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  • The Brown-Sequard Elixir and Koch's experiments with lymph darted across my mind.

    THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE 1993

  • Brown-Sequard recommends, in myelitis, or spinal congestion, drawing away the blood from the spine by placing the patient on his abdomen or side, with hands and feet somewhat hanging down.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various

  • Then Brown-Sequard, like Ponce de Leon, having reached something a little beyond the age of fifty years, was also gathered to his fathers.

    The Prolongation of Life 1937

  • Then, after the time of Ponce de Leon, came the famous Brown-Sequard, who thought he had discoverd in the 'injection of certain glands a new method of rejuvenation.

    The Prolongation of Life 1937

  • 'Brown-Sequard states ... 30 minutes after death ....

    Whose Body Sayers, Dorothy L. 1923

  • Brown-Sequard records an instance produced by injury to the sciatic nerve.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Brown-Sequard observed on several occasions in his own dark beard hairs which had turned white in a night and which he epileptoid.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • He referred to several cases, among them that of the distinguished physiologist, Brown-Sequard, who acquired the habit as a result of experiments performed upon himself.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Of course I will go, unless Brown-Sequard orders me positively to stay on terra firma.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • I met Sumner in the Senate the day before yesterday, and he expressed immense delight at a letter he had received from Brown-Sequard, telling him that you were altogether free from disease ...

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

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