TRADE MARK 
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COMPOUND 
OXYGEN 
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1109 Sc 1111 ST,PHIL*.PA. 
FOR THE OURE OF 
Consumption. Asthma, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, 
Headache, Oz/Cna, Debility, and ale Chronio 
and Nervous Disorders, 
NATURAL PROOESS OF 
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TREATMENT. ask of those into whose hands these “Testimo- 
Vp/ nials” and “Reports of Cases” may come—should 
they, or any in whom they have a personal interest, be 
suffering with some chronic disease, or from some acute 
affection which threatens to become chronic, and for 
which a cure has not been found—to give them a careful 
examination. 
Of their genuineness any one can satisfy himself. They 
have come to us in most cases without solicitation, and 
are from persons either well known to the general public 
or in the particular communities where they reside, from 
any one of whom a verification can be had if desired. 
See last cover pages for information in regard to the 
Treatment—its cost, how supplied, etc. It is taken by 
inhalation, either at our office, 1109 and 1111 Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, or at the patient’s own home. 
No “Home Treatment” genuine without our Trade 
Mark. THE 
COMPOUND OXYGEN 
TREATMENT, 
FOR THE CURE OF CHRONIC DISEASES BY A NATURAL 
PROCESS OF REVITALIZATION. 
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS 
AND 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN. 
1884. CONTENTS. 
Page 
To the Reader 9 
Unique, 11 
Without a Parallel in Medical History, ..... 12 
A Safe Remedy, 15 
Arresting the Progress of Disease after it has 
made serious inroads upon the vital system. 17 
Arresting the Progress of Disease in its earlier 
stages, 18 
What we Claim, 59 
Attempted Analysis of Compound Oxygen,... 63 
Danger to Consumptives in High Altitudes,... 66 
Important Considerations for those who have 
used, or are using, Compound Oxygen,... 103 
The Ravages of Consumption, 108 
Frauds and Imitations, 112 
A Few Facts, Reasons, and Suggestions 116 
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS. 
No. Page 
1. Inflammatory Rheumatism. Mrs. Margaretta 
E. Bair, Philadelphia. A very remarkable 
case of complete relief after eighteen years’ 
suffering, 22 
2. Consumption arrested and held in check. Con- 
dition of patient after five years. Case of 
Mrs. Vienna T. Douglass, Huntsville, Ala. 
Reported by Dr. J. F. Goldman, 24 
III IV 
No. Page 
3. Asthma. A most distressing case com- 
pletely cured. Case of Mrs. Mary Y. Hedges, 
Danville, N. Y., . . . 27 
4. Chronic Dyspepsia cured. A case without par- 
allel in medical history, 2!) 
*5. Compound Oxygen as a Revitalizing Agent. 
Emphatic testimony of T. S. Arthur. Re- 
sults permanent, 31 
6. Strong testimonial of Wm. Penn Nixon, edi- 
tor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean 82 
7. Diver Complaint and Dyspepsia. The patient 
not expected to live many days when Treat- 
ment was received. Case of Mrs.Vrooman, 
wifeofHon.H.P.Yrooman,Topeka,Kans., 34 
8. “Tried many physicians.” Case of S. W. 
Tucker, Cashier C. A. & N. R. R., Kosciusko, 
Miss. Restored to health by Compound 
Oxygen 35 
9. Consumption. Rapid improvement. Case of 
S. C. Lovell, Mansfield, Mass., who believes 
that Compound Oxygen saved his life,... 36 
10. Catarrh. Testimonial of Hon. W. D. Kelley, 38 
11. Chronic Diver Complaint. A strong testimo- 
nial from the wife of Attorney-General 
John Fair, of Tennessee, 39 
12. Catarrh and Influenza. Great suffering 
promptly relieved. Case of Frank W. 
Doughty, Brooklyn, N. Y 40 
13. A bad case of Consumption cured and the pa- 
tient well and strong after the lapse of 
nearly four years. Case of N. B. Grayson, 
Huntsville, Ala. Reported by Dr. J. F. 
Goldman, 40 
14. Report of forty-one cases made by Rev. S. H. 
Platt, A. M., of Southampton, N. Y., under 
the head of “ Tested and not found want- 
ing,” 42 V 
No. Page 
15. Neuralgia. A remarkable cure. Case of S. 
Geddes, Camden, Del., 45 
16. From a Sister of Charity. Report of several 
cases in which great benefit had been ob- 
tained in Nasal Catarrh, Malaria, and In- 
somnia, 46 
17. A very Singular and Exceptional Case, and 
one which gives a striking illustration of 
the law governing the action of Compound 
Oxygen. Case of H. Sparks, St. Cloud, Wis. 47 
18. Asthma. A wonderful change in six months. 
Mr. Charles Henry Greenfield, Mass.,.... 49 
19. “ At Death’s Door," and restored by Compound 
Oxygen to comparatively good health. Case 
reported by Rev. J. H. Richards, South 
Haven, Mich., •. . . . 51 
20. Severe Hemorrhage from the Lungs aixested, 
and the patient cured. Case of L. F. Clark, 
New York city, 52 
21. Remarkable restoration in the case of a 
Clergyman. Rev. A. W. Moore, Darlington, 
S. C. Disease, Bronchitis, complicated with 
Asthma 58 
22. At the Point of Death. A case of surprising 
restoration reported by Rev. J. B. Grier, 
Danville, Pa., 54 
23. Constipation and Sleeplessness cured. Case of 
A. White, Postmaster at Houston, Miss.,. . 55 
24. Testimonial from Rev. M. K. Whittlesey, 
D. D., Superintendent of American Home 
Missionary Society for Central and South- 
ern Illinois, 5$ 
25. Consumption of the Lunys. A case of rapid 
development accompanied by severe hemor- 
rhages. I. Linden Parker, Fountain City, 
Indiana, 57 VI 
No. Page 
26. Arresting the Progress of Consumption, and 
holding the disease in check. A remark- 
able case. R. Bird, Wentworth, N. S 58 
REPORTS OF GASES, 
No. Page 
1. Nervous Prostration and Extreme Physical 
Debility. Remarkable restoration in the 
case of a prominent member of the Bar in 
New York city, 72 
2. A Case of Long Standing and Severe Nervous 
Headache. Results permanent, 75 
3. Cough cured, Hemorrhage stopped, and pa- 
tient, to use her own words, “ Benefited in 
every organ of my body,” 77 
4. Insomnia cured in a number of cases, .... 78 
5. Dropsy. A case of Dropsy and Heart Disease. 
The Dropsy cured, 81 
6. Testimony of Physicians. Some remarkable 
cases, 81 
7. A Blessing to the Aged, 84 
8. Arresting and breaking up Colds, 87 
9. From a Clergyman over Seventy. Says that 
Compound Oxygen has made a new man of 
him, 89 
10. In a case of Croup, prompt relief followed the 
use of Compound Oxygen, 89 
11. A Walking Skeleton, 90 
12. Patient astonished at the result, 91 
13. Strength increased and general health 
greatly improved, 92 
14. A great sufferer from Neuralgia and Rheu- 
matism, 93 VII 
No, Page 
15. A case of partial Paralysis from Diphtheritic 
Poison, 94 
16. Nervous Prostration 95 
17. The Rapid Course of Disease checked 96 
18. Cough and Night-sweats relieved, 97 
19. Sinking from Nervous Prostration,. ..... 97 
20. Compound Oxygen in Scarlet Fever, 99 
21. A Life Saved, 100 
22. A case of aggravated Catarrh, 101 
DISEASES. 
Page 
Asthma, 27,49,58 
A Walking Skeleton 90 
Blood Poisoning, 47 
Bronchitis, 42, 58, 91 
Catarrh, Nasal, 38, 40, 46, 85,101 
Colds, 56, 40, 87 
Constipation, 55,96 
Consumption, 24, 36, 40, 42,51, 57, 58 
“ Incipient, 32, 35, 36, 42 
Cough 77, 97, 86 
Croup, .89 
Debility, 32,45 
Diabetes, 42 
Dropsy, 81 
Dyspepsia, 29, 34, 40 
Gastric Fever, 42 
Headache, Nervous, 75 
Hemorrhage from Lungs, 25,52, 5i, 57, 77, 96 
Hoarseness, 92 
Inflammation of Bowels, 35 
Inflammation of Lungs, 77 
Insomnia, 39, 46, 55, 78 
Kidney Disease : . . 42 
Laryngitis, 85 VIII 
Page 
Life Saved, 100 
Liver Complaint 34, 39, 42 
Malarial Fever, 99 
Nervous Prostration, 34, 42, 72, 91, 95, 99 
Neuralgia 45, 93 
Night-sweats, 57,58, 97 
Old Age, 84 
Paralysis, 94 
Physicians, testimony of, 81 
Revitalization, 31, 32, 72, 89, 91 
Rheumatism, 22, 40, 42, 93 
Scarlet Fever, 99 
Sciatica, 42 
Uterine Trouble, 42 
Vitality lost, 82 To the Reader, 
In presenting for your consideration a few of the 
many testimonials and reports of cases which we 
have received, showing the remarkable results 
which have followed the use of Compound Oxygen 
in chronic diseases, we are aware that we have to 
meet a natural incredulity hard to overcome. The 
manufacture of testimonials to wonderful cures has 
been so long practiced by unscrupulous venders of 
patent nostrums, that the public has come to doubt 
the genuineness of any that may be offered. 
The following strongly expressed “ Card ” from T. 
S. Arthur, the American author, and other gentle- 
men well and widely known, will, we trust, remove 
from the minds of those who do not know us person- 
ally, all doubts in regard to the reports of cases 
which we are giving to the public. On these reports 
we rest the evidence of all that is claimed for Com- 
pound Oxygen. What the public needs, and de- 
mands, is some undoubted assurance that they are 
genuine. To many, their own intrinsic evidence is 
sufficient. But to a large class of persons more than 
this is required, and, in order to satisfy this class, 
9 10 
we present the personal testimony of men who 
know us, who have used and been benefited by our 
Treatment, and who have had large opportunity for 
observing its effects on others. 
A CARD.—We, the undersigned, having received 
great and permanent benefit from the use of “COM- 
POUND OXYGEN,” prepared and administered by 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, of Philadelphia, and being 
satisfied that it is a new discovery in medical sci- 
ence, and all that is claimed for it, consider it a duty 
which we owe to the many thousands who are suf- 
fering from chronic and so-called “incurable” dis- 
eases to do all that we can to make its virtues 
known, and to inspire the public with confidence. 
We have personal knowledge of Drs. Starkey & 
Palen. They are educated, intelligent, and consci- 
entious physicians, who will not, we are sure, make 
any statement which they do not know or believe 
to be true, nor publish any testimonials or reports 
of cases which are not genuine. 
WM. D. KELLEY, Member of Congress from 
Philadelphia. 
T. S. ARTHUR, Editor and Publisher “ Ar- 
thur’s Home MagazinePhiladelphia. 
V. L. CONRAD, Editor “ Lutheran Observer 
Philadelphia. 
Philadelphia, Pa., June 1st, 1882. 11 
Unique. 
“ Without an eqifal or another of the same kind,” 
as Woreester defines the term “ unique,” and we use 
it here as the best word we can select to designate 
the character of our establishment. There is none 
like it in this or any other country. It is not in the 
nature of a Sanitarium, to which people must come 
for treatment, thus being obliged to leave home and 
its comforts, and subject themselves to a heavy ex- 
pense. We treat patients in their own homes (as 
well as at our office in Philadelphia), no matter how 
far away from us they may reside. 
Compound Oxygen is not a patent medicineand is 
not for sale by druggists. It cannot be had except 
direct from us or from our depositories in New York 
(862 Broadway), San Francisco, and Frodsham (Che- 
shire), England. We hold as close a relation to our 
patients as that of any other physicians, with the 
difference that, in most cases, consultations and ad- 
vice are by correspondence instead of through per- 
sonal interviews. No charge is made for rendering 
an opinion in any case submitted to us, nor for ad- 
vice given during the time a patient is under treat- 
ment, whether it be for two months or a year. The 
only charges made are for the “ Home Treatment,” 
■which is 815 for a two months’ supply, or 830 for a 
month’s office treatment. 
We are Homceopathic physicians, of long practice 
and large experience, and in our treatment of the 
cases which come under our care send our patients, 
whenever we think it useful in supplementing or 
quickening the action of our Treatment, the homoeo- 
pathic remedies indicated by the symptoms which 12 
they describe to us. The patient can use these reme- 
dies or not, at his own option. 
Already the patients under our care have become 
so numerous that the time of three physicians is 
largely occupied in the work of consultations, writ- 
ing opinions, giving advice, and sending prescrip- 
tions. In addition to this, the office Treatment de- 
mands the constant attendance of one or more 
persons for its administration, from thirty to forty 
patients using this treatment daily. In order to 
meet the steadily increasing number of our office 
patients, as well as our business requirements, we 
have recently enlarged our establishment by adding 
two more commodious rooms to the five or six 
already used exclusively for business and pro- 
fessional purposes. 
The number of those who are availing themselves 
of our peculiar mode of Treatment is steadily in- 
creasing, while the general public is slowly, but 
surely, coming to see that a new method of cure, 
based on natural laws, and certain and safe in its 
action, has been discovered. 
Without a Parallel in Medical History. 
The remarkable results which have attended the 
administration of Compound Oxygen, the new 
remedy for chronic and so-called “ incurable dis- 
eases,” are without a parallel in medical history. 
As dispensers of this new remedy, we have, after 
over thirteen years of earnest, untiring, and costly 
effort to introduce it to those who need its vitalizing 
and health-restoring influences, succeeded in rest- 13 
ing its claims on the basis of facts and results of so 
wide and universal a character—facts and results on- 
record, and open to the closest investigations—that no 
room for a question remains as to its marvelous 
action in restoring the diseased to health. 
The rapidly increasing number of those who have- 
obtained relief from pain, or been restored to health 
by Compound Oxygen, reaching now to many thou- 
sands, scattered throughout the whole country, is 
having a wide influence on public sentiment. Thera 
are no arguments so convincing as well-known facts. 
If a man or a woman who has been suffering lor 
years from an exhausting disease, which no physi- 
cian has been able to cure, tries a newly discovered 
remedy and is brought back to health, the fact 
stands as an unanswerable argument in favor of 
that remedy, so far, at least, as this particular case 
is concerned. A resort to the same remedy in 
another case, regarded as “ incurable,” and with a 
like result, adds a new and stronger argument in its 
favor. Accumulate similar results to the number 
of hundreds and thousands, and in the widest range 
of chronic and “desperate” diseases and abandoned 
cases, and you have a weight of evidence that is 
irresistible. On this weight of indisputable evi- 
dence we rest the claims of Compound Oxygen. 
It is frequently urged against this Treatment by- 
persons who have not made themselves acquainted 
with the natural laws governing its action, that the 
same agent is administered for all diseases—for neu- 
ralgia or catarrh; for rheumatism or consumption; 
for heart disease or bronchitis; that we offer it as a 
universal specific. In our Treatise on Oompouna 
Oxygen, which will be mailed free to any one who 14 
will write to us for it, we have fully explained the 
nature and action of this remedy, and shown that It 
is not specific to any disease or class of diseases, but 
that it acts directly upon the nervous system and 
vital organs, and thence universally in the whole 
body. It gives new force and a more vigorous action 
to all the life-centres, thus restoring to nature the 
dominantpower and healthy action which had been 
lost. This being the case, no matter what the dis- 
ease or where located, it must be gradually amelio- 
rated, and, if the central healthy action can be 
maintained, finally cured. 
If we contrast the violence which is so often done 
to thedelicateorganlsms of the human body through 
the administration of drugs given to break the force 
of a disease, and which sometimes keeps the patient 
lingering for months in slow convalescence, needing 
all the while the physician’s care, with the revital- 
ized condition of Compound Oxygen patients, the 
advantage on the sideof the latter, as compared with 
those treated under most of the prevailing systems, 
becomes strikingly apparent. Under the newTreat- 
ment, which is by inhalation, there is no weakening 
of the tone of the stomach by drugs, and no violent 
assaults upon any nerve or fibre in the body, but a 
gentle and subtly penetrating influence, reaching to the 
very centre of all the life-forces and restoring them (o 
healthier action. The natural result under this Treat- 
ment must be, that when a patient recovers he is in 
a far better condition to resist the causes which 
produce disease than the patient who has had 
the life-forces weakened through drug medication. 
As a restorer of vital force, it can be largely shown 
from the results obtained during the past twelve 15 
years, that Compound Oxygen is the most efficient agent 
yet discovered by the medical profession. Its use by 
overworked business and professional men, and by all 
who suffer from nervous exhaustion and low vitality, 
would save many hundreds of lives every year, and give 
to thousands more the ability to work without the weari- 
ness, exhaustion, and peril which now attend their 
labors. 
A Safe Remedy. 
To those who have never used the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment, and who are debating the ques- 
tion as to whether they shall give it a trial or not, 
we offer it as an entirely safe remedy. If no benefit 
should be received (a case of rare occurrence), no 
harm will be done. There will be no shock to the 
system; no weakening of the vital forces; no legacy 
of evil, as when crude drugs are taken. It does not 
cure one disease by substituting another, which 
often is less curable than the one whose action it 
suspends. As we have said in our Treatise, “ It con- 
tains no medicament, unless the elements of pure 
air are medicines; and its administration introduces 
into the body nothing which the system does not 
welcome as a friend, accept with avidity, appropri- 
ate as entirely homogeneous to itself, and claim as 
its own birthright.” 
In this freedom from all shocks, exhausting reac- 
tions, or drug-poisoning the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment stands alone, with the single exception 
of that administered by the homoeopathic school of 
medicine. It never leaves a patient in a worse con- 
dition than that in which it found him, but always 
in some smaller or larger degree better. It sends its 16 
(subtle agent to the invisible centres of life, where 
diseases originate through obstructions in the first 
wonderfully minute organic forms which receive 
life from the soul, and removes the obstructions 
which were hindering its perfect reception and dis- 
pensation to the whole body. These removed, the 
influent life descends again, and health is restored. 
This is the simple philosophy of cure which lies at 
the foundation of our Treatment, and is the one 
upon which Homoeopathy also rests. Any other 
method of cure is attacking effects and not causes, 
and in all of its varied forms is more or less hurtful 
to the body. That disastrous results to health follow, 
in a large number of cases, the administration of 
crude drugs by physicians is too well known. There 
is scarcely a person in any community who cannot 
point you to some relative, friend, or neighbor who 
is a sufferer from this cause. Many of these have 
been wounded past recovery, and doomed to a life 
of suffering and weary invalidism. Of this class are 
large numbers of our patients, and they are the most 
difficult to help; but even these find, with few ex- 
ceptions, a measure of relief under the effects of our 
Treatment, and many of them, when there is enough 
vitality remaining, come slowly back along the road 
to health. Could anything show more conclusively 
that our Treatment is based on the true law of cure, 
viz.: that which regards causes and not effects; 
which goes to the internal seat and origin of disease, 
instead of attacking with violence the suffering 
body and reducing its strength; nay. worse, setting 
up within it, in too many instances, a new disease 
which may prove a worse enemy than the one 
sought to be dislodged? 17 
Arresting the Progress of Disease after it has 
made Serious Inroads upon the Vital Sys- 
tem. 
There is one thing in our Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment to which we have repeatedly called attention, 
viz.: its action in arresting the progress of disease. 
The testimony of patients on this head is, with rare 
exceptions, uniform. No matter how great the suffer- 
ing and exhaustion, the cases are few in which an 
almost immediate amelioration of the worst symp- 
toms does not take place on commencing the use of 
this Treatment, and so long as it is continued the 
patient generally finds himself in a better and more 
comfortable position than before. 
It will often happen that the vital system has be- 
come so exhausted by disease that restoration to 
health is impossible. But, in the large number of 
“incurable” cases which from year to year come 
into our hands, the instances are few in which the 
rapid progress of disease is not stayed and the pa- 
tient’s life prolonged and made comparatively com- 
fortable. Too often it occurs that, in disappoint- 
ment because a hoped-for cure is notspeedily made, 
the Treatment is given up and the only chances for 
a few more years of life abandoned. 
If nothing more is gained from the Treatment 
than a fair measure of relief from suffering, surely 
that is worth having, and something to be thankful 
for; but when to this is added an arrest, more or 
less complete, in the progress of a wasting disease, 
the gain must be regarded as beyond price. Such a 
result we can confidently promise if patients of this 
class will put themselves under our care, communl- cate with us regularly as to their condition, and 
strictly follow our advice in using the Treatment. 
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Arresting the Progress of Disease in its Ear- 
lier Stages. 
If the progress of disease can be arrested through 
the agency of Compound Oxygen after it has made 
serious inroads and impaired the vital forces, how 
much more readily must this be done while disease 
is yet only in its earlier stages. In cases where the 
lungs are threatened, a prompt use of this vitalizing 
Treatment will, with scarcely an exception—we 
might say without an exception—ward off the 
attack. So in the beginning of almost any disease, 
which, if suffered to get a lodgment, might progress 
until it gained a chronic condition. Asthma, pneu- 
monia, bronchitis, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous 
weakness, and, in fact, nearly all diseases, may be 
checked on their first presentation; and not only 
this, be held permanently in check if, whenever 
from any cause signs of their return become appar- 
ent, the Oxygen is at once resorted to. 
