The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-16
May Prolong Life Greatly.

York are experimenting with lymph
from the glands Of goats, which has
been prepared by DR.. 3. F. Roberts,
Of Green City, Mo. The lymph was
the topic Of many discussions in med
ical circles recently, when its discoy-
erers asserted that it had the power of
curing many ills and of introducing
new life into the feeble and suffering.
1t was announced to the public as
the latest step toward the discovery Of
an elixir of life, which the celebrated
DR.. Brown-Sequard sought after so in
defatigably but yainly in the declining
years of his life.
While no claim is made by the two
physicians of this city who are using
the fluid that it gives youth to the
aged, one of them, who has employed
it in the cases Of eighteen patients,
declares that the results have been re-
markably successful, and that the
lymph will be among the crowning
medical triumphs Of the country.
DR.. Frederick c. Holden, Of No. "a
Plaza avenue, Brooklyn, is the physi-
clan who declares that the lymph has
worked wonders among eighteen pa
tients. Some of the patients, he says,
have been cured of chronic ailments
which had defed the efforts Of physi-
clans for years. He alleges that it is
particularly eAicacious in locomotor
ataxia cases.
DR.. Holden became interested in
the lymph last.May. He took trip
to Chicago during that month in order
to watch the experiments with the
fluid. At first he was highly scepti-
cal, but soon realized, he declares,
that the preparation was healing i'll
persons, whose cases had been consid-
cred practically beyond cure. He
says that he saw cases Of chronic
rheumatism, diabetes, locomotor ataxia
and other ailments gradually improve
under treatment.
He decided to be instructed in the
uae of the lymph. The instruction
lasted FIVE days. He returned to
Brooklyn fully convinced that the
lymph was of great value. A sufi-
cient quantity Of the fluid to treat ten
cases was sent to him. He began to
work with it in June, since which
time the lymph, he says, has either
wholly cured or improved his patients.
He injected it simultaneously into
his wife and himself. The result has
been. he asserts, that his wife has
treble the power of endurance and
that he has been materially benefited.
DR.. Roberts process is the trans
plantation of ''life cells from the
lymphatic glands Of goats into the
human system. HIS contention is
that by the lymph it is possible to re-
juvenate worn out human bodies with
the aid Of goats.
"a skillful gardener, said DR..
Holden last night, can carry life
cells from one plant to another. But
scientists agree that the higher the
organism the greater the difficulty Of
cell transplantation. DR.. Roberts as
serts that he has been at work on this
idea of cell transportation for thirty
years. He contends that the lymph
increases the richness of the blood, it
increases the activity and function Of
the whole blood cells; it causes an in
creased elimination of the waste pro-
ducts of the body, such as diseased
cells, foreign accumulations and pois-
onous excretions. 1t is a positive
specific against the poisons Of rhcu-
matism and the results Of rheuma-
tism.
"Acute rheumatism is not benefited !,
neither is any other acute disease. 1t
has not failed TO cure functional dis
eases of the nervous system. In or
ganic diseases due to sclerosis or over
growth of connected tissue the cura-
tive results have been incomplete in a
few and complete in the majority Of
cases treated.
''In the twelve hundred cases treat
ed by this lymph there has not been a
single death since the experiments be-
gan, more than year ago. The lymph
is administered simultaneously by
hypodermic syringes. DR.. Roberts is
not a follower of DR.. Brown-Sequard.
He does not say that he has discovered
the fountain Of youth. .
DIR. Holden declined to discuss the
individual cases which he has treated
with the lymph.
The other physician who is expert