filled.

He was regarded as the most efficient surgeon-inchief ever appointed in the Ohio National Guard.

This city is indebted to Col. Jones more than to any other man in the State for its possession of Eden Park as a breathing place for the masses. While a member of the City Council, years ago, this was his especial hobby, and he fought his battle to a successful termination against the most tremendous odds encountered at the outset. His energy and perseverance were his strong points, and in no event of his life were these qualities better illustrated than by his course in the park project. He was opposed not only by the most of the populace, but was made the target of ridicule and censure by the public press. But he won, and to-day the citizens of Cincinnati are reaping the benefit of his wise foresight. In Grand Army matters the deceased took a most enthusiastic part, and no matter what the occasion was in his post, Col. Jones was generally present to make a talk to the "old boys." The post to which he belonged was named in honor of his brother, who was killed at the head of his regiment at the battle of Chickamauga. The old man was tenderly attached to this brother, and upon a recent occasion, when Surgeon Ellis, of the 1st Regiment, delivered a eulogy on the life and character of the dead soldier to the comrades of the organization that bears his name, the tears fell like rain upon the cheeks of the survivor. He never could thank Dr. Ellis sufficiently for his his words of praise.

RESOLUTIONS BY THE PROFESSION.

A meeting of the medical profession was called July 29 to take action on the decease of Dr. Jones. A large number of the oldest and most prominent members of the profession were present. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted:

"The medical profession of Cincinnati, deeply affected by the tragic circumstances connected with the death of Dr. A. E. Jones, have assembled to day for the purpose of expressing their sorrow at the assassination, and at the same time their high appreciation of his professional worth and admiration for his great public spirit in all questions involving the preservation of the historical data of our city, the growth and improvement, and the memories of the distinguished men whose lives have been connected with this portion of the Ohio Valley.

"The career of Dr. Jones is especially eminent in his patriotic efforts on every occasion which involved the honor and maintenance of the integrity of the Nation, and in the many important positions which he held as an officer of the United States Army and Ohio National Guards, in which he has always displayed great activity, efficiency, and public virtue. In the fulfillment of his professional and public duties he has been one of the most widely known and respected of our citizens; and though he had reached the period of long life, yet his vigor and capacity showed no sign of abatement, and he still possessed "a heart of youth in a frame of age.

"Resolved, That the medical profession of Cincinnati have ever regarded Dr. A. E. Jones as an intelligent, prudent, and conscientious practitioner of medicine; that he was unremitting in his care of the sick, and that the lowliest as well as the highest, socially, in the area of his practice found in him a faithful physician and unwavering friend.

"Resolved, That we offer to his stricken family the assurance of our profound grief and compassion in their bereave

ment.

"C. G. COMEGYS,
"J. H. TATE,
"J. C. CULBERTSON."

THE NEW REJUVENATOR.-Our readers have heard through the newspapers, no doubt, of "Brown-Scquard's Elixir of Youth," "Elixir of Life," etc., and know that it is meant by it the inspissated juice of the procreative glands of one of the lower animals, as the guinea pig, rabbit, dog or sheep, which has been prepared for injecting, by means of a hypodermic syringe, beneath the skin of a human being in whom have become weakened or lost several of the vital functions of powers by the decay of age.

A few weeks ago Brown-Sequard, the distinguished French physiologist, announced to the French Academy of Medicine that he had found, by actual experiment, if the spermatic fluid of a young and vigorous dog, recently killed, was injected by means of a hypodermic syringe beneath the skin of an old, enfeebled man who had suffered decay of those vital functions which are impaired by age, they would be largely restored. He stated he had tried the experi ment upon himself and had experienced its rejuvenating

influence.

He announced his so-called discovery with all the earnestness that he ever employed in announcing any of the great discoveries that he ever made, the validity of which he firmly believed.

That an individual whose vital functions have been impaired or lost by age can be rejuvenated seems both preposterous and ludicrous, consequently it is the expression of many that Brown-Sequard's claim is the result of dotage; that his mind having become weakened by age, his feeling a stimulation of impaired functions was the result merely of mental suggestion.

The British Medical Journal, of July 6, says that the extraordinary statements made by Brown-Sequard, as to the efficiency of hypodermic injections of fluid expressed from the testicles of young animals, in senile debility, have been to a certain extent confirmed by M. Variot, who made a communication to the Societe de Biologie in June. The patients chosen were debilitated men, aged 54, 56, and 68 years respectively, and they were not informed of the nature of the treatment adopted. In all three cases the injections were followed by general nervous excitement, increased muscular power, and stimulation and regulation of digestion. M. Brown-Sequard said that M. Variot's observations disposed of the objection that the results he had observed in himself were due to suggestion."