To keep well is far safer and more comfortable 
than to get well. But to keep well in our variable 
and trying climate, and under the conditions of ex- 
posure, fatigue, and exhausting overwork to whicli 
so large a portion of our people are subjected, is a 
difficult and almost impossible thing. The waste oi 
vitality which is constantly going on naturally dis- 
poses the system to the contraction of diseases, the 
germs of which may be lurking in the atmosphere, 
or to the baleful effect which may follow some change In its organic condition. How to meet these changes, 
which manifest themselves in morbid conditions of 
the body, is a problem to which the best minds in 
the profession have long been directed. So far, no 
agent has been discovered which so certainly and 
quickly supplies the lost vitality which accompanies 
the conditions referred to as Compound Oxygen. 
A Treatment kept in the house and used when 
there is a feeling of physical or nervous depression, 
or when there are indications of a cold or any 
marked disturbance of the health, will, in most 
cases, restore the vital equilibrium and save some 
member of the family from a spell of sickness more 
or less severe. 
19 Unsolicited Testimonials. UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS. 
Inflammatory Rheumatism. 
No. 1. 
In the following case we have a remarkable in- 
stance of the wonder-working potency of Compound 
Oxygen. The patient herself could hardly have 
been more surprised than we were at the result 
which attended its use; for when we examined her 
case and understood clearly her condition, we did 
not believe that anything could be done for her, and 
frankly told her so: 
“Philadelphia, June 10th, 1882. 
“Drs. Starkey & Taken : Dear (Sirs/—In April, 
1881,1 came to your office on Girard Street to consult 
you in reference to the effect of your Treatment on 
Inflammatory Rheumatism. 
“ Eighteen years ago I discovered rheumatism in 
the ends of my fingers; from that it gradually spread 
all over my body, settling in my feet in 1870; and 
from that time to January, 1880, I grew worse and 
worse, suffering nearly all the time intense shooting 
pains, prostrating me often for days, when the 
trouble settled in my left arm. There were three 
spots on the arm so painfully sensitive that if any 
one touched them I would scream with pain. My 
arm lost all vitality, becoming as cold as if encased in 
ice and hanging at my side a heavy weight. The mus- 
cles fell away to the bone, and my shoulder wasted 
away till it became necessary to pad my dresses to 
wear them. Indeed, it was so alarming that I feared 
paralysis. In addition to this trouble, my stomach 
was in a terrible condition, having refused all kinds 
of food for months, and I was starving on a low 
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under the advice of one of Philadelphia’s first phy- 
sicians. 
“ At one time my trouble was pronounced cancer 
of the stomach, and when I recovered sufficiently to 
be around I would be attacked several times a day 
with nausea and vomiting. This continued for a 
long time. I also had a lung trouble of many years’ 
standing, coughing daily and raising a good deal of 
mucus. With these three diseases, I was unable to 
sleep, and during the two months previous to com- 
ing to your office I had not slept one night. 
“ After a careful examination of my case, your Dr. 
Starkey said to me, ‘ I don't think I can do anything 
for you.' 
“ I had heard and read of the Oxygen for so long a 
time that I was anxious to try it if only to get a lit- 
tle relief, so on April 8th, 1881, I began the Office 
Treatment, coming every day for a while and then 
three times a week. 
“ The first night after inhaling the Compound Oxygen 
I had the first night's rest in months. This greatly re- 
lieved and encouraged me. After using the Treat- 
ment a month, I was enabled to notice a slight 
change in my poor arm, but could not move any part 
of it. During the second month I could notice a de- 
cided improvement in my stomach and a littlemotion 
of the fingers. I then had the misfortune to fall down 
a flight of stairs, which threw me away back and 
injured my arm seriously. I resumed the Treatment 
as soon as I was able to come to the office, and by 
August, notwithstanding the fall, I found, by the 
use of the other arm, I could move the lame one about 
an inch from the body and could raise the shoulder 
slightly. In November I could lift my arm a little 
and the spots were not so painful. All this time my 
stomach was improving and my lung trouble less 
troublesome. By Christmas I could eat almost 
everything placed before me; I had little or no 
nausea, and seldom vomited. My arm began to fill 
oid and the rheumatism, instead of being a perma- 
nent pain, was now scattering and only visited me 24 
occasionally, and I realized that I was much less a 
barometer. 1 felt like a neiv being. In February, 1882, 
I was using my arm at light work and teas able to comb 
my hair, a thing I had not done in a long time, could 
button my dresses at the top, and found it necessary to 
take the padding from my dresses. 
“In April, one year from the time I began, my 
lungs had improved wonderfully, my stomach was 
well, and my rheumatism back into my fingers, where 
it started in 186/,, eighteen years ago. 
“I remain, very respectfully, 
“Mbs. Margaretta E. Bair, 
“ 18/48 Filbert Street, Philadelphia.' 
“ August 1st, 1882. Since the foregoing was written, 
the last vestiges of rheumatism which remained in 
my fingers have departed, and I consider myself 
cured. M. E. B.” 
[A year later Mrs. Bair was In our office, and stated 
to us that she had had no return of rheumatism, 
and was in all respects in good health.] 
Consnmption Arrested and Held in Check. 
No. 2. 
Condition of the Patient After Five Years. 
The case of Mrs. Vienna T. Douglass, of Hunts- 
ville, Ala., gives a striking illustration of the claim 
which we make for Compound Oxygen, viz.: that 
it is an agent by the use of which the progress of 
disease may be arrested and the patient, if recupera- 
tive power be not in a great measure destroyed, 
brought back to comparative good health. 
In 1877, Mrs. Douglass commenced using Com- 25 
pound Oxygen. In describing her case at that time, 
she says: 
“ When I commenced using it (Compound Oxygen) 
I was hollow-chested, with deep-seated pain in my 
lungs and great difficulty of breathing. * * * That 
dread disease, consumption, had been coming on me 
for more than fifteen years. * * * Was so reduced 
that I was unable to attend to my household duties— 
hardly able to go from room to room—with the expecta- 
tion of myself and family and friends that I would 
not live many months.” 
After two months’ use of Compound Oxygen she 
began to recover, and to such an extent that, using 
her own language, “ All my friends asked me what 
I had been doing to myself that caused such an im- 
provement.” 
Two years afterward we had a letter from her 
physician, Dr. J. F. Goldman, of Huntsville, Ala., 
in which he says: 
“ I can fully indorse her statement as to her health 
now. * * * She is a picture of health.” 
This was in August, 1879. 
A year afterward, Mrs. Douglass, in consequence 
of overwork and exposure to cold, began to run 
down, when another Treatment was obtained. Its 
use quickly arrested the downward tendency and 
restored her to comparative health. At the end of 
another year, August, 1881, we had a letter from one 
of her friends, in which she says: 
•‘By occasional use of the Oxygen, Mrs. Douglass 
is still able to attend to her household duties. In 
time of cold or exposure or overwork, she uses it 
regularly and so recovers. Without it her five chil- 
dren must long ago have been motherless.” 26 
In the same month we had a letter from Dr. Gold- 
man, saying: 
“ Mrs. Douglass was in my office two days ago, 
well and hearty.” 
A later report from this case will he found below. 
It is contained in a letter from one of her friends, a 
lady who has taken great interest in the case and 
who has kept us advised from time to time of its 
progress. 
It will be seen that the disease has, in the case of 
Mrs. Douglass, been held in check by Compound 
Oxygen in spite of very unfavorable conditions and 
her life of useful service to her family prolonged for 
years: 
“ Gentlemen :—Mrs. Vienna T. Douglass is again 
out of her ‘ life preserver,’ as she calls the Oxygen. 
As I have so often said, if she could have had ‘half 
a cnance’ she would have been well by its use long 
ago. As it is, she keeps about, performs her daily 
duties, now and then walks to town and back, a 
distance of at least two and one-half miles, counting 
the town-walking, and is in a great many respects 
vastly superior to a dead woman. She still receives 
and takes pleasure in replying to numberless inqui- 
ries, varying all the way from a postal card to two 
or three pages of letter-paper. Most of them ask the 
very original question, or, rather, make the state- 
ment that they write to know if there really is any 
such person as Mrs. Vienna T. Douglass or is it only 
an advertising dodge. Surely the days of American 
credulity are past! 
“Hoping that Mrs. Douglass will soon receive 
the needed supply, I am, as always, her friend and 
yours.’’ 
Huntsville, Ala., May 2d, 1882. 27 
No. 3, 
Asthma.—A Most Distressing Case. 
On Nov. loth, 1882, Mrs. Mary Y. Hedges, of Dan- 
ville, N. Y.,came to our office and put herself under 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment. She had been 
for many years a sufferer from asthma. Her condi- 
tion when she came was distressing in the extreme. 
She had exhausted the skill of all the different 
methods of curing asthma, including a long stay at 
an Institution in her native place. For about a 
year she had hardly been free from it at all, and had 
to take morphine every day. When she came, she 
remarked that she came to try the C. O. as a last 
hope for some relief, as she had not a particle of 
faith that anything in the world could cure asthma. 
We promised to let her go home for the holidays 
decidedly improved. She was very skeptical about 
our being able to fulfill the promise. 
After one week’s treatment she was free from 
asthma. During the second week she had one at- 
tack for two hours, in which she thought she would 
die. That was her last attack. 
On Dec. 9th she went home, apparently a well 
woman. 
Three weeks afterward, Dec. 30th, 1882, she wro,?. 
us as follows: 
“ It’s now over three weeks since I left your office 
with my discharge papers, and I thank the Lord daily 
my steps were guided to you, to whom I owe so much. 
“ I am feeling so well; better than in ten gears. I find 
I can walk, run sewing-machine, do many things 
about the house I have not been able to do in years. 
Have no pain either in lungs or shoulders; not one 28 
bit of pressure for breath ; going and doing with perfect 
ease and comfort whatever I undertake. The great 
change in me is truly marvelous. I am a wonder to 
myself as well as my friends, and others here say they 
shall test its merits in their own cases.” 
Between two and three months after the above was 
written we received the following letter from Mrs. 
Hedges, which we publish with her consent: 
“Dansville, N. Y., March 13th, 1883. 
“Drs. Starkey & Pales: Dear Sirs:—In No- 
vember last I called at your office in Girard Street, 
hoping to get relief from asthma, but not expecting 
to get cured of it. I had been told so many times 
‘no cure ’—simply endure. After consultation with 
you, you said I could find relief, and in six months 
of persistent home effort an entire cure. 
“I have done so much better than you promised me 
that I feel I must write this letter to you and give 
the praise to Compound Oxygen. Sixteen years ago 
I had diphtheria, leaving me with bronchial diffi- 
culty. About eight years ago asthma set in, and for 
all these years I have suffered from a cough and fre- 
quent asthmatic spasms, never more than two 
months passing by without an attack more or less 
severe. For nine weeks before going to you I suf- 
fered day and night, never finding relief except under 
the influence of opiates. They were my constant com- 
panions till I could endure the thraldom no longer. 
Life wasn't worth living,puffing and panting forbrea'h 
as I had to do. 
“To-day, after four weeks’ office treatment, under 
the kind and attentive care of Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
I call myself well—perfectly well—having had but one 
spasm since my treatment commenced, and that 
while under your care in Philadelphia. 
“ I breathe with perfect ease and freedom; work 
about my house; walk long distances, and ‘ breathe 
like other people,' none knowing the luxury till they 
have suffered in like manner. I am 4 armed for the 29 
foe, with Home Treatment, and wish every asth- 
matic in the land could hear and know of the benefit 
to be gained from the use of Compound Oxygen. 
Wishing you long life and future usefulness, I am, 
sincerely 
Mary Y. Hedges.” 
No. 4. 
Chronic Dyspepsia Cured.—A Case Without 
Parallel in Medical History. 
Dr. John Turner, writing from Saugerties, N. Y„ 
reported, under date of October 6th, 1880, the follow- 
ing cure in a case of Dyspepsia, which we may safely 
say is without a parallel in medical history: 
“ Monday, August 30th, 1880. 
“ Was called to see a Miss Demill. She was suffer- 
ing from Chronic Dyspepsia, and was completely run 
down with constant nausea, etc. * * * She could 
keep no food or aliment of any kind on her stomach— 
so that she almost lived on air. * * * I used the 
medicine indicated in Miss D.’s symptoms and vis- 
ited her for a week. No benefit. She took as nour- 
ishment only one-quarter of a teaspoonfxd of Valentine's 
Meat Juice, three times a day; and even that she could 
not keep down, as the water and it came up a short 
time after taking it. 
“ Miss D. had been brought up from Brooklyn a 
week or so before I saw her, and now the difficulty 
was to get her back to her home. On the 7th of 
September I prevailed on her to try the Compound 
Oxygen, as I concluded that was the only help for 
her. 
“ From the very first inhalation she was benefited, 
and would have been able to have gone to New 
York by the boat on the Monday following if the 
storms had permitted. As it was, she went to the 30 
city by the night boat on Friday, September 17th, 
just ten days after she began using the Oxygen, and 
was able to sit up on deck until eleven o’clock p. m. 
I consider the whole thing as near a miracle as any- 
thing can be. 
“ When I saw Miss Demill first, 30th August, and 
up to 7th September, she looked as if she could not 
recover, but very soon after using the Compound 
Oxygen she began to improve—could take soup and 
bear the smell of food, which she had not been able 
to do for months before. I consider the case so re- 
markable as to be worthy of record 
The following letter from the brother of Miss 
Demill yot only corroborates the above, but shows 
the case to have been even more desperate than Dr. 
Turner has stated it: 
“ New York, 55 Liberty Street, Sept. 18th, 1880. 
“ John Turner, M. D.: Dear Sir:—My sister had 
intended to reply to your kind letter herself; but 
fearing to fatigue herself in the midst of many other 
duties which she thinks must be discharged, she 
has deputed me to undertake the office for her. She 
is fully sensible that, but for the ‘ Compound Oxygen ' 
recommended by you, she would, in all human proba- 
bility, by this time be no longer among the living. As it 
is, she is improving in health and strength every 
day. As for appetite, I do not think she has occa- 
sion to improve in that respect. What a different 
state of circumstances this is from that of a few 
weeks back! We shall be very well pleased to have 
you see her improved condition on any visit you 
may make to the city. I am sure our friends in 
Saugerties would be amazed if they should witness 
the contrast. I have never been any great upholder 
of nostrums—but seeing is believing. And I feel 
that this compound of such gases as nature is giving 
to us every moment of our lives cannot be put in 
the same category with drugs which are foreign to 
the body. It will, doubtless, be a source of great 31 
gratification to our friends at Saugerties to know 
that my sister's visit to them has been the means of sav- 
ing her life. Yours very truly, 
Dr. Turner has removed to New York city, and is 
now in charge of our Depository at No. 8G2 Broad- 
way. 
“ R. Demill.” 
Important Testimony in Favor of Compound 
Oxygen as a Revitalizing Agent. 
No. 5. 
We give the important testimony of T. S. Arthur, 
the well-known American author, who, after many 
years of invalidism, was restored to full health by 
the use of this New Treatment: 
“Office of Arthur's Home Magazine, 
“Philadelphia,227 S. Sixth St., Jan. 1st, 1878. 
“Drs. Starkey & Palen: Dear Sirs:—I do not 
think I can say anything stronger in favor of your 
Oxygen Treatment than I have already said. Your 
Dr. Starkey knows how run down, enervated, and 
exhausted I had become, and with what reluctance 
and lack of faith I at last yielded to his friendly 
efforts to induce me to try the new agent of cure 
which had come into his hands. 
“At that time, as I then told him, I had laid down 
all earnest literary work and never expected to take 
it up again. My friends gave me but a short lease 
of life. But within six mont hs my pen was resumed, 
and before the year closed I had completed one of 
my largest and most earnestly written books, clos- 
ing the last page without any of the old sense of 
exhaustion. Since then there has scarcely been a 
day in which I have not been hard at work in my 
study from three to five hours, and all this without 32 
any return of the weak and tired feeling from which 
I had suffered for so many years. 
“ The constant remark I now hear on meeting 
those who have long known me, Is, ‘How'well you 
are looking!’ And yet in a few months I shall 
enter my seventieth year. I am at the time of life 
Avhen most men find themselves laid on the shelf 
and where I believed that I was about being laid 
some seven years ago, when I began to use this 
Oxygen Treatment; but now I have a sense of vi- 
tality of which I once knew nothing, and feel as if 
there were yet in me at least ten good working 
years. 
“Forall this I consider myself indebted to your 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
“ Yours, etc., 
“ T. S. Akthur.” 
Two years later Mr. Arthur says: 
“The benefit received from the use of ‘Compound 
Oxygen ’ has been permanent. The testimonial I 
gave you voluntarily, two years ago, is as true to- 
day, in regard to my general health, as when it was 
given.” 
And still later, June 10th, 1883, he says: 
“ I am still in the enjoyment of good health, which 
I attribute to the occasional use of Compound Oxy- 
gen.” 
No. 6. 
In January, 1880, Mr. William Penn Nixon, the 
well-known managing editor of the Chicago Inter- 
Ocean, gave us a voluntary testimonial in favor of 
Compound Oxygen, in which he says: 
“In October, 1878,1 was in very poor health. My 
Confirmatory Testimony. 33 
system had been much overtaxed, and a cold, con- 
tracted in the spring, seemed to have taken perma- 
nent hold on my lungs. I had had several slight 
hemorrhages, was troubled with a cough, and was 
much reduced In flesh. I was discouraged and my 
family alarmed at my condition. A friend in Boston 
sent my wife one of your little books strongly rec- 
ommending your remedy. I was besought to order 
the ‘ Home Treatment ’ and did so. I followed in- 
structions faithfully, and in three months was a 
new man. My troubles had almost entirely disap- 
peared. The improvement had been quiet, but cer- 
tain and sure from the time I first began its use.” 
As will be seen by the annexed letter addressed 
to a physician who asked his opinion of Compound 
Oxygen, Mr. Nixon’s improved health has con- 
tinued : 
‘‘Bear Sir:—You ask my opinion of Compound 
Oxygen in regard to its efficiency as a healing 
remedy, and I am glad to be able to reply that I 
have the greatest faith in it. Several years ago, 
when laboring under very serious trouble with my 
throat and lungs, at the instance of a friend in Bos- 
ton who had been similarly affected I began the use 
of the Oxygen—began without much faith, but the 
result was such that I am prepared to recommend 
its use to all persons similarly affected. At the end 
oj five months I found myself a well man; and ever 
since J have enjoyed better health and been more robust 
than ever before. It seemed in my case to strike at 
the root of the disease and reform the whole system. 
I will recommend no patent nostrum of any kind, 
but I deem it as a duty to the many afflicted with 
lung trouble in this country to recommend to them 
the Oxygen. Perseveringly and continuously used, 
it will work wonders. 
“ Yours truly, Wm. Penn Nixon.” 
“ The Inter-Ocean Office, 
“Chicago, April 4th, 1883. 34 
No. 7. 
The following testimonial from Hon. H. P. Vroo- 
man, of the law firm of Vrooman & Carey, Topeka, 
Kansas, is of so direct and positive a character that 
it can hardly fail to convince the most skeptical that 
in the new substance which we call Compound Oxy- 
gen there resides a marvelous healing and restoring 
power: 
“Topeka, Kansas, June 27th, 1882. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Pai.en: Gentlemen:—In the 
interest of suffering humanity I send you, for publi- 
cation, an account of the almost miraculous cure 
which your Compound Oxygen performed in the 
case of my wife. Her condition was a very peculiar 
one. She had a complication of diseases, Dyspepsia, 
Torpid Liver, or Liver Complaint, as her physicians 
have always called it, and general nervous prostration. 
“ If you will refer to my description of her case 
when I made the first order for your Treatment in 
December, 1877, you will see that she was suffering 
from severe attacks of colic and vomiting. These 
attacks first came once in two or three months, when 
she would vomit herself almost to death’s door, and 
until she would raise a large amount of green bile. 
When her stomach was relieved from this she would 
become better at once. But as soon as.a certain 
amount ofbile would again accumulate there would 
be another attack of colic and vomiting. Each time 
the attacks came at shorter intervals and were more 
severe, until she became so weak and exhausted that 
toe are sure she could not have lived many days longer 
had not your Oxygen Treatment come just as it did and 
saved her, for the colic and vomiting had become al- 
most perpetual, and her strength and life were nearly 
exhausted. 
“ We could see a change in her condition from the first 
“Conld Sot Hare Lived Many Days.” 35 
inhalation, for she never had so severe an attack of 
colic afterward and had more strength to endure 
the pain and retching, She continued to gain 
steadily, and for the past four years has had no 
severe attacks. If she is threatened with one she 
takes an inhalation or two and so escapes any severe 
paroxysms. 
“We have used in all nearly five Home Treat- 
ments in four years. One of our boys, fourteen years 
of age, had an attack of inflammation of the bowels, 
which left him in a very bad condition. The Treat- 
ment did him nearly, if not quite, as much good as 
it did Mrs. Vrooman. 
“I think it but right that we should make known 
to others what Compound Oxygen has done for us, 
and therefore send you this statement for publica- 
tion. Very respectfully, 
“ H. P. Vrooman.” 
No. 8. 
In August, 1882, a gentleman in Kosciusko, Miss., 
consulted us in regard to his condition. For six 
years prior to 1880 he had been closely confined to 
desk and office work. Then his health began rapidly 
to fail. He grew weak and tired; had a dry, hack- 
ing cough; expectorating matter streaked with 
blood. Had to give up work for several months. In 
1881 had malarial fever, which greatly prostrated 
him. After trying many physicians and spending a 
great deal of money in a fruitless search for health, 
he, after consulting us, determined to try Compound 
Oxygen. What it did for him this letter will tell: 
“ Kosciusko, Miss., January 13th, 1883. 
