The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-17
BROWN-SEQUARD AGAIN.
french Doctors CLAIM, Grcat Results from
! His In YNnflnn.

French Doctors Claim Grcat Results from
His Invention.
NEW YoRK. June 16.-In this country not
much has been heard OF l0te about either
DR.. Brown. sequard or HE remarkable
,iquid. Several years ago the papers vcro
full Of the wonderful things that were to
be accomplished BY tho subcutaneous use
Of This queer organic solutson. and che
whole worlds incredulous attention was
turned to the experiments Of the Farisian
doctor. Marvellous promises were made.
OLD men we're to become Young, hitherto
incurablo diseases were to yield at last to
science, and medicine was to no revolution
lied. Somehow or other medicine refused
to change its ways and men grew gray the
name, after living awhile in print ~ a sort
OF joke, disappeared altogether from the
American paters. Anticipation, absurdly
ovsr-high. had produced it's usual results,
and the sensation was dead.
The fact that there Vas something, not
miraculous, but none the less real. In the
doctors discovery. that from the admins
trAtion of his 'liQuide orchiliQus" came e.
suits hitherto understandable, did not escape
the notice OF serious students Of medicine.
The popular uproar having ceased. tkcs
entered upon . long course OF experiments
with the new remedy. noting down its Of
fecta in hundreds OF cases, -perfectinG
methods of preparation and gradually stiff
ing out from tho meladies over which II
had no control those In whose presence Its
action Was manifest and ~urdoubtcd. The
outcome Of these saner methodA according
to reports made to the Academic des
Sciences by Dr.. Brown-Ssouard and
through him by more than 1900 other ply
eicisns to whom he had furnished his
LIQUID, has surpassed all sober expecta-
tons. They say they have found the solu-
tion edicscious. not only in the case OF
come Of those diseases for whose cure the
fret experiments were made. but also in
the treatment OF others, not suppressed be-
fore TO be amenable to its influence.
Among these may be mentioned locomo-
tor ataxia, creeping paralysis. one OF the
most insidious and terrible diseases to
which mankind is subject. It's cure has
always been regarded as impossible, and
considered a death warrant. Once begun,
the wasting away Of the spinal cord went
on, absolutely unim peded by all that science
could do. YET in 343 verified cases of this
malady Dr.. Brown-Scquard reports 3l4 in.
stances of cure or of an ame!ioration so
marked that cures a'o hoped Tor from a
continuance of the treatment.
Cancer ia another disease IN which the
orchitic liquid is employed with good re-
suits. OF 800 cases. everv one presents an
improvement manifested by the disappear
snce of the characteristic yellow coioration.
a suppression Of hemorrhaScs and relief
from pain.
Attempts to cure tuberculosis by the use
of "sequardine" have met with no further
success than a marked dimlnution OF GER
tain secondary symptoms, such as lack of
strength. fever and profuse PEI SEPARATION.
Similar efects have resulted In Gases of
palsy, hysteria. chorea, paudal (malarial)
fevers and neurasthsnia. All these, es-
pscially the latter, showed noticeable
changes for the better.
In concluding, DR.. Brown-SeQunrd ssys:
''Its modifying power over the nutrition of
the muscular tissues and the nervous sys.
tenn is undeniabls. Tho organic juice does
not cure, in the strict sense of that term.
any malady; its use Ia to stimulate and sup
ply Immediately available nutritive matter.
Ihs result ii produces depends Upon its in
ausnce on the nerves and upon its supply
ine the elements necessary for the forma-
tion Of new cells.