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dose of the extract I could lift the weight forty-five times with the 

 right arm and thirty-seven times with the left arm. 



6. In some cases in elderly persons an increase in the power of 

 vision is produced, and the presbyoptic condition disappears for a 

 time. 



7. . An increase in the appetite and digestive power. Thus, a 

 person suffering from anorexia and nervous dyspepsia is relieved of 

 these symptoms, temporarily at least, after a single dose hypodermi- 

 cally administered. 



"These effects are generally observed after one hypodermic injec- 

 tion, and they continue for varying periods, some of them lasting for 

 several days. In order that they may be more enduring, two doses a 

 day should be given every day or every alternate day, as may seem 

 necessary, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and kept up 

 as long as the case under treatment seems to require. The most 

 notable effects are seen in the general lessening of the phenomena 

 accompanying advancing years. When some special disease is under 

 treatment, the indications for a cessation of the injections will be 

 sufficiently evident either by an amelioration or cure." 



"To the substance obtained in this manner and held in solution, 

 I have given as stated, the name of ' cerebrine' as the one, in view 

 of its origin, most appropriate." 



"I have employed the solution of 'cerebrine' with curative 

 effects injmany diseases of the brain and nervous system. It is almost 

 specific in those cases of nervous prostration — the so-called neuras- 

 thenia — due CO reflex causes or excessive mental work, or persistent 

 and powerful emotional disturbance. A hypodermic injection of five 

 minims, twice daily, continued for two or three weeks, and without 

 other medicine, being sufficient to produce cure. It has proved 

 equally effectual in cases of cerebral congestion, in which the most 

 prominent symptom was insomnia, sleep being produced usually in 

 the course of two or three nights. I have also employed it success- 

 fully in migraine, hysteria, melancholia, hebephrenia — the mental 

 derangement occurring in young people of either sex at the age of 

 puberty — in old cases of paralysis, the result of cerebral hemorrhage. 

 In neuralgia, sciatica, and in lumbago, it has acted like a charm, 

 except in one case of facial neuralgia, in which it did not appear to 

 be of the slightest service." 



"I have employed it in eleven cases of epilepsy. Three of these 

 were of the petit mal variety ; in two the effect has been so marked 

 that I am not without the hope that cures will result, although I am 



