Professor Brown-Sequard on the Anesthetic Effect of Throat-Cutting

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The clipping below is from here:

Starke Telegraph (Florida), June 11, 1887, page 1, column 1

A somewhat similar piece:

The Lancet, 1887 Volume 1, May 7, 1887, page 937, column 2 - page 938, column 1

A biographical sketch, which doesn't mention the 1889 "elixir of life" controversy:

Education, Volume 20, March, 1900, page 431-436

THE LIFE AND WORK OF BROWN-SEQUARD.
by MRS. WM. D. CABELL, NORWOOD, VA.

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Searching at http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/, it looks like this article appeared in the "Occasional Notes" section of the Pall Mall Gazette on Thursday, April 7, 1887. Maybe I'll download it if I can find 99 other articles I want.

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Victorian doctors also thought that children couldn't feel pain, and that hysterectomies were routine procedures despite an almost 75 % mortality rate. It was a wacky time for the sawbones.

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The physiologist, the young lady and the monkey

I'm certainly skeptical of the claim but must concede that M. Brown-Sequard had the advantage of practical experience.

National Republican (Washington City, D.C.), June 01, 1883, Page 7, Column 3

Vivisecting a Monkey

From a Paris Letter.

The monkey, which is the next link above
dogs in the Darwinian chain, was the other
day the hero of a stirring episode at the College
de France. M Brown-Sequard tbe eminent
physiologist, in the presence of a
highly fashionable and attentive audience
was about to procced [sic] with the
vivisection of a young monkey. The
monkey, by some misunderstanding, had
not been previously anesthetized. At the
approach of the scalpel the victim to science
began to shriek with rage and terror. To restore
order Brown Sequard was about to sever
the animals vocal chords with the dissecting
knife, whereupon a very elegantly dressed
young lady, who had evidently been watching
the proceedings from the monkey point
of view, put in an energetic appeal on
behalf of her client. Springing forward
from her seat she charged the professor
with her umbrella and inflicted
several wounds upon upon his head and nose
The police had to be called in before the lady
could be removed. When she was brought
before the magistrates she declared that she
had merely applied lawfully the provisions
of the Grammont cruelty to animal laws.
Perhaps this episode may suggest a theme for
some artist devoted to materialism, and Vibert,
for instance, may immortalize the physiologist,
the young lady and the monkey at the
next years Salon.

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An 1889 paper which references Brown-Sequard's work and includes a bit of speculation about JtR:

The Hahnemannian Monthly, Volume 24, November, 1889, Page 689
By Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania

A NOVEL WAY TO CONTROL THE FURIOUS STRUGGLES OF SOME
MANIA-A-POTU PATIENTS AND ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION.

BY WM. A. HAMAN, M. D., READING, PA.

(Read before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, September 17th, 1889.)

"It is well known that homicidal strangulation may be effected when people are about without any disturbing noise attracting notice. The immediate unconsciousness following decided pressure on the trachea is a sufficient explanation. Probably the notorious 'Jack the Ripper' is aware of this procedure, and gets his absolute control of his victims by this method, and so is able to pursue his mutilations in the streets of London within a few feet of the policemen. If his first onslaught were always made with the knife, it is very probable that one or more of the ten or twelve women murdered by him would have had time to make some outcry."

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An article about the retirement of the author of the paper linked in the post above.

Reading Eagle - Jul 25, 1941, page 5

Dr. Haman to Retire from Hospital Staff