Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817 – 1894) was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist known for being the first to describe the so-called Brown-Sequard syndrome. Like many other scientists, he is also the author of "dubious discoveries", such as the elixir of life (which I have allowed myself to call «testiculin «).
On June 1, 1889, aged 72, before the Société de Biologie in Paris, he reported that he had increased his physical strength, mental agility, and appetite by self-injecting an extract derived from the testicles of dogs and Guinea pigs. In addition, he relieved his constipation and lengthened the arc of his urine (a true show of vigor).
The potion that was injected was composed of a small amount of water in which was diluted a mixture of the blood from the testicular veins, the sperm and, finally, the juice extracted from a testicle, crushed immediately after it had been removed. br />of a dog.
The conclusions of the study of him are irrefutable:
- The average length of the urine stream during the ten days prior to the first injection was less than that for the following twenty days.
- After the first few days of my experiments I have had a great improvement in passing stool.
Unfortunately, this "elixir" caused many scientists around the world to investigate in this new field with disastrous consequences for innocent animals and for many gullible people willing to do anything to "pee further and defecate better «.
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