“ Drs.Starkey & Palen : Gentlemen:—The grati- 
tude of a truly grateful man is yours for the blessing 
u Tried Many Physicians.” 36 
you have bestowed upon me through Compound Oxygen 
I have now been at my desk since 1st December, and 
feel no bad effects from work; on the contrary, am 
improving daily, and every friend remarks upon my 
improved appearance. I have not felt as well in three 
years as I now do, and during that period I tried 
many physicians, squandered my money on doctors and 
their prescriptions, and note, thanks to your wonderful 
medicine, I have been cured at the small, yes, insignifi- 
cant, cost of $15.00. * * * You are at perfect liberty 
to use my name and refer any one to me. 
“ Yours truly, 
“ S. W. Tucker, 
“ Cashier C. A. & N. R. R.” 
Rapid Improvement in a Case of Consumption. 
No. 9. 
Mansfiei.d, Mass., March 11th, 1882. 
“Messrs. Starkey & Palen: Dear Sirs:—Two 
months have elapsed since I commenced taking 
your Compound Oxygen Treatment and I feel like a 
new man. I cannot find words to express my gratitude 
for the benefit received. I would not have believed 
that any treatment for my trouble would have 
brought such results in so short a time. Those of 
my friends who advised me to go to Florida or Colo- 
rado for my health last fall, now look at me with 
astonishment and ask, ‘ What have you been doing 
to improve your health so rapidly ?’ I tell them it 
is Drs. Starkey & Palen’s Compound Oxygen. 
“When I commenced taking the Treatment 1 
could not walk fast or go up and down stairs without 
being all out of breath, coughed, and raised a great 
deal; and every change in the atmosphere would 
make me feel as though I had taken a sudden cold. 
My right lung was so sensitive that I could not lie on 
my right side, and I was troubled with pains if I over- 
exerted myself in the least. Noiv I can run or walk 37 
fast with ease ; do more work with less fatigue than for 
years ; cough nearly all gone ; can go out in any kind 
of weather without taking cold, and feel elastic and in 
the best of spirits. 
“This is what Compound Oxygen has done for 
one whose friends whispered among themselves 
that he was gone with Consumption. Have not had 
a drawback since taking your Treatment. 
“ I have a supply of the Oxygen for another month, 
and I shall keep your Treatment as one of the in- 
dispensable articles in my home while 1 live. 
“ Yours truly, 
March 20th, 1882, Mr. Lovell writes: 
“ I was somewhat reserved at first about making 
public what treatment I was receiving, but now I 
am entirely willing that every one should know 
that Compound Oxygen lias given me that life and 
vitality which I have not had before for years. I 
think it has saved my life.” 
Writing us still later, May 13th, Mr. Lovell 
says: 
“ Inclosed find money-order for second supply of 
Compound Oxygen. My first supply was exhausted 
about six months ago, and I am now satisfied that it 
has effected a permanent cure. I send this order to 
have it on hand in case any of my family should 
require it, as I intend to always have it on hand. 
“ The Treatment has certainly performed a mira- 
cle upon me, for I never expected to regain my for- 
mer health. I can do more work with greater ease 
than I have been able to do for five years. My cough 
has entirety ceased and the ulcer on my leg it well and 
sound, and I feel in every way like a new man. 
“ I shall always consider that my life was saved by 
the power of the Oxygen Home Treatment, and blest 
the day that I commenced its me,” 38 
No. 10. 
Hon. ‘William D. Kelley. 
The action of “ Compound Oxygen ” in catarrhal 
cases has always been prompt, and we have on 
record many remarkable cures. Among these is 
the casq of Hon. William D. Kelley : 
West Philadelphia, June 6th, 1877. 
“Dr. G. R. Starkey, Philadelphia: 
“Dear Sir:—Just about four years have elapsed 
since, overcoming a violent prejudice against any 
treatment that was offered as a specific for a wide 
range of apparently unrelated diseases, I yielded to 
the wishes of my friends, and, abandoning other 
medicine, put myself in your charge. 
“ Gratitude to you and duty to those who may be 
suffering as I was from chronic catarrh and almost 
daily effusion of blood, in greater or less quantities, 
but always sufficient to keep one reminded of his 
mortality, impel me to say to you and to authorize 
you to give any degree of publicity to my assertion, that 
the use of your gas, at intervals, has so far restored 
my health that I am not conscious of having dis- 
charged any blood for more than a year; and that 
my cough, the severity of which made me a frequent 
object of sympathy, has disappeared. 
“In short, my experience under your Treatment 
has convinced me that no future dispensatory will 
be complete that does not embrace the administra- 
tion, by inhalation or otherwise, of your agent or 
its equivalent, to those who, from their vocation or 
other cause, are, as I was, unable to assimilate 
enough of some vital element to maintain their 
systems in healthful vigor. 
“Thanking you for renewed health, strength, and 
the hope of years of comfortable life, I remain 
“ Your grateful friend, 
“William D. Kelley.” 39 
As will be seen by the “ Card ” signed by Mr. Kel- 
ley and others, he says, as late as June, 1882, that 
he has received “greatand permanent benefit from 
the use of Compound Oxygen,” and that he re- 
garded it as “ a new discovery in medical science” 
and “all that is claimed for it.” 
A Strong Testimonial. 
No. 11. 
The following letter from the wife of Attorney 
General John Fair, of Tennessee, gives so clear and 
emphatic a report of the great benefit received from 
the use of Compound Oxygen that we publish it 
with the consent of the writer: 
“ Brountvirle, Tenn., October 16th, 1882. 
“Drs. Starkey & Palen For seventeen years 
I have been a sufferer from diseased liver, having 
contracted the disease while living in the malarial 
districts of Texas, each succeeding attack being 
more severe, and leaving me less strength to bear 
the next. 
“ About two years ago I was induced to use Com- 
pound Oxygen, and since that time have steadily im- 
proved, without any falling back. The Oxygen has 
been used only at intervals, being now on the third 
supply. 
“ For years I had not had two good nights’’rest in suc- 
cession, but since using your remedy have slept well. 
“ It is now twelve months since I have had an at- 
tack of bilious colic, and have fewer symptoms of the 
return of the disease than for years. I have no doubt 
if I had used it regularly that by this time I would 
have been entirely cured. 
“You are at liberty to publish all or any part of 
this that you may deem proper. 
“Mrs. John Fair.” 40 
No. 12, 
“Cannot Speak too Highly in its Praise.” 
Dr. Turner, of our New York Depository, sends 
us the following important letter received by him 
from a gentleman in Brooklyn : 
“ Brooklyn, 341 Hoyt St., Dec. 4th, 1882. 
Dr. John Turner, 862 Broadway, New York. 
“ Dear Doctor:—It is now over two years since a 
Home Treatment of the Compound Oxygen was ob- 
tained from you, and being certain that you will feel 
interested to know with what success it has been 
used, I take this opportunity of informing you. 
“ I had been subject to terrible influenza colds when 
I commenced using the Compound Oxygen. On 
leaving my head they invariably seated themselves in 
my Iwngs, rendering them very sore, and would some, 
times leave me a cough for months. I dreaded these 
colds more than my ivorst enemy. Since using the 
Oxygen I have not had one on my lungs, and 1 have 
frequently had one inhalation drive away the cold so 
completely that the next day I could scarce realize 
that I had had one at all. 
“ Other members of my family have used the Oxy- 
gen for the same purpose; also, for rheumatism, 
dyspepsia, and catarrh, ivith equally good results, espe- 
cially in catarrh. 
“I cannot speak too highly in its praise. 
“ Very truly yours, 
“ Frank W. Doughty.” 
No. 13. 
After nearly Four Years. 
Dr. J. F. Goldman, of Huntsville, Ala., who has 
treated many of his patients with Compound Oxy- 
gen during the past four or five years, and with 41 
remarkable results in quite a number of cases, sent 
us, in December, 1879, the following statement, made 
to him by one of these patients. It was dated Hunts- 
ville, Ala., July 16th, 1879: 
“ I havediad, for three years past, pains, soreness, 
and trouble in my right lung. Two years ago I had 
a hemorrhage from my lungs. At this time I was 
employed as blacksmith in the C. and Memphis 
Railroad shops. I was compelled to give up my 
situation and quit work. This last winter 1 was 
troubled with a bad cough, and was so reduced in 
strength as to scarcely be able to walk. I lost my appe- 
tite and became greatly emaciated. My throat also 
was constantly sore and I was troubled with hoarse- 
ness. No one who saw me could doubt that I had the 
consumption. Two months ago I was induced to 
visit Dr. Goldman’s office and try the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment. The effect from the very first 
was quite marked. Within Jive days my cough nearly 
left me, I slept well, my appetite returned, and, not- 
withstanding Jos-one month past I have worked harder 
than I have for three years, I have gained, during this 
exceedingly hot month seventeen pounds in weight. 
And now (so far as I can see) I am well! every bad 
symptom having disappeared, and I feel active and 
strong. Nut for this Treatment, I should, in all proba- 
bility, never have done another day’s work. I relied 
wholly on this Treatment from the first, and I can, and 
do, most heartily commend the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment to all who are similarly afflicted. 
“ N. B. Gbayson.” 
In sending the above statement from Mr. Grayson, 
Dr. Goldman wrote: 
“Mr. Grayson is still,at this date (December 8th, 
1879), strong and healthy, working every day at the 
anvil. Two months’ inhalation did it.” 
In March of this year, 1883, we received a letter 42 
from Dr. Goldman, in which he orders a Treatment 
for his old patient, and says: 
“This is the Mr. Grayson of whose remarkable 
recovery I sent you a notice nearly four years ago. 
He is strong and hearty; has been at his anvil ever 
since. He has a slight cold in his lungs now for the 
first time. He thinks, as a matter of prudence, he 
had better have the Oxygen by him.” 
This case, remarkable as it is, both in its rapid 
improvement and in the permanency of results 
which followed the use of Compound Oxygen for so 
short a period, is only one of many in which the 
progress of consumption has been arrested by our 
Treatment after it had reached a stage which seemed 
beyond the chances of relief or cure. From all we 
know of the results which have followed the Treat- 
ment of this disease by the best physicians, we 
are warranted in saying that only in exceptional 
instances has a case like the above been cured 
by any of the remedies known to the medical 
profession. Until the discovery and dispensation 
of Compound Oxygen, nearly all such cases were 
hopeless. 
No. 14. 
The following, under the above caption, is taken 
from The Whispers of Peace, published by Rev. H. 
S. Platt, A. M., at Southampton, N. Y. Mr. Platt 
has been using Compound Oxygen for some four 
years, and during that time has tested it in forty- 
one cases, the results of which he has voluntarily 
given to the public in his paper. Mr. Platt is well 
“Tested and Not Found Wanting'.” 43 
known among the Methodists, to which denomina- 
tion he belongs, as a truth-loving and conscientious 
man. No question can, therefore, lie against the 
fairness of his report: 
“Thirty years of close observation and study have 
convinced us that the science of medicine needs 
some great vilalizer adapted to the widest range of 
diseases, yet thoroughly practicable. For a long time 
we sought it in electricity, but for the masses that is 
an untamed coif—serviceable if it can be properly 
used. In the nature of the case, no drug can ever 
meet the requirements. Four years of experiment 
have led us to believe that it is found in the Com- 
pound Oxygen of Drs. Starkey & Palen. 
“ As we have been so severely condemned for ad- 
vertising this article so largely, we submitthe follow- 
ing facts to the judgment of our readers, and also to 
answer the numerous letters of inquiry that reach 
us concerning it. 
“We have personally tested Compound Oxygen in 
forty-one cases, with the following results: 
“ Class I. Cases recognized from the outset as incur- 
able: One uterine, three consumption, one diabetes, 
advanced stage; all greatly relieved. 
“Class II. Cases deemed as possibly curable: 1. 
Deranged several years; excessive nervousness; 
much improved. 2 and 3. Bronchial consump- 
tion; one nearly cured, the other greatly helped, 
but the disease rendered fatal by an accident. 4. 
Bronchitis, one lung useless; cured. 5. Constitu- 
tional debility, life-long; improved. 6. Consump- 
tion; cured. 7. Confirmed and increasing halluci- 
nations; cured. 8. Neuralgia of optic nerve, gastric 
irritation, great nervous prostration; abandoned 
for want of proper instruction while at a distance. 
“Class III. Cases deemed probably curable: 1. Bron- 
chitis and hay fever; bronchitis cured. 2. Gastric 
fever and prostration, inability to recuperate; cured. 
3 and 4. General debility; greatly benefited. 5. Kid- 44 
ney disease and nervous debility; ‘life saved.’ 6. 
Persistent and harassing cough; cured. 7. Cough of 
twelve years’standing; cured. 8. Lung and heart 
disease; lungs cured and heart much improved. 
9. Obstinate cough; cured. 10. Consumptive tenden- 
cies and cough; cured. 11. Cough and spermator- 
rhoea; cough cured. 12. Nervous debility; cured. 
13. Sciatic neuralgia, nervous prostration (life de- 
spaired of); cured. 14. Consumptive decline; 
‘saved.’ 15. Bronchial and gastric irritation and 
extreme nervous prostration (life despaired of— 
could only take Oxygen three seconds); cured. 16. 
Nervous debility and uterine troubles; greatly re- 
lieved. 17-20. Overwork; all helped immediately, 
though continuing the work. 21. Uterine difficul- 
ties, extreme nervousness and hallucinations; appe- 
tite improved immediately, but treatment unwisely 
abandoned lest it should increase stoutness. 22-24. 
Treatment not properly used. 25. Nervous debility 
from overstudy; helped. 26. Debility, difficulty of 
breathing, strong hereditary consumptive tenden- 
cies; debility partly overcome, difficulty of breath- 
ing cured (still under treatment). 27. Liver complaint 
of many years and nervous derangement; liver 
decidedly better. 28. Lung disease and dyspepsia; 
improved, but frequent absence from home inter- 
feres with the Treatment. 
“ It should be observed— 
“ 1st. Most of these were cases in which physicians 
and other remedies had failed. 
“2d. Many of them were chronic. 
“ 3d. In thirty-eight of the forty-one cases only one 
Treatment (two months) was used, and in no case 
more than two. 
“ 4th. Many of the cases reported relieved or helped 
would undoubtedly have been cured by further 
treatment, but financial reasons prevented. A num- 
ber are still under treatment. 
“5th. This statement of results is accurate to our 
personal knowledge. 
“6th. These embrace all the cases under our own 45 
direction, instead of being culled, as ordinary testi- 
monials are, from hundreds or thousands of experi- 
ments. 
“ Knowing these facts, and knowing, moreover, 
that, according to the reports of a large Life Insur- 
ance Company Of causes of death of its members dur- 
ing six months of the present year, every fourth 
person died of lung disease (and these, too, all 
selected lives), we should deem ourselves false to the in- 
terest of our readers, and traitors to humanity, if we 
failed to make known such a boon for the suffering.” 
No. 15. 
Neuralgia. 
The testimonial given below needs no comment 
on our part. It is direct and positive in its state- 
ments, and shows how, in a case of severe and ex- 
hausting Neuralgia of seven years’ standing, relief 
was promptly obtained and the sufferer “ entirely 
cured” in less than a year: 
“ Camden, Del., February 12th, 1883. 
“Drs. Starkey & Palen: Dear Sirs.-—In justice 
to you, unsolicited by you, for the benefit of others 
I make the following statement of my case, which I 
trust may prove beneficial to other sufferers. 
“In the fall of 1873 I had a severe attack of Neu- 
ralgia. The suffering was principally in my head, and 
was most excruciating. I could not sleep, only when 
entirely exhausted, and was becoming fearful thatl 
would be deprived of my reason. Mg system was 
completely run doivn: no vitality; scarcely any appe- 
tite; did not relish my food. Was confined to my bed 
about three months. 
“After being able to be out I continued to have 
severe attacks every few weeks. By taking medi- 
cine would obtain temporary relief 46 
“ Abscesses would form on the side of my head, 
first on one side and then on the other, discharging 
pus quite freely. 
“ I remained in this condition about seven years, 
weak and very feeble. 
“ I then decided to try the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, which I continued for over one year. 
My general health soon began to improve ; the abscesses 
all healed, and the neuralgia ceased. And now I am 
entirely cured of neuralgia, for which I give the credit 
entirely to your Compound Oxygen, having taken 
no other medicine. 
“ You are at liberty to make such use of this state- 
ment as you may deem best, feeling thankful to you 
and a kind Providence for the result. 
“ Yours truly, 
“ S. Geddes.” 
From a Sister of Charity. 
No. 16. 
The following communication was received by 
Dr. Jno. Turner, at our Depository, 862 Broadway, 
New York. It is from a Sister of Charity, whose 
address will be furnished if desired. 
“ January 27th, 1882. 
“ Dr. J. Turnrr : Dear Sir .-—Some three months 
ago I was induced by a friend to whom the ; Home 
Treatment’ has been a real blessing to obtain a 
supply of it from your office. I gave it to one per- 
son who has been for several years afflicted with 
Nasal Catarrh. She has been most faithful in using 
it and with the best results. We are warranted in 
expecting a perfect cure by the great improvement 
that has taken place. In another case, where the 
patient was suffering from general debility, compli- 
cated lately by an attack of malaria, the effect was 
not so marked. The Treatment has not been used 47 
regularly in this case, and the constitution was so 
debilitated that we could not expect the same re- 
sults. As you saw this patient and know how weak 
she was, you will perhaps think we have been bene- 
fited as much as could be expected when I tell you 
that she is now able to take her class for five hours 
daily. She is still using the Treatment. A third 
Treatment, ordered for a clergyman, is also answer- 
ing the purpose for which it was recommended, 
securing a good rest to one who was frequently troubled 
ivith insotnnia, and preventing, to a great extent, the 
feeling of exhaustion consequent upon protracted 
and laborious Sunday duties. One who got the 
Treatment from Philadelphia before your office was 
opened wrote me a week ago, ‘ I will try to prove 
my gratitude to Drs. Starkey & Palen by telling the 
truth about Compound Oxygen to every afflicted 
person I meet; and if I were rich I would send it to 
many I know to whom life is often a burden.’ 
You may refer any parties you wish to me person- 
ally. Respectfully yours, 
“Sister .” 
A Very Singular and Exceptional Case. 
No. 11. 
The following details of a ease, made by the patient 
under his own signature, is one of the exceptional 
cases which we meet with ip our dispensation of 
Compound Oxygen, and one that illustrates in a 
very striking manner the subtle and deeply search- 
ing and active power of this new agent. In a letter 
inclosing the statement, a daughter of the gentle- 
man who makes it says: 
“ Father now considers himself well, and has been 
nearly so for some time. He has prepared a state- 
ment to send. I can only say this is a wonderful 48 
change from intense suffering to perfect ease, and I 
thank God for it /” 
“St. Cloud, Wis., January 16th, 1882. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Palen : Dear Sirs .-—I believe it 
to be a duty I owe to sufferers from blood and skin 
diseases to make a brief statement of my case and 
the great benefit derived from the use of the Com- 
pound Oxygen Treatment for some two months. 
About ten years ago I had several inflamed dark 
spots come on both of my ankles. These spots, when 
they first appeared, were of a dark copper color and 
much inflamed and rigid. They gradually grew 
larger and more troublesome, with always a sensa- 
tion of numbness, and sometimes paroxysms of 
most intolerable itching. 
“I had for several years previous to the appear- 
ance of these spots on my ankles been troubled with 
inflammatory rheumatism. My joints would be 
sometimes badly swollen and inflamed. I used gum 
Guaiacumand brandy for about six weeks, and have 
had no attack of rheumatism since, but those dark 
spots made their appearance at the end of the gum 
Guaiacum treatment, and gradually increased in 
size, until both feet were covered with this dark or 
copper-colored appearance. It also extended up 
both legs about six inphes above the ankle-joints, 
attended with much inflammation and numbness. 
My left ankle was always much worse than the right 
one. I have used hydropathic treatment for a num- 
ber of years, but wittj very little benefit. 
“ My left ankle grew much worse, while my right 
one was soon better. I had much trouble and pain 
with my left ankle for the three or four months be- 
fore commencing to use Compound Oxygen. The 
whole of the outside of my left, foot and ankle resembled 
in appearance and color a large piece of liver. It was 
much swollen and as rigid as an iceberg, with nine al- 
ien very painful dry sores. The central one was about 
one inch in diameter, and most excruciatingly pain- 
ful, I showed it to several knowing ones, who pro- 49 
nounced it a cancer. Whatever it might be called, 
it was painful enough. 
f- “ The effects of the Compound Oxygen were truly 
wonderful. It worked like a charm. In a few days 
after commencing its use, my feet began to bleach 
out; the lumps all dissolved; the skin and flesh of my 
feet soon became soft and white; the sores became less 
painful, and soon began to heal with the aid of 
Hamburg Salve, which they had refused to do before 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
“ The sores are all now ivell, and my feet and ankles 
are as good as new. In fact, I have got a new pair of 
legs; for all of which. Tam indebted to Compound Oxy- 
gen. Respectfully yours, 
“ H. Spakks.” 
r The effect of Compound Oxygen in this case gives 
a striking proof of the law governing its action. It 
had no specific relation to the disease from which 
the patient was suffering, and did not act directly 
upon the affected parts, but, instead, infused new 
vigor into all the nervous centres, quickened all the 
life-forces, and restored to healthier activity every 
organic form in the body, and the result came as a 
natural and orderly sequence. The case is excep- 
tional only in the character of the disease, not in its 
cure by Compound Oxygen. 
No. 18. 
