Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-12

| ments on myself and those which have been
observed by DR.. Variot on three old men, show
that this important subject should be further
Investigated experimentally.
Experiments in Various Cities.
DR.. J. s. B. Alleyne, dean Of the st. Louis
! medical college, says: II hardly think it posi-
BILE to restore wasted vitality. may say
think it impossible. Ovid, the old Latin poet,
is really the father of the theory. 1t was a
poetical idea with him, and it has been the
| dream of various persons since. 1t comes from
| the scientific world today from an eminent
| source, and that mere fact warrants this wide
| spread consideration and even CONSERVATION.
| But I do not apprehend Doctor Brown-Se-
| quard'srejuvenating theory win ever become an
exact science, an established and an unalterable
| scientific fact. 1t Is not unusual to In
| ject well-known substances directly into
| the blood channels where the stomach from
| disarrangement could not perform its proper
| functions but the result was only temporary.
| 1t is not done to restore vitality, but to cure
disease. To stimulate patient by this method
so to temporarily assist him in resisting dis
| ease is not a renewal of life, but only pro-
longation. We may prolong life. but we can
not make an old man physically young. DIR.
marian, and the splendid intellect of former
years may be weakening. It may all be the
dreams Of an old man. Respect for his great
name, however, will disarm harsh criticism and
suggest patient hearing, suspect"
Other st. Louis physicians concur in this
of the elixir upon a man Of forty or forty-ive
years whom dissipation is said to have debil-
itated to remarkable degree.
A FORCED VITALITY MERELY TEMPORARY.
In Kansas City Drs. Berger and Adams have
made systematic experiments Of the elixir, and
the former considers it only temporary slim
ulant. He believes that the elixir will act
upon person like a hot house on plant. He
believes the result of the elixir is a forced
vitality which will leave the subject ex-
hausted after the effect has worn off. The
old men who have been experimental upon
tell the doctors that if they had only had
such treatment before they were SO old they
would not now be in the home for the aged.
They seem inspired with the skill of the ply
sicians and their mode of treatment.
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM CURED.
A successful experiment with the elixir has
been tried in Connorsville, Ind, by Drs. But
Ter and Ford upon a man who had suffered
from chronic rheumatism contracted during
the war, and who, during the past four months,
has been unable to take off his coat or to
grasp anything in his hands. After remaining
quiet about twenty minutes the patient said he
felt peculiar sensation in his fingers and his
face felt flushed In few minutes he could
close his hand, a thing he had not done in
months. He was handed a pencil, which he
grasped 80 tight that gentleman could not
get it away from him.
About forty-6ve minutes after injection he
arose and walked with comparative ease and
took OF his coat without pain. He could put
on his hat, and said that he felt no more rheu-
matism thanif he had never been subject to
1t. Yesterday morning he appeared upon the
street without a cane and could shake hands
with ease.
WOMEN MAY BE BENEFITED.
DR.. c. E. Hewitt of Philadelphia has tried
the elixir upon q number of persons including
himself and reporter Of the Philadelphia
Press, always with the effect of renewing
wasted vitality. He says: Il have found that
women may be benefited by it as well as men.
In fact the only one who knows that 1 am
experimenting with it is woman. She is
forty-six years old and is being treated for
nervous prostration. She is the wife of prom
lnent Philadelphia, and declares that the elixir
has bad an excellent effect upon her. Another
VINO has noticed its effect is married woman
of forty-seven, the middle lobe Of whose left
lung has gone. Another woman is aged twenty
seven and is suffering from consumption.
little girl of fourteen, whose ailment was moth
ing more nor less than starvation, has begun
to fatten since have been applying the secre-
ton to her."
LOUISVILLE AND CINCINNATI.
In Louisville, KY, few days ago Drs. Will
oVh iOc anu OuSdu VI tue HOSPITAL medical
college staff, made an application of the Brown
Sequard elixir in the case of an aged man who
had been troubled with rheumatism general
debility and the various ailments incident to
old age, with results which are said to have
been satisfactory.
DIR. Harper of the Cincinnati infirmary has
tried the Brown-Sequard elixir on five inmates
of the intrmary. He gave no intimation to
his patients of the nature of the experiment
They were all infirm men over seventy years of
age, except one, who was about forty, but was
rheumatic cripple. The doctor reports that
only one observed any result whatever, and he
said he felt like he had taken an alcoholic
stimuant. The doctor concludes that results
found elsewhere arise from mental excitement.
Not an "EIixir Of Life.o
DR.. Hammond, who has recently experimental
with DIR. Brown-Sequards Elixir of life,"
denounced as foolish the reports that it was
something that was going to pfolong life in
definitely or restore old people to you'll, or any
thing of that kind. He declared that neither
he nor DIR. Brown-Sequard had ever called
1t the Elixir OF life, or authorized anybody
else TO give 1t that name. It was still in the ex-
perluental stage. DR.. Hammond said that he
had received hundreds of letters, which de-
veloped remarkable state of popular idiocy.
Why" he said, "a Brooklyn man wrote to
me and wanted to take an agency for the
preparation and travel about the country and
sell it. Now that. of course could not be done.
1t has to be used immediately. 1t could not be
kept"