ponce de Icons .
ountain of YOUTH