THE 
o|||ei Vf ©almeil, 
Its Mode of ktiontind Results. 
a. R. STARKEY, A.M., MX>. 
BY 
REVISED AND ENLARGED. 
THIRD EDITION: 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
STAIRIKIBY Sc PALE]ST, 
1112 Girard Street, 
1877. G. R. Starkey, A. M. D. G. E. Palen, Ph. 8., M. D. THE 
Compound QxygenTreatment, 
ITS MODE OF ACTION AND RESULTS. ' 
BY 
G. R. STARKEY, A.M., M.D. 
THIRD EDITION: 
REVISED AND ENLARGED. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
STAEKEY & PALEH, 
1112 Girard Street, 
1877. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1877, hr 
STARKEY & PALEN, 
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30 TO 38 HUDSON ST., PHILA. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
EXPOSITION. 
Oxygen as a distinct element was discov- 
ered nearly one hundred years ago by He. 
Priestly. He learned that it was one of 
the constituent elements of the air we breathe, 
comprising one-fifth part of the whole atmos- 
phere. He learned too that it constitutes 
that part of the atmosphere which enables all 
air-breathing animals to live at all. Hence 
he named it Vital Air; and by this name 
alone was it known for years. 
Knowing, as they did, that life can be pre- 
served but very few minutes without a due 
supply of oxygen, philosophers and physicians 
naturally enough came to think that oxygen 
ought to restore men to a full state of vitality, 
in case it be partly lost by disease. 
For many years this conviction has been 
so strong, experiments by hundreds have been 4 
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made to use it as a curative agent. But the 
result hitherto has been so unsuccessful that 
the best men have yielded to disappointment, 
and have become skeptical as to its having 
any curative power. 
Ask almost any intelligent physician his 
opinion of the power of oxygen to cure disease, 
and he will tell you—honestly, too—that it 
has been tried faithfully over and again, and 
has been found wanting. 
And indeed it is true that its use in an un- 
combined state did, and probably always will, 
disappoint what would seem to be a reasonable 
expectation of its results. So, too, has a mix- 
ture of it with common air in various propor- 
tions failed to produce the healing effects 
which have been looked for with so much 
hope. 
But it can now be demonstrated that all 
those strong convictions that oxygen ought 
to prove an inestimable boon to the millions 
who are suffering from disease had their 
foundation in truth. 
What, then, is Compound Oxygen ? It is 
a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, the 5 
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two elements which make up common or 
atmospheric air, in such proportion as renders 
it much richer in the vital or life-giving 
element. 
It is a preparation of which chemists know 
nothing; it is not “nitrous oxide or laugh- 
ing-gas;” and it differs essentially from all 
substances used as medical inhalations. It 
contains no medicament, unless the elements 
of pure air are medicines; and its adminis- 
tration introduces into the body nothing 
which the system does not welcome as a 
friend, accept with avidity, appropriate as 
entirely homogeneous to itself and claim as 
its own birth-right. 
The question naturally arises here, What 
is there peculiar in this combination of oxygen 
and nitrogen which makes it capable of curing 
diseases while all other similar preparations 
have failed ? Interesting as this question is, 
there is another of much greater interest 
practically : Does it cure better than any other 
known agent f And to answer this in the 
affirmative thousands stand ready and will- 
ing. 6 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
The brief history of this agent is as follows : 
To Dr. H. J. Hartwell is due the credit of 
the discovery or invention of this particular 
combination of oxygen and nitrogen, and 
this after a long and laborious scientific re- 
search, and of developing it into a practical, 
safe and powerfully curative agent. 
Having suffered from an attack of pneu- 
monia which came very near proving fatal, 
he found his convalescence so slow and im- 
perfect as to oblige him to relinquish his 
general practice and seek recovery in a foreign 
climate. 
Several months’ diligent pursuit of his 
lost health ended in disappointment. Not 
willing to abandon the hope of recovering his 
former soundness of lungs, he thought to 
make available his scientific knowledge— 
particularly that of chemistry. Like hun- 
dreds before him, he seized upon the idea 
that oxygen, the natural stimulus of the lungs, 
promised the greatest reward for research and 
investigation. But unlike the many wdio 
had failed to win the reward, he had a dearer 
interest in the success of his labors than the COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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love of abstract science, however pure that 
may be. 
Having possessed himself of the English 
and Continental literature upon the subject, 
and profiting by the failures as well as suc- 
cesses of European savants, he entered upon 
his researches. The crown of all these efforts 
was Compound Oxygen, and by means of 
it a complete restoration of the doctor’s 
health. Under its influence his avoirdupois 
weight increased forty pounds in twelve 
weeks; and from a weight of one hundred 
and twenty pounds he rapidly gained till he 
reached his permanent weight, for the last 
three years, of one hundred and ninety 
pounds. And now he has devoted four years 
to making this specific available to his fellow- 
sufferers. 
Why some substances act as emetics and 
others as cathartics, diuretics, diaphoretics, 
tomes, etc., no one can tell; still less can any 
one tell why each substance in all of these 
classes has, besides the above-stated general 
HO W DOES OXYGEN ACT CVItATIVELY? 8 
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action, a specific or alterative action which 
distinguishes it from every other substance in 
its class. So also we may not know how oxy- 
gen acts to support animal life, because we can 
never know anything of the interior nature 
of life. 
But as chemists and physiologists we do 
know enough of its action when taken into 
the lungs to make that knowledge worth the 
stating. 
When we breathe ordinarily we inhale a 
certain quantity of atmospheric air, and im- 
mediately exhale or breathe out four-fifths of 
what we inhaled; that is, all the nitrogen, and 
something besides, as we shall see. The other 
one-fifth, nearly all the oxygen, is absorbed 
into the system. Now whatever else this 
vital element may do in the body, it performs 
that most important office, the purification of 
the blood, and this is the method of doing it; 
One-half of the heart is always engaged in 
pumping the blood that has been collected 
from all parts of the body into the lungs. 
Here this blood, dark and impure from being 
loaded with a kind of charcoal or carbon, the 9 
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worn-out tissues of the body, comes so near 
to the air inhaled that nothing lies between 
the blood and the air but a most delicate filmy 
membrane, so attenuated that the oxygen is 
instantly absorbed through it into the blood. 
Here it immediately forms a chemical union 
with the carbon which it finds in the blood, thus 
generating carbonic acid gas; and this gas passes 
as readily through the same membrane, to be 
exhaled with the breath, as the oxygen didin 
the opposite direction. (The carbonic acid 
gas is the something besides which is breathed 
out with the nitrogen.) The blood is thus 
relieved of its impurities, and left of a bright 
crimson color, and in this state it is returned 
to the other half of the heart, to be again sent 
on its life and health dispensing round. Again 
it is returned to the lungs loaded with more im- 
purities, thus ever completing the circle of life. 
If you put some dark blood, such as may 
be taken from the veins, into a jar containing 
pure oxygen, and agitate the two together, the 
blood will readily change its color to bright 
red, like that found in the arteries. 
