Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-20
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
DRs. JAco5sotN AND BLEYER THINK
THEY HAVE FOUND IT IN NuCLElN.

10 In Marvellous EIuid-Out or Two Hun
dred Cases Treated with IT Only Nine
In Medical Science.
Certain physicians Of German dspen-
fever cases with fluid and, I'm their opin-
ton, have achieved marvellous results.
DIR. William Jacobsohn, I'm paper read
before the Society For Medical Progress,
described tho fluid as "nuclcin," ono of
tho compounds present I'm antitoxlne and
the natural food Of blood tissues. He said
it was due to nuclein that antitoxine some
times cured, and to tho poison I'm antitox-
Inc that the latter sometimes proved fatal.
DIR. Charles McClintock and Professor
Vaughan about a year ago, while expert
menting In their laboratory mt the Univcr-
sity Of Michigan discovered a fluid In the
make up Of blood chemically represented
by 20 parts OF carbon, 40 parts of hydro
gen, parts Of phosphorus and 32 parts OF
oxygen. This was nuclein.
In the incubation of mice and guinea
pigs by tho toxincs Of various diseases they
found that nuclein possessed wonderful
restorative powers.
At this point the subject was taken up
by Drs. Bleyer and Jacobsohn. They found
that one of the ingredients of antitoxine
was nuclcin, and they established this
theory: That as nuclcin was found to
greater extent i'm tho blood cells of healthy
persons, and as Ii was also an ingredient
of antitoxine, 10 was the real food upon
which tho blood tissues fed, and as such
was natures own antitoxine. To change
this theory into fact Ii 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 diphthcria. The fluid was
hypodermically introduced I'm a very small
q quantity. The temperature slowly rose,
followed by sudden drop. The pulse soon
became normal, and In three days the pa
ticnt showed no sign OF disease.
This case was followed by similar ones.
Nuclein was then employed rs IA fortifler
against contagious diseases and as tonic.
OF the 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 a 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 fever" said DR.. Jacobsohn,
"we must remove the cause, the toxines,
and especially, as In contagious, the mi
crobe and its poison.
"Nuclein Is the substance to which the
cell owes its resisting power, and II present
In sufficient quantity the microbe and its
toxine arc prevented from attacking the
cell and are ultimately destroyed.
"Of course we don't care to be too san
guine, but SEQ 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 discov-
cry is revealed the elixir of life'
DIR. John Aulde of Philadelphia says Of
nuclcin:
It's field of usefulness Is practically un-
limited, because it supplies the 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 diphthoria methods have already been
revolutionizcd and a new era has dawned
upon the science Of medicine. New York
World.