p. 573 | Health and Temperance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 36.

Health and Temperance.

THE NEW ELIXIR.

THE Medical Record of New York, in an editorial by Dr. George F. Shardy, denounces the Brown-Sequard elixir as the foolish conceit of an old man in whose mind the dreams of returning youth had assumed the counterfeit of reality. Dr. Shardy says the method prescribed in relation to the elixir is on its face preposterous, and its vaunted effects impossible and ridiculous. It is opposed to all known physiological and biological laws, and had it not been bolstered up by the reputation of Brown-Sequard it would scarce have been heard of outside of the Paris society where it was proposed. Along with this editorial is an article entitled, "An Experimental Study of the Brown-Sequard Theory," by the eminent physician, Dr. Henry Loomis, in which he reviews all the cases on which he has tried the fluid in Bellevue hospital, to each of which is added a comment to the effect that there has been no improvement or that the improvement has not been permanent. In one case the treatment was injurious.