The communication of M. Variot will tend to continue, and probably heighten, the interest excited by BrownSequard's first announcement; but, as stated by an American editor, it can not, however, be taken as a very strong confirmation of his claims, or of his hopes. There is no reason whatsoever why such results as Brown-Sequard thinks he observed in his own person should be looked upon as the natural effect of hypodermic injections of a mixture of water and the albuminoid constituents or cell-elements of the testicles of animals of any species. But, as is stated, experiments of a sort like those of Brown-Sequard may be looked for over the world now; and it would be a great thing, says the American editor to whom we alluded, if the ancient male occupants of all our alms-houses could really be transformed into young, vigorous and industrious men. "It is to be hoped, however, that the experimenters will not neglect to be careful in the selection of the animals from which they secure their inoculation material and in regard to the dose used in each case."

But we would like to hear reports of experiments, not upon aged men of 54 and 56 years, but upon men who have attained to the age of 70, 75 and 80 years. We are well acquainted with an old gentleman, of Cincinnati, aged over 86 years. He walks the streets of the city with as great rapidity and comfort to himself as most young men of only 25 years of age. Of course, age has weakened and perhaps entirely extinguished the functions of some of the organs of his body. We wish some one would inject the "testicular juice" of some lower animal beneath his skin and report the result. We would like to ascertain the effects of such an injection in rejuvenating some of his disabled powers. We have also in our mind an old gentleman, whom we frequently meet on the streets, who was born about the year 1797. We consider that he would be an excellent subject on whom to try the effects of "inspissated spermatic fluid." What functions of his body are impaired can be fairly regarded as having been impaired by age; but a man who is only 54 or 56 years old is but a middle-aged man. If any of his functions are weakened, they have been rendered so by overuse or by disease, and not by age.

Ex-Surgeon-General Wm. A. Hammond, now of Washington, formerly of New York, has been making experiments for the purpose of testing the validity of BrownSequard's physiological discovery. For the edification of our readers we will make some extracts from a report of an interview with him published in a recent number of the New York Press.

A man sixty-five years of age, who had been incessantly engaged in mercantile pursuits all his life, and was generally run down and decrepit, had called at Dr. Hammond's Sanitarium in quest of a cure for his infirmities. This case he was proposing to treat in accordance with the French physiologist's method. The Doctor's first subject was 60 years old, and had performed both manual and mental labor.

"I asked Dr. Hammond to-night to explain to me in a detailed and accurate and yet a popular way just how he had treated the first subject. So many absurd accounts had been circulated, that nothing could really be known about his exact method. He dictated this, the first authorized statement yet made with regard to his experiments:

"When the first accounts of the elixir of life' were received in this country," said he, "I was very much disposed to doubt the efficacy of any such means, because, as

I read the matter, Dr. Brown-Sequard used the juices of various glands, such as the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, etc., but when I got the full details in the French Medical Journal, I found that his experiments were restricted to the use of the inspissated juice of the procreative glands of guinea pigs and rabbits, and, I think, in one case, of a dog. I at once inferred that the reason why the guinea pig and the rabbit had been used was because they had been handy in the Doctor's laboratory.

"I thought I saw an objection to using the procreative gland of a guinea pig or a dog-that the one remarkable thing about the guinea pig was that it is timid, and that the dog is not carnivorous and not edible. I at once concluded that the corresponding glands in the sheep were far preferable for such experiments as I designed to perform.

"I therefore procured the procreative glands of a sheep, cut them in small bits, ground them in a mortar, mixed the mass with a small quantity of water, and then filtered the mixture through pure Swedish filtering paper, the purest of all that is made. I thus obtained a clear, opalescent fluid.

"I injected thirty minims of this into the arm of a man a little over sixty years of age, having previously injected a quantity of it under my own skin simply to show that it was nothing injurious. It is a rule of mine to perform all of my own experiments upon myself first."

Dr. Hammond turned up the sleeve of his dark alpaca coat and the wristband of his buff-colored flannel shirt to show that there was no mark even where the injection had been made.

"Well," he continued, "I put this fluid under the skin of this old man. He received the injection about eight o'clock in the evening. No ill consequences ensued. He said the next day that he had become free from a rheumatic pain that he had had in his left arm for over a year.

"He had been unable to button his shirt collar or to use his arm freely in any way, even to scratch the back of his head or to stroke his back hair, until the day he recovered the free use of that arm."

"Did it stay cured?" was asked.

"Yes," the Doctor replied, "it staid cured. I saw him not an hour ago. He has had three injections altogether. He tells me that his power for work has been much increased, and his labor is of such a character as to require the use of the mind as well as the body.