Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
MAY PROLONG LIFE GREATLY
New York Doctors Successfully Experiment
With Goats Lymph.
Obtained Highly Satisfactory ResuIt
in Treatment of Senile and
Chronic Diseases.

The New York Herald of today says: Two
physicians of Greater New York are ex-
perimenting with lymph from the glands of
goats, which has been prepared by DIR. B.
f. Roberts of Green City. Mo. The lymph
was the topic of many discussions in med
ical circles recently, when its discoveries
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 indefatiga-
bly, but vainly in the declining years of his
life.
While no claim is made by the two physi-
clans of this city who are using the fluid
that it gives youth to the aged, one of
them, who has employed ii in the cases Of
eighteen patients, declares that the results
have been remarkably successful and that
the lymph will be among the browning
medlca1 trlumphs of the country.
Wonders Among Patients.
Dr. Frederick C. Holden of No. "a Plaza
avenue, Brooklyn, is the physician who de-
clares that the lymph has worked wonders
among eighteen patients. Some of the pa
tients, he says, have been cured of chronic
ailments which had defied the efforts of
physicians for years. He alleges that it is
particularly efficacious in locomotor ataxia
cases.
DIR. Holden became interested in the
lymph last May. He took trip to Chica-
go during that month in order to watch the
experiments with the fluid. AT first he was
hlshly skeptlcal, but soon realized, he de-
cldres, that the preparation was healing I'll
persons, whose cases had been considered
practically beyond cure He says that he
saw cases of chronic rheumatism, diabetes,
locomotor ataXia and other ailments grad
ually improve under treatment
he decided to be instructed in the use of
the lymph The instruction lasted five
days. He returned to Brooklyn fully con-
WINGED that the lymph was of great value
A sufficient quantity of the fluid to treat
ten cases was sent TO him. He began to
work with ii in June, since which time the
lymph, he says, has either wholly cured or
improved his patients.
Used 1t Himself.
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 mater
tally benefited.
DR.. Roberts process is the TRANSATLANTIC
ton of life cells" from the Iymphatic
glands of goats into the human system
His contention is that by the lymph it is
possible to rejuvenate wornout 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 transportation. DR.
Roberts asserts 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 in
creases the activity and function of the
whole blood cells; it causes an increased
elimination of the waste products of the
body, such as diseased cells. foreign accu-
mutations and poisonous excretfons 1t is
positive specific against the poisons of
rheumatism and the results of rheuma-
tism.
Where 1t Is Not Useful.
Acute rheumatism is not benefited,
neither is any other acute disease. 1t has
not failed to cure functional diseases of
the nervous system. In organic diseases
due to sclerosis or overgrowth oil connected
tissue the curative results have been in
complete in a few and complete in the ma
jCrity of cases treated.
''In the twelve hundred cases treated by
this lymph there has not been a single
death since the experiments began, more
than a year ago. The lymph is admins
tered simultaneously by hypodermic sy-
ringes. Dr. Roberts is not a follower of
DR. Brown-Sequard. He does not say that
he has discovered the fountain of YOUTH
DR.. Holden declined to discuss the in
dividual cases which he has treated with
the lymph.
The other physician who is experiment
ing with the lymph is DIR. r. W. Steger of
No e. West 3Ith street, this city DIR.
Steger returned from Chicago on Monday,
after receiving instructions how to use the
lymph.