The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-25

IF this thing becomes known" said
I to DIR. Hammond, "you will have q
line of prize fighters outside Your door
reaching from here to the capitol"
"Thcse effects ARE generally observed
after one hypodernic injunction" said
the doctor, land they continue for w.
rying periods. some of them lasting for
several days"
He was referring to other bodily
symptoms of interest principally to
physicians which he had mentioned TO
me previously.
''ln order that the effects shall be en-
during" he continued, "two doses a
day should be given every day or every
alternate day, as may seem necessary,
one in the morning and oncin the after
noon. Tho most notable effects are seen
in the general lessening of the phenom-
cna accompanying advancing years. I
have employed cerebrine with curative
effects in many diseases of the brain and
nervous system. IT is almost specific in
those cases of nervous prostration-th
so-called ncuresthcnia-tlue to reflex
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
eases of cerebral congestion, in which
the most prominent symptom is insom-
mia. / have used it with advantage in
treating epilepsy.
l was principally impressed by the
power of the substance to-at least
tcmporarily--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. be-
lievc that even Harvard with cerebrine
could win against Yale luck.
Dr. Hammond proceeded to tell me
that the extracts Of which cerebrinc is
one must be taken hypodermically. 1t
has recently been alleged by some med
zeal authorities, he said, that the ac-
tion of medicines was the same whether
taken into the stomach or introduced
under the skin. He rejects that theory,
believing that the gastric Juice produces
changes which are essential.
''lt is we'll known" said he, ssthut
woorara, the virulcut arrow poison used
by the Indians of South America, which
is invariably fatal to animal life when
injected into the blood, is harmless if
swallowed, even in large quantities. l
have oSccrtaincd by actual experiment
that the poison of the rattlcsnalsc may
be swallowed with IMMUNITY. During
the course of my medical service on
the plains have collected large guam
tity of rnttlcsnallc poison. a small
fraction of grain injected hypodcrmic-
ally into Il dog was sufficient to kill
him i'll Il few minutes, while previously
the animal had been made to swallow
half drachm without apparent result"
On the same principle used in prcpar-
ing 'cercbrine," 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 pecui-
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 it's
growth and preservation, and so 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 nutrimcnt.
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.
Nov, 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 arc
eaten every day, but no matter how
judiciously the food may be arranged
the condition continues. Now, if we
inject into that PERSONS blood Il con
centrated extract of the brain of q
healthy animal we supply at once the
pabulum which the organ requires
Then, if under this treatment the nior.
bid symptoms disappear, we arc jmsti-
fled in concluding that we have success.
fully aided nature in doing that which
unassisted she could not accomplish.
IAN this is applicable not only to the
brain, but certainly to the heart, the
gencrativc system, the spinal cord, and,
believe, other organs of the body. !
have repeatedly seen feeble heart rem.
dered strong, the blood corpasoles
increased in number and the col or
of The blood dcepencl by tie use