The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-09-21
BRowx-ssquARD's NEW FAD.
Hunting for an Elixir to Increase Yitni-
ity in Women.

Hunting for an Elixir to Increase Yitni-
ity in Women.
eAoPar;s special TO the New York
Herald says: DR.. Brown>Sequard,
who recently returned to Paris from
Brighton, where he has been passing
the summer holidays, is still pursuing
his Investigations and experiments in
reference to the methods of increasing
vitality.
His studies are now directed toward
accomplishing for women the same re-
suit that he maintains has been reached
in the case of men-,hat is 10 ssy, the
period of capacity for conception can
be prolonged by subcutaneous inucu!a-
tions with substances primarily obtain 3
ed from male dogs.
These researches have not yet arrived
at a sufficiently advanced stage to con-
vince Dr.. Brown.Sequard thai practi.
cal application can be made in this I'll.
rection at present, but several women
have already called upon him and of.
fered themselves as subjects for lnocu-
Iations.
DR.. Brown-Sequard received me yes,
terday afternoon at his residence in
Paris. As I handed him vouni inous
paper cuttings from American papers
referring to experiments made with
his inocuiat;ons, fIesmiiad rather sadly
and said:
"Why, / thought knew your coun-
trymen pretty well, but il seems that
was mistaken. 1t never occurred 10 me
that 80 many of them would go OFT at
hatf-cock and undertake experiments
Of this kind without first mastering all
the preliminary Details"
"Your elixir has certainly caused
great sensation in America"
uP;ease don't make use of that word
elixir" exclaimed Dr.. Brown Seqaard.
"I never made use OF the word, still
less OF the words sselixir Of liie." These
are all expressions or inventions of
sensational newspapers. If quacks or
ignorant men in America have killed
people, as stated by papers, they would
ders had they paid the least attention
to the most elementary rules as regards
sutcuta neuus Injection of animal SUBJ
stances, or even If they had carefully
read the paper on the subject that ap-
peared in the London Lancet, July 20.'
care injections of animal matter ats
C0UOGu with opeCtdb OouScA
"No," replied DR.. Brown-Sequard,
injections of animal matter have no
danger, as rule, unless the substances
begin 10 be decomposed. When this
condition Of things exists 30 good can
be obtained, and there is grave danger
Of Inflammation, assesses and even
death. There is, OF course, also great
danger unless the strictest attention is
paid to the cleanliness of all vases and
Instruments. Persons wishing to make
use of my process oheht to bestow on
the small operation that it involves as
much care as they would upon the op-
Grafton OF the amputation of thigh,
for instance"
"You seem to have got many letters
from America" remarked, slsncing
at huge pile of envelopes with United
States postage stamps.
| ayes, I receive about twenty Ave
letters day from America"
| "What is your opinion of tho way in
which your process has been received
in America aud England ?"
81 am prepared to say with the ut
most frankness that the appreciations
CT method seem to me to be either too
audatory-absurdly so in fact-on one
hand, and too depreciatory-too vim
dictive, l may say-on the other. Pub
lie opinion has gone to two extremes.
There seems to be no happy medium
of criticism.''
"Do you think tina, your old anti-vi-
visectionist enemies are the cause OF
{ the vindiclive views expressed in ref
ereuce to the process ?''
| ayes, am afraid that the enti-vivi-
sectionists are at the bottom of great
deal of it but what snnoys me more is
that the experiments should be made
promiscously, without proper study or
precautiop. Why, while 1 was a,
Brighton an experiment was made, and
when blood poisoning ensued from an
utter disregard of the ordinary precau'
tfous taken iu subcuianeous injections
of animal substances, the fact was
made known to me aud my advice
asked for. l replied: "The mischief
Is done. Why didn't you ask me be.
fore the operation 20