The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22
ABLE TO RESTORE LIFE
BY BLOOD SUBSTITUTE

Indianapolis. June 20 Especially 1.-The
annual meeting of the Indiana Assocla-
ton Of Homeopathic Physicians in this
city last week called together a number
o. well known physicians of the state.
among them and in whom interest chiefly
centered was Dr. Charles w. Littleheld.
Of Alexandria, who has recently come
into prominence by reason of long ana
patient efforts to discover what Is termed
the life principle" DR.. Littlefield was on
the programme for an address. and When
It was announced that he would glFe
some of the results of his fifteen years
Investigation and would recount some OF
his experiments in the search Tor the
Spirit OF life" the hall proved inadequate
for the crowd of interested persons VINO
came to hear him
The speaker did not profess to have
found the object of his search, but he
declared that his experiments proved that
he would eventually reach the goal To-
wards which he has so long striVen lie
said he had taken a course in phySiolog-
zeal chemistry and had thus become thor
orghly acquainted with tile composition
of every tissue of the human body and
the various transformations OF organic
structure.
Early in his practice he had noticed
that it was the common everyday ex-
perience of men to undergo changes of
feeling without any apparent cause FOR
them. one day man would feel de-
pressed and the next he would be elated;
or, to adopt the usual expression, he
would feel good one day and feel bad
the next, and yet there was nothing to
account for these changes.
Basis To Work From.
As these feelings were not confined to
any one class, 1t did not follow that the
depression necessarily came from an ex-
penditure of energy in The pursuit OF
given object, and investigation slowed
that persons who were sick experienced
these changes to a greater degree than
those in robust heaItl. After extended
observation and many experiments, based
upon these conditions. he reached the
conclusion that the mysterious influence
was in the atmosphere, and he 'p~tered
upon a series of experiments to deter
mine whether this something that pos
sesses such vitalizing power could be
artificially prepared. He said:
Obviously such critical study could not
be accomplished in the living body, but
necessitated resort to artittcially pre-
pared compounds. which parallel. as
rearly as possible, those known to exist
in the body and vital 10 its functions The
known compounds resolve themselves in
tc two general casses-the organic. repre-
serted by sugar, fats. oils and albumcn,
and the Inorganic, consisting Of the salts
of soda. potash, lime magnesia iron and
silicon While one class is just as essen
tlal to growth and Development as the
other and cannot be separated in the
forms a work ana fills a place in the ami
nal economy that the other cannot fill.
j is with the Inorganic or mineral COM
pounds that we must have to do in deal
inG with life, for it is these compounds
that not only retain the life principle in
The tissues, but they must be present
whenever new cells are To be generated,
fer they are known to determine the Kind
az tissue 10 be built while the organic
form simply the physical basis Of the
cells
Substitute for Blood.
In the course OF time but only after
many failures. { succeeded in forming
"A compound which very closely rescm-
blee the blood plasms or intercellular
puid. which is the only compound in the
animal body really endowed with life j
car best describe this as an albuminoNs
Compolud containing in its composition
an the clements, organic and Inorganic.
necessary for the upDuildng OF blood.
nerves. glands ana other organs
of the animal body.
Bat in and Of itsself il contains no life.
but at the same time proved TO be very
susceptible to atmospheric conditions
Having made the compound and noted
tn. changes which it underwent in certain