In the fall of 1881, a gentleman In Greenfield, 
Mass., wrote to us In regard to his wife. In stating 
her case, he gave the following particulars: 
“One year ago last spring, she had rose or hay 
fever, which terminated in asthma, and was sick 
“A Wonderful Change in Six Months.” 50 
in bed most of the winter, with soreness of the chest, 
cough, and hard breathing. Coughs hard nowand 
raises considerable and is very thin and feeble. No 
strength and very little appetite.” 
A Treatment was ordered and sent and we had 
regular reports ol' the progress of her ease. The 
tirst came a week after the Treatment was received: 
September ‘29th, 1881. “ Very restless. Breathing 
troublesome in the morning. Discharges from head 
offensive and thick. Has asthma at times and 
suffers much. Appetite poor." 
October 15th. “ Decidedly better than for a year." 
October 21st. “ Improving every day. Appetite 
good. Sleep better. Cough and asthma less every 
day.” 
November 4th. “ Decidedly better. Five weeks 
ago was confined to bed with asthma and coughing. 
To-day is up, with some asthma and cough in the 
morning. Appetite good. Works all day at light 
work. Complains of pains about shoulders and 
soreness of lungs.” 
December 5th. “Took cold two weeks ago and 
had a severe spelt of asthma for two or three days. Has 
catarrh in one side of head.” 
December 19th. “ Seems to be improving in every 
way except in cough.” 
January 2d, 1882. “Down again with cough and 
asthma, and it is with difficulty that she can inhale 
at all.” 
March 3d. “Seems gaining every day. Occasion- 
ally has touch of asthma : coughs mostly at night. 
Appetite good; sleeps well, and looks decidedly 
better.” 
March 18th. “ More coughing and asthma." 
April 6tli. “Coughs much at night and has had 
several hard attacks of asthma. Distress mostly in 
throat and windpipe, but used to extend lower.” 
April 25th. “Decidedly better. Appetite good 51 
and {joining strength and flesh. Sleeps splendidly all 
night. Coughs but little; breathes well, and with no 
asthma.” 
The following letter, dated May 15th, 1882, gives the 
patient's condition at the time it was written. 
Tracing the case along through the reports above 
given and it will be seen that, the change in six 
months has been indeed “wonderful.” 
Greenfield, Mass , May 15th, 1882. 
“ Dear Sirs :—My wife is, she says, well. A wonder- 
ful change in six months, from the bed to good health, or 
nearly so, and all from Compound Oxygen. 
“ Has used nothing else. Appetite good; strength 
and flesh returning; everything looks like sound health 
again. 
“ We are grateful. Words cannot express the grati- 
tude we owe to you for this great cure. 
“Charles IJenry.” 
“ At Death’s Door.” 
No. 19. 
Rev. J. H. Richards, of South Haven, Mich., gives 
us, under date of June 14th, 1882, the following ac- 
count of what Compound Oxygen did for an old 
lady seventy years old, who, a year ago, was 
at death’s door, and is now in comparatively good 
health: 
“ Compound Oxygen has done a fine work here in 
the person of a lady near seventy. For many years 
she was badly troubled with a great enlargement on 
the neck. An irritating cough followed, and finally 
a pulmonary attack. She coughed incessantly and 
became greatly reduced—in fact, was completely 
prostrated. The physicians said that they could do no 
more for her, and that her end was at hand. She used, 52 
after this, one Treatment of Compound Osygen and 
was so much relieved that she could endure life, and 
then discontinued it. But in two or three months 
she was again at death's door. Her family was called 
in to say farewell, and she gave them her dying 
charge. But not really dying, one of her daughters 
asked if the Compound Oxygen had ceased to do 
her good. ‘Oh! no,’ she replied, ‘ but 1 have been 
without it tor some time.’ 
“A Treatment was immediately procured. This 
was about one year ago. Now she is doing work fat- 
her family and going out visiting in her carriage for 
miles in the country.” 
No. 20. 
Hemorrhage from the Lillies. 
The following letter, addressed to Dr. Turner, who 
has charge of our depository, at No. 802 Broadway, 
New York, is commended to all who are suffering 
from hemorrhages from the lungs. It. is only one of 
many cases in which bleeding from the lungs has 
been almost immediately arrested by Compound 
Oxygen and its recurrence prevented: 
“ 334 W. Eleventh Street, New York City, 
May 10th, 1883. 
“Dr. John Turner: Dear Sir:—As I am very 
thankful and grateful for the results of the‘Com- 
pound Oxygen,’ I think it right that 1 should give 
you some record of my ease. 
“ I have been using the* Compound Oxygen ’ from 
your office since January 27th last, and am now able 
to go out every day for an hour or two, which I have 
not been for nine months past. I was taken with 
what the doctors called bronchial congestion of the 
lungs, with severe unit e.ontin tied congestion of the lungs, 
which lasted from two to three days at a time. These 53 
hemorrhages commenced in July, 1882, and lasted 
until January, 1888, and, of course, I was utterly 
prostrated for weeks after. 
"I have had no hemorrhages since I commenced to 
lake the 1 Oxygen' in January last. I have been under 
the care of many doctors, but all considered my case 
hopeless. 
“ I was examined by Professors L and W , and 
also by Dr. E , and up to the middle of March last 
they all regarded my case as hopeless. 
“At present I have about given up all medicines 
and rely upon the ‘ Compound Oxygen ’ alone. I am 
now on the second supply of the 1 Compound Oxy- 
gen,’ and consider myself well on to a complete cure. 
“ I have been able to go out for the past three 
weeks, and, of'course, have been gradually improv- 
ing and gaining in strength, so that my wife and 
friends believe that I will be fully restored to health. 
This is the more remarkable, as all, including myself, 
had given me up as a hopeless ease. Perhaps I ought 
to say the hemorrhages were most profuse, and con- 
tinued, lasting day and night, for two or three days 
each time. With acknowledgments to the ‘ Com- 
pound Oxygen,’ I am, etc., L. F. Clark.” 
Remarkable Restoration in the Case of a 
Clergyman. 
No. 21. 
Rev. A. W. Moore, of Darlington, S. C., sends ns 
for pnblication the following results in his case: 
“ Darlington, s. January Kith, 18t>3. 
“ Messrs. Stakkky <& Palen 1Though you have 
not solicited, I feel it to be my duty to give the fol- 
lowing testimonial in favor of ‘ Compound Oxygen.’ 
I inherited the pulmonary taint from my mother,and 
I have suffered from bronchitis from my youth. For 
the last three or four years, in the early fall, I have 54 
been prostrated with an acute attack of severe bron- 
chial asthma. Last fall this attack was unusually 
perilous, being complicated with a general derange- 
ment of the liver, kidneys, etc. My medical adviser* 
emdd not give much, hope of any further work in the 
ministry. 
“ In December I commenced the use of your Home 
Treatment. Shortly after I began its use nearly 
all the symptoms were greatly aggravated. 
For the last three weeks I have been improving. 
The constant expectoration has to a great extent 
ceased. I have a tine appetite, my digestion is good, 
I sleep well. I am now preaching twice on Sunday 
without lassitude. 1 feel more vigor—more life—than I 
have for years. I believe Compound Oxygen a 
blessed, providential discovery, to which you were 
unconsciously directed by the Great Healer. 
“ Gratefully, Rev. A. W. Mooke.” 
At the Point of Death. 
No. 22. 
Rev. J. B. Grier, of Danville, Pa., ordered a Honm 
Treatment for himself, but instead of using it as he 
intended, sent it to a poor young man in hiscongre- 
gation, a day laborer, who was lying, as supposed, 
at the point of death. 
“I found him,” says Mr. Grierbolstered up in 
his chair, and what 'with frequent hemorrhages and 
extreme debility and rapid pining away, his condition 
seemed hopeless and very pitiable. 
“ The first four days’ use of your Compound Oxy- 
gen brought on such unpleasant but encouraging 
symptoms as are described in your little manual of 
instructions, and now, after using but one bottle of 
the Compound, the young man is quite well, and very 
grateful and happy. He lias informed me that 55 
through the last month he did not lose a day from 
liis work and wages.” 
A subsequent letter from Mr. Grier confirms the 
above. The recovery issubstantial and permanent. 
No. 23. 
Consumption of the Lungs.—A Case of Rapid 
Development accompanied by Severe Hem- 
orrhage. 
The following testimonial to the prompt action of 
Compound Oxygen in a case of rapid developing 
Consumption of the lungs, is given by the writer in 
order, as he says, that by means of its publication, 
“ somealiiicted one may be induced to try your very 
simple and beneficial remedy 
“Fountain City, Ind., April 17th, 18*2. 
“Drs. Starkey & Paten : Dear Sirs:~l will 
give you a short statement of my case. * * * .My 
lungs have been affected for years, it being heredi- 
tary with me, my mother having died of consump- 
tion. One year ago this last winter, I took a severe 
cold, which settled on my lungs and finally resulted 
in a severe hemorrhage. 1 had a hard, hacking 
cough all spring—in fact, all through the summer, 
at times. Last lull, as the cold weather came on, 
my cough increased, and I teas having night-sweats 
every night and one or two severe hemorrhages. 
“ I was very much reduced in flesh. The color had 
left my lips and I was expectorating thick, yellow 
matter, often mixed with blood. Had to lie propped 
on pillows at night with a vessel beside my bed to 
spit in, and would discharge quite a quantity 
through the night. 1 had about made up my mind 
that a few more months would end my earthly career, 
and my friends have told me since I began to im- 
prove that some of them had only given me until 56 
next. May to live; but if I die before that time now 
I will have to so in some other way than consump- 
tion. 
“ I have not had a single night-sweat since I first 
Organ your Treatment; have had one hemorrhage, of 
which I wrote you. The pain I spoke of at that 
time has never returned, except the last day or two 
I have felt a slight soreness in my lungs, which has 
been occasioned by my attending a series of revival 
meetings for the past week. My cough has almost 
disappeared and I think it will soon begone entirely. 
My friends are remarking on my improved looks, so 
much so that some of them are going to send for a 
Treatment soon. I am rapidly improving, and trust 
that by leading a Christian life and freely using 
Compound Oxygen I may yet live many years. 
“ Very gratefully yours, 
“ J. Lindon Parker.’' 
No. 24. 
Constipation ami Sleeplessness. 
In the case of one of our patients (the Postmaster 
at Houston, Miss.), who was a great sufferer from 
sleeplessness, as well as constipation, both ailments 
were reached by Compound Oxygen, as will be seen 
by the following letter: 
“ Houston, Miss., May 15th, 1883. 
“ Drs. Starkfy & Pai.en : Dear Sirs:—I write to 
inform you of the result of the use of your Com- 
pound Oxygen in my own case. I had been troubled 
for a number of years with constipation and sleep- 
lessness. All the remedies taken, and remedies ap- 
plied were unavailing to cure or to relieve me in any 
degree of my distressing complaints. The torture of 
sleepless nights became almost insupportable. 
“ I sent for your Compound Oxygen, determined 
to give it a fair trial. In less than two months I ex- 57 
perienced the most beneficial effects from its use, 
the action of the bowels becoming regular and healthy, 
and, above all, I could enjoy the luxury of undisturbed 
■deep. I began its use March 1st, and have been free 
from colds, to which I was subject in the winter and 
spring months. A. White, Postmaster.” 
No. 25. 
Arresting the Progress of Consumption and 
holding the Disease in Check. 
The action of Compound Oxygen in arresting the 
progress of Consumption and holding the disease in 
check has been, as we have frequently said, very 
marked under our Treatment. The following is one 
of many cases. It will be seen that within three 
weeks after commencing the use of Compound 
Oxygen the disease was checked, and that after the 
lapse of nearly a year the patient acknowledges the 
great and unexpected benefit received: 
“ Wentworth, N. S., .July 28th, 1882. 
“ Drs. Starkey <fc Palen : Dear Sirs:—I have been 
using Compound Oxygen about eleven months with good 
results. Other remedies had failed; physicians gave me 
no encouragement, and seeing your advertisement I 
resolved to try it, but only as an experiment. When 
I had used it a few weeks a decided improvement 
was apparent. Xight-sweafs, vomiting after meals, 
raising of blood, and other threatening symptoms were 
soon brought under control. My digestion improved; 
my appetite became good, indeed, my whole system 
seemed to undergo a change for the better during the 
first three weeks. During the time that has inter- 
vened the above-named symptoms have been held 
in check. I am much better at the present writing than 
I was a year ago. It is with feelings of gratitude that T 
acknotvledge the great and unexpected benefit derived 58 
from your Treatment. I am not well. I do not expect 
to get well, as one of my lungs Is considerably bro- 
ken. But your Treatment, by controlling and hold- 
ing in check my worst symptoms, will certainly 
prolong life indefinitely. 
“ I am yours respectfully, 
“R. Bird.” 
Testimonial from Rev. M. K.Whittlesey, D. 1)., 
Superintendent American Home Missionary 
Society for Central and Southern Illinois. 
No. 26, 
“Ottawa, III., May 24th, 1883. 
“ Dbs. Starkey & Palen T am glad to say, with- 
out solicitation, that since my lirst use of Compound 
Oxygen, which helped in a case of severe cough in 
the summer of 1881, that my wife and daughter have 
not been willing to be without it. With them it 
has proved efficacious as a restorative and tonic, in- 
ducing sleep and rest, and giving a new sense of life 
and power. 
“ Others for whom I have ordered it have been 
very grateful for it, especially Mrs. M , who has 
now her third supply. We regard it as the chief 
instrument in prolonging her life. As a tonic, allay- 
ing the irritation of a bronchial and catarrhal 
cough,in warding off'colds and the incidental fever, 
in great debility, in loss of appetite and strength, 
she has deemed it very serviceable,and is still daily 
using it. “Yours, etc., 
“M. K. Whittlesey, D. D.’* What we Geaim, 
That the treatment by Compound Oxygen is a 
New Discovery in the Healing Art, and that 
it will Cure cases which neither of the 
great Schools of Medicine can reach. 
The most searching investigation 
of this claim desired, and the 
largest means for effect- 
ing it offered. 
Slowly, but steadily, the conviction gains ground 
with the public that the new vitalizing Treatment 
for chromic diseases, which we have dispensed for 
o,ver thirteen years, is based on well-known physio- 
logical laws, and that it cures by assisting nature to 
remove the obstructions which from various causes 
have choked the minute interior vessels where life 
first becomes active. 
A little thought will make it apparent to any one 
that the vessels which first receive life must be the 
most interior and delicately constructed of all the 
organic forms of the body—more than miscroscopic 
in their wonderful fineness, as every scientific 
59 60 
observer knows. Now, if from any cause these in. 
terior vessels become closed or obstructed, then life 
cannot flow in free and healthy currents down and 
out to all the lower and more external organisms of 
the body. The consequence must be disease in some 
form more or less painful or dangerous. 
Crude medicines (drugs) act upon what is lower or 
more external where effects appear. They do not 
reach to causes, and cannot, in the nature of things, 
cure radically a disease which has its origin in in- 
terior obstructions which they are too gross to reach. 
Too often, if largely administered and for too long a 
period, their action is to render these obstructions 
permanent, which is the reason why so many per- 
sons are injured for life by a medical treatment 
which employs crude drugs. 
Homoeopathy bases its therapeutics on a different 
theory of cure. It does not attack the effect of dis- 
ease as it appears to the senses, but, regarding this 
effect as only a symptom of a real internal disorder, 
attempts to reach and remove that disorder by 
means of its finer medical attenuations, its practi- 
tioners direct their efforts toward the cause, knowing 
that if they can reach that, the effect must cease. The 
success of their treatment depends mainly upon the 
selection and administration of a remedy or reme- 
dies which shall be “ homoeopathic to the disease.” 
In the selection of these, guided by the patient’s 
symptoms and the knowledge, skill, and experience 
of the physicians, the most careful discrimination 
has to be made. If the right remedy is given, it 
reaches the cause, when the effect ceases. No vio- 
lence is done to the body, as in drug-medication. If 
the disease is not reached, no harm is done. Nearly 61 
all acute and many chronic diseases are amenable 
to this treatment. 
But there are diseases for which even Homoe- 
opathy has yet found no remedy—diseases which no 
system of medicine has been able to cure. 
In many cases something more is needed than to 
remove obstructions from the channels of the life- 
forces, however minute they may be. It is quite as 
imperative that there be life-forces as that there 
should be normal channels through which they may 
move. Hence, the organs whose function it is to 
generate the life-forces, which organs are evidently 
the minutest parts of the nerve-centres, must be 
reached, else the finest of the vessels, although free 
from obstruction, are useless. 
To reach these fountains and generators of the 
vital forces effectively, drugs—even when honue- 
opathically prepared—appear to be too gross. 
Here is where Cbmpound Oxygen claims its su- 
periority. Being the vital element of the atmos- 
phere, and that being magnetized in the process oi 
manufacture, it becomes so nearly etherealized that 
it may claim kinship with thatquasi-etherial organ- 
isms—the generators of all the vitality in the body. 
Whether those organs appropriate it as a pabulum, 
or receive aid from it by some other mode, sure it 
is the nervous-centres become more robust, vigor- 
ous, efficient, and thus health-giving. 
The importance of this work becomes more obvi- 
ous when we consider that generally the obstruc- 
tions to the life-forces mentioned above are the 
effect of the feebleness ol' those forces, and conse- 
quent inability to prevent the obstructions. 
Until the discovery of Compound Ox ygen, sufferers 62 
from this class of ailments had nothing before them 
but a life of wasting and pain. Now, for all who 
will avail themselves of the boon, a large measure 
of relief from suffering, or it may be complete res- 
toration to health, is offered and insured. Few, no 
matter how desperate may have been their condi- 
tion, have failed to receive benefit under our ad- 
ministration of this new vitalizing Treatment; and 
there are now thousands of men and women scat- 
tered all over the country who gratefully acknowl- 
edge the good it has done them, and many hundreds 
who know that but for its use they would not be 
living to-day. 
These are indisputable facts, and we invite the 
most rigid investigation into the claims here made. 
To any one, in or out of the medical profession, who 
desires to verify our statements in regard to what 
Compound Oxygen has done and is doing, the 
largest opportunity will be afforded. We ask and 
seek the most thorough examination into theauthen- 
ticity of our reports of cases, which all who read 
them must acknowledge to be the most remarkable 
ever given to the public.. 
A visit to our office will always be welcomed, and 
we shall hold ourselves ready to give such informa- 
tion in regard to the published results of our Treat- 
ment as any one can reasonably ask. We are sure 
that not even the most skeptical in the medical pro- 
fession can fail to be convinced of its marvelous 
action after the most careful consideration of the 
evidence which we are prepared to offer. 63 
Attempted Analysis of Compound 
Oxygen. 
As might naturally be anticipated, various at- 
tempts have been made to discover, by means of 
chemical analysis, the substance which we call 
Compound Oxygen. These attempts have all failed 
because this substance is one of those which belong 
to a region of natural forces that lies above th® 
grosser elements that respond to chemical tests. 
The chemical solution in which we have been 
able, after long and careful ly conducted ex peri meats, 
to hold this substance and transmit it for use, can, 
of course, be analyzed. But the magnetized substance 
itself is above and beyond the reach of the chemist. Its 
discovery, which marks the beginning of a new era 
in the healing art, was, indeed, made in the labora- 
tory, and while experiments were being conducted with 
the substances iveil known to chemistry from which it 
was evolved; but the subtle element itself, after 
it had been evolved from these substances when 
brought into certain relations and conditions and 
then held in a chemical solution, cannot be discov- 
ered by subjecting that solution to the ordinary 
tests of quantitative and qualitative analysis. 
In order to be assured of this, we submitted the 
solution in which Compound Oxygen is held, to 
probably the ablest chemist in the United States, 
formerly a pupil of Baron Liebig, and now holding 
the chair of Chemistry in one of our largest and 
oldest Eastern colleges. His analysis, ivhile minutely 
accurate as to the chemical elements of the solution, 64 
failed to detect the subtle element which we kne w 
to be there in full potency. 
That there may be, and are, active substances 
in nature which cannot he detected by any of the texts 
now knoum to chemical science, is beyond dispute. 
We claim to possess the secret by which one of 
thesesubstances, hitherto unknown, may be evolved 
and made eminently useful in curing diseases which 
have battled the highest medical skill; and in proof 
of our claim, we point to the thousands of cases already 
successfully treated. 
In the face of this array of indisputable facts 
which we offer in proof of the curative value ol 
Compound Oxygen—facts open for verification to 
any who wish to have incontestable proof—there 
can be no force or reason in the denial of potency 
to our Treatment on the simple ground of failure to 
find the subtle element it contains by means of tests 
which can only discover the well-known, and for 
the most part cruder, substances in nature. 
The truth is, that chemistry,yet comparatively in 
its infancy, is at fault here, and fails to discover, by 
any of its methods, this new substance, which we. know 
to exist, and in the use of which we are curing diseases 
which no physician has been able to reach, arresting 
the progress of maladies which hitherto ended with 
death, giving ease from pain and suffering and send- 
ing strength and vitality into the weakened nerves 
and relaxed muscles of thousands to whom life had 
become a burden. 
And chemistry is equally at fault in detecting the 
invisible malaria which vitiates the atmosphere and 
sends sickness and death throughout whole districts 
of country. 65 
It is at fault when it attempts to find the morbid 
element in small-pox or vaccine virus. 
It is at fault and cannot give a test whereby to 
discover the peculiar taint, or nidus, in which typhoid 
fever, scarlatina, yellow fever, diphtheria, measles, of 
the various so-called bloodrpoisoned diseases originate. 
And It is at fault in any effort to discover in a 
homoeopathic remedy the particular substance held 
in potency above the third attenuation. 
Referring to the poison in hydrophobia and snake- 
bite, the London Nature says: 
“ For it is to be observed that neither the microscope 
nor chemical examination has given us any clue to the 
mysterious ingredient which constitutes the toxoemic 
property of these fluids as yet." 
