268 BORDEN'S EXTRACT OF BEEF. 
deserts, condensed food is a necessity. He had found it so at one time r 
when for thirty days he was on camel back, but he became so tired of 
it that he thought he should prefer a soup made of bones which we 
throw away. He hopes this article will prove more valuable than any- 
thing which has preceded it, even Borden's meat biscuit, of which 
mention has been made, and which he is aware has been so serviceable 
to travellers. 
Mr. Goodale said this article differed materially from anything which 
has preceded it. Mr. Borden has been for twenty years earnestly en- 
deavouring to produce something which would be highly valuable for 
hospital purposes. He at length succeeded in producing the article about 
a year ago, and so far it has met the universal approbation of physicians. 
Beside the higher degree of concentration, this extract differs from the 
meat biscuit, as it contains no farinaceous constituent, and the flavour 
and essential qualities of the meat are more fully preserved. 
Professor S. R Percy gave two cases in his practice where this extract 
used as a medicine produced the most beneficial results. A gentlemen 
who had been two weeks suffering with typhoid fever, had become very 
much reduced, when Dr. Percy was called in consultation. He found 
the patient in a very prostrate condition, with a very rapid and feeble 
pulse, and a stomach so irritable that it rejected almost everything that 
was taken. At the first visit a perfect change in the diet was ordered. 
Borden's beef extract alone was given in teaspoonful doses. Within four 
hours from the change of diet the pulse hadbecome more quiet and fuller, 
the vomiting entirely ceased, and he slept quietly. No medicine 
was given for several days, but the beef extract was alone used. He re- 
covered quickly. The second case was that of an officer in the army, 
who had served in the West and contracted miasmatic fever and dysentery 
of the very worst form. When Dr. Percy first saw him, he had been suf- 
fering with this dysentery for about seven months, and was now given 
over as incurable. A quantity of Mr. Borden's beef extract was obtained 
and fed to him in teaspoonful doses every half hour. The Collinsonia cana- 
densis was alone used as amedicine. A marked improvement was quickly 
seen, and on the 16th day he was able to be carried out of doors and 
up and down in the sunshine. For two weeks no food of any descrip- 
tion was given to him but this beef extract. .There is one peculiarity 
about the use of this extract with debilitated persons — its effects are 
always recognizable by the pulse, making it fuller and stronger ; and 
this may be noticed within half an hour of its administration. He could 
say much on the use of this beef extract in cases of sickness : the article 
was so good that it needed only to be used to recommend itself. 
