The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-04
FRESH FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF THE NIGHT WlR
FINDS AN anti TOXIN
FOR TIRED FEELING
Herr Doctor Weichardt Fixes Up
a Dose That Makes Sleep
us Useless.
New York Herald Special Service.

New York Herald Special Service.
Washington, Feb. 3.-Away with
that tired feeling and hail to Wolfgang
who shares the poets in
vocation of blessing on the man who in
vented sleep. Herr DR.. Weichardt, a
subject of Emperor William, has dis
covered the anti-toxin for fatigue,
which, introduced into the weary body,
restores the latter to it's normal con
dition in a comparatively short time
without requiring any sleep. >s
It will not be necessary for the
man of energy to waste practically
third of his lifetime lying abed, when
Herr Dr. Wolfgang Weichardt's dis
ccvery becomes a commercial product.
All that will be necessary when the
yawns give their warning and nature
puts her weights On the eye-lids, will
be the introduction into the tired or
ganism of a bit Of the anti-fatigue
serum. Prestol The body resumes it's
normal vigor; the busy human has not
wasted any more time than he natur-
ally would consume over his noon
luncheon, and the real problem of the
twenty-four hour day has been solved.
Patent on the Cure. -.
Letters Of patent have Just been
granted to DR.. Weichardt on his inven-
ton and his process of making the anti
toxin SO it may be taken for granted
that the discovery is no mere Pigment
Of the imagination. The inventor had
to give specifications telling all about
his preparation, the scientific princi-
pies underlying it and the methods Of
obtaining the serum. The story of his
Investigations, dedDctions and result
may be found in patent No. SO9,347, in
the archives Of the department Of the
interior. ...-<
In presenting his application for a
patent-t is stated he also has ap-
piled for a patent in Germany-Dr.
Weichardt declares that he has dis
covered as result of numerous expert
ments that fatigue Of the human and
animal body, not being exhaustion, is
produced by certain toxic substances
which are hardly traceable in the nor
NAL (unfatigued) organism, but which
are always and in considerable quantity
found in the fatigued organism.
How He Found It.
Their existence, says Herr Doctor
may be proved by means of expert:
ments, for he had found that animals
injected with sterile muscle plasn
taken from strongly fatigued animals
Of the same kind became tired and
sleepy, and that they died after d.;
period Of twenty to forty hours, while
animals treated in the same manner
with the same quantity of muscl;
plasm from other animals did not be
come tired and remained alive. These
toxines Of fatigue, like all poisons
produced directly from the living
protoplasm, it is stated, cannot be &C
curately characterized by their chem
ical composition. They will not resis
heating and become inactive after tw'
| hours when heated to only Sc degrees
centigrade.
The toxines Of fatigue, according t.
DR.. Weichardt, are saturated or rem
dered harmless by anti-toxine produce,
! in the organs when at rest, chief.
during normal sleep. In the blood
which is the vehicle of the anti-toxin
an appreciable quantity of toxins o
fatigue, he AYERS, is only found il
cases OF extreme fatigue.
DR.. Reichardt says his process con
sists in the production Of compound
or pharmaceutical preparations whic:
contain the antitoxins mentioned an
consequently have the effect when in
troduced into the fatigued body o
human organism that the same recov
ers it's normal condition in a compare
lively short time without requirin
any sleep. 49,.
How He Makes It.
For this purpose muscular fatigue
induced in horses or other suitabl
animals, preferably up to the con
mencement Of yawning, fits or spasm
after which they are bled to depriv
the muscles Of blood, the muscles ar
cut out, while taking rigid aseptic pr'
cautions, after which they are nai1
) tanned at temperature of about 3
degrees centigrade for several hour
then pounded in a sterilized morta
Then the muscle pulp thus obtained
pressed and relieved of . superfuor
liquid in a press which has been pr
viously sterilized. Suitable liquid
such as blood serum or a physiologic;
, solution Of table salt, the inventt
says, may be added 70 and mixed wit
the muscle paste before it is presse
: Instead Of muscle plasm, he continue
? blood plasm or plasm from other 0
, CANS or excretions or secretions
! the fatigued animals, such as the
milk, may be used, inasmuch as tt
said organs or products likewise co
tain the toxin.
] Tested on Tired Beasts.
The plasm thus obtained is filter
thru earthenware filters and inject
Us into small animals, such as guinea pi
or mice, to test it as regards the qua
f tity Of toxins Of fatigue contained
q the plasm. If the quantity is foul
4 sufficient, the plasm is repeatedly
e jected into suitable animals, such
q rabbits, goats and horses, for obtai
o ing the antitoxin. After a short tin
explains DR.. Weichardt, the materi;
constituting the organs Of the amin;
e thus treated or the products Of t
: same, such as their milk, and especial
!, the blood serum, which is comparati1
ly rich in antitoxin adapted to rapid
= neutralize or render harmless the tt