And because chemistry is at fault in any or all of 
these instances, is that a proof that no malarial, pestU 
lential, or infectious substances exist f 
That they do exist we know too well; and if in 
the higher and more interior regions of nature exist 
subtle forces of an evil and destructive character 
which no methods of analysis known to chemistry 
can detect, is not the fact itself conclusive that good 
remedial forces, by which these may be counteracted and 
neutralized, must exist also ? 
Every new discovery of universal application 
must and will touch the interests of individuals, and 
often of a whole class or profession. If, as we de- 
clare, the discovery of what we call Compound Oxy- 
gen has given to the world a new substance, in the 
use of which for the cure of diseases, all the deleter- 
ious effects of drug medication and violent reactive 
treatments are avoided, and in the use of which 
internal obstructions are removed and nervous cen- 66 
tres vitalized, so that nature can herself do the gen- 
tle and orderly work of healing and restoring, such 
a discovery cannot fail to touch and seriously affect 
the interests of a large class of empirics and special- 
ists, from whom will naturally come assaults and 
misrepresentations. 
Happily for the community, and especially for that 
large and steadily increasing class of sufferers from 
diseases which physicians fail to cure, Compound 
Oxygen was left free from assault and misrepresen. 
tation long enough for it to give incontestable proofs 
of its remarkable power over nearly all classes of 
ailments by which humanity is afflicted. 
Danger to Consumptives in high 
Altitudes. 
One of the fatal errors into which the profession 
has fallen, is that of sending consumptive patients 
to Colorado and other elevated positions, where the 
atmosphere is greatly rarifled and the supply of 
oxygen, the life-giving element, proportionately 
diminished. 
In diseases of the lungs, a larger supply of oxygen 
than the patient has been in the habit of obtaining 
through ordinary respiration is absolutely neces- 
sary. The very converse of this treatment is that 
which sends a patient to Colorado, where every 
thousand feet of elevation is attended with a serious 
loss of oxygen, in consequence of the rarer condi- 
tion of the atmosphere. A consumptive patient 
not long since described to us her sensations on 67 
reaching Leadville, where her physician had sent her, 
She said that the atmosphere was so rare and her lung 
capacity so small, that to get a sufficient supply of 
oxygen she panted rather than breathed, and felt 
as if she would suffocate, and that not until she had 
descended some three or four thousand feet was she 
relieved from this distressing condition. 
Take a patient with lung disease, who has become 
greatly reduced in strength, and send him to Colo- 
rado. What will be the natural result, the outcome 
of natural causes ? He needs a larger supply of 
oxygen, but is sent to a region where the air does 
not contain one-half or two-thirds as much of this 
life-giving element as that which he has been used 
to breathing. He wants, besides, rest and the oppor- 
tunity to regain the strength which has been wast- 
ing. But, in his effort to get the amount of oxygen 
that nature demands, he has to breathe with in- 
creased rapidity and with an unusual and continued 
effort that soon exhausts the little strength that 
remains after his fatiguing journey. No wonder 
that so many die from home and that so few get well 
after so vain a quest for health. 
At home, with the quiet, rest, and physical com- 
fort which can there alone be secured, nine patients 
out of ten are better off than in any of the so-called 
—we might say miscalled—health resorts to which 
physicians are in the habit of sending them. If the 
disease is one that demands a larger supply of oxy- 
gen than the weak or wasted lungs can get from the 
atmosphere, the new treatment by Compound Oxy- 
gen will supply that demand; or, if from any cause 
there is a condition of low vitality and nervous 
exhaustion, for which the family physician orders 68 
change and travel as a last prescription, in nine 
cases out of ten Compound Oxygen will give the 
needed help. And as it can be used at home, where 
every attainable comfort is secured to the patient, 
all the chances of recovery are in his favor. 
A physician, writing from one of the larger towns 
in Colorado, says: “ I find here a peculiar tendency 
to neuralgia of certain nerves and their branches; 
especially of the fifth pair, causing tic-douloureux 
of old authors. The throat and lungs, as well as all 
of the air-passages, are very subject to their peculiar 
diseases. Pneumonia is the fatal disease—especially 
at this season of the year (January)—carrying off-its 
victims in the early or congestive stage. Almost 
every one coming here is afflicted with loss of appe- 
tite and deranged digestive organs—for a time at 
least; and although the thousands who are daily 
seen on thestreetand doing business will not admit 
that they are sick, yet they do not feel as well as in 
a lowesr altitude. Many get up in the morning feel- 
ing well, but before noon their energies are gone, 
and they do not feel well again until the next 
morning. Such is a hasty statement of the physical 
condition here in Colorado. I learn that many 
doctors are prescribing blue mass and quinine 
largely in most cases, which you well know is not 
the thing. What is wanted here is avitalizer rather 
than a depresser.” 
This is strong and positive testimony, and should 
be carefully considered by every invalid who thinks 
of going to Colorado. REPORTS OF GASES. 71 
The following “ Reports of Cases ” are taken from 
“ Health and Life," our quarterly record of cases and 
cures under the Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
This journal was started in 1880, and has been regu- 
larly issued ever since. The reports already given to 
the public through its columns reach many thou- 
sands, and the larger number of these show cures or 
great and permanent relief in chronic diseases of 
long standing which had baffled the skill of phy- 
sicians. 
In the reports here presented the names of patients 
are not given, as that would be a violation of pro- 
fessional confidence, but we can assure the reader 
that they are literal extracts from letters received at 
our office, and give the patients’ statements of bene- 
fits received through our Treatment. We think that 
almost any fair-minded person will recognize in 
these reports an intrinsic evidence that will give a 
conviction of their genuineness. 
Beyond our simple affirmation, and this intrinsic 
evidence, we refer any one who may desire still 
farther assurance to the card issued by .Tudge Kelley, 
T. S.Arthur, and Mr. Conrad, Kditorof the Lutheran 
Observer, to be found on page 12. REPORTS OF GASES. 
Nervons Prostration and Extreme Physical 
Debility. 
No. 1. 
The following letter, addressed to the physician 
who has charge of our depository in New York city, 
gives the result of our Treatment in a case where 
the apparent chances of recovery were so few that 
no encouragement to use the Treatment was ottered. 
The writer of this letter is a well-known member 
of the legal profession in New York city. His ad- 
dress will be furnished (he having given permission 
for us to do so) to any one who may desire to verify 
the statements made in the communications we 
publish. 
When it is considered that at the time he com- 
menced using Compound Oxygen he was so weak that 
he could not go to his office, or give any attention to busi- 
ness, and that in a month afterward he had back his 
normal strength and coidd resume his law practice, the 
case is seen to be so remarkable as to appear almost 
incredible. And yet we have treated a large number 
of cases with Compound Oxygen in which no less 
surprising results have followed. 
72 73 
In order to give a better understanding of this 
case and of its almost desperate character, we make, 
before giving the patient's clearly worded testimony, 
some extracts from a letter written to us by his son, 
who had consulted us about his father soon after he 
began using the Oxygen. This letter is dated October 
25th,1882: 
“ I wrote you,” he says, “two weeks ago to-day in 
reference to my father. In your reply you said that 
if you had been consulted you ivould not have advised 
him to get a * Home Treatmentthat you considered 
his case hopeless and beyond a cure. I am very glad 
that you were not consulted, for something has done 
him a world of good, and as he is taking no other 
remedies it must be the Compound Oxygen. He has 
been slowly traveling up hill since he commenced taking 
it. He is recovering his strength and courage. We can 
see the improvement every day. 
“ Dr. Turner told me a few days ago that when 
father had called on him he could give him no en- 
couragement and thought the case one of the worst he 
had seen. Father had no confidence in him or any 
other doctor or any remedy. He had 'made up his 
mind that there was no hope of his ever being cured. 
Now he is full of hope and confidence.” 
A month later the following report was made to 
Dr. Turner: 
New York, December 1st, 1882. 
“John Turner, M. D., No. 862 Broadway. 
“My Dear Doctor:—I cannot be satisfied with 
myself until I express, in this form, mj high ap- 
preciation of the Compound Oxygen Treatment of 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, of whom you are tne selling 
and consulting agent in this city. 
“ My case seemed quite desperate when I called, and 
consulted you early in October, last; utter nervous 
prostration and the most extreme physical debility was 
my condition. A weak and inactive stomach and 74 
imperfect assimilation of food had brought me to 
this. Coupled with this was the effect of a severe 
attack of catarrh of the bladder, with which I was 
visited about a year before, much, no doubt, con- 
tributing to my nervous condition. Even after that 
attack I was very subject to chills, against which I 
had to guard with the utmost care. 
“ Eaxly in August of this year, while at the Thou- 
sand Islands, I had two chills within a few days of 
each other, the first slight, but the second severe. 
These utterly prostrated me, and I did not rally for 
the month after that I remained in the country. I 
arrived home early in September, but so weak was 
I that I could not go out and exercise. Finally I 
could walk a block and back and gradually in- 
creased the distance, but it was very short at the 
longest. J could not go to my office (law) or give any 
attention to my business. I lingered on, sometimes 
feeling a little stronger and then falling back, on the 
whole, as I thought, losing ground. 
“While in this condition my son came on here 
from Western Massachusetts, where he had seen 
the effect of the Compound Oxygen Treatment upon 
an elderly gentleman very much in my condition 
in whose case the improvement had been marvelous. 
My son had been writing about this case for nearly 
a year, urging me to resort to the Treatment. When 
my son came on here he found me much more reduced 
than he had supposed and was so alarmed that he in- 
sisted upon my calling and consulting you. I did so on 
the 7th of October. You did not seem sanguine about 
the Treatment benefiting me, but suggested that it 
might be well for me to try the experiment. On 
that day you sent home to me a supply of the Home 
Treatment. 
“ You told me that I might not be conscious of any 
benefit from it for a week or two, or even longer. 
But within two or three days I began to improve, grow- 
ing stronger day by day, until, in the course of a month, 
I had back almost all my normal strength and could 
resume my law practice, so that by guarding against 75 
overwork I find myself equal to the ordinary de- 
mands of my profession. And still I can do more 
and more and am continuing to feel better. My sto- 
mach works well and feels well. My digestion seems 
to be easy and natural, and I feel assured now that 
if I do not abuse its organs I shall keep on doing 
well. 
“I am taking a second course of Home Treatment 
and do not see why I shall not, under its effects, con- 
tinue to enjoy a satisfactory condition of health. 
“ Accept my thanks for the kind and unremitting 
interest you have taken in my case.” 
Two weeks later, December 14th, our patient, writ- 
ing to Dr. Turner, says: 
“ The general tone of my system has gained immensely 
even in the short time since I wrote you last. I feel like 
myself again and am full of strength and courage 
for a renewal of the battle of life, which only a few 
months since seemed tome to be ended." 
A still later communication, February 13th, 1883 
shows that the gain has been substantial and per- 
manent: 
“ I have,” he says, “just gone through eight weeks 
of very hard work, which has imposed upon me a 
very severe and continuous strain. But I have come 
out of it ivithout any sensible bodily exhaustion, though 
my mind wants a rest. I think, that speaks well for 
your Home Treatment.'' 
Ko. 2. 
A Case of Long Standing and Severe Nervous 
Headache. 
In a letter from one of our patients In Illinois, the 
writer says: 
“Our son, Rev. , has been visiting us for a 76 
few weeks past, and as we had a little of the Com- 
pound Oxygen left, he has been trying it. He was 
obliged to leave home and his charge, for reason of 
ill-health, for his head was badly affected and he 
suffered, everything with sick headache, and was obliged 
to give up study. The Compound Oxygen has helped 
him most wonderfully, and he is almost well." 
A communication from the reverend gentleman 
above referred to has been received by us, and it 
fully corroborates the father’s statement. On return- 
ing to his home in Michigan, he wrote for a supply 
of Oxygen, in order to follow up the good results ob- 
tained from a temporary use of our Treatment. 
Referring to his condition and the benefits he re- 
ceived, he says: 
“ I was compelled, on account of a severe and con- 
tinued headache, to leave my work for a short rest. 
The pain was in the top of my head and down in my 
fofrehead and eyes, so that I could not read even my 
nexvspapes-s. I went down to Illinois in order to get 
away from my work entirely. My physician had 
been advising me to do so for some time, claiming 
that the cause was overwork. For seven years I 
have been engaged in this work and my seminary 
studies, almost without rest, preaching three times 
each Sabbath and walking to my appointments, five 
and a half miles, and back again (eleven miles). 
This I did because my salary was not sufficient to 
enable me to purchase a horse and buggy. I kept 
this up for a year and three months. By this time 
I began to feel that I must either get a horse or give 
up. I purchased one, to be paid for during the year, 
but, nevertheless, I did not seem to recover my ac- 
customed vigor, and my health continued to fail till 
I reached the result already mentioned. 
“ When I reached Illinois my headache continued and 
I was completely discouraged, fearing that I was to be 
laid aside permanently, A day or two after I reached 77 
home, my head was paining me severely. My 
mother suggested that I try the Compound Oxygen. 
I did so, with little faith. Bui 1 am pleased to slate 
that in fifteen minutes my headache was gone. 
“ To say that I was surprised and pleased, only half 
tells the story. m 
“ I continued the use of Oxygen while I was there 
with the best results. Very little headache and no 
symptoms of sick headache, which I have been subject 
to from childhood. I am confident that it has done 
me more good than six months’ rest without it. It 
lifted me up, but didn't let me down again. The effect 
teas permanent. But I feel the need of further use of 
the Oxygen, for I still have to be very careful of my 
studying.” 
No. 3. 
Cough Cured and Hemorrhage Stopped. 
This is the emphatic declaration of a lady resid- 
ing in Augusta, Ga., after using a two months’ 
Treatment of Compound Oxygen. About the first 
of March last, she sent us a description of her case, 
as follows: 
“ Consumption hereditary. For twelve years 1 have 
been under a physician's care for inflammation and 
weakness of the lungs. Am not confined to the bed, 
nor altogether to the house. My physician assures 
me that there is no tubercular deposit in the lungs. 
Have had several slight hemorrhages from the 
lungs, and lately two large hemorrhages from nose. 
Have coughed for two years with little expectora- 
tion. Have pain in the lungs more or less all the time. 
Appetite very poor. Have been treated constantly for 
four months for inflammation and ulceration of the 
womb. Have suffered much from uterine hemor- 
rhages.” 78 
Under date of May 18th, 1883, our patient made 
this satisfactory report: 
“ I wrote to you about the first of March for your 
Compound Oxygen Home Treatment, scarcely dar- 
ing to hope that it would benefit me, I had grown so 
weak and discouraged. 
“ I have almost finished using the supply you sent 
me, having faithfully taken it according to direc- 
tions, and I should feel that I am ungrateful indeed 
should I not, at least, tell you of the marked im- 
provement in my condition and express my thanks 
to you for this wonderful discovery. My cough vs 
cured. I have not had a hemorrhage since commencing 
the use of the Oxygen My appetite is good, and I am 
growing quite strong in every way. I have gained sev- 
eral pounds in weight, and sleep as I used to when a 
child, quietly and reslfully, which I have not done for 
many long years. 
“ I commenced to improve the very first week of 
taking the Home Treatment, and have continued to 
get better and stronger. We could scarcely credit 
my improvement at first, and feared it was the effect 
of my imagination; but now we know it is the subtle 
effects of Compound Oxygen, which my husband truly 
believes has saved my life. 
“ To sum up all in a few words, it has benefited me 
in every organ of my body. I also found great benefit 
from the exercises you recommended, and from the 
use of the Oxygenaqua locally applied, which gave 
me great relief, and I believe permanent benefit.” 
No. 4. 
In our reports from patients we have a uniform 
testimony to the influence of Compound Oxygen in 
producing sleep. A gentleman writing from Man*- 
field, Ohio, says : 
Insomnia. 79 
“ On the day after your Treatment came my wife 
took her first inhalation, having carefully posted 
herself beforehand regarding your instructions. Her 
first inhalation was in the evening before retiring, 
and although she had not been able peacefully to go to 
sleep one evening in a week for a month or more before, 
on account of nervous twitchings, she at once fell asleep 
and enjoyed the first good refreshing night's rest for 
weeks. She remarked immediately after inhaling 
that she had such a comfortable feeling in her breast and 
lungs, and that there was a warmth and freedom 
there that was entirely new and exceedingly pleasant. 
Her rest has not been disturbed but one single night 
since that time.*’ 
“The nights’ rest are simply Paradise to me, or a 
foretaste of it,” is the language of a patient in 
Elmira, N. Y. We give a portion of her letter, dated 
April 25th, 1882, in which she speaks of the great 
benefit she has received from the use of our Treat- 
ment: 
“ I have not written to you since receiving the last 
supply of Oxygen, which came in November; but I 
will now take time to tell you that I have passed a 
far happier winter than I did the year previous. My 
healtli has been much better, particularly in relief 
from nervous affections, etc. I still have some ner- 
vous trouble, but very slight compared with the 
horrors of the year before. No one will ever know 
what I suffei'ed mentally that year. I cannot tell you 
how thankful I am that I can sleep once more. The 
nights’ rests are simply Paradise to me, or a fore- 
taste of it.” 
The following are a few extracts from our corre- 
spondence, bearing the same testimony to the value 
of Compound Oxygen as a remedy for sleeplessness. 
We could fill pages with similar extracts: 
“ My daughter has improved in flesh and looks 80 
well. She sleeps well at night—sleeps all night, a thing 
she was unaccustomed to do. Before taking the Oxy- 
gen wakefulness was one of her troubles. I can see that 
she Is much less nervous, and is in better spirits.” 
“Before I commenced taking it (the Compound 
Oxygen) J did not sleep any at night, had no appetite, 
and my cough was so troublesome that I had no 
rest. Since I commenced taking it I have slept well 
at night, my appetite has very much improved; I 
scarcely cough at all: and, in fact, I feel better in 
every way.” 
“Improvement was steady and rapid, though 
chloral, which had been resorted to for a long time, 
was still used to procure sleep, but in smaller and 
smaller doses. The continued use of Compound 
Oxygen soon gave her healthy and refreshing sleep, and 
all anodynes are abandoned.” 
“ Since using your remedy my sleep is natural and 
good. My spirits are in a much more healthy condi- 
tion. I have no need of anodynes—have more actual 
strength than for years past.” 
“After omitting .the chloral, we were obliged to 
use hyperdermic injections to quiet her nerves, so that 
she could sleep—could not omit them as soon as you 
wrote that you wished to have us. About ten days 
since we omitted the hyperdermic injections, and 
she has rested very well nights—has no cough and no 
appearance of asthma.” 
“ I have followed your directions as nearly as pos- 
sible. Have left off all the medicines and stimu- 
lants my wife was taking, and the result of our 
Treatment so far has been more satisfactory than 
anything preceding it. She has been able to sleep good 
at night without the use of chloral, a thing she could never 
do before.” 
“My headache all gone, good appetite, and can 
sleep all night without coughing, a thing I have not been 
able to do for a year. I feel like a new person. I can 
breathe now.” 81 
No. 5. 
A patient in Texarkana, Ark., in writing for a 
new supply of Oxygen, makes the following report 
of the effects of our Treatment in a case of dropsy. 
She says: 
“ I divided my last supply of Oxygen with a sick 
child, who had the dropsy, and who also had heart 
disease from his birth. When I began using the 
Oxygen with him it seemed as hopeless a case as ever 
I saw. He is now able to be up and walk about the 
house. The dropsy is all gone, and I would have 
great hopes of his entire recovery if it were not for 
the heart disease. Those who saw him when I began 
to treat him say that it is more like bringing the dead 
lo life than anything they ever witnessed." 
Dropsy. 
No. 6. 
Testimony of Physicians. 
The use of Compound Oxygen by physicians, as 
well in their own cases as in that of their patients, 
steadily increases. The reports received from them 
are usually guarded, as might be expected. Borne, 
however, give unequivocal testimony to the benefi- 
cent action of the new Treatment. Below will be 
found extracts from letters, which speak for them- 
selves. The first is from a physician in Ohio, and is 
dated March 7th, 1883. In ordering another Treat- 
ment, he says: 
“ You remember that a year ago I ordered a Treat- 
ment of Compound Oxygen, also a second and a 
third. My health improved so much that I attended to 
my general practice during the autumn and winter, 
riding twenty or thirty miles a day in the saddle— 82 
though not cured. Owing to the severe changes of 
temperature lately, my cough is returning, and I 
wish to try another Treatment.” 
A physician in Nebraska, in ordering a Treat- 
ment for a consumptive patient, says, in reference 
to his own case: 
“ I would not be without it, and am anxious to see 
its effects on others.” 
This physician had been compelled to give up his 
practice in 1881, on account of lung trouble. In No- 
vember of that year he sent for Compound Oxygen, 
and continued its use during the winter and ensuing 
spring and summer, with a steady improvement in 
his health, which became so well established that 
he resumed his practice in the fail. In December, 
1882, he wrote to us, saying: 
“I am at my old location, devoting myself to active 
practice again, after using only three of your Com- 
pound Oxygen Treatments. Last spring I had given 
up all hope of ever getting well, as I was in a deplor- 
able condition, and, as everybody thought, beyond all 
hope of recovery." 
Writing from Wyoming Territory, a physician, 
in ordering a Treatment sent to a town in Ohio, 
says: 
“This is for a patient of mine, who will leave for 
that place. She has been taking the Treatment with 
marked benefit, and I do not wish her to be without 
it for any length of time. So please forward imme- 
diately. 
“I am still taking mine with benefit, notwith- 
standing the fact of plenty of hard work and almost 
constant exposure. I have recently made a trip to 
Ohio without becoming any the worse for it. It is 
the first time I have done so without suffex-ing ill 83 
effects as a result. I attribute my escape this time to 
Compound. Oxygen." 
A physician in Georgia writes, in ordering a Treat- 
ment for one of his daughters: 
“ The last Treatment, ordered in 1882, has been of 
immense service to my daughter; only one slight hem- 
orrhage for several months. I wish this Treatment 
for another daughter, very much prostrated from 
gastric irritability and torpid liver. I am afraid to 
use any mercurial preparation, as the mildest pro- 
duces hyper catharsis. But little appetite, and only 
the blandest and mildest food agrees. Has an occa- 
sional chill.” 
Another physician, who resides in Salem, N. Y., 
has been using Compound Oxygen in a number of 
cases, and writes: 
“ Patients all doing well who are using Compound 
Oxygen. The young man of whom I wrote you in 
my last is gaining beyond all expectations.” 
A physician in the State of New York, whose 
daughter was in a rapid decline, and in whose case 
two other physicians, whom he called in consulta- 
tion, gave it as their opinion that she would not 
recover, was induced to try Compound Oxygen as a 
last resort. His report, which we give, shows a 
prompt arrest of the disease and a rapid return 
healtliward: 
“Your Home Treatment was duly received and 
my daughter immediately commenced its use, stop- 
ping all other treatment. The results are marvelous 
indeed. She says that she feels nearly well, except 
that she has some cough yet. You will see, by refer- 
ence to my former letter, that she had a very bad 
train of symptoms. Tiro physicians whom I called 
to see her,pronounced it a case of Tuberculosis, and gave 
it as thetr opinion that she would not recover. She had 84 
had a cough for a year; was very hoarse; had severe 
pain in right side; chill for last two months, with night 
sweats, emaciation, weakness, and loss of appetite, and 
nervousness; could not sleep at night; pulse a hundred 
and over at times; respiration about twenty-five to 
thirty-four. 
“ She began to improve in about one week from 
the time she commenced the Oxygen Treatment, 
and has continued to improve up to the present 
time. All the bad symptoms J have enumerated have 
passed off. She gained six pounds in weight in four 
weeks. She is now able to do her work and ride 
around when she wishes to do so. 
“ I am very much pleased with the results of the 
Treatment, and cannot find words to express my grati- 
tude that my mind was ever called to consider the 
healing power of Compound Oxygen.” 
No. 7. 
Very few persons, on reaching threescore, find 
themselves in good health. From various causes, 
the constitution, which may have been vigorous in 
early life, has become broken, the nervous energy 
depressed, and organic diseases of some kind added 
too often to the catalogue of ailments which burden 
and distress the waning years of life. In cases of 
this kind the medical profession can do little, if 
anything. The administration of drugs only makes 
matters worse, and tonics, health-cures, sanita- 
riums, and the like, give at best only temporary 
respite from depressing weakness or suffering. As 
the years go on, health steadily declines, and the 
days become more and more shadowed. It has be- 
come sadly true that a vigorous old age is the excep- 
A Blessing to the Aged. 85 
tion, and not the rule. The cause lies chiefly in the 
overstrain of early and middle life, or in a continued 
neglect of the plainest laws of health. 
To this class, Compound Oxygen comes as a boon 
and a blessing. It has rarely happened in our ad- 
ministration of this new agent of cure, that persons 
in advanced life have not found it a remarkable 
quickener of all the vital forces; giving a newsense 
of life and comfort, and complete or partial free- 
dom from pain where nervous or organic troubles 
have entailed suffering. The following extract from 
a.letter written to us by a lady in Ohio, seventy years 
of age, gives an instance of what Compound Oxygen 
can do and is doing, in a large number of cases for 
the aged, in bringing them relief from suffering and 
depressing weakness in their declining years: 
“ I am much better,” she writes, “ of all my trou- 
bles ; though 1 am reminded of them occasionally. 
I said all. The oldest of all is dyspepsia, which 
hangs on in some form occasionally, but which 
dates back more than twenty years. The skin trou- 
ble, by whatever name it may be called,came next; 
after being a six years' scourge, has mostly disappeared. 
The catarrh, a five years' distress, has also gone en- 
tirely. The throat disease and laryngitis gone—only 
threatening a little upon taking cold. 
“ I have never given up to be an invalid, confined 
to the house; and if it were not that I am threescore 
and ten, I think I could increase in strength and 
activity. What strength I have and what power to do 
I attribute, under the blessing of God, to the use of Oxygen, 
as I feel confident I should have succumbed to bron- 
chitis, if not to other diseases, had I not used it. 
“ I shall keep the Oxygen, and use as I need. I 
hope by this means to finally overcome the dys- 
peptic tendency. I have written thus definitely 
that you may use it as you please, only withhold- 86 
ing name for the present. Sometime I may give 
it.” 
In the case of a gent leman over seventy-four years 
of aye, the brother of a physician who procured our 
Treatment for him. the revitalizing action of Com- 
pound Oxygen is quite as marked: 
“ My brother,” he says, “ writes me that he has 
gained in weight sixteen pounds since the first of 
Octoberlast. Feels strong as a young Samson. Has 
an excellent appetite and a good digestion. Cough 
and expectoration reduced to less than nine-tenths 
of what it was six months ago, when lie began the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. He says that in all 
of his long life (above seventy-four years) he never 
enjoyed a better class of good feelings. Sleeps as calmly 
as an infant from ten o'clock p. m. until live o'clock 
a. m., every night.” 
Nearly three months later, this physician writes: 
“ A recent letter from my brother informs me that 
he has increased in weight since last October, from 
one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty 
pounds. That at the age of seventy-four he feels as he 
did when only forty years of age. Has a tirst-rate 
appetite. Can eat and digest any kind of food that 
is lit to eat. Bowels regular, and sleep sweet and 
refreshing, and no cough to amount to anything.” 
A gentleman in Indiana, in reporting his own 
case and that of his mother, a lady over seventy-live 
years of age, says of Compound Oxygen: 
“ My mother and self have been greatly benelited 
by its use. It has undoubtedly preserved and pro- 
longed her life these nearly two years past, and though 
over seventy-live years of age and feeble, having for 
years suffered with liver and lung troubles, she has, 
in the providence of God, enjoyed much more comfort 
and shown more vitality than we could have hoped, 87 
and, as we believe, is due to your Home Treat- 
ment. 
“Have used it myself as occasion required in case 
of general running-down of my system from over- 
work and close confinement to in-door work; also 
in case of colds or exposure, and always with posi- 
tively good results.” 
No. 8. 
Arresting and Breaking np Colds. 
In the reports which come to us from patients, a 
large number refer to the rapidity with which Com- 
pound Oxygen breaks up a cold, and also to the im- 
munity it gives in cases where the tendency to take 
cold has been very marked. As a greater number of 
the diseases from which people suffer have their 
beginning in colds, any agent that will arrest them 
must act as a preventive of sickness. That Com- 
pound Oxygen will do this in nine out of ten cases, 
if resorted to promptly, the experienceof those who 
have used it faithfully fully proves. We give a few 
extracts from patients’ letters in which reference is 
made to this action of our Treatment: 
“I have used one of your Home Treatments,” 
writes a patient, “ and it has done me a great deal of 
good. I lind it one of the best and quickest reliefs for 
a cold that I ever tried, and I have found great relief 
from the asthma, of which I am subject.” 
“ I have very few colds,” says another, “ now com- 
pared with what I had before using the Oxygen .and 
have had no more trouble v ith soreness of the throat. 
Am gaining in flesh all the time." 
Another writes: “I think no medicine can be com- 
pared with your Compound Oxygen in curing colds. 
I have not had a severe cold since 1 used the Oxygen. 88 
The weather is here so changeable that nearly 
everybody will take cold once in a while.” 
A lady in Ohio makes the following report of 
prompt action in the case of a severe cold, which 
threatened pneumonia: 
“ When I reported last I was suffering from some- 
thing. I called it a severe cold; it affected me 
through my whole system, but the tendency was to 
my lungs. Was very much afraid of another attack 
of pneumonia (as I had last August), and had about 
concluded to send for our physician, when Mrs. 
L advised me to keep right along as directed. 
Followed advice, and wonderful to tell, my cold was 
nearly gone before I knew it, it worked so quietly. This 
Treatment is just grand to work off a cold. My lungs 
are very sensitive to cold, sudden changes we are 
having. Think they are a little stronger; can 
breathe deeper without pain. Kidneys not as 
troublesome. Sleep better some of the time. Feel 
much encouraged. 
' Another patient writes: “The symptoms of that 
cold I mentioned in my last letter have all disap- 
peared now, as you said they would, and my lungs 
are as good now as they have been at their best for 
the last live years.” 
A teacher in the West says : “ I have been again 
greatly helped and benefited by the Oxygen. * * * 
But it is very difficult for me to live in this climate. 
I take cold with every change of temperature. 1 
have just been suffering from a severe cold, ac- 
companied with total loss of voice. Have been out 
of school for two days. The Oxygen has relieved the 
cold and bronchial tubes, so that I think I can be in 
school again to-morrow.” 
“ When I get a cold,” writes another patient, “ no 
matter how severe, I always go for the blue bottle, 
and in forty-eight hours it is a thing of the past." 89 
No. 9 
A clergyman in Cleveland, O., seventy-one years 
of age, who had preached regularly nearly every 
Sunday for fifteen years, says, In a letter dated 
February 8th, 1882, a few weeks after commencing 
the use of Compound Oxygen: 
“ My strength was equal to the work until about 
a year ago, when I began to fail, and had come to 
the conclusion that my work, if not my life, was 
nearly at an end. But now I am quite a new man; 
yea, the revitalizer has introduced new life into my 
almost dead organs. I can say that I am well, with 
the exception of a little soreness in my throat. 
Allow me to give thanks, first to God, and then to 
you, for this blessed hour of health.” 
From a Clergyman over Seventy. 
In a Case of Croup. 
No. 10. 
There seems to be no disease, acute or chronic, on 
which Compound Oxygen will not make an impres- 
sion. In the reports sent to us by patients, we are 
constantly meeting with new results. Most of the 
Treatments ordered are for chronic cases, but it 
often happens that some member of a patient's 
family becomes suddenly ill, and in the absence of 
any known remedy for the sickness, Oxygen is ad- 
ministered as an experiment. A lady in Missouri, 
in making a report of the condition of herself and 
husband, both of whom were using our Treatment, 
gives the following statement of its effect upon her 
little boy, who was threatened with an attack ot 
croup: 90 
“ Our youngest boy—well, both of our boys, have 
been subject to croup all their lives, it being so se- 
vere at times that we thought they would surely 
die—the youngest one was sick and feverish all day 
and I knew from the symptoms that he would have 
croup that night. My usual remedies were all used 
up and we were five miles from town at that time. 
I felt worried and hardly knew what to do, as he 
was getting hoarser all the time. When I put him 
to bed I happened to see the Inhaler and thought I 
would try it. I did so, and the hoarseness all disap- 
peared as if by magic, and he slept as quietly as an 
infant all night.” 
“A Walking Skeleton.” 
No. 11. 
The difference between a walking skeleton and a 
strong, hearty man is very great; yet, in the short 
space of two months, according to the testimony of 
a patient which is given below, that difference was 
lost and a “walking skeleton ” transformed, under 
the use of Compound Oxygen, into an image of 
robust health. We give the report verbatim as it 
came to us: 
“ After so long a time I will speak my piece as to 
the effect of the Compound Oxygen Treatment. I 
cannot say that it has raised me from the grave, but it 
has come very near it. It has cured me of one of the 
worst cases of bowel diseases. I could not have 
stayed on this earth but a few months. You should 
see me eat and hear me sleep and see the amount of 
work I do every day! I am as well as ever and am 
enjoying life in all of its comforts. I say to my 
neighbors and friends: ‘ Send for the Compound Oxy- 
gen Treatment.’ Put they say ‘ Humbug,’ or ‘ It is 
too expensive.’ If you should see me now you would 
say, that fellow is a big, stout man, but three months 91 
since he was a walking skeleton. I luave tried to tell 
you how much I think of the Treatment, but am 
afraid 1 have made rather poor headway, so I will 
close these remarks by wishing you all the success 
that the Compound Oxygen is worthy of.” 
No. 12. 
Strength Increased and General Health 
greatly Improved. 
The revitalizing action of Compound Oxygen is 
very marked in the following report. A letter from 
the patient, dated Mansfield, Pa., February 5th, 
1883. gives this statement of the case : 
“ Age fifty-two. In September, 1881, took a severe 
cold, which affected my lungs and seemed to involve 
the left bronchial tube. After three months I re- 
covered, but had occasional huskiness. Two months 
ago I contracted a severe cold which made me quite 
sick for several weeks. Had fever and some conges- 
tion of the lungs, with considerable coughing. Am at 
work, but not well. Lack nig usual energy. Nervous 
systemrun down from mental strain 
After using the Treatment for a month, he re- 
ported : 
“ On the whole, think I am better, but not as much 
better as I had hoped to be by this time. /Scarcely 
ever cough now. The sense of tightness witli a little 
dryness across chest, at first seemed relieved, but 
has returned. I am much stronger, and the sense oj 
weariness is almost gone. Still occasional pain at 
bottom of left lung.” 
His next report, made April 2d, shows great and 
satisfactory improvement: 
“ I am better, decidedly better. At the time of my 
first report, though some symptoms of improvement 92 
appeared, the condition of my left lung was not such 
as to assure me that the Compound Oxygen was 
reaching the trouble. Now I can speak positively. 
The soreness there is gone, I think, entirely. The 
sense of tightness has also nearly disappeared. The 
shortness of breath is now never perceptible, except 
when I run, as I had to do to-day, to reach the cars 
in time. When I did this, carrying a heavy satchel, 
I felt some return of it. My digestion continues to 
improve, but I think that my liver is not all right 
yet, as I have sometimes a bad taste in the mouth 
when I first get up in the morning, and some little 
headache. 
“ My strength has greatly increased, and I do not 
weary with work. I keep up the corner exercise 
quite vigorously. On the whole, I am satisfied with 
the result, and am doing all I can to commend the 
Oxygen to other sufferers. I have now, practically, 
no expectoration from the lungs.” 
No. 13. 
A lady in Dover, N. H., who has used Compound 
Oxygen at intervals during a year, makes the fol- 
lowing report of her condition now as compared 
with what it was before commencingour Treatment. 
The change is gratifying indeed, and we are not sur- 
prised at her astonishment and gratitude in noting 
the “ wonderful improvement.” She says: 
“ I am wonderfully improved. When I consider my 
condition one year ago (I commenced taking Oxygen 
last May),/ am astonished to note the difference. When 
I commenced to inhale Oxygen one year ago, I was 
not able to dust a chair or wash a pocket-handker- 
chief without discomfort. JVow I do all my work for 
four in the family, andean eat and enjoy it. Of course, 
Astonished at the Result. 93 
at certain periods, my stomach troubles me and I 
feel a few of the old symptoms, but I expect to at 
this time in my life, and only think! I have only 
taken two Treatments, with the exception of a little 
I keep in the bottom of the bottle to look at or in 
case of emergency. I cannot be grateful enough for 
Oxygen. I tell everybody that is sick with chronic 
disease to use Oxygen.” 
No. 14. 
A great Sufferer from Neuralgia ami Rheu- 
matism. 
A lady in Kankakee, 111., wrote to us in July, 1882. 
The following extract from her letter gives a state- 
ment of her condition: 
“ Have had poor health for years. This month I 
have been perfectly prostrated by terrible attacks of 
neuralgia and congestion of the head. Was never very 
strong. Had rheumatism and neuralgia for twelve 
years. Have great pain in the spine—fever every 
day—very poor appetite.'’' 
Two weeks after commencing to use Compound 
Oxygen she reported having “ improved in health 
and gained in strength.” 
Five weeks later, she made the following state- 
ment of remarkable gains: 
“ Since I last wrote to you have used Compound 
Oxygen Treatment faithfully, and at present writing 
am feeling much better than when I wrote you last. 
Am stronger, have a good appetite, sleep soundly, and 
can endure a good deal of work (physical). Am doing 
but little mental work these days; have given up 
all public work, according to your advice. * * * 
Have had no attacks of neuralgia since I began Treat- 
ment, but there is a good deal of soreness and pain 94 
at times in knee-joints, which had been the case foi 
years, as I wrote you, I think. Am gaining slowly 
in flesh; head somewhat clearer, not so easily con- 
fused.” 
No. 15. 
Partial Paralysis from Diphtheritic Poison^ 
In this case the patient’s condition, when he com- 
menced using Compound Oxygen, was a most painful 
and dangerous one, as the following statement, 
contained in his letter to us of February 12th, 18S2, 
will show: 
“ Age fifty-six. Two years ago I had diphtheria, 
which left me partially paralyzed in whole system, 
and my sense of taste was not normal. With this 
trouble would be a feeling as of a mountain of ice 
pressing in the upper part of chest and throat. 
Finally, hands would tingle with intense pain. Last 
summer I spent in England and Scotland and only 
had slightattacks. Soon after my return, in July, 
I was taken with a very severe diarrhoea. After 
four weeks I began to move around. But my old 
trouble has returned with tenfold intensity. Pains 
in chest and arms indescribable. One physician said 
that the poison from diphtheritic matter had entered 
my system and produced partial paralysis.” 
After one month’s use of Treatment, reported some 
improvement. At the end of two months the pa- 
tient wrote: 
“ Think all the symptoms have improved, but 
trouble not removed yet. Think your Treatment 
has helped to brace my nerves, and helped me 
greatly." 
We heard no further from the case for several 
months, when the following letter was received: 95 
“ Detroit, Mich., November 16th, 1882. 
“Messrs. Starkey & Palen: Gents:—I have 
often thought I would write you and let you know 
results. 
“ I find that while the Oxygen did not accomplish 
all that I had expected of it, it did me a large service 
in bracing up my nervous system, and made me, in that 
respect, over again, as it were. I am glad that I sent 
for it and used it. I am now under medical treat- 
ment for my described troubles and think they are 
passing away. 
“ My wi lea Iso used \ttor nervous troubles and catarrh 
of throat, and I think it did her more good than any- 
thing she ever took. 
“ I can only say a good word for the Oxygen and 
wish you success.” 
Nervous Prostration and Great Debility. 
No. 16. 
The subjoined report in the case of a young lady 
in Minneapolis, Minn., shows how quickly Com- 
pound Oxygen acts upon the nervous centres and 
gives a new vitality to the whole nervous system: 
“ It is now six weeks,” writes the mother of our 
patient, “since our daughter began taking your 
Home-Treatment, and we can truly say that it has 
done more for her during this time than any other 
medicine could have done. 
“ She was suffering from severe nervous prostration 
and great debility of the whole system, which had only 
oeen aggravated for two months previous by using 
medicines harsh for the stomach, causing much 
gastric irritation. 
“We truly feel more than gratified with the "result 
of the Compound Oxygen, and wish her to continue 
its use until she is relieved from some of the stand- 
ing difficulties she has had from a young girl. She 96 
is now able to be around the house, can eat any 
easily digested food with moderation, and as a rule 
sleeps much better nights. * * * She has been 
troubled with chronic constipation from a child. 
The Oxygen has given more relief to that than any 
other remedy ever tried.” 
In this case, as in many others where there is a 
diseased and highly sensitive nervous organization, 
a seeming aggravation of symptoms occurred on 
first using the Oxygen, showing its quick penetra- 
tion and active force. “Her symptoms,” says the 
report, “ were worse for awhile, and she was more 
nervous and very sensitive to the effects of the Oxy- 
gen on inhaling, but shecan now take it regularly 
without difficulty.” 
The Rapid Course of Disease Checked. 
No. n. 
That Compound Oxygen will retard the progress 
of almost any chronic disease, and, when it is too 
late to effect a cure, prolong life, and make the pa- 
tient’s condition much more comfortable, has been 
so largely shown in the reports of cases which we 
have given to the public, that it is now a well-estab- 
lished fact. The following interesting extract from 
the letter of a patient in Taunton, Mass., within two 
years after her first use of our Treatment, gives 
another case in proof. While, as will be seen, a 
cure has not been made, nor the progress of the 
disease entirely arrested, its rapid advance has been 
checked and a condition of greater ease and com- 
fort secured: 
“It is now,” she writes, “more than two years 97 
since I first used Compound Oxygen, and, looking 
back, I am reminded of how much I owe you and 
feel that I must express my thanks for the benefit 
I have received from your Treatment and the con- 
stant kindness you have shown me. It is true I have 
made no marked progress in the way of health ; but it 
is also true, I think, that disease has progressed but 
little—but little, at any rate, compared with the progress 
it made before I used Compound Oxygen, I cannot 
endure as much as I could a year ago, but I still 
have much to be thankful for. I think it Is safe to 
•ay that I have coughed less during the past year than 
I did in one week before I used the Home Treatment. 
“ I have but one hemorrhage now where I had ten 
when you first advised me. Have been very much 
relieved in every respect, and I have suffered too much 
and too long to be indifferent to any relief. 
“ If you knew with what reluctance I took the 
first medicine you sent me, I think you would con- 
clude that faith had no part in the good results that 
have followed its use. I was unwilling to take any 
medicine, for it has been a long time since I had 
taken anything that had not, sooner or later, aggra- 
vated my difficiUties. But I am thankful to say that 
I have taken your medicines without once feeling any 
unpleasant effects, but] on the contrary, a decided bene- 
fit. I believe that I owe my life to Compound Oxygen 
and your care. Again I thank you.” 
No. 18. 
Cough and Night-sweats. 
A gentleman In Scranton, Pa., consulted us by 
letter in regard to his case In September, 1882. 
Statement of case: 
“ Age twenty-three. Last March took cold, which 
caused an attack of pleurisy and slight pneumonia. 
After three weeks was able to work again. Over- 
worked and run down rapidly. Traveled two 98 
months and came home much better; but cough has 
returned." 
After getting our reply to his communication he 
ordered a Treatment. Its action was so prompt in 
giving relief that he made the following report in 
three days: 
“ The Compound Oxygen was received Wednesday 
night, everything in good shape. 
“Sowell am I pleased with it that with only three 
days I can see a great change in my cough. 
“I took the first inhalation Wednesday night, and 
you can imagine my surprise when I say that I did not 
cough during the night nor the next morning. The lat- 
ter is very strange indeed. That I should get up in 
the morning and not have a coughing spell is some- 
thing that one can hardly understand, inasmuch as 
I have had great trouble in that way. 
“ I trust it will continue.” 
A month later he made another report, from 
which it will be seen that his cough, though so 
promptly relieved during the first few days, espe- 
cially at night and in the morning, did not really 
begin to show substantial improvement for two or 
three weeks: 
“I wrote you soon after commencing the Treat- 
ment of its immediate effects. Two weeks passed 
and I saw no particular change; but as the end of 
the third week approached my cough became less, 
and I am happy to inform you that the cough is 
almost gone. In the morning I cough once or twice 
to clear my throat of phlegm, and no more coughing 
for the rest of the day. 
“ I sleep like a log and wake up bright and fresh. 
Night-sweats, which I had quite badly, have entirely 
left me. * * * I am more than satisfied with the 
Treatment, and feel that I shall come out of my 
trouble a neiu man." 99 
No. 19. 
A patient in Mississippi gives this account of tha 
u marvelous change ” wrought in her condition by 
Compound Oxygen: 
“ Last December I ordered and received from you 
jrour Compound Oxygen. I was in a very weak can- 
Hition, sinking from nervous prostration. I commenced 
Its use immediately, leaving off everything else. 
And what a marvelous change it wrought in a few 
weeks! So rapidly did I improve that neighbors 
and friends who had been familiar with my com- 
plaints for several years are still full of wonder at my 
recovery ; and as for myself, next after my Heavenly 
Father, to you I am devoutly thankful. I was sav- 
ing with it, only used it myself when I felt badly. 
“ In the month of May my daughter, sixteen years 
of age, was attacked with a low malarial fever which 
lasted three or four weeks; I used nothing but the 
Oxygen and she recovered her strength very fast.” 
“Sinking from Nervous Prostration.” 
No. 20. 
A lady In Marietta, O., whose three children were 
attacked with scarlet fever, used Compound Oxy- 
gen in connection with the remedies prescribed by 
the family physician. Of the result she says: 
“ I write especially to tell you of the final result of 
Oxygen upon my three children, who were sick with 
scarlet fever last winter and early spring. That the 
two youngest ones were benefited, is not such a mat- 
ter of surprise to people, but that the oldest one, who 
came very near to death, should so completely re- 
cover in every way is an occasion of remark by very 
many persons. I think the use of the Oxygen when 
In Scarlet Fever. 100 
they were convalescent did the work. We had an 
excellentand faithful physician (homoeopathic),but 
the Oxygen cleared the poison out of the system and 
revitalized all its functions.” 
No. 21. 
A Life Saved. 
A gentleman at Boston, Texas, who Js a strong 
advocate of Compound Oxygen, says, in a letter 
dated January 4th, 1882: 
411 was at Dalby Springs not long since, and met 
my old friend, G. Dalby, who informed me that he 
had at last yielded to my importunities and was 
trying Compound Oxygen with glorious effects. 1 
scarcely could believe that it was the same haggard form 
which I beheld last summer, so changed he was. He 
informed me that he felt stronger every day.” 
From Mr. Dalby we have a letter dated the day 
after the above was written, in which he says: 
• 
“ The Treatment has been to me of inestimable value, 
for I should have been beyond all bodily pain before 
this but far the use of it. You are at liberty to use 
anything I write as you see fit.” 
Some five weeks later, Mr. Dalby makes another 
report, showing continued improvement and steady, 
but sure, gains in the direction of health: 
“I still have a favorable report to make. I am 
still gradually improving. When I look back a few 
months and compare my condition then with what 
it is now, I feel that I have much, very much, cause for 
gratitude. * * * I have often heard that faith in 
a treatment was necessary to effect a cure, which 
savors very much of superstition. But it takes 
some faith in the Oxygen Treatment for one to con- 
tinue it. There is so little in it like any other treat- 101 
ment, or so little that is repulsive, that from its very 
simplicity it might be thought a humbug. I weighed 
one hundred and nineteen pounds when I commenced 
the Treatment; and now I weigh one hundred and 
thirty-one and a half pounds.” 
No. 22. 
In the early part of December, 1881, a lady living 
In Denver, Col., consulted us in reference to her 
little daughter, eight years of age, who was suffer- 
ing from catarrh of an aggravated character. 
“The discharge,” she wrote, “ is thick, streaked 
with blood, and slightly offensive. The doctor says 
hers is the worst case of catarrh he ever saw a child 
have. Has much headache, especially over the eyes. 
Has dyspepsia, pain in limbs, and frequently very 
severe pain in one knee. Her voice is harsh, her 
throat always red, and her tonsils much enlarged 
and often ulcerated.” 
A Treatment was ordered and sent. At the end 
of three weeks an improvement was reported. 
Three weeks later, the mother wrote: 
“ Improving wonderfully. The discharge is no longer 
offensive nor so copious. Her complexion has lost its 
sallow hue, her cheeks are red, and she looks very 
much better in every way.” 
At the end of two months from the date of this 
report, word came that the case continued to pro- 
gress favorably. 
March 20th, 1882, the little girl’s mother wrote as 
follows: 
“ I have been so busy with my school duties that I 
have neglected to write you how well my little girl 
A Case of Aggravated Catarrh. 102 
is looking. You remember when I first wrote to you 
about her she was not able to attend school at all 
and was then white and listless. I wish you could see 
her now; her cheeks are like roses, she attends school reg- 
ularly, and does not now complain of headache, but 
studies well and keeps up with her class without any 
trouble. So many have said to me, ‘ How well your 
little girl looks, so different from when you came to 
Colorado.’ I always say Compound Oxygen cured 
her, not Colorado air. I don’t think catarrh can 
ever be entirely cured here; every one has it in a 
greater or less degree; the dry air seems to cause it, 
but my little girl is so much improved that I intend 
to continue using the Oxygen as long as I can afford 
to get it for her.” Important Considerations 
For those who hare used or are using Com- 
pound Oxygen. 
There are important considerations to which we 
would earnestly call the attention of all Compound 
Oxygen patients, especially those who, after getting 
partial relief from a single Treatment, have not 
continued its use until health was firmly estab- 
lished, but have been content to rest on their meas- 
ure of restoration, when if they had persevered a 
complete cure might have been made. Not being 
cured, it must follow that the uneradicated seeds of 
disease will sooner or later, under some exciting 
cause, come to germination and produce their evil 
fruit. 
Reader, are you one of this class? If so, let us 
present some of the considerations to which we 
have referred. As a rule, very few persons resort to 
a new system of treatment unless old and well- 
known systems have failed to cure, and their con- 
dition has become distressing or alarming. When 
suffering becomes well-nigh unendurable, or hope 
has begun to fail, a half-doubting and hesitating 
trial is made of the new Treatment. Does not this 
103 104 
describe, with some personal variations, your case 
when you decided, as a last resort, to try Compound 
Oxygen ? 
And now we may ask you to go back with us to 
the time—it may be six months or five years ago-, 
when you used the one or two Home Treatments 
What was the result? On this point our record ol 
patients’ reports gives large and varied information 
in thousands of cases, presenting the most remark- 
able history of relief or cure under conditions of dis- 
ease which no physicians had been able to reach, to 
be found in the medical history of the world. The 
noticeable things in this record are the widely dif- 
ferent action of the Treatment on different persons. 
Among the varied effects produced we give the fol- 
lowing : 
1. The almost immediate relief which, with few 
exceptions, follows on the first use of Compound 
Oxygen—often where the suffering is greatest the 
relief being quickest. 
2. The apparent cessation of improvement after a 
few days or a week, and a seeming return to the old 
condition; the patient thrown often into a state of 
doubt and despondency as depressing as the newly 
awakened hope had been cheering to the mind. 
3. A period, running from a week to a month, in 
which there was an evident conflict, so to speak, be- 
tween the disease assaulted in its stronghold and 
the new life-forces which had been thrown against 
It; old pains and old troubles, which had not been 
known for years, being felt again, often attended 
with considerable suffering, but which, if the Treat- 
ment be persevered in, soon pass of. 
4. A gradual improvement from the very begin- 105 
ning in appetite and digestion; an increase of 
weight and strength, and a feeling of general com- 
fort and elasticity not known for years before. 
5. Immediate relief from suffering, with a steady 
and rapid gain from day to day, attended by scarcely 
a single drawback until the patient was restored to 
health. 
6. Improvement in the general health, as in No. 
4, during the first two months’ use of the Treatment, 
but without any very marked change for the better 
as regards the cough, catarrh, rheumatism, neu- 
ralgia, or whatever the special disease for which the 
patient was induced to try Compound Oxygen. Dis- 
appointed at not gaining the special relief sought 
for, and not recognizing the fact, as indicated by 
their improved condition, that a constitutional ren- 
ovation was in progress, which, so soon as it had 
gained sufficient power to quicken into new life the 
diseased organs, would gradually restore them to 
healthier activity, too many have abandoned the 
Treatment at the very point a little beyond which 
the good they sought was awaiting them. Many 
others, more thoughtful and wiser, have reasoned 
fairly that if Compound Oxygen was clearly work- 
ing a healthy change in the system it could hardly 
fall, in time, to reach the more deeply seated condi- 
tion and remove or, at least, greatly relieve it. It 
has rarely happened that any one acting on this 
conviction has failed, in the end, to be largely bene- 
fited, if not entirely cured. 
7. No decided effect for two, three, or even four 
weeks, and then a sudden change for the better and 
a steady return to health. 
8. Cases in which we could not, and did not, give 106 
any encouragement, especially in pulmonary dis- 
eases of long standing, where the lungs were so far 
disintegrated and the vital system so far exhausted 
that restoration seemed impossible. In many of 
these cases the Oxygen was ordered in spite of our 
discouraging opinion. In a few of them, to our sur- 
prise, the Treatment wrought what seemed little less 
than a miracle, and there are men and women liv- 
ing and in fair health to-day who were regarded by 
us as on the brink of the graA’e and without hope of 
rescue. In others the progress of the disease was 
only arrested for a time, and life prolonged and 
made far more comfortable; but the help which 
Compound Oxygen might have given came too late 
for a sure recovery. 
9. Cases, a very large number in which the new- 
found strength has been unwisely taxed beyond its 
capacity, and the gain of weeks or months lost or 
seriously impaired. 
One of the saddest phases occurs not unfrequently 
in consumptive patients. They regain so much of 
their lost health that they feel secure. In comparing 
their state with that from which they have been 
raised, the change is so great that the impression is 
that they are well. This fallacy is very natural. The 
new, bounding vitality, restored strength and flesh, 
a stronger digestion, genuine as they are, are well 
calculated to seduce them into a false security. Of 
course, they stop the Treatment. But that is not the 
worst. They not only presume on a complete res- 
toration to health, but also upon its being fully 
developed, mature, and hardened, ready for all 
emergencies. But, questioning them, they will own 
to a little cough, “but that is too trifling to be 107 
heeded for a moment.” That is the fatal position. 
So long as that insignificant cough remains there is 
lung tissue not yet healed, or, if healed, it is like a 
freshly closed sore on the skin, liable to be opened 
again by any slight force. But give the sore time 
and it will get to be as firm as flesh that has never 
lost its integrity. So it is with the similar condition 
of the lung-tissue. Common sense joins hand with 
professional teaching in declaring that the Treat- 
ment should be continued till the cough entirely 
stops and then sufficient time be given for the 
tissues to come into a full state of integrity—as they 
surely will—before they are subjected to a crucial 
test. 
We might goon and classify still farther the re- 
ports of cases which fill many thousands of pages 
in our record books, each class presenting a different 
series of symptoms and results, but all, with scarcely 
an exception, showing more or less improvement. 
In a very large percentage of the cases treated the 
results have been simply wonderful. 
What is the lesson of all this—the lesson espe- 
cially to those who have given Compound Oxygen 
only a brief trial, and who have drifted, or are drift- 
ing, back into the old chronic conditions from which 
it partially rescued them? Did anything you ever 
tried help you so promptly or mark its beneficent 
effects so unmistakably ? At the end of your first or 
second Treatment, were you not conscious of a new 
vital condition—pains lessened, appetite improved, 
and general health more satisfactory than for a long 
period before? Are you acting wisely in letting 
disease again go on with its insidious encroach- 
ments when, by an occasional use of this vitalizing 108 
agent, you may keep the centres of life free from 
obstruction ? 
These are questions which we feel bound to pre- 
sent for your serious consideration. There is no 
longer any doubt in regard to the action of Com- 
pound Oxygen in arresting disease; the testimony 
in Its favor has accumulated until it is, so to speak, 
overwhelming. None but the perverse or blindly 
stupid can doubt its efficacy. 
The Ravages of Consumption. 
In spite of all that medical science and profes- 
sional skill have been able to do in that most fatal 
of all diseases, consumption of the lungs, it issteadily 
on the increase. The number of deaths from tills 
cause, as shown from our bills of mortality, is simply 
appalling. Not long since, in referring to this fact. 
Harper's Bator said: 
“ Pulmonary diseases have been gradually increas- 
ing in this country during the past few years, espe- 
cially during the winter months, which are particu. 
larly perilous to those who have delicate lungs. The 
figures are startling. According to the records of 
the Board of Health in this city (New York), the loss 
of life by consumption alone during the five years end- 
ing December 31.si1,1879, was twenty thousand nine hun- 
dred and ten. Pneumonia and bronchitis are also 
very fatal diseases, the former causing more than 
one-half as many deaths as consumption and the 
latter nearly one-fourth the number.” 
Taking the population of New York city at one 
million and the whole number of deaths from con- 
sumption, pneumonia, and bronchitis at thirty-six 109 
thousand seven hundred and fifty in every five years, 
this would give for the United States a death-roll 
from these three kindred diseases of one million 
four hundred and seventy thousand; or one-fifth of 
that number (two hundred and thou- 
sand) in every single year! 
The Philadelphia Ledger, in alluding to the fact 
that forty-nine deaths by consumption had occurred 
in that city in a single week, makes this comment: 
“The havoc of lung disease goes on with heavy 
count all tlie year round. Yet the doctors, in their 
conventions, have almost ceased to talk about phthisis, 
with any degree of enthusiastic research, while they give 
us no end of brilliant light upon sewerage and the 
deaths by bad drainage. It is a discredit to medical 
science, that such well-defined diseases as American 
lungs present should, yet be so little under corforol and 
the skill of our experts should still be baffled.” 
Another paper, in speaking of the subject, says: 
“ If any other disease prevailed to such an extent, 
we would have immediate and rigid investigation 
as to cause and remedy. That this is not the case 
in regard to lung diseases, can only be attributed to 
the fact that medical science appears to have exhausted 
itself in that direction.” 
Here we have presented, in a form which cannot 
fail to startle the community, two most serious and 
alarming facts connected with the ravages of pul- 
monary diseases in this country. 1. That they have 
been steadily increasing for years. 2. That, with all 
its advancement in skill and in the knowledge of 
curative forces, the medical profession does not know 
how to deal successfully with consumption and cannot 
cure it! 
That consumption of the lungs cannot be cured 110 
by any of the remedial agents known to either of 
the great schools of medicine, or by the eclecticism 
which includes the best curative appliancesof both, 
is too well and sorrowfully known to the hundreds 
of thousands of wasting and slowly dying invalids, 
whose pale faces, sunken eyes, and feeble stepvs meet 
us in every city, town, and neighborhood. However 
hopefully these stricken ones may cling to life and 
deceive themselves as to their real condition, their 
nearest and dearest friends know but too well that 
they are steadily failing and wasting and that prema- 
ture death is as certain as if an arrow had been 
lodged in some vital organ. 
It is well understood that the only hope for those 
who are sulfering from pulmonary diseases lies in 
their attaining, through some means, a higher de- 
gree of vitality and an increased power of nutrition. 
The tendency to a too rapid waste of tissue must be 
met and overcome by a new and larger ability to 
take and utilize the substances out of which the 
tissues are composed and the vital organs kept in 
healthy equilibrium. To gain this, the intelligent 
and conscientious physician, fully aware that but 
little dependence can be placed in medicine, advises 
and encourages his patients to use every possible 
hygienic expedient for keeping up the vital forces— 
exercise in the open air, nutritious food, carefulness 
in regard to any diet that may tax or enfeeble the 
digestive organs, avoidance of exposure, crowded 
rooms, excitement, etc. In a few instances, this 
care and regimen are successful in holding in 
check the enemy which has gained a lodgment, 
but rarely in casting him out. He has intrenched 
himself, and, ever on the alert and watchful, stands 111 
ready to assault a weak, exposed, or half-guarded 
point, and sooner or later almost surely succeeds in 
his deadly work. 
It is no fault of the profession that it cannot cure 
this disease. Not because it is incurable, but because 
in its materia medica no substance is found in use 
of which the diseased system can be furnished with 
an antidote or an effective resistant. But this is no 
proof that such a substance does not exist and that 
consumption must still go on destroying its hun- 
dreds of thousands every year. The search for an 
agent that would give the vitality which is needed 
to arrest this disease and restore the patient to health, 
has been an earnest pursuit with some of the ablest 
physicians in the past and present century, and 
some form of Oxygen-administration has been with 
many regarded as the means by which the ardently 
desired end would be gained. Experiments in this 
direction have been made from time to time, but 
not until within the past few years have they been 
carried to a successful result. Satisfied that if a new 
combination of oxygen and nitrogen could be made 
in which the former substance would be in excess of 
what is found in common air, a physician, who had 
been forced to abandon his practice in consequence 
of an attack of pneumonia, was led to make per- 
sistent experiments, which finally resulted in the 
discovery of a new substance, now known as Com- 
pound Oxygen, and by the use of which he was 
himself restored to permanent good health. 
It is over thirteen years since this great result was 
reached—a result which has inaugurated a new era 
in the healing art. Consumption of the lungs stands 
no longer in the list of incurable diseases. 112 
The action of “Compound Oxygen” in arresting 
the progress of pulmonary consumption has been 
so marked and constant under the administration 
of this new substance, that we are warranted in say- 
ing that, if taken ,n the early stages, eight out of every 
ten persons affected with this disease might be cured. 
In consumption, as every one is aware, the only 
hope for the patient lies in the establishment of a 
higher vital condition. Now, Compound Oxygen Is 
an agent that gives directly this new and higher 
vitality, which generally becomes apparent at the 
very beginning of its use, manifesting itself in an 
almost immediate increase of appetite and in a 
sense of life and bodily comfort. If the use of Oxy- 
gen is continued, a steady improvement nearly always 
folloivs, and where the disease lias not become too 
deeply' seated, a cure may be confidently looked for. 
Frauds and Imitations. 
The rapidly increasing number of those who have 
obtained relief from pain or been restored to health 
by Compound Oxygen, reaching now to many thou- 
sands, scattered throughout the whole country, is 
having a wide influence on public sentiment. There 
are no arguments so convincing as well-known facts. 
If a man or a woman, who has been suffering for 
years from an exhausting disease which no physi- 
cian has been able to cure, tries a newly discovered 
remedy and is brought back to health, the fact 
stands as an unanswerable argument in favor of that 
remedy, so far, at least, as this particul ar case is con- 113 
cerned. A resort to the same remedy in another 
case regarded as “ incurable” and with a like result 
adds a new and stronger argument in its favor. Ac- 
cumulate similar results to the number of hundreds 
and thousands, and in the widest range of chronic 
and “desperate” diseases and abandoned cases, and 
you have a weight of evidence that is irresistible. 
On this weight of indisputable evidence we rest the 
claims of Compound Oxygen. 
And now it becomes our duty to warn the public 
against frauds and imitations. Scarcely any higher 
assurance of the value of a useful discovery or inven- 
tion can be given than the fact that unscrupulous 
persons attempt to deceive the public by offering 
them an article to which they give the same name, 
and to which they attribute the same qualities. The 
intrinsic value of a thing becomes evident in the 
efforts to make gain through an imitation or coun- 
terfeit. Our new Treatment is no exception to the 
rule. No sooner was its great curative value demon- 
strated beyond the reach of cavil or contradiction 
than frauds and imitations began to appear, and 
worthless articles were offered to the public as the 
genuine Compound Oxygen. 
In one instance an individual engaged in this dis- 
reputable business actually put forth the claim that 
he was employed by us in a confidential position 
through which he was able, in a surreptitious man- 
ner, to discover the secret of its manufacture! And, 
with a dullness of perception equaled only by his 
moral obliquity, asked the public to credit his asser- 
tion, while at the same time claiming to possess the 
secret of making Compound Oxygen through a 
betrayal of confidence ! As if the public would put 114 
faith in a man who declares himself to be un- 
trustworthy! 
But there was not a word of truth in this man’s 
assertion. He was never employed in our labora- 
tory, and if he had been there was no possible way 
in which he could discover the substance used by 
us to give to the new compound the vitalizing ele-- 
ment and curative force it contains. This is a secret 
which we do not communicate to anyone employed 
In our laboratory. 
In another case, a Western physician dispensed an 
imitation of our Treatment which he called Com- 
pound Oxygen, and then took a number of our testi- 
monials and reports of cases and published them as 
having been given for cures made by his spurious 
preparation. A threat to publicly expose him caused 
him to withdraw, so far as we know, our testimo- 
nials, but he still offers the public his worthless 
article. 
And, in still another case, a dishonest imitator not 
only used our testimonials, but actually took a num- 
ber of pages bodily from our Treatise on Compound 
Oxygen, and published them as if written by himself 
as an exposition of the science and theory on which 
his pretended cure was based! 
In most of the cases w'hich have come under our 
observation, the spurious substance is offered at 
lower prices than we ask for the genuine article. 
In consequence of repeated communications and 
inquiries from those who have tried these imita- 
tions and found them worthless, we deem it only a 
common duty to warn the public against them. 
A moment’s reflection will make it clear to any 
©ne that a man who tries to rob another of the fair re- 115 
ward to which any new invention or discovery may 
entitle him, is not a man whom the public can afford to 
trust. His moral sense is perverted—he has neither true 
honor nor honesty, and will deceive those who trust him 
whenever he finds it to his interest to do so. 
Let It be clearly understood that Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, 
are the only manufacturers and dispensers of Com- 
pound Oxygen. Any substance made elsewhere and 
called Compound Oxygen is spurious and worthless, 
and those who buy it simply throw away their money, 
as they will in the end discover. 
The genuine article has, on each bottle, the follow- 
ing registered trade-mark, 
which we have adopted in order to protect OUT- 
selves and the public. A Few Fasts, reasons, and 
Suggestions. 
We offer the following facts, reasons, and sugges- 
tions for the information and guidance of those who 
are using, or who think of using, our vitalizing 
Treatment. Every patient should have such an in- 
telligent knowledge of the means employed for 
restoration, and of his part in the work, as to give 
him rational confidence in these means and insure 
his careful co-operation. And first: 
How Does Compound Oxygen Cure?—we an- 
swer, In two important ways: First, by a rapid 
purification of the blood, in consequence of a larger 
supply of oxygen to the lungs, and, second, by re- 
vitalizing all the nerve-centres, the Compound in- 
haled having in its manufacture become magnetized, 
Which gives it the quality known to chemists as 
“ ozone." A new and healthy action is at once set up 
In the diseased system, and general improvement 
follows as surely as effect follows cause. 
Us Universal Action.—When this is understood 
It can readily be seen that the particular disease for 
116 117 
which Compound Oxygen has been inhaled will not 
always be the lirst to yield to its subtle influence. 
But, with scarcely any exception, a new vitality will 
be given to all the life-forces, and a general and often 
very marked improvement in the health appear 
from the very beginning. The cough, from which 
relief was sought, may continue, though with 
diminishing severity, but the headache, catarrh, 
rheumatism, neuralgia, general debility, or loss of 
appetite with which the patient has long been a 
sufferer will be partially or entirely removed after 
a few weeks’ use of the Oxygen Treatment. The 
same thing will often occur where the Treatment is 
used for the cure of catarrh, neuralgia, etc. There 
will be a steady improvement in the general health, 
and many troublesome ailments will disappear, 
while the catarrh or neuralgia opposes a stubborn 
resistance to the new force that assails it. But every 
reflecting patient must see that he has received a 
most substantial benefit, and that In the higher de- 
gree of health to which he is rising lies the hope of 
a final victory over the disease which has obtained 
so tenacious a hold upon his system. 
Observing the Laws of Health —o«r work goes 
no further than to assist nature in her efforts to 
break the force of disease and to finally dislodge it 
from the system. In this work, if we do not have 
the intelligent co-operation of our patients—if they 
do not use self-denial and resistance in the matters 
of bad mental and physical habits, and prudence in 
guarding themselves against undue exposure, ex- 
cessive fatigue, and the like, our efforts to help them 
will have only a partial success, or may be wholly 118 
in vain. There may be a temporary restoration 
under the action of curative forces—or, as we should 
more correctly say, under the forces which remove 
obstructions to the orderly influx of life from the 
soul into the body; it being nature, as we call it, 
and not medicine that cures—but nothing can give 
permanency to a cure unless the laws of health are 
observed. The causes that first produced sickness will, 
if they become active, produce it again. Nor can a pa- 
tient hope for a successful result under any treatment if 
he does not obey these laws. 
Desperate Cases.—As a rule, our patients be- 
long to that large class of invalids who have failed 
to get relief from skilled physicians or from the use 
of drugs or patent remedies. Their diseases are 
chronic, frequently of many years’ standing, and 
often so deeply intrenched in some vital organ that 
cure becomes almost a miracle. They come to us in 
despair of help from any other source, catching at our 
Compound Oxygen Treatment as a drowning man 
catches at a straw. 
More than half the cases submitted to us are of 
so desperate or complicated a character that no physi- 
cian, who clearly understood the action and capa- 
bilities of the remedies at his command and who 
had any regard for his reputation, would undertake 
them and at the same time give the patient any as- 
surance of an ultimate cure. 
The marvel is, that of these apparently hopeless-cases, 
so many are ameliorated, greatly helped, or radically 
cured by the subtle agent we administer. Cases wiiich 
we have hesitated to undertake, and which, in spite 
of our discouraging answers when an opinion was 119 
asked, were placed in our care, have rapidly im- 
proved, almost from the beginning, and steadily 
progressed to a cure—os much to our surprise and grati- 
fication often as to that of the patients and their friends. 
We have given many testimonials in cases of this 
kind from grateful patients. 
Protection from Cold.—Many persons contract 
colds, which often, in loo many cases, tcey the founda- 
tion for lung and throat diseases, neuralgia, and acute 
pneumonia. All know the difficulty of breaking up 
these colds. In most cases, under ordinary treat- 
ment, they run a course of from two or three to four 
or five weeks, during all of which time the sufferer 
will usually report his condition to inquiring friends 
in the expressive word “ miserable.” He is neither 
sick nor well, but “ miserable.” 
Where the lungs are delicate or diseased and 
where there is a neuralgic tendency, the effects of a 
cold become more dangerous or painful. 
Now, every one can appreciate the value of an 
agent that will give protection from cold or break it 
up promptly at its inception. Such an agent is 
Compound Oxygen, as we know from the uniform 
testimony of large numbers of our patients. 
Neuralgia.—Winter is the season when the vic- 
tims of neuralgia suffer most severely. The sudden 
changes in temperature and the impossibility of 
always protecting themselves from drafts of cold or 
damp air, make winter a period of great privation 
and pain. Sufferers from this disease rarely get 
anything beyond a temporary relief under any of 
the ordinary methods of treatment, which, in too 120 
many instances, only deaden the nerves for a time and 
then leave them more sensitive than ever, and the sufferer 
a prey to intenser ayony. 
In saying this, we do not in the least overstate the 
case, as all who know anything about the disease 
and the results of ordinary treatment understand 
but too well. Once fairly intrenched in the system and 
neuralgia becomes, in nine cases out of ten, so far as 
the regular medical practitioner is concerned, an incur- 
able disease. But under the subtle and all-pervading 
action of Compound Oxygen, this disease, from 
which so many thousands of persons suffer a living 
martyrdom, yields, even in some of the worst cases, 
with a promptness that is truly surprising. 
Pneumonia.—This disease, which so often runs Its 
rapid and fatal course in a few days or weeks, can, 
in nearly all cases, be arrested by prompt use of 
Compound Oxygen. We are satisfied, from what 
we know of its direct action upon the lungs, and 
from results in eases of acute inflammation in that 
organ, that if it be used as soon as the disease mani- 
fests itself, it will give relief in nine cases outof ten, 
and restore the patient to health. 
A severe cold always precedes an attack of pneu- 
monia, and to the value of Compound Oxygen in 
promptly arresting and breaking up a cold we have 
the concurrent testimony of a large number of per- 
sons who are using our Treatment for various forms 
of disease. 
First Effects of Compound Oxygen.—The first 
effects of Compound Oxygen differ in almost every 
ease, depending upon individual peculiarities of 121 
constitution and mental and physical habits. With 
some, no change is immediately perceived, but after 
a few days’ use of the Oxygen, its effects become 
very marked; with others, the whole system begins 
to respond at the first inhalation, and there is a 
rapid and progressive improvement from the very 
beginning, while with others the condition seems to 
become worse for a time. The last effect occurs very 
often, and is a most encouraging sign, showing, as it 
does, that new life-forces have been induced in the 
torpid and obstructed organism, and that their flow is 
occasioning a temporary discomfort or pain, which will 
soon give place to new and better sensations. 
Wasting the New-found Strength.—We cannot 
too often nor too strongly urge upon our patients 
the duty of husbanding carefully the new strength and 
feeling of life and vigor that usually come as the first 
effect of inhaling Compound Oxygen. The cessation of 
pain, the removal of distressing conditions, and the 
comfort and sense of vitality that are felt, too fre- 
quently awaken a false confidence and lead to both 
mental and physical efforts that quickly exhaust the 
system and cause it to lose what has been gained. 
A few inhalations of Compound Oxygen may 
quicken the vital forces and give nature the power 
to hold disease in check, but they will not restore to 
brain and nerve and muscle the strength which has bee)i 
wasting for years. This can come only through healthy 
nutrition and the slow process of re-creating and re- 
building. Gradually, as disease encroached, the sys- 
tem lost its tone. The downward course may have 
been through years. The return to health must be 
along the ivay of descent. It may be more'rapid than 122 
was the descent; but this will depend on the care 
with which every step is taken. If there is an at- 
tempt to carry burdens of business or professional 
or household duties heavier than the newly gained 
strength will endure, a breakdown or setrback is inevit- 
able. Any one can see this. 
It is against such an over-use of the strength at 
first received that we desire most earnestly to warn 
our patients. There are few so run down and ex- 
hausted by disease that we cannot, through the agency 
of Compound Oxygen, bring them back to a new life and 
comparative health. But to do this, as much depends 
on the co-operation of patients as on the action of 
our remedy. 
We cannot take them up from where they have 
fallen, or are in danger of falling, by the wayside, 
and return them to the iand of health. We can only 
put a staff in their hands and send currents of new life 
along nerve and muscle. These they must use for them- 
selves, wisely, prudently, and persistently. If they do 
so, all will be well; if they do not, the responsibility 
of failure will lie at their own doors. 
Give them a Chance.—if the thousands and 
tens of thousands of weak and weary sufferers 
throughout the land, who, in spite of care and skill, 
are steadily drifting downward, could have the 
benefit of this subtle and singularly vitalizing 
agent which we call Compound Oxygen, the help 
and ease and comfort it would bring to wasting 
bodies and depressed spirits would be blessings 
beyond price. If, reader, you have an invalid wife or 
mother os- daughter or sister or son or any one who is 
under your care and dependent upon you, and to 123 
whom life has become a burden through weakness 
and pain, consider seriously whether you are not 
bound, in both love and duty, to give this sufferer a 
chance of recovery or at least the blessing of ease from 
pain. We offer you the amplest means of informa- 
tion in regard to this new Treatment. If you can 
examine the testimony we present, without prejudice, 
and can weigh evidence with judgment and discrimi- 
nation, youwill hardly fail to see that in Compound 
Oxygen there is a healing power that is simply 
wonderful. 
Let, then, the sick and suffering whom you care 
for and love and for whom you have not been able 
to get relief, have a trial of this new remedy. It can 
do them no harm; and, seeing what it has done and 
is doing in so many thousands of cases, all the proba- 
bilities are in favor of its doing them good. 
Our Relation to Patients.— We are physicians 
of long practice and experience, not venders of a patent 
medicine. Our business is to cure diseases. There 
has come into our possession a knowledge of the 
way In which to combine oxygen and nitrogen, the 
two elements which make up our common, or at- 
mospheric, air, in such proportions as to render it 
much richer in the vital, or life-giving quality. It con- 
tains no medicament, unless the elements of pure 
air are medicines, and its administration introduces 
nothing in the body which the system does not 
welcome as a friend, accept with avidity, and appro- 
priate as entirely homogeneous to itself. The results 
of over twelve years’ administration of this new 
remedy are of a most remarkable character, sur- 
prising alike to ourselves and our many patients. 124 
Extensive arrangements have been completed by 
which we are enabled to supply the Compound Oxy- 
gen for home use to any extent and to all parts of the 
country, giving, at the same time, the right of free con- 
sultation by letter during the time a patient may be using 
the Treatment. Every case submitted to us will be, 
as we have said, carefully considered. If we see a 
reasonable ground for anticipating the favorable 
action of Compound Oxygen, we will encourage the 
patient to give it a trial; but if we think the matter 
at all doubtful, we will frankly say so. 
Establishing Confidence.—The steadily increas- 
ing number of our patients; the favorable reports 
of which we are in daily receipt, reaching to hun- 
dreds every month; the cures that we are making 
in desperate cases, which often seem little less than 
miracles, and the number of voluntary testimonials 
from persons of high character and intelligence 
which we are constantly receiving, all demonstrate 
the fact that the Compound Oxygen Treatment is 
what we claim for it, viz.; a new and higher devel- 
opment of curative force, based on strictly scientific 
and pathological principles. 
The work of establishing confidence in this Treat- 
ment, which was slow during the first few years of 
its administration, now goes on more rapidly. It is 
becoming clearer and clearer to the public every 
day that we are not holding out fallacious hopes to the 
sick and suffering, but offering an almost certain means 
of relief in any form of disease which may be arrested 
or cured through the establishment of a new life in 
the vital system. There is no drug-medication, nor 
any violent assaults upon the enfeebled vitality of the 125 
patient, but a gentle infusion of a new power which 
nature eagerly accepts and appropriates and which 
gradually but surely bears the sufferer back toward the 
long-lost health. That Compound Oxygen is doing 
tills work in a large and rapidly Increasing number 
of cases is now well known to thousands of persons 
all over the land; and so confidence in its potency 
is being steadily and surely established. 
Not a Cure-all.—Compound Oxygen will not 
cure every form of disease nor reach every condi- 
tion. There are cases in which hereditary tenden- 
cies have been so confirmed by vicious medical 
treatment or by a personal neglect or disregard of 
the laws of health extending through years, that 
the abused, exhausted, and overtaxed vital organs 
cannot respond, except very imperfectly, to an 
inflow of new and living forces. 
We meet occasionally with such cases and fail to 
cure them, to the sad disappointment of those who, 
seeing what the Oxygen cure has done for others 
apparently in as desperate a condition as their own, 
hopefully sought its aid. Most of these get a partial 
degree of relief, while some can see no beneficial 
result whatever; and some, in their disappointment, 
if not despair, weakly denounce the Treatment as a 
fraud, and this in the face of evidence to its curative 
power in hundreds of cases—as if failure with them 
was a disproval of success in others. 
But in our large intercourse and correspondence 
with patients, the cases in which Compound Oxy- 
gen has failed to give a real and lasting benefit have 
been so few in number that they are really exceptional 
to the rule of cure. How far the failures in these 126 
instances have been due to the patients’ neglect of 
our directions and of proper care of themselves 
while under treatment, is something we cannot of 
course always determine; but we are satisfied that 
these causes have operated adversely in most of the 
cases where the expected results have not appeared. 
Kept it in the House.—The value of compound 
Oxygen, as something to be always kept on hand 
and for reliance in sudden attacks of illness, is be- 
coming more and more widely known. Many cases 
are being reported to us in which a Treatment that 
had been only partly used, and which had remained 
in the house untouched for months, has been re- 
sorted to in case of cold where serious consequences 
were threatened, and with the happiest results. 
Seeing its value in cases like these, people are begin- 
ning to keep it on hand and ready for use. This is 
common sense and common prudence. If kept prop- 
erly closed and in a cool place, the Treatment will 
suffer no deterioration, and its prompt use will, in 
most cases, ward off1 a threatened attack of illness, 
especially those which come from colds, from ner- 
vous and physical exhaustion, or from exposure to 
malarial influences. A Treatment kept on hand 
and promptly resorted to in time of need, will do 
more to prevent sickness in a family than any other 
known agency, and save often five or ten times its 
cost in doctors’ bills, to say nothing of the suffering 
and loss too often entailed by serious illness. The 
old and trite adage, “ Prevention is better than 
cure,” cannot be kept too much in mind. 
Brain Workers.—Brain work, unless excessive, 
does not depress the nervous system nor weaken the 127 
vital forces. If the ordinary laws of mental and 
physical hygiene are observed, brain work, instead 
of making drafts upon the health, really improves 
it. But the great trouble with professional men and 
brain workers, in the various departments of science 
and industry, is their excessive and prolonged appli- 
cation, and too often utter neglect of the plainest 
laws of health. That so many break down in the 
prime of life is no matter of surprise. Only those of 
iron constitutions illustrate, In a somewhat ques- 
tionable way, the doctrine of “the survival of the 
fittest;” and their number is not large. 
In this country nearly every active business or 
professional man is overworked, and suffers from 
waste of vitality. Few reach the age of forty-five 
without this waste of vital force showing itself in 
some form of disease more or less troublesome or 
dangerous. 
The ailments vary according to predisposition 
toward diseases of the individual. The most gen- 
eral is failure in intellectual ability, mental con- 
centration, pointing to softening of the brain, from 
malnutrition of the organ, or its equivalent—ex- 
haustion of some of its elements. More or less 
general paralysis is an effect of this condition of the 
brain. 
Now, unless something can be done to renew the 
wasted vital force, these diseased conditions must 
go on increasing until an utter breakdown is the 
result. 
Many, warned in time, retire from business or 
professional life and seek in change and relaxation 
a measure of the health which they have lost. With 
much the larger number, this retirement is felt to 128 
be Impossible; and they go on suffe-ing and failing 
until the disastrous end comes in paralysis, soften- 
ing of the brain, or sudden death. 
Now, as we have repeatedly said, the results which 
have followed the use of Compound Oxygen during 
the last thirteen years, prove it to be the most effi- 
cient agent yet discovered by the medical profession 
for the restoration of nervous vitality. Its rise by 
overworked business and professional men would save 
many hundreds of lives every year and give to thousands 
more the ability to work without the weariness, exhaus- 
tion, and peril which now attend them. The fee for this Treatment is 830.00 per month, payable 
in advance. This calls for thirty treatments, whether in 
as many consecutive days or otherwise. 
PRICE OF OFFICE TREATMENT. 
PRICE OF HOME TREATMENT. 
The Home Treatment is sent by Express, at the cost of 
the person ordering it, on the receipt of the price, which 
is $15.00. it contains two months’ supply of " Compound 
Oxygen,” with inhaling apparatus, and full and explicit 
directions for use. If sent C. O. D., the cost of collection 
will be added to the Express charges. 
The price of additional Supplies will be found at the 
bottom of each bill or receipt. 
#S“ We send out no trial Supplies, and no single 
month’s Supply. 
NO EXTRA CHARGE 
FOR ADVICE OR CONSULTATION. 
We desire it to be particularly understood, that we give 
our patients the most careful professional attention, either 
in office consultation or by correspondence. We ask of 
every one who applies for the “ Compound Oxygen,” as 
full a history of his or her case as it is possible to give; 
and if we should be satisfied that the condition is such as 
to leave little or no hope in ,the new Treatment, we will 
honestly say so. If, on the contrary, fropi our wide ex- 
perience of its action and effects, we see a reasonable hope 
of relief or restoration, we will encourage the patient to 
give the Oxygen a trial. In all cases, we desire to keep in 
correspondence with our patients while they are using the 
Treatment; and to get regular reports from’them in order 
that we may give them the benefit of all the professional 
skill and advice in our power to offer. This is done with- 
out extra charge to the path nt. 
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 
1100 & nil GIRARD STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Cost of the “Home Treatment.” 
The price charged for the Compound Oxygen Home 
Treatment—two months’ supply—is (M5.00. Now and 
then a patient suggests that ihe price is high. A few 
words will set this matter in its true light, and show that 
our charge to patients, instead of being high, is in reality 
very low. 
We are physicians, and give our patients the right of free 
consultation during the time they tire using our Treatment. 
A Treatment if used according to directions, will last 
for from two to three months. It rarely happens that a 
patient uses Compound Oxygen for this period of time 
without receiving very great benefit; in a large number 
of cases the disease for which it is taken is cured. And 
yet many of these patients have spent, as stated by themselves, 
many hundreds of dollars on physicians and medicines without 
gaining any relief. 
it will therefore be seen that the expense of this Oxygen 
Home Treatment, which lasts for over two months, during 
which time our distant patients have the right to consult 
us freely by letter, is, in reality, small; costing, in most 
cases, less than a doctor’s ordinary prescriptions while attend- 
ing a patient during a like period— to say nothing of his reg- 
DEPOSITORY ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 
All orders directed to II. E. Mathews, 606 Montgomery 
Street, San Francisco, Cal., will be filled on the same terms 
on which we fill orders sent directly to our office in Phila- 
delphia. 
Patients ordering from our Depository in San Francisco, 
should, at the same time, write to us, and give a statement 
of their cases, in order that we may send them such advice 
and direction in the use of the Treatment as their special 
diseases may seem to require. 
TREATISE ON COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
This Treatise of nearly two hundred pages contains a 
history of the discovery of Compound Oxygen, describes 
its mode of action, and’ gives.a large record of the results 
which have followed its administrations during a period 
of more than twelve years. It is intended for free cir- 
culation, and will be sent to all who desire to receive a 
copy. 
Also, wnt free, “ Health asd Life,” our quarterly jour 
nal containing reports of cases and cures under the Com- 
pound Oxygen Treatment.