The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-23
BROWN-SEoUARD'S ELIXIR.
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Regard It as q Joke. 49,


Regard It as q Joke. 49,
In this country not much has been
heard of late about either Dr. Brown
Sequard or his remarkable liquid,
says the New York Times Several
years ago the papers were full of the
wonderful things that were to be ac-
complished by the simultaneous use
of this queer organic solution, and
the whole worlds incredulous atten-
ton was turned to the experiments
of the Partisan doctor. Marvellous
promises were made. Old men were
to become young, hitherto incurable
diseases were to yield at last to
science, and medicine was to be rev.
olutionized. Somehow or other
medicine refused to change it's ways
and men grew gray the same as ever
SO DR.. Brown-Sequard's name, after
living while in print as sort of
joke, disappeared altogether from
the American papers. Anticipation,
absurdly overnight, had produced its
usual results, and the sensation was
dead. The fact that there was some
thing, not miraculous but none the
less real, in the DOCTORS discovery.
that from the administration of his
liquide orchitiaue came results hith-
erto unobtainable, did not escape the
notice OF serious students of med
1clne. The popular uproar having
ceased, they entered upon long
course OF experiments with the new
remedy, noting down it's effects in
hundreds of cases, perfecting meth
DDS OF preparation and gradually
Sitting out from the maladies over
which it had no control those in
whose presence its action was mani
fest and undoubted. The outcome of
these saner methods, according to
reports made to the Academic des
Sciences by DR.. Brown-Sequard and
tn ough him by the more than 1900
other physicians to whom he furn-
ished his liquid, has surpassed all
sober expectations. They say they
have found the solution effcacious.
not only in the case of some of these
diseases for whose cure the first
experiments were made, but also in
the Treatment of others, not before
suspected to be amenable to it's in
fluence.
Among these may be mentioned
locomoter ataxia, creeping paraly is,
one of the most insidious and terrible
diseases to which mankind is subject.
Its cure has always been regarded as
impossible, and the appearance of its
first symptom was considered death
warrant. Once begun, the wa ting
away of the spinal cord went on, alb
solutely unimpeded by all that science
could do. Yet in 324 verified cases
of this malady DR.. Brown -Sequard
reports 314 instances of cure or of
amelioration so marked that cures
are hoped from continuance of the
treatment. Cancer is another di ease
in which the orchitic liquid is en-
ployed with good results OF 800
cases everyone presents an improve
ment manifested by the disappearance
! of the characteristic yellow, col r.
alton, a suppression of hemorrhage:
and r., lief from pain. Attempts to
cure tuberculosis by the use of $50
Quardine" have met with no further
success than marked diminution of
certain secondary symptoms, such as
lack OF strength, fever and profuse
perspiration. Similar effects have re-
suited in cases of palsy, hysteria,
chorea, paludal (malaria) fevers and
neurasthenia All these, especially
the latter, showed notable changes
for the better. In concluding. DIR.
Rrown-Sequard says: Its modifying
power over the nutrition of the mus
| cular tissues and the nervous system
is undeniable. The organic Juice
does not cure, in the strict sense of
that term, any malady; it's use is to
stimulate and supply Immediately
available nutritive matter. The re-
suits it produces depend upon it's in
| fuence on the nerves and upon its
supplying the elements necessary for
| the formation of new cells p
| Correcting q False Notion.
The maelstrom is not whir1pool
which sucks a ship down into the