We are now prepared to understand how a 10 
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bountiful supply of oxygen may act to restore 
a diseased body to a state of healthy activity. 
Owing to many customs and habits incident 
to our artificial, civilized mode of living, none 
of us get as much oxygen as the best welfare 
of our bodies requires. This long-continued 
deficiency of vital air is enough of itself to 
work indefinite mischief to out well-being. 
Setting aside the first effect of such “ short 
commons,” which is to make us less vigorous, 
the second, and by far the more important, 
result is, the blood never gets properly puri- 
fied in the lungs, simply because not enough 
oxygen is admitted to the blood to dissolve 
out the carbon. The blood being thus sent 
back into the system only partially relieved 
of its impurities, these of course clog its 
channels of circulation and cause obstruction 
to all the vital actions of the body. 
But this is not all, nor the worst. These 
impurities not only serve as hindrances to all 
healthy action, but they become poisonous in 
their character; and if they accumulate be- 
yond a certain amount, they cause “blood- 
poisoned ” diseases, such as typhoid, jail and COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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putrid fevers. Our bodies being in conse- 
quence diseased, overcharged with worn-out 
tissues of the body, require the aid of arti- 
ficial or outside agents in order to be restored 
to a state of health. 
The lungs are doing all they can under the 
circumstances to supply the necessary amount 
of oxygen to dissolve and remove the car- 
bonaceous matters, but they are not adequate 
to the task. Now what more reasonable mode 
of procedure can there be than to furnish a 
supply of air much richer in oxygen, the 
only agent which can act as a solvent and 
remover of those matters ? 
The blood, coming in contact with the over- 
plus of oxygen, seizes it with avidity, and in 
about four minutes has distributed a part of 
it to every portion of the body. By this 
means every organ has received a new install- 
ment of vigor and life. At the same time a 
larger proportion of worn-out tissue is dis- 
solved and removed. This of course liberates 
the oppressed vital actions (already invigor- 
ated) by removing those obstructions, and 
creates the sensation of a void, a want of 12 
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something to fill the places of the substances 
removed, which is felt as an appetite. With 
their vigor renewed, the digestive organs in 
turn are better able to prepare nutriment 
which the whole system can more perfectly 
assimilate to its own substance. All this 
improved state of affairs enables the whole 
economy more readily to respond to another 
installment of oxygen, and thus to rid itself 
of another cargo of deleterious matters; and 
this of course necessitates another supply of 
nourishing food. In this manner take place 
a renewed and vigorous action and reaction, 
elimination and assimilation, each assisting 
the other in ridding the system of health-de- 
stroying debris, and storing up health-giving 
energy. 
WHAT DISEASES ABE AMENABLE TO THIS 
TBEATMENT? 
To pretend that this is a cure-all would be 
no less an offence against good taste than a 
perversion of truth. But that all states of 
invalidism may be improved by it is what en- 
lightened common sense would expect and 
experience abundantly proves. 13 
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Treatment by any kind of medicine must 
be limited in its efficacy by the power of that 
medicine to affect one or perhaps several 
tissues of the body, and that only in definite 
modes. But the action of this treatment is 
as universal as the effect of pure air, whole- 
some food or protection by comfortable cloth- 
ing and shelter. 
As might reasonably be expected, all dis- 
eases of the lungs and other respiratory organs 
come especially within the range of treatment 
which consists principally in oxygen inhalation. 
With wonderful facility are congestions of 
the lungs dispersed, collapsed parts restored, 
tubercular deposits absorbed, hemorrhages 
controlled and ulcerated surfaces healed. The 
chest has been known to increase nine inches 
in circumference during five months’ treat- 
ment by oxygen alone. Scores of cases pro- 
nounced by their physicians to be hopelessly 
sick with consumption are this day rejoicing 
in the possession of good health. Other affec- 
tions of these organs, such as bronchitis, asthma, 
laryngitis, pulmonary and nasal catarrhs, yield 
with promptness. 14 
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Dyspepsia, that “ hydra-headed monster,” 
in every form and in almost every stage may 
be radically cured. Dr. Hartwell asserts that 
he has never failed to cure every case in which 
he has had a fair trial. If it be conceded that 
the oxygen treatment proves to be a specialty 
in any classes of disease, unquestionably it 
must be in the two now mentioned: those of 
the respiratory and those of the digestive 
organs. 
Still, the wonderful rapidity with which 
other serious ailments improve makes us 
pause in awarding it a superior efficacy in those 
just named. Contrary to what might bo 
looked for, cases of diabetes will almost always 
exhibit marked improvement in a single week. 
And if there be in that dreadful trouble, sper- 
matorrhoea (seminal emissions), any other 
treatment which deserves the title, prompt and 
efficient, we do not know what it is. 
For all the diseases which are peculiar to 
women, and which do not absolutely demand 
surgical interference, this treatment provides 
the most speedy, effective and least obnoxious 
remedy known. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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Did they know what a boon it holds in 
trust for them, thousands of our wives, sisters 
and daughters would avail themselves of it 
without delay. 
Those Avho have reached what has been 
so appropriately termed “the critic at. 
period ” find more relief and support during 
that trying season from oxygen than words 
can express. The “ hot flushes ” which so 
annoy, distress and embarrass almost every 
one who passes through the “ change of life,” 
and which in many cases continue for a num- 
ber of years, are promptly smothered. The 
mental depression that so embitters the exist- 
ence of the patient and her friends is speedily 
dissipated, and the indefinite variety of ner- 
vous affections which attend the change are 
quietly allayed. 
That omnibus of diseases, the convenient 
and oft-abused term, liver complaint or 
BILIOUSNESS; which sends the patient, either 
with or without the sanction of the physician, 
to “ blue mass,” “ vegetable pills,” or “ podo- 
phyllin,” breaks down on this road. Conges- 
tions, chronic inflammations and indurations 16 
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of the liver, with all the attendant pains and 
discomforts, are entirely amenable to this 
treatment. 
The host of nervous derangements can- 
not be so successfully treated by any other 
known method. Neuralgia, Nervous 
headache, St. Vitus’ dance, and other 
spasmodic affections, nervous prostration 
or debility, and many other similar dis- 
orders may be mentioned in the same category. 
If the oxygen treatment had no efficacy beyond 
that which it can assuredly accomplish in the 
multiplicity of nervous disorders alone, it 
would still be a priceless boon to humanity. 
The diseases of the kidneys, which are com- 
paratively few, ha ve been treated with uniform 
success. Its use in diabetes has already been 
alluded to. But in that more fearful malady 
called Bright’s Disease, we have seen won- 
derful results. In such a disease, in which all 
other modes of cure are wofully at fault, it 
surely becomes a matter of mere common 
prudence for all who discover alhumem in their 
urine to give oxygen inhalation a fair trial. 
Scrofula, although a vague term as gener- 17 
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ally used, is properly used to designate a con- 
dition of the system which ever tends to deposit 
tubercles in various organs, and to produce 
enlargement and suppuration of lymphatic 
glands, especially those located on the sides of 
the neck and under the lower jaw. Its de- 
velopment into consumption and various 
other diseases usually depends upon imperfect 
nutrition; hence the protean forms of this 
disease are so successfully combated by this 
treatment. 
Paralysis cannot by any possibility be 
cured in all cases. But the results achieved 
by the inhalation of oxygen are such as to 
warrant great promises being held out to a 
class of sufferers who make the greatest de- 
mand upon our sympathies. 
Many persons are impressed with the im- 
portance of having the “ blood purified 
and twice a year or oftener they are accustomed 
to resort to such means as they hope may ac- 
complish that desirable end. Those persons 
should know that its importance can scarcely 
be over-estimated; but let them also know 
that the only efficient purifier of the blood is 18 
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oxygen when taken into the lungs. The oc- 
ular proof that this process of purification is 
going on is the change which takes place in 
the external appearance of the patient. The 
form becomes rounded, the countenance more 
vivacious, the face clear of pimples, liver spots 
and roughness, the complexion recovers its 
brightness and bloom, the eyes their brilliancy, 
and the skin its velvety softness. What surer 
tokens than these of restored health ? 
ARE THE EFFECTS OF OXYGEN TREATMENT 
PERMANENT? 
This is almost the first question which will 
occur to any one whose attention is called to 
it as a treatment adapted to his or her case. 
Many intelligent persons would not hesitate 
to answer it emphatically in the negative, 
and would persuade themselves that by so 
doing they would exhibit some unequivocal 
mark of superior sagacity and scientific 
acumen. 
The process of reasoning by which they 
reach their conclusion is sufficiently correct, 
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take for granted that which requires to be 
proved, and in the present case cannot be 
proved. Their minor premise is false. The 
syllogism runs thus : The effects of all kinds 
of mere stimulus are evanescent, and are fol- 
lowed by a corresponding reaction ; oxygen 
when inhaled is a mere stimulus, therefore the 
effect of oxygen is evanescent and is followed 
by a corresponding depression. The fatal 
element in this otherwise beautiful piece of 
logic is the false assertion that oxygen when 
inhaled is simply a stimulus. There is not 
a particle of evidence that this gas when ad- 
ministered in the form fitted to be a remedial 
agent is any more of a stimulus than whole- 
some food is to the stomach, sound to the ear 
or light to the eye. 
What are the facts in the case ? Almost 
immediately the patient perceives a marked 
increase of appetite; a real zest for food which 
recalls the gusto of youthful days—days of 
fishing, nutting, gaming and skating. The 
digestive organs respond to the new regula- 
tions of “the commissary department,” and 
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of increased supplies. The new material, manu- 
factured in quantities over and above the 
present demand, is stored up in the real 
repositories of health and strength and vigor, 
the muscular system. The muscles in conse- 
quence enlarge, get firmer, redder, stronger, 
more active and more elastic. All the other 
tissues thrive sympathetically with them ; the 
intellectual faculties work with more easCj 
elasticity and efficiency; and even the moral 
state is elevated into a calmer, more hopeful 
and self-poised condition, and the patient be- 
comes a bigger, stronger, happier and better 
man or woman. And it is asserted without 
fear of contradiction by any one who knows 
the fads that the whole amount of this newly- 
acquired physical virtue is genuine, and will 
last until it be WORN out. In other words, 
it differs in no manner or degree from that ac- 
quired through the normal circumstances of 
an inherited good constitution, youthful vigor 
and a properly matured manhood. As the 
latter may be destroyed, and certainly will be 
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under similar influences; no more speedily nor 
surely. 
DOES THE TREATMENT INDUCE ANT DISAS- 
TROUS OR UNPLEASANT EFFECTS? 
Disastrous effects, never! Of the tens of 
thousands who have been already treated by 
it, no one can truthfully say that he or she 
has received the least injury by it or been 
made in any way the wTorse for it. 
We have heard of a wiseacre making such 
a statement as this : “In some cases, while the 
physical health and muscular powers are un- 
deniably increased the mental powers become 
weak and feeble.” From positive knowledge 
we can state that those who make such asser- 
tions either make them in entire ignorance 
of facts, or else they assert what they know to 
be exactly opposite to the truth. The mental 
powers act vigorously, other things being 
equal, just in proportion as the brain is 
generously nourished. How can all the other 
parts of the body be bountifully nourished, 
and at the same time the brain alone become 
impoverished, unless there be some organic 
trouble either in the organ itself or parts irn- 22 
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mediately connected with it ? The preposter- 
ousness of the idea needs only to be stated to 
become apparent. 
A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE 
HOPERESS. 
There is a large class of cases whose con- 
dition is almost entirely unappreciated who 
really deserve the sympathy of their friends 
and others. They are not sick enough to be 
styled invalids, and of course cannot complain 
of being sick at all. They cannot make up 
their minds to “ have the doctor called/’ nor 
to go away health-seeking, and consequently 
they get little sympathy, and are treated with 
less consideration. Still they feel miserable 
and forlorn, find a burden in every task, how- 
ever light, and have no zest for life and little 
hope in the future. In this state the best 
selected remedies seemingly do little or no 
good, stimulants are worse than useless and 
nostrums are a bane. 
Let such as these be assured that a judicious 
administration of oxygen, faithfully tried for a 
fortnight, will convince them that there is for 
them a “ balm in Gilead,” and that they may 23 
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be promptly elevated to a state of newness of 
life, in which duties will be performed with a 
pleasure now wholly unknown to them; the 
world will put on new and living tints of 
beauty, and joyousuess of being alive will re- 
call the halcyon days of youth. 
There is a third class which inspires our 
deepest interest. The passage of the rubicon 
from youth to maturity is generally, and es- 
pecially with one sex, a critical one. There is 
no other known means which will insure a 
safe and pleasant transit through this usually 
stormy, and sometimes fatal, passage. 
The BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN constitute 
a fourth class. Worn down by the labors of 
their business, racked by its anxieties, depress- 
ed by its confinement, and harassed by its 
destruction of regular habits, they would fain 
fly to seaside, mountain summit or invigor- 
ating spring. But they cannot do either 
without sacrificing their interests, abandoning 
home comforts, and, perhaps, encountering 
the inclemency of seasons. Let them know 
that by devoting five or seven minutes each 
day to the pleasant performance of appropri- 24 
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ating to themselves some of this invigorating 
and renovating element, they will receive 
more available strength and working capacity 
than they can be made to believe without the 
trial. 
A fifth class are the weary convalescents. 
Their vitality nearly crashed out of them by 
the severity of the encounter in which they 
have barely won, or, worse yet, having possi- 
bly just escaped a double conflict with the 
disease and the more depressing effects of 
drugs, health is very reluctant to return. No 
other treatment will so promptly give an im- 
petus to the jaded forces as Nature’s magical 
vitalizer. 
CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
In the above exposition the aim has been 
to give an explanation at once simple and 
scientific of the action of oxygen as a health- 
giving element; and also from an extensive 
knowledge of what it has accomplished to 
state scrupulously and without exaggeration 
the promises for good which it holds out to 
those who choose to avail themselves of its 
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It is not claimed, as intimated before, that 
by this treatment all cases can be cured, but 
it is claimed that seventy-five out of every 
hundred who are able to visit the office, in- 
cluding even those who are laboring under 
confirmed pulmonary consumption, can be 
restored to health. 
It is claimed, too, that they can be cured to 
a higher standard of health than by any other 
known method. All that medicine can do is 
to assist Nature in removing obstructions, 
leaving the original constitutional powers to 
work just what they may have been able to 
do formerly : but by the oxygen treatment all 
this is more promptly done and much besides, 
for the original vital powers are greatly 
increased. 
This feature of the treatment is worthy of 
serious consideration, and the statement should 
not be thrust aside simply because it may 
appear incredible. 
Other things being equal, the exact measure 
of one’s ability TO DO—either physically or 
intellectually—is one’s ordinary capacity of 
breathing, which means his ability to appropri- 26 
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ate oxygen from the atmosphere. Who that 
understands his business ever buys a working 
animal without looking to his “wind,” and 
also to the size of his nostril ? Who ever saw 
a successful scholar or athlete with pinched-up 
nostrils and a contracted chest ? 
Now the very act of receiving this treat- 
ment, the forcible inhalation of oxygen, alfords 
a powerful mechanical means of enlarging 
the breathing capacity of the lungs. This is 
done by forcibly inflating every air-cell into 
which any air can be crowded. And as almost 
everybody has a portion of these air-cells in 
a state of collapse, impervious to air, and 
many more in a state of partial collapse, it is 
easy to see how it may come about that con- 
tinued forcible inspirations may restore them 
to a state of healthy activity, thus considerably 
enlarging the working material of the lungs. 
Hence there is little doubt that much genuine 
good has been done by those treatments which 
consist in directions to forcibly breathe the 
common air. 
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to the same end in the presence and contact 
of oxygen, Nature’s own stimulus, but here in 
multiplied proportions, to the air-cells them- 
selves. This force is as much superior to the 
other as vital action is superior to mechanical 
action in the animal economy. The almost 
uniform result of this treatment, determined 
by actual measurement of the chest, proves 
this position beyond a cavil. 
And this absolute increase of lung capacity 
continues through all the future, being every 
moment of their existence a bona fide addition 
to their resources of health and strength. 
This appears from the fact that with each and 
every breath they appropriate an additional 
amount of oxygen from Nature’s vast labora- 
tory. And as we breathe about twenty-nine 
thousand times in the twenty-four hours, we 
may form some estimate of the aggregate of 
even a single day’s additions. 
The grand end of this, as it should be of 
every curative treatment, is this: to lay a solid 
foundation of healthy action throughout the 
whole body, to enable all its parts to realize 
their possibilities of action, and thus to put the 28 
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whole system into a condition to live and 
thrive normally. 
There is one subject which may here be 
legitimately alluded to, although it does not 
come within the scope of curative action. 
From the conclusions arrived at in this expo- 
sition, especially those concerning the increase 
of power in the respiratory organs, one would 
naturally infer that under the influence of the 
oxygen treatment one’s vocal powers should 
be favorably affected. 
The ground work of such inference dis- 
covered itself incidentally. Singers while 
being treated for ailments have voluntarily 
testified that they could sing with more ease 
and precision, while their friends have re- 
marked the improvement in both the strength 
and quality of the voice. 
There can be scarcely a doubt that singers, 
clergymen, pleaders, lecturers and elocution- 
ists would find this a most efficient means of 
restoring a weakened or an abused voice, and 
of rendering effective a naturally defective one. 
And while they are considering this question, 
let them not forget that at the same time they COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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will be rapidly improving in all the other 
departments of their being. 
The subscriber here begs to state that he 
has adopted the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment as a specialty, even after twenty 
years of successful general practice, because he 
is convinced that it offers him a much larger 
sphere of usefulness than he has filled before. 
G. R. STARKEY, A. M., M. D., 
1116 GIRARD STREET. 
Office Hours, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. 
N. B. Home treatment will be provided for 
those at a distance who desire it. 
Philadelphia, March, 1870. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
PART SECOND. 
EXPOSITION. 
Two years have elapsed since this Bro- 
chure was sent out to inform the world of 
some of the curative properties and results 
of The Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
Many of its virtues were then and there stated 
positively, because manifold experience had 
rendered the statements unquestionable. 
Those have over and again been confirmed 
by similar results of health restored. The 
existence of other curative powers had been 
made probable by marked but less extended 
experience; now probability has given place 
to certainty in the light of repeated cases suc- 
cessfully treated. The claim of still other 
virtues was boldly made, but entirely upon 
theoretical grounds; and the fact of these 
virtues has, in every case, it is believed, been 
established by indubitable proof. 
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That the above points are well taken, there 
have been voluntary testimonials received 
sufficient to satisfy the most skeptical. These 
have not been made public, simply because 
of the facility with which similar ones are 
fabricated in the interest of the most worth- 
less agents. The time, however, seems to 
have come when a judicious selection from 
these, together with a few clinical records of 
other cases, may serve a good purpose in 
helping many invalids to decide upon a 
course of action. 
There are now sufficient data upon which 
to found intelligent answers to some questions 
which are asked by almost every patient, as 
well as by those contemplating a trial of the 
Compound Oxygen. The one oftenest asked, 
and the one perhaps of the most intrinsic im- 
portance, is: 
DO THE SICK WHO GET CURE/} liY THE COM- 
VO UN JO OXYGEN TREATMENT STAY CURED? 
To some extent this question was answered 
in Part First. Two years’ extensive experi- 
ence and observation fully warrant the asser- 33 
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tion that, if there be one fact more unequivo- 
cally established than another, it is that the 
health obtained by the administration of this 
agent is genuine, reliable health. By 
this it is not meant that one thus cured is 
never to be sick again; any more than we 
can reasonably say of one who has never been 
?ick, that he will always remain well. The 
assertion is unhesitatingly made, however, 
that health obtained by this method is as re- 
liable in all emergencies, will stand as severe 
tests, and will honor as formidable drafts 
made upon it as any health and strength ob- 
tained from any source whatever. The cases 
reported below it is thought will abundantly 
confirm these statements. 
Another question often propounded is: If 
a lack of oxygen be the cause of our ailments, 
why should not means of a more constant supply 
he devised? Five inhalations are about the 
average number taken by patients who visit 
the office daily. More than twenty-five thou- 
sand inhalations of ordinary air are taken 
daily. Now what are those five inhalations, 
that they are not neutralized or dissipated by 34 
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the first thousand respirations that follow? 
If those few inhalations were of pure oxygen 
ten times increased, would they not be utterly 
inadequate to produce the effects claimed, and 
are even known to be produced? So indeed 
it would seem; and an attempt to give a 
rational explanation of this apparent paradox 
may not be unprofitable. 
In the light of science, therefore, what is 
the MODUS operandi of the Compound Oxy- 
gen? It was stated in Part First of this 
Brochure that pure oxygen had been tried 
thousands of times, and had uniformly disap- 
pointed the experimenters. All combinations 
and mixtures of oxygen with other gases have 
hitherto produced no better results. 
The Compound Oxygen stands out clear 
and distinct from all other combinations, in 
that by its manufacture it is made to act mag- 
netically upon the human organism. This is 
proved by numbers of patients who are ab- 
normally sensitive to the action of this agent. 
One of these, who has taken it many times, 
is prevented from going into a clairvoyant COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
state each time she takes it only by making 
a strong resistance to this tendency. 
Here follows a most important consider- 
ation, and in order to appreciate it fully, it 
will be necessary to recall a few anatomical 
and physiological facts. The great sympa- 
thetic system of nerves lies within the large 
cavities of the body, beginning in the head 
and extending all the way through the tho- 
rax, abdomen and pelvis, just in front and 
on either side of the spinal column. It is 
also called the ganglionic system of nerves, 
because it consists primarily of a series of 
ganglia; a pair of these being found opposite 
every joint of the spinal column except three 
or four in the neck, and quite a number 
besides. 
These ganglia throw out many nerves 
which, uniting with various offshoots from 
the cranial and spinal nerves and from those 
of each other, are woven into most wonderful, 
complex, and intricate arrangements called 
plexuses. 
But it concerns us particularly to know 
that each separate ganglion is a miniature 36 
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brain, being composed of the same kinds of 
tissue, which bear the same relation to each 
other as those of the large brain, and perform 
a like office. Now, no fact is more clearly 
recognized by scientists than that the Brain 
i.s a galvanic battery ; that it generates a gal- 
vanism, or magnetism—for these are convert- 
ible forces—and that this force being trans- 
mitted through its proper channels, makes it 
possible for the Brain to be ever present in 
every part of its domain—the body. Of 
course, this vital magnetism differs from that 
of the earth, and from the magnetism pro- 
duced by chemical action, as the nature of 
organic bodies differs from that of inorganic 
bodies. 
The Brain is the “great nervous centre;” 
the spinal cord and the ganglia of the pos- 
terior spinal nerves constitute a second series 
of nervous centres; and the ganglia of the 
great sympathetic system a third series of 
nervous centres. 
This last series generates those magnetic 
forces which preside over those organs whose 
functions we cannot control by any direct COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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effort of the will. These are the so-called 
vegetative functions, because vegetables pos- 
sess them in common with animals and man. 
Whence does that wonderful piece of divine 
mechanism—the human body—derive the 
motive power, by the activity of which all the 
manifestations of life, whether physical or 
mental, are exhibited, and by which the body 
is made to exist at all ? Of course, life must 
flow into man from a source outside of him- 
self; but the first principles in the body, 
those from which all things else derive their 
being and action, are the NERVE centres, 
which are here thus emphasized. These being 
the springs or fountains of all life in the 
body, it is evident that if anything poison or 
disturb these fountains, everything else in the 
body must feel the effect of the poison or dis- 
turbance. Such as is the state of the nervous 
centres then, such will be the kind and de- 
gree of health of the whole body. 
See, now, the facts which stand arrayed 
face to face with each other! The nervous 
centres are causes, of which all the other parts 
of the body and their attributes are the effects. 38 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
This relation of cause and effect exists by 
virtue of the nervous centres being galvanic 
batteries, generating magnetic forces which 
act upon all the planes below them. Feeble 
or deranged centres give forth feeble or de- 
ranged activities to all and every part subor- 
dinated to them. 
As said above, the Compound Oxygen acts 
upon the human organism magnetically. The 
nervous centres, therefore, must be the first to 
feel its influence. Acting upon these foun- 
tains of life, there is virtually an increase of 
vital force in the body. If it were a tempo- 
rary excitant, a mere stimulant, the action 
would be an urging of dormant powers into 
greater activity, only to be the more readily 
exhausted; but this never takes place when 
the Compound Oxygen is properly adminis- 
tered. It is rather renewing the zinc and 
copper in these vital batteries, and putting in 
fresh acid ; thus making bigger and better 
batteries, capable of doing continuously more 
and better work. We can now understand 
how the half dozen inhalations in the twenty- 
four hours may work such results. We do COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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not, have to keep replenishing even our crude 
imitations of these vital batteries; once put 
into working order, they continue to act for 
a specified season. 
“ But allowing that the Compound Oxygen 
acts magnetically upon the human organism, 
what is the evidence that the nervous centres 
appropriate the magnetism contributed to it?” 
It is a grand law that every the least part of 
the human body attracts to itself whatever 
there may be in its whole realm which is 
adapted to its needs, and every other part as 
eagerly yields it up. Every organ, for in- 
stance, receives its nourishment, its material 
pabulum, from the same table. This common 
storehouse is the arterial blood. But what 
an almost infinite variety is required for the 
needs of the myriad parts of this kingdom ! 
and with what unerring precision do the mul- 
titudinous organs and parts of organs appro- 
priate just the exact quality—and quantity, 
even—of that which is adapted to each one’s 
own best welfare, and thence the welfare of 
the whole kingdom! Do you object that the 
position assumed is not impregnable? that it 40 
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may all be very nice as a hypothesis, but is 
only a hypothesis? Granted! but, assuming 
it to be true, is it not enough that all the 
known facts of the case are consistent with it 
and with each other, and thus go far to con- 
firm it? There is at least a strong presump- 
tive evidence of its truth. No one can de- 
monstrate that “The First Great Cause” is 
a divine, infinite Man; but assume that He 
is, and there is no end to the facts which go 
to confirm it. 
A third question is one that is asked by 
some who are struck by the variety of diseases 
which, it is claimed, are amenable to the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment—“ Does it not 
sound quackish to promise relief or cure in 
so many different maladies ? For these state- 
ments imply that it is almost a cure-all, which 
is generally equivalent to being good for 
nothing.” On page 13 a valid reason has 
been given why this universality of results 
might be confidently looked for; and the 
want of analogy was also there stated be- 
tween the action of this agent and that of any 
•medicine. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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Bat from the facts just considered there is 
deducible a stronger and entirely independent 
reason, amounting almost to a demonstration, 
that scarcely any limit can be assigned to the 
sphere of its curative action. For if every 
disordered condition of the body be an effect, 
of which a debilitated or disordered state of 
one or more of the many nerve centres is the 
prime cause, and if the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment suffices to restore them to a normal, 
vigorous, healthy state, must it not follow 
inevitably that every kind of abnormal bodily 
condition will be affected healthily ? (Of 
course, those conditions which depend upon 
the destruction or permanent obstruction of 
the channels of vital forces, must be excepted.) 
And yet, interesting as this philosophizing 
may be, as assigning an adequate cause for 
known effects, nevertheless it is of small mo- 
ment compared with the facts of the case, 
that such universality of action is so clearly 
established. 
COMPOUND OXYGEN IN OTHER DISEASES. 
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action of the Compound Oxygen in several 
diseases not mentioned in Part First. Said 
a patient one day, who had been wonderfully 
relieved of a most severe and obstinate asthma, 
“There is one disease, Doctor, which Com- 
pound Oxygen can cure, and which you 
haven’t mentioned in your book; that is, 
sick headache. That has been a life-long 
trouble with me, and at short intervals; but 
I think I am cured.” A number of other 
brilliant cures of a similar character are suf- 
ficient data upon which to affirm the efficacy 
of this agent in this and other varieties of 
headaches. One of the daughters of the 
architect of our National Capitol, whose 
physician—one of our most successful—after 
exercising his skill upon her case for years 
with no satisfactory result, is a strong case 
in point. 
There is another disease which is a scourge 
to many who live upon lake or sea coasts, 
and also to some in all parts of the country. 
That is Chronic Nasal Catarrh, which in its 
progress is liable to become disgustingly of- 
fensive; and then it is known as Ozcena. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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How many refined and amiable women there 
are whose near approach is merely tolerated 
by their dearest friends ! How many of both 
sexes taint the very atmosphere of the little 
coteries which they join, who might else be 
shining ornaments in the same! What seems 
to be simply a local affection is very liable to 
undermine the whole general health, render- 
ing one’s life an almost intolerable burden to 
himself and others. 
Clinical case 111. is a fair specimen of 
thousands. Another case, a young woman 
of this city, was very similar to the one re- 
corded. After being under the care of a phy- 
sician here, whose reputation is almost world- 
wide, for four years, and growing worse all 
the time, she was induced by a person who 
had been permanently cured by the same 
treatment to try the Compound Oxygen. 
She was cured by just eight weeks’ treatment, 
not only of the Ozoena, but also of a variety 
of other distressing ailments. This was two 
years ago, and she still remains cured. If 
there be any other remedial agent or mode 
of treatment which holds out such promise of 44 
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cure, or of relief even, in this foul scourge, 
humanity ought certainly to know it. 
There is another disease, of which I am 
constrained by my experience in the results 
of the Compound Oxygen Treatment, and by 
considerations of the highest character, to 
speak; notwithstanding Prudery declares it 
should be nameless. But upon what prin- 
ciples of good morals or decency should any 
subject which affects the welfare of living men 
and women be pronounced nameless ? 
Is it not one of the hopeful signs of the 
times that some of the very best minds in the 
world are giving most earnest heed to those 
vital relations which intimately concern every 
man and woman born to be heirs of physical, 
mental and spiritual glory ? It really seems 
as if mankind were just now awakening to 
the idea that the whole man and woman were 
created in the image and likeness of God, and 
not merely the face and hands; that He has 
pronounced everything which He creates 
VERY GOOD. Is it not highly significant that 
all previous creations were pronounced simply 
good ; but not until He had created man and COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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woman—a male and a female—was any cre- 
ation pronounced very good? Were not 
every part of the human body really and 
truly consecrated, how could it by any possi- 
bility be the “ temple of the Holy Spirit” ? 
After this prelude, for which an apology 
would seem to be called for, it will be under- 
stood that the affection which we approach 
with such deep concern is the involuntary loss 
of that fluid which it is the distinctive func- 
tion of the male to produce—or Spermator- 
rhea. The production of this sperm or seed 
costs the body more, in the expenditure of its 
life force, than ten times the volume of 
the richest arterial blood. Besides that, it 
contains a part of the man’s spiritual sub- 
stance. What wonder, then, that the too- 
often repeated loss of it sooner renders the 
victim a total wreck physically, mentally and 
spiritually, than any other calamity which 
can overtake him ? 
Is it not easy to see that the effects of this 
loss must fall most heavily upon the gangli- 
onic system of nerves, which has been here 
critically considered ? and being so, that 46 
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whatever serves to restore them to a state of 
integrity will most certainly and most effec- 
tually put a stop to that wasteful and fatal 
flow of man’s life current? 
Be that as it may, a few facts may he 
stated, which are worthy of grave consider- 
ation : First. The victims are woefully numer- 
ous, and they are the result mainly of youth- 
ful indiscretion through ignorance of the fatal 
consequences. The painful feature of the 
case is that reformation in act and purpose 
too often comes after the vitality of the body 
has fallen below the recuperative point; and 
without artificial aid must ever remain so, 
because of the still continued drain of the 
vital product. Second. Some of the hitter 
fruits of this affection are, manhood emascu- 
lated, thousands of women dying unwed, and 
many more cheated of manliness in their hus- 
bands ; impoverished progeny, many inmates 
of asylums and mad-houses, and graves filled 
with epileptics, consumptives and suicides. 
Third. Medicines are almost powerless to 
meet this disease successfully. A large ma- 
jority of intelligent physicians would un- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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doubtedly head the list of opprobria medendi 
with this disease. Hence it is that the army 
of charlatans find their richest harvest among 
these unfortunates. Fourth. The success of 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment in these 
cases, so full of interest to every well-wisher 
of his kind, has been nothing short of bril- 
liant. The single case reported is one of 
many that might be reported, but for obvious 
reasons are withheld. If anything can be 
compared with the Compound Oxygen in its 
power to successfully meet this disease, the 
knowledge of it has certainly never come to 
the ears of the Profession. 
COMPOUND OXYGEN IN ACUTE DISEASES. 
Since writing Part First of this Brochure 
another feature of the Compound Oxygen has 
been developed :—its efficacy in Acute diseases. 
(For the benefit of those who understand by 
the terms, acute and chronic, different quali- 
ties or phases of disease, it is well to state 
that they express only its duration. Acute 
bronchitis, for instance, is a sudden attack, 
short, sharp and decisive. Chronic bronchitis 48 
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is less severe in character, it may be, but long 
continued—sometimes for years.) The first 
experience in this direction was in the case of 
my son, aged ten years, in the winter of 1870. 
During the autumn (1869) he had a series of 
slight illnesses, which exhausted him very 
much. While recuperating from this state 
of exhaustion he thoughtlessly indulged in a 
sled-ride on the first snow. He contracted 
a “cold,” which prostrated him at once, and 
from which developed a typhoid fever of 
great severity. When the force of the fever 
had at length expended itself he was indeed 
a wreck. Desiccated spots were on various 
parts of his person; he was utterly speech- 
less; the joints of his legs were anchylosed; 
he could not move himself at all, and he was 
more emaciated than any one whom I had 
ever seen get well. For two weeks he re- 
mained without any apparent change of con- 
dition, unable to take the least nourishment 
except a little ice cream. 
The last few days of' this time he took a 
little Compound Oxygen twice a day. When 
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came over him. In the same day lie could 
speak, turn over in bed, straighten his legs, 
and take some other nourishment. From 
that day he was not sick an hour. He seemed 
in every respect, except in the size and con- 
dition of his body, a genuine healthy baby. 
He would sleep more than half the time, eat 
with a genuine gusto, always exhibiting that 
contentment and pleasing amiability peculiar 
to infancy, and each day perceptibly ap- 
proaching a decency of contour. In one week 
from the first of his apparent improvement 
he was able to sit up and be dressed, and in 
another week he could walk out of doors. 
Neither was there any break in this truly 
wonderful convalescence to complete recovery, 
which was in much shorter time than recov- 
ery usually occurs from quite ordinary ail- 
ments. 
Another brilliant case in point is the gas- 
tric-fever case of Miss E., clinically recorded. 
Slighter ailments, like influenzas, mild forms 
of congestion, whooping-cough and the like, 
could be reported by numbers. But there 
has been no systematic effort made to give the 50 
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system such extended trial at the bedside as 
the merits of the agent demand. 
There is still another feature which was 
barely alluded to in Part First, which, look- 
ing at its possible consequences to suffering 
humanity, may prove to be the crowning fea- 
ture of the Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
That is what has been significantly styled 
For a number of years this modified form 
of the Compound Oxygen has been a recog- 
nized power of no little value; but the means 
of its production having been heretofore very 
limited, and the supply of course correspond- 
ingly limited, it has held a position of small 
prominence in the minds of its dispensers. 
But in not a few cases in which this had been 
used very startling results were obtained. 
Some months ago the writer’s attention was 
forcibly arrested by these facts. Were they 
not indications of a region unexplored, which 
challenged the most thoughtful and earnest 
investigation? So, indeed, it seemed to him. 
TTI E HOME TREATMENT. 
The number of persons who can avail COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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themselves of the virtues of this wonderful 
agent in the offices, even if they were estab- 
lished in every city in the country, is com- 
paratively small. It is within bounds to say 
that for every one to whom it can be made 
available as an exclusive office treatment, 
there are a thousand to whom it would be an 
inestimable boon, could it be brought within 
their reach and means. 
Here, then, was a momentous problem to 
be solved: First, how to produce the agent 
in quantities sufficient to meet the demands 
of the suffering millions; second, how to im- 
prove its quality to the highest state of effi- 
ciency ; third, how to prepare it so econom- 
ically as to bring it within the means of all 
who need it; and last, not least, how to per- 
suade the sick that the Compound Oxygen 
really offers to them a helper so powerful 
that the fictitious potency of giants and genii 
of all fairy land seems puerile. 
To the solution of these several parts of 
the problem (save the last) the writer has 
assiduously addressed himself for months, 
with an earnestness commensurate with the 52 
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responsibility which, as he felt, had devolved 
upon him to provide a boon for which mil- 
lions are eagerly and longingly holding out 
their hands. He has spared no pains, labor 
or expense which could secure a successful 
issue. 
The crowning result of these efforts is, at 
least such is his thorough conviction, the pro- 
duction of a curative agent more efficacious 
than anything ever before offered to the mul- 
titudes of invalids in our land, and in this 
respect second to nothing but the Compound 
Oxygen as dispensed in the offices. This ex- 
ception is made in favor of the office treat- 
ment, solely as regards the degree of activity 
manifested by the two modes of administra- 
tion. The kind of effect is identical, and 
with the office treatment the results may be 
reached in less time. The Home Treatment 
has been subjected to tests the most delicate 
and the most severe, and many times repeated. 
The results have been such that a plain state- 
ment of them would subject the deponent to 
the charge of extravagance in expression. 
But it is unhesitatingly pronounced to be at COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
once the most potent and the most harmless, 
the most particular and the most universal, in 
its applicability to the various diseased con- 
ditions, of any remedial agent that has ever 
been made available to the race. 
It now remains to solve the last part of 
the problem; to present the claims of this 
new-found genius in such a manner that they 
may be acknowledged at their real worth; 
hence this 
worn) TO HEALTH-SEEKERS. 
Here is a candidate for your confidence and 
acceptance, and it is for you to decide whether 
it comes to you with proper credentials and 
proper vouchers. That many will conclude, 
upon a careful examination of the evidence 
presented, that it is worthy of a fair trial, 
there can be no doubt. This Word is not for 
them. That there are many others who 
stand greatly in need of such relief as this 
can afford them, and are in no temper to try 
it, is quite as certain. 
To these the writer would say: Friends, 
let us reason together! You have undoubt- 54 
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edly had many good promises of relief made 
to the ear, only to be broken to the heart. 
Failure has not only resulted in painful dis- 
appointment, it may also have begotten a sul- 
len purpose to reject every proffer of relief 
that may be made. But should you not re- 
member that there is more of good than of 
evil in the world ? and that the fact of many 
worthless, and even baneful agents, having 
been presented, is no valid reason for deciding 
that everything else of the kind must be of 
the same character? What if the Compound 
Oxygen possesses all the virtues claimed for 
it! whose interest more than your own do 
you jeopardize by rejecting it untried and 
untested ? 
There is one strong argument—albeit a 
negative one—in favor of your giving this 
a fair trial: you run no risk of being made 
worse. You avoid that fearful paraphernalia 
of drugs, of which Dr, O. W. Holmes de- 
clared before a national assembly of physicians 
and surgeons: “If they were all cast into 
the sea—excepting only wine and opium—it 
would be all the better for mankind, but all COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
55 
the worse for the fishes.” Granting that 
medication—when exactly affiliated to the 
disease, in character, grade, tissue and loca- 
tion—will cure the sick (and only when thus 
administered is there any hope of cure), still 
the chances of having all these conditions 
answered are so indefinitely few—excepting 
when prescribed by a skillful 'physician—it is 
like investing in a fearful lottery. But it is 
not a question simply of getting cured or no 
relief—for if the charmed bolus go not straight 
to the bull’s-eye of the target it is sure to 
work irremediable mischief. 
This matter of taking bottle after bottle 
of heterogeneous compounds of unknown poi- 
sonous drugs—for they are all poisonous—is 
simply appalling. What quantities of these 
pernicious mixtures are swallowed is evi- 
denced by the scores of palatial stores and 
residences which are reared with the profits 
on their sale by those who yearly spend hun- 
dreds of thousands of dollars simply in adver- 
tising them. For each one who receives any 
real benefit from these nostrums, who can com- 
pute the number of those who have sacrificed 56 
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the little health they had, and even life itself, 
in the delusive hope of being cured by them ! 
Besides, these pirate guns are double-shotted 
—the poison of the drugs, and the equally 
deadly poison of the villainous whisky which 
they nearly all contain. How many have 
fallen victims to the demon of intemperance, 
who acquired the habit of drinking by a con- 
tinued use of these mixtures, no one may ever 
know. 
“ But shall we try the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, or not try it ? that’s the question ! 
You have essayed to prove that we ought not 
to try any of the many nostrums; are not 
the same or similar arguments good against 
meddling with this also?” Well, you are 
here presented with an array of facts in clini- 
cal records from the writer’s books, the truth- 
fulness of which is solemnly vouched for over 
their own names by people well known here 
as among the most honest and intelligent of 
Philadelphia’s citizens. These documents are 
open to the inspection of any one; the names 
and addresses will be given to any making 
application for the same, and the several in- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
57 
dividuals can be seen personally. These state- 
ments being so fully endorsed, it is submitted 
whether these cures are not among the most 
remarkable ever recorded; remarkable, not 
simply that the patients got well, but that 
they got well in such brief time; remarkable, 
too, as permanent cures of desperate cases; 
which is proved by the long periods that have 
elapsed without any return of the malady. 
Can there be a doubt that an agent which 
furnishes such results—even if these were all 
that were produced by it—is really potent 
for the relief of much human suffering? 
“ Perhaps it would help us decide if you 
would report some cases apparently cured, 
but in which the malady returned in a shorter 
or longer time!” In very truth such cases 
would be reported if there were such to re- 
port. It is not claimed of this treatment that 
it has cured, nor that it is capable of curing 
everybody; but it is asserted, without fear of 
contradiction, that every one cured, or par- 
tially cured, have maintained their vantage 
ground most satisfactorily, with two apparent 
exceptions. 58 
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Another fact of vast importance must be 
taken into consideration in deciding this 
question; you run no risk by this method of 
being harmed in the least. Let this fact be 
pitted against the known liabilities to fearful 
injury in any system of crude drugging. Yet 
more: there is no other agent which has a 
tithe of the power to assist one in being able 
to abstain from all the stimulants and nar- 
cotics which have become seeming necessities, 
from the prolonged use of nostrums. Safety 
in its use, then, is a genuine plea in favor of 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment as against 
all promiscuous drugging. 
ARE THU OBJECTIONS AGAINST TUNING IT 
VALID? 
Objection first: “ The expense is too great. 
Fifteen dollars is a rather large investment 
to make upon an experiment which may result 
in nothing but disappointment. We can get 
enough things to try for one dollar a bottle; 
and three or four bottles will enable one to 
prove it.” The logic of this statement is 
granted, if it clearly appear that no greater 
promise is held out by this treatment than by COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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all the nostrums known. It is granted, too, 
if it be of no moment—if it be not of im- 
mense importance—that in the Compound 
Oxygen there is almost a complete guaranty 
against any possible harm. It is also granted, 
if it appear that any trial short of one month 
is sufficient to test the virtues, the curative 
power of any agent in long standing, consti- 
tutional maladies. (If you take unknown 
drugs in extra-bad whisky for one month, 
what result may be looked for ?) Again it is 
granted, if there be no difference between 
spending five dollars to learn whether any 
given poisonous mixture will do you indefi- 
nite mischief, and spending three times that 
amount to ascertain whether a really benign 
agent may confer upon you untold benefits. 
When you see by the clinical records and tes- 
timonials what one and two months’ treat- 
ment has repeatedly done, curing desperate 
maladies of seven, and even fifteen years’ 
standing in a single month, is not the price 
indeed a bagatelle ? It is safe to declare that 
with a large majority of those who give it a 
fair trial, the price is the only feature of the 60 
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treatment about which they can get up a first- 
class grumble. 
Objection second; “ I have consulted my 
physician about it, and he does not favor the 
idea of embarking in the enterprise.” This 
is a more serious matter. Your family phy- 
sician is presumed to be your skilled counselor 
in all that concerns your physical welfare. 
He has long been the accepted custodian of 
your health. He has been for years, it may 
be, your friend and accredited confidant in 
the most trying scenes through which you 
have been called to pass. It is but natural 
that you should consult him when anything 
is presented to you for acceptance, which 
seems to be legitimately in the line of his 
profession. This relation of trust on the one 
hand, and guardianship on the other, which 
exists, or should exist, between physicians 
and their charge, I would not lightly disturb. 
Now, with the best of feelings, and in the 
clearest light we have, let us look this mat- 
ter fairly in the face. If, as the appointed 
and inaugurated conservator and restorer of 
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himself an efficient and successful servant or 
guardian, then this whole question has no in- 
terest for you. “ They that are whole, etc.” 
This all, is intended solely for those who have 
been less fortunate in the choice of their med- 
ical adviser. 
Let us first inquire what are the physician’s 
opportunities of being able to give 'you intel- 
ligent counsel upon this vital question. 
Second, granting his ability to render you 
intelligent service in this matter, what are 
the liabilities of his giving you disinterested 
advice? First, then, he knows literally noth- 
ing of this agent, and therefore can know 
nothing of its effects. Probably he has 
learned from yourself of its very existence; 
and your having perused this Brochure, puts 
you in the attitude of tutor to him. And 
supposing you have both read the work, 
what hinders you from making up as intelli- 
gent a judgment upon the subject as himself? 
Upon the most favorable representation of his 
superior vantage ground to yours, can he do 
more than furnish you with guesses, more or 
less shrewd ? 62 
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Secondly, let us suppose that he has availed 
himself of opportunities to acquaint himself 
thoroughly with the safety and curative 
powers of the Compound Oxygen; and, for 
argument’s sake, we will suppose that he has 
found it possessed of all the desirable quali- 
ties claimed for it, and even more and greater 
than any yet known of it, can you reasonably 
expect him to give you the benefit of that dis- 
covery ?—and say to you : “ Yes, by all means 
give it a fair trial. lam satisfied that it will 
do more for you than anything I have to offer 
you.” There is no need of assigning to phy- 
sicians any more of human nature than all 
other professionals are endowed with. You do 
not expect any merchant, artisan or profes- 
sional man to tell his patrons that his neigh- 
bor in the same line of business has articles 
of the same kind as his own, but superior in 
quality, even if he should very well know 
the fact. 
The physician’s armamentarium is his stock 
in trade, and this is his living. If he advise 
you to try a remedy which he does not him- 
self prescribe, he does it knowing that he COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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loses your patronage for the time being. And 
if he be convinced of the superior virtues of 
the remedy, he knows that he loses not only 
your present patronage, but also your pros- 
pective future patronage indefinitely. Do 
you not virtually say to him : “ Doctor, you 
know that you are doing me no good, although 
you have exhausted your skill upon my case 
—what do you think of Dr. Greatman? He 
has an extensive reputation, and his system 
of treatment seems very reasonable; don’t 
you think he can do more and better for me 
than you can ?” If you are persuaded that 
you would receive an intelligent and unbiased 
answer in such a case, then you may surely 
trust his counsel in the matter of the Com- 
pound Oxygen. For I am both proud and 
happy to know that there are such physicians, 
physicians whose first care and real solicitude 
are, the best welfare of the patient. I am 
painfully aware also, that there are others 
who prefer to have their patients die under 
some pet mode of practice, to getting well 
under any other mode. Can professional de- 
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continued observation that the practice of 
medicine tends strongly to make a good man 
better, and a bad man worse. 
TO COMPOUND-OXYGEN PATIENTS. 
On the supposition that what you have 
now learned from the perusal of this Bro- 
chure, and perhaps from other sources, has 
inspired you with sufficient confidence to ven- 
ture an effort to recover lost health in this 
direction, some suggestions may help you to 
proceed with more certainty of good results, 
and with less danