Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-12-03
.MITCHEIIL'S 5 MIXTURE
ANOTHER DISCOVERY ofA so CALL
 ED ELIXIR OF LIFE.

The Fluid a Result of Ten Years Experi.
 menting Both Externally and Interna1ly-Eis Great Ambition.
 Not for many years has the medical world been so interested in any discov- cry as it is interested today in what is now known among the profession as Mitehell's fluid. ' Its scope is ambi- tious and its claim apparently well founded. PhysicianG not only in New York, but wherever medicine is prac- ticed, have been deeply interested ill this mixture, which, it is believed, will cure consumption and will prove a most val uable aid ill the treatment of specific diseases.
 And while the world is discussing this new discovery D1. Mitchell who practices ill New York. talks freely of the mixture, as he earelessly calls it, and visits and receives his patients as he has done for years. He goes on experi- menting, for he is not satisfied yet He believes himself on the eve of making discovery which may be the means of plotting out hideous disease
 To do this is the dream of the doctors life. As he emptied small quantity of iodides into vial containing small amount of his now famous mixture and watched the chemical operation by which tho yellow fluid was transformed into darker liquid, he remarked:
 "I don't want to be too sanguine, but l honestly believe that before many months 1 will have so far advanced in my researches that something very like that red fluid you seq there will do much to lessen the misery of this un- happy world of ours hope so any how :"
 He goes out each day with the con ventional silk hat and the conventional instrument case, but when the last call has been made and the last office patient is gone he descends to the cellar Of his home with J. " Higgins, q chemist, and ill the stuffy, darkened room below the pavement tho two work, sometimes until dawn
 Dr. Mitchell has habit of batting his left knee as he talks, and when he be- comes interested in his conversation he pats itso vigorously that should stran- ger take the same liberty with that left knee 1t would call for an apology or a duel
 ''Phthisis, said the doctor, batting the knee with the regularity of pendu- Ium, lis consumption or tubereulosis- it's all the Game-and the fluid which claim cures this disease is chemical combination of the hologen, or holoid group of salts in solution, and the re- sultant fluid is what is now called by physicians 'Mitchell's fluid.
 ''This fluid is palo yellowstone thing like chartreuse. I'll show you a new brew 2
 The doctor stopped batting his knee and brought forth q large bottle. from which he poured into glass a small quantity of the fluid.
 "Now, this, " he resumed, 'thas hy- drochleric acid reaction and a specific gravity of 1929 to 1925 I made my discovery after years of patient research and experiment.. It makes me tired al most to think of the labor performed, but Higgins and l kept at 1t, and we succeeded. Yes, we have certainly sue ceeded.
 ''I first used it in October, 1893. not for consumption, but for earbuncle Mir S---, 80 years old, came to me then as patient. He had on his neck carbuncle 21a inches in diameter, greatly unframed and swollen, leaving him totally inca pablo of eXertion. 1 applied the fluid with cotton, and ill three days he was able to resume work, and i'll two days more he was cured.
 Do not make any mistake now in this fluid claim that it cures phthisis and heals the external evidences of spe- cific diseases. For the former it is taken internally, for the latter it is applied with cotton 1 have yet to meet with q single failure in either disease Since it's discovery have treated nine cases of consumption, and eight of the patients were women. The cases were, with one exception, far advanced, both lungs be- ing affected. In each of these eight cases complete cures were effected in from four to six months A young man, who had large cavity in the midlobe of the right lung, was cured ill three months.
 ''I now have five patients, all men, under treatment of phthisis, and in each ease rapid progress is being made, so l feel much encouraged.
 "The fluids are given internally, in doses of a dram to l5 drams, four or five times q day. When taken on an empty stomach, it is immediately ab- sorbed and carried into the blood vessels and conveyed 10 the lung tissue There it seems to act by destroying the bacilli and rendering them incapable of further increase.
 In the treatment of specific diseases having a contagious external eruption, such as nlcers mucous patches i'll the mouth and elsewhere, 1 have been uni formly successful The affected parts have been treated by an application of the fluid and healing at once without difficulty has been she result Ulcers of the leg of a specific character and ulcers dependent upon accident, which have been obstinate and difficult of cure, have healed yely rapidly under a local appH cation of the fluid. l have treated over 30 cases and have yet to record failure
 In the domain of gyneeology, or dis eases Of women, the fluid has been of most signal benefit. Alterations and in aammations have been promptly cured by local applications. In ulcerative tonsilitis or old fashioned quinsy sore throat, or Intrid sore throat-whateve