Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — RENEWED HIS YOUTH. [ARTICLE]

RENEWED HIS YOUTH.

Th» elixir of Life Tried with Success on an Indian Veterana. Inaianapolis dispatch: Dr. Purman, *»f this city, has just made, a practical demonstration of -Brown-Sequard’s life elixir theory. Dr. Purman easily procured the consent of Noah Clark, fifty years of age, generally debilitated and suffering from rheumatism and disease contracted during the war. He is a Very fit subject for the experiment tried upon him this morning. Dr. Purman drove to the stock yards and selected the healthiest lamb obtainable. The iamb was killed and the necessary parts were brought to his office. The preparation was verj* simple. The parts were cut and pounded in a mortar or thoroughly “triturated,” five drams , of water added and the preparation was carefully filtered. The result was a reddish fluid—the elixir. One and a ■ half drams of this were injected into the emaciated arm of Clark, a little below the shoulder, with an ordinary hypodermic Granville Allen and Dr. Theodore Parker were present during the operation, which took place withjn two hours after killing the lamb. A f&w minutes after the operation, a reporter called at the office and saw Mr. Clark. He was’ a limp picture of dejection, and seemed tb have little vitality. “You. know how you feel sometimes when you get up in the morning,” he said. “You feel sleepy Ahd lifeless, and unable to do anything. That’s the way I have felt ever since the war.” About four hours afterward Mr. Clark walked dowp-town from Fort Waype avenue, and climbed two flights of stairs, without stopping. “I feel a decided difference,’’ he said, positively. “It used to take me an hour to get down-town, and this time I have walked it within twenty-five minutes. I have not felt this way for twenty-five years. I have a new vitality. Ido not drag my feet along, and it is no trouble to hold my head up. Before I could not read a newspaper without glasses, now I can. The injection has certainly done me good. If this will last or not I don’t know, but I hope it will.” Clark, to all appearances, was certainly improved. His complexion and eyes clearly indicated an exhilarated condition.