The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-03-14
MITCHELL'S MIXTURE
ANOTHER DISCOVERY OF A so CALL
20 ELIXIR OF LIFE.
The Fluid a Result OF Ten Years Expert
menting Both Externally ana
InterralIy-His Great Ambition.


now known among the profession as
"Mitchell's fluid Its scope is ambi-
tious and its claim apparently well
founded. Physicians not only in New
York. but wherever medicine Is prac-
ticed, have been deeply interested in this
mixture. which, il is believed, Will cure
consumption and will prove a most val
liable aid in the treatment Of specific
diseases.
And while the world is discussing
this new discovery DR.. Mitchell, who
practices in New York. talks freely OF
the mixture, as he carelessly calls 1t,
and visits and receives his patients az he
has done for years. He goes ON expert
menting, for he is not satisfied yet. lie
believes himself ON the eve Of making n
discovery which may be the means OF
blotting ont a hideous disease.
To do this is the dream of the doctor s
life. AS he emptied a small quantity Of
iodides into vial containing a small
amount of his now famous mixture and
watched the chemical operation by
which the yellow fluid was transformed
lhiO a llQuiNAf nO ltiioA hth.
Il don't want to be too sanguine, but
| honestly believe that before many
months l will have so far advanced in
my researches that something very like
that red fluid you see there will do
much to lessen the misery Of this un.
happy world Of ours. | hope so any
how. F"
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. w. Higgins, a chemist
and in the stuffy, darkened room below
the pavement the two work, sometimes
until dawn.
Dr. Mitchell has habit of patting his
left knee as he talks, and when he be-
comes interested in his conversation he
pats it so vigorously that should a stran-
ger take the same liberty with that left
knee it would call for an apology or a
duel.
''Phthisis, said the doctor, patting
the knee with the regularity of a pendu-
lum, lis consumption or tuberculosis
it's all the same-and the fuid which
claim cures this disease is a chemical
combination of the hologen, or holoid
group of salts in solution, and the re-
sultant fluid is what is now called by
physicians 'Mitchells fluid
This fluid is a pale yellowstone
thing like chartreuse. I'll show you a
new brew. A"
The doctor stopped patting his knee
and brought forth large bottle, from
which he poured into a glass a small
quantity of the fluid.
''Now, this, J." he resumed, "has a hy-
drochloric acid reaction and a specific
gravity of 1922 to 1926. / made my
discovery after years of patient research
and experiment. 1t makes me tired al
most to think Of the labor | performed,
but Higgins and | kept at it, and we
succeeded. Yes, we have certainly sue
ceeded.
81 first used it in October, 1898, not
for consumption, but for carbuncle. Mr..
s., 30 years old, came to me then as
patient He had ON his neck carbuncle
"a inches in diameter, greatly inflamed
and swollen, leaving him totally inca
pablo of exertion. l applied the fluid
with cotton, and in three days he was
able to resume work, and in 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. have yet to meet with a
single failure in either disease. Since
its discovery have treated nine cases of
consumption, and eight of the patients
were women. The cases were, with one
exception, far advanced, both lungs he
ing affected. In each of these eight cases
complete cures were effected in from
four to six months. A young man. who
bad large cavity in the midlobe of the
right lung, was cured in three months.
Il now have five patients, all men.
under treatment of phthisis, and in each
case rapid progress is being made. so I
feel much encouraged.
N H"4Nc arc given INTERNALLY, IN
doses of dram to 3 drains, four or
five times a day. When taken ON an
empty stomach, it is Immediately alb.
sorbed and carried into the blood vessels
and conveyed to the lung tissue There
1t seems TO act by destroying the bacilli
and rendering them incapable of further
increase
In the treatment of specific diseases
having contagious external eruption
such as ulcers, mucous patches in the
mouth and elsewhere, l have been mi
formly successful. The affected parts
have been treated by an application of
the fluid, and healing at once without
difficulty has been the result. Ulcers Of
the leg Of specific character and ulcers
dependent upon accident, which have
been obstinate and difficult Of cure. have
healed very rapidly under a local annli.
cation OF the fluid. have treated over
80 cases and have yet to record a failure
In the domain Of gynecologv. or dis
eases Of women, the fluid has been ~
most signal benefit. Ulcerations and in
Examinations have been PROMPTLY cured
by local applications. In ulcerativa
tonsilitis, or old fashioned auinsv snre
throat, or putrid sore throat-wbatever
yen wish TO call 1.-THE symptoms have
promptly subsidized after applicatiops
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