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Originally Posted by z28jd
I don't think this story actually happened after checking for it. There are zero mentions of it in Pittsburgh at any point before someone dug up the footnote, though there are jokes about it during that era, just like there are fountain of youth jokes when an old player did well. There were no experiments in Pittsburgh on that date. It was basically huge news everywhere at the same time that he had a great game, so I think it was a comical connection. When there were experiments done, they named the people in it and shared the results. August 13th for instance was done in Philadelphia, where they were also at the previous day.
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Galvin openly admitted he used Brown-Séquard elixir. It most likely had zero effect even though his win the next day was hailed as proof of how amazing it was by the Washington Post. If it worked though is not really important, a failed bank robbery is still a bank robbery. So he is the first admitted PED user in baseball.
There is much written about Brown-Séquard in the National Library of Medicine and other documents. It was very well known at the time.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474613/
https://www.historytoday.com/hormone...and-eccentrics
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