Evening star., 1901-02-09

WILL PROLONG LIFE
Effect of Injections of Serums on the
Human Body.
ARE POWERFUL NERVINE FONICS
Coupled With Electrical Treatment
They Work Wonders.
SALT IS NOT IN FAVOR
ARE POWERFUL NERVINE TONIC'
SALT IS NOT IN FAVOR
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS, February /, 1901.
| Before the echoes of the salt cure" in
| America had reached the boulevard Pa
| risians had their own tales of physical
and mental rejuvenescence, for to live a
! hundred years is the particular mark Of
| the new century. 1t is affirmed that, thanks
| to the injection of certain serums and the
| application Of certain new electrical
| modes to men and women on their last
| legs have been given buoyant life and spir-
| its. The wife of dramatic author whose
| plays are being acted in New York and
| Paris tells that she has had new life put
| into her body and new gayety into her SOUL
| Her rejuvenator is DR.. Oscar Jennings.
DR.. Jennings is one of those Englishmen
| who have become Parisians by lifelong res
| idence Being favored by fortune, he has
| always been able to choose the investiga-
| tions that most pleased him. An apostle Of
| the Turkish bath in the days when it was
| a luxurious curiosity and the first advocate
| of health by the tricycle. before the safety
| bicycle was invented. he is nevertheless
| best known as the Paris specialist of the
morphine habit. and his studies of the
| brain, nsrves and circulation led him to
| the system Of treatment which is now the
| talk Of the theatrical world.
In a large library, with books every
! where, amid confusion of X-ray and cleo
| trical Instruments glass retorts and nests
| Of walls. he received me.
at is true she had new life put into her."
| he began. Like many Parisians of her
| world she had lived too intensely and was
worn out. Anaemia and neurasthenia had
developed to agarophobia, that symptom
characterized by the fear Of being alone
and crossing large spaces. When these
fancies come to patients who have some
vitality left in them the treatment may be
chiefly moral. I remember a hearty man,
possessed with the fear that he was going
to die. An intelligent young medical stu
dent paid to be with him always and
tell him that he was looking fine But
when the vitality Is gone no jollying' will
bring 1t back.
His Treatment.
Besides the anaemic condition Of this
woman, which extended to anaemia of the
brain, she had palpitation of the heart.
flushing of the face. emptiness of the head
and throbbings of the carotid arteries. She
was unable to go alone on the street even
distance of 100 yards. to visit a friend
without being accompanied. When her hus-
band was away from home she remained In
a state Of anguish and terror. Such symp-
toms are common enough in neurasthenic
patients, but with this womans extreme
weakness they were threatening her rea-
son. l used both the gycerophosphates
and that extraordinary cacodylate of soda.
discovered by Gauthier and experimental
with more and more now every day by the
doctors in Paris. Cacodylic acid contains
arsenic in large quantities, and while keep
ing the therapeutic qualities Of arsenic, it
is not at all poisonous, so that we now can
give ten times the amount of arsenic we
could a couple of years ago. 1t is one of
the greatest of consumption cures, and Is
used in all forms of nervous prostration
"Cacodylate Of soda Is new, in the sense
that it has only been known a year or SO,
and that more extraordinary results are
being obtained from it every day; but in
Paris at least, 1t Is no one mans secret.
All my information tends to show that
these injection cures are merely powerful
nervine tonics. l am surprised that the
craze should have come so late. instead Of
some years ago. DR.. Cheron Of Paris. in his
book. Lois generates de FHypodermie.'
advanced the same claims for certain salt
injections as early as 1893
The doctor took down a fat black book
To Prevent Decay.
"This book of $50 pages shows that II
only the results had been permanent. gout.
rheumatism, neurasthenia and tuberculosis
all yield to injections of salt. But what will
chiefly interest you Is found In the chapters
on Old Age and Transfusions.' It is evil
dent throughout these chapters that DR..
Cheron believes more than he says, and
would like to say more than he does, except
that he fears to be imprudent. In this
state he says. where the wear OF the or
mic transfusions of artificial serum can
render as real service as in the state Of
disease. Why should not the tissues which
old age has caused to degenerate regain
the condition they possessed In adult age
If a therapeutic means which raises the
vitality and permanently increases the lam
guild functions could intervene at the proper
time and In continuous manner? Better
yet why not, at the entrance of old age,
modify by hypodermic transfusions (whose
action Is so clear In such cases) the vitality
of the organism beginning to decay?'
HE goes on to say that the frequent use
Of his sodium in aged people for weeks and
months has showed him that he can modify
the state of organs so that the hard ar
teries (and they are. you know. the critic
rion Of age, man being as old as his ar
teriesO get soft again and f1atten under the
finger. while the heart becomes stronger.
Unfortunately, however. these injections,
repeated by the profession at large. espe-
cially in Paris. have not always been effect
I've, so much so that more than once 1t
has been urged that DR.. Cheron made a
mistake in publishing his book.
'"To tell the truth, in the case OF the wo-
man I treated the results were more due to
the accompanying electrical treatment than
she Notwithstanding. by the way, as
scientifically interesting as the subject OF
serum. There is a great deal to be said
about rejuvenation IN connection with elec-
tricity.
Like Curing Like.
'There is at present a preparation made
from the lungs called puImonine, strongly
recommended to prevent and control lung
diseases. The extract or nerve tissue ls
given in nervous troubles. An extract from
the liver has been found Of undoubted bene-
fit where the action Of the liver is defect
i've. The irigin of all this was DR.. Brown
Sequard's celebrated series of researches,
and case which is admitted by the whole
profession and upon which there remains
no longer a shadow of doubt, is the action
of the extract of the thyroid glands when
the thyroid organs have been removed by
an operation All these examples form a
part of a regular system of therapeutics
known as organotherapy. The latest claim
ant to have discovered a method Of reju-
venescence was DR.. Althaus of London. He
asserted not more than a year ago to be
able to restore youth by certain electrical
applications.
Use of Electricity.
''In cases Of brain exhaustion, anaemia
and anomalies of the cerebral circulation
I apply a simple galvanic battery when
the nerve cells are exhausted Just as |
douche Of water applied externally has |
tonic effect, so a douche Of electric energy |
passing through the exhausted cells Is ca
ma hle of restoring their yipOr and perhans