Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-12
DR.. BrOwn-Sequard's Discovery.
Two Subjects Treated.
Both Exhibit an Astonishing Change of
Condition Every Precaution is
Taken to Insure a Fair Trial.
The Patients Seem to Have Returned to Their
Youthful Days-A Cincinnati Physicians
Success with the New Theory.
Cincinnati Enquirer.


two instances that were startlingly sue
cessful.
DR.. Brown-Sequard $ discovery was
exposed to a most thorough trial. The
effect on the patients was so eXhllarating
as to astonish even the physicians having
the matter in charge.
Better subjects for the experiment
could not have been selected. Both yes
terday afternoon were old, decrepit men,
warped for years by disease and so phys
ically broken down that they could
hardly move one foot in front of the
other without assistance. Last evening,
ten hours after
RECEIVING THE EXHILERAGING FLUID
they were, from the testimony of their
own mouths, like young men who had
Just attained their majority.
An aged cripple, who had to be assisted
to the doctor 5 Office at P. m, returned
at 8 O'Clock to report that he felt so
Young he could not describe it.
As the Enquirer intimated yesterday,
the medical fraternity of the city was all
at sea in regard to the renowned scien-
lists discovery. Many were disposed to
look upon If as an absurd joke-a ''catch
pennv'' OF ''nine days wonder =
which would soon be forgotten.
Others denominated it as the fan
tastic offspring of q senile brain, the &C.
centricity of a man in his dOtage. They
could not gainsay the eminent attain
ments of Dr. Brown Sequard, but eX-
press sympathy for noted scientist
overtaken in his old age by intellectual
wreck. These were the sentiments of the
old, staid physicians, who are always
conservative in
TAKING HOLD OF NEW IDEAS.
Among the younger members of the
profession there was an expressed dispo-
sition not to condemn the theory
or discovery until it had been
given crucial test 1t was possible
there might be something in it, and if it
proved otherwise, no harm would be
done. The discovery had been made by
one of the most eminent celebrities of the
scientific world, and had been sustained
by personal experiments. Moreover,
the results had been corrOborated by DR..
Hammond of Washington, probably the
most distinguished authority on nervous
diseases in the country, These consider
ations led the more progressive of the
doctors to withhold their judgment until
a thorough test at home had been made.
Several of the local medical lights have
been contemplating experiments with
Brown Sequard s discovery, and some
have gone so far as to make arrange
ments for trials at an early day.
IT Is NOT SUCH AN EASY MATTER
to make one of these experiments. The
'Eelixir'' is rather difficult to obtain,
and then it requires great persuasion to
induce subjects to submit themselves to
the operation Naturally, with new
thing. there is much apprehension as to
-, lii,
of a patient is obtained, his scruples have
to be overcome. While the treatment is
very simple and not more painful than
the Dricking of a pin, there is still a dread
of the physician's needle and fear of
serious results.
Among the physicians who took up the
new discovery with a determination to
test its truth was DR.. Robert Longfellow,
whose office is on Ninth street, near
Race He is one of the most progressive
of the younger physicians and ranks
among the leading of the local practl
TONERS.
81 don't know whether there is any
thing in the theory or not, - he remarked
TO an Enquirer reporter, 'but it will
take very little trouble
TO FIND OUT.
DR.. LongfelIow has closely perused all
that Brown-Sequard has written about
his alleged discovery, treating the matter
as an entirely unprecedented observer.
When Dr. Hammond took up Brown
SeQuard s theory and experimental with
It, Dr. LongfeIlOw followed the Wash
ington celebrity in his cOrroborative re-
suits That the discovery Of such an
eminent scientist should be confirmed by
the tests of an almost equally celebrated
specialist naturally impressed the Cincin-
matt physician with the idea that the
''elixir'' ought to be given a thorough
trial before it was condemned as an alb
surd medical joke.
YESTERDAY DR.. LONGFELLOW
gave the discovery a fair and full trial,
and the results were so quick and aston
ishing that the doctor had to confess his
inability to explain the exhileTating
effects on the patients.
The trial took place at p. m, in the
physician s private Office. The plan fol-
lowed was that which DR.. Hammond
pursued in his experiments. Brown
Sequard used the most vital and sensitive
parts Of the guinea pig, while DR.. Ham
mond utilized the progenerative organs
of the sheep. These latter are more
easily to be obtained, as they can be
more easily secured at the slaughter
houses. It is also very desirable that the
parts from which the extract is obtained
should be placed in the chemists hands
as soon after leaving the animal as posi-
bic. When DR.. Hammond made his eX-
periments the fluid was injected into the
subject one hour and twenty minutes
after the organs had been
SEVERED FROM THE SHEEP.
It was 1925 p. m. yesterday when DR..
Lougfellow, accompanied by an En-
Quirer reporter, reached George Sinner s
slaughter house on the southeast corner
of John and Findlay streets. The
butchers were busy at work slaughterlng
sheep, and had just prepared several for
market. The portions which the doctor
desired had been separated from the
animals and lay on a table. They were
still warm, the sheep having been killed
within ten minutes. Selecting three
pairs OF the largest and juciest specimens
the doctor placed them in big, air.
tight jar which he had brought along
with him. They were dressed as if for
cooking.
AT 3:45 p. m, or half an hour exactly
after the animals had been killed, the
jar, with the contents, was given to Pro-
fassOr lewis " prJlr.T vino with Profess