The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-07

| causes or excessive mental work or
| persistent and powerful emotional dis
turbance- A hypodermic injection of
| five drops twice daily for two or three
weeks, and without other medicine, is
| sufficient for cure. 1t is valuable in
cases of cerebral congestion, in which
| the most prominent symptom is insom-
MIA. l have used it with advantage in
treating epilepsy.
l was principally impressed by the
power Of the substance to-at least
| mporariiy--increase physical strength.
Whatever may be the opinion OF ply.
sicians as to the advantage of long
treating with this substance in cases Of
illness, there can be no doubt about
what might be done in the prize ring,
the diamond or the football field. 1 be-
lieve that even Harvard with cerebrine
could win against Yale luck.
DR.. Hammond proceeded to tell me
that the extracts of which cerebrine is
one must be taken hypodermical1y. 1t
has recently been alleged by some med
zeal authorities, he said. that the ac-
ton of medicines was the same whether
SdAcu iiiIO obOI1dSll lHGFOuuCSu
under the skin. He rejects that theory,
believing that the gastric juice produces
changes which are essential.
SIT is well known" said he. that
woorara, the viruient arrow poison used
by the Indians of South America, which
is invariably fatal to animal life when
injected into the blood, is harmless II
swallowed even in large quantities. I
have ascertained by actual experiment
that the poison Of the rattlesnake may
be swallowed with impunity. During
the course of my medical service on
the plains have collected large guam
tity of rattlesnake poison. A small
fraction of a grain injected hypodermic-
ally into a dog was sufficient to kill
him IN a few minutes, while previously
the animal had been made to swallow
half drachm without apparent result"
On the same principle used in prepar-
ing ''cerebrine," and by the same
method caroline" may be made from
the hearts of oxen and other extracts
from other parts
Now as to my theory, said DR. Ham
mond. Organic beings possess the
power of assimilating from the neu-
tritious matters they absorb the pecul-
lar pabulum which each organ of the
body demands for its development and
sustenance. The brain, for instance,
selects that part which it requires; the
heart, the material necessary for its
growth and preservation, and 50 on
with the liver, the lungs. the muscles
and the various other organs of the
body. No mistake is ever committed;
the brain never takes liver nutriment,
nor the liver brain nutriment. but each
selects that which it requires There
are, however, diseased conditions of the
various organs in which this power is
lost or impaired, and as consequence
disturbance of function, or even death
itself, is the result
Now, if we can obtain the peculiar
matter that an organ of the body re-
quires and inject it directly into the !
blood we do away with the perform
ance of many vital processes which are
accomplished only by the expenditure |
of large amount of vital force. Let |
us suppose person suffering from an |
exhausted brain, the result of excessive |
brain work. Three hearty meals are |
eaten every day, but no matter how |.
judiciously the food may be arranged |
the condition continues. Now, if we |
inject into that persons blood con-
centrated extract of the brain of a !
healthy animal we supply at once the
pa bulum which the organ requires. /
Then, if under this treatment the NOR
bid symptoms disappear, we are justi-
fed in concluding that we have success
fully aided nature in doing that which
she could not accomplish.
"Al this is applicable not only to the
brain, but certainly to the heart, the
generative system, the spinal cord. and,
| believe. other organs of the body. I
have repeatedly seen feeble heart rem
dered strong, the blood corpuscles
increased in number and the color
of the blood deepened by the use
Of caroline, and l have many times seen
a system, otherwise exhausted, re-
stored to its normal power by the use of
ccrebrine and meduline."
IT was interesting to me TO see the
rejuvenating elixir thus
itself rejuvenated, together with that
Did maxim of my childhood, Every
part strengthens part"
DAVID WECHSLER.