Show BROWN lie has to say of the elixir of life lookia for the same thid for women sept 11 dr brown se auard who recently returned to paris from brighton where he has been passing his summer holiday is still pursuing his investigations in reference to the methods of increasing vitality his studies are now directed toward accomplishing for women the same result that he maintains has been reached in the case of men that is to say the period of capacity for conception can be prolonged by subcutaneous inoculation with substances primarily obtained from female dogs these researches have not yet arrived at a sufficiently advanced stage to convince dr brown sequard that a practical application can be made in this direction at the present but several women have already called upon him and offered themselves thema elves as subjects far these inoculations dr brown sequard received me on friday afternoon at his residence in paris the venerable academician was suffering from an attack of acute muscular rheumatism of the lower limbs that has kept him in bed for the last few days but be is now much better although his limbs are still stiff and painful As I 1 banded dr brown sequard a voluminous package of cuttings from the american papers referring to the experiments made with his inoculations he smiled rather sadly and said why I 1 thought I 1 knew your countrymen pretty well but it seems that I 1 was mistaken it never occurred to me that so many of them would go off at half cock as it were and undertake experiments of this cind without first thoroughly mastering all the preliminary details your elixir has certainly caused great sensation in america please dont make use of that word exclaimed dr brown so auard 1 never made use of the word elixir still less the words elixir of life those are all expressions pres or inventions of sensational newspapers if quacks or ignorant men in america have killed people as stated by the new york papers they would have avoided committing those murders had they paid the least attention to the most elementary rules as regards the sub autan bous injection of animal substances or even if they had carefully read the paper that appeared in the london lancet oi july 20 are injections of animal matter at special dangers no replied dr sequard injections of animal matter have no dangers unless the substance begins to be decomposed when this condition of things exists no good can be obtained and there is grave danger of inflammation accesses abc esses and even death there is of coarse great danger unless the strictest attention is paid to the cleanliness of all the vases and instruments persons wish to make use of the process ought to bestow on all the operations that it involves as much care as they would upon an operation for the amputation of a thigh for instance you seem to have got many letters from america I 1 remarked glancing at a huge pile of envelopes bearing united states postage stamos yes I 1 receive about twenty five letters a day irom america I 1 have no private secretary and never will have one as I 1 hate to have anyone about who thinks he knows all my affair so that I 1 answer as many of these letters as J cos myself and let the rest lay over till another day what is your opinion of the way in which your process has been received in america and in england 1 I am prepared to say with the utmost frankness that their appreciations of the method seem to me to be either too laudatory absurdly so in fact on one hand and too deprecatory too vindictive I 1 may say on the other band public opinion has gone to two extremes there seems to be no happy medium of criticism the views expressed by dr Ijo omis of new york seem to be very just do you think that your old anti enemies are the cause of the vindictive views expressed in reference to the process yes I 1 am afraid that the are at the bottom of a great deal of it but what annoys me most is that experiments should be made promiscuously as it were without proper study or precaution why while I 1 was at brighton an experiment was made and when blood poisoning ensued from an utter disregard of the ordinary precautions taken in injections of animal substances the fact was made known to me and my advice was asked for I 1 replied the mischief is asne now why you ask me about it before the operation |