Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — The Elixir of Life. [ARTICLE]

The Elixir of Life.

"It is announced from Washington that the famous Dr. Hammond is experimenting with a new elixir of life, lately discovered by the equally famous Dr. Brown-Sequard of Paris. It is a simple preparation. A portion of lamb is taken—Brown-Sequard prefers rabbit or guinea pig—is beaten to a pulp in a mortar, mixed with a little water, and is strained through a fine. Swiss filtering paper, after which it is admini istered hypodermically in the leg or I arm of the patient. Dr. Hammond relates some wonderful improvements that he seenred in 1 impaired human frames by this elixir, ! and asserts that an injection month [will keep a man from twenty to thirty years younger than he really is. ! This will be great news for the old boys. All over Chicago, and LtH over everywhere, there are old chaps pottering around with canes, stoop-shoul-dered, lame in one leg or bo th. d ulleyed, with dropping jaw, thin, gray hair or none, who will learn of this new discovery withan indescribable ecstacy. Ton to twenty years younger! Why, a year younger, even a month, a week younger, would be a godsend. What beatific visions will invade the souls of the old guard as they find out about this elixir!

| Ten years taken off of life puts on e of them back where the frame was less stiffened, rheumatism less common, the legs less painful, the teeth more efficient, the appetite stronger and the digestion less impaired. They will all remember how young they were ten years ago, how vigorous in body and mind, how sanguine and hopeful, and they will take their injection and go back there with infinite alacrity. It may be a question as to whether or not it will be for the good of the old fellows to be set back all these years. It is to be feared that they might not—that is, all of them—m ike the best use of the rejuvenation. Old men, fond of the ardent, and debarred by impaired stomachs from present Indulgence, would be very likely to occupy their new lease of years by a “high old spree.” Shaky roues would be very apt to resume their practices; misers might retake all their original meannesses, and the various human hogs might determine to resume their wallowing in the mire. It is not certain that the elixir is a wholly desirable discovery. It is to be feared that Brown-Sequard and Hammond are a couple of modern ! Ponce de Leons whose estimate of their findings is the creation of hope. The latter has long taught that if men would properly care for themselves 1 they might live to any great age—a | hundred at least, and perhaps two or [ three centuries. The elixir panacea is l in the same line. By setting a man back ten or twenty years he can prevent old age forever.—Chicago Herald.

other portion of die body, the teeth come in twojdistinct sets, separated by an interval of between four and five years. The first set consists of wenty teeth, the second of thirty-two. The second, or “permanent” set are larger and harder, as well as more numerous, than the first. As the second get, with the exception of the wisdom teeth, are formed before the first are shed, a five-year-old child may have at the same lime fifty teeth in hfs head! The visible part of the tooth is callthe crown; the part hidden in the jaw, the fang; the part just within the gum, the neck. A tooth consists of the enamel; the dental, or bony substance, beneath the enamel; the pulp, whict fills an interval cavity extending from within the crown down to the extremity of the fang aul the cement, covers the fang somewhat as the enamel cove fc.he crown. The pulp contains nerves and vessels, which enter the fang at this point. The dentine consists of microscopic tubes, into which the pulp penetrates, to nourish it and give it sensitiveness. The cement is covered with a membrane analogous to that which covers the bones and ministers to their support, and which has the function of promoting their renewal when they are partially destroyed. This cement membrane will unite vitally to the jaw another tooth which has been inserted in place of one ext racted. Dentists now avail themselves of this important .fact. —-- As the teeth consist largely of lim\ they are readily acted on by acids This means, of course, that acids gA»»» erated in the mouth or the stomach Ly fermenting food secretions rendered acid by disease, or acid medicines ail. ministered improperly by physicians, may cause more or less destruction of the teeth. The most common cause. of decay, doubtless, is to be found in the bits of fermenting food left between the teeth. This fact suggests the need of the toothpiok after meals, and the thorough washing out of the mouth with the aid of a tooth-brush before retiring for the night Deniistry his made wonderful progress within the last fifty years. No tooth which has even a stump left needs be sacrificed. Amalgam fillings are now much used in preference to” gold, as they are equally safe, easier of introduction and cheaper. No one need fear harm from fillings inserted by any first-class dentist, or from any tooth powder or wash recommended by him. There are quack dentists as well as quack doctors. Let both be avoided. —Youth’s Companion.