Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-28
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
DRS. JAcosSoHN AND 6LEYER THINK THEY HAVE FOUND IT IN NucLElN.

It Is a Marvellous Fluid-out of Two Hun dred Cases Treated With It Only Nine Have Proved Fatal-New Era Predicted In Medical Science.
 Certain physicians of German dispen- sary in New York have experimented in fever cases with fluid and, intheir opin- ion, have achieved marvellous results.
 Dr. William Jacobsohn, in paper read before tho Society For Medical Progress, described the fluid as "nuclein" one of the compounds present in antitoxine and the natural food of blood tissues He said it was due to nnclein that antitoxine some- times cured, and to the poison in antitox- inc that the latter sometimes proved fatal
 Dr. Charles MeClintock and Professor Vaughan about year ago, while experi- menting in their laboratory at ikea Univer- sity of Michigan, discovered fiusti in the make up of blood chemically represented by 29 parts of carbon, 49 parts of hydro gen, parts of phosphorus and 32 parts of oxygen. This was nuolein. esA
 In the inoculation of mice and guinea pigs by the toxines of various diseases they found that nuclein possessed wonderful restorative powers.
 At this point the subject was taken up by Drs. Bleyer and Jacnbsohn. They found that one of the ingredients of antitoxine was nuclein, and they established this theory: That as nuclein was found to a greater extent in the blood cells of healthy persons, and as it was also an ingredient of antitoxine it was the real food upon which the blood tissues fed, and as such was natures own antitoxine. To change this theory into a fact it was necessary to treat and take notes of fever cases in every state of age, physical condition and envi- ronment.
 Nuclein was first tried on girl years old, who had diphtheria. The fluid was hypodernically introduced in @ very small quantity. The temperature slowly rose, became normal, and in three days the pa- tient showed no sign of disease.
 This cnse was followed by similar ones. Nuclein was then employed as a fortiaer against contagious diseases and as tonic.
 Of tho 200 cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and scarlatina treated in this city with nuclein only nine patients, it is said, have died.
 The fatalities are explained as follows: That the injection was made after the fever had firm hold of the patient; that other complications had arisen to destroy the tissues; that the patients did not have proper care or were deprived of the oxygen in the air through the crowded condition of their lodgings.
 "To treat feyer," said Dr. Jacobsohn, five must remove the cause, the toxines, and especially as in contagious, the mi crobe and it's poison.
 'Nuclein is the substance to which the cell owes its resisting power, and if present in sufficient quantity the microbe and its toxine are prevented from attacking the cell and are ultimately destroyed.
 ''Of course we don't care to be too san- guine, but see what the logical conclusion will be. Old age comes because the nat ural food has been exhausted.
 "What this food is scientists have long sought to determine, for with that discoy cry is revealed the elixir of life."
 Dr. John Aulde of Philadelphia says of nuclein. J. #
 Its field of usefulness Is practically un- limited, because it supplies tho organism with something which nature has failed to produce either through lack of proper food or faulty assimilation.
 "My impression is that in the treatment of diphtheria methods have already been revolutionized and new era has dawncd upon the science of medicine. "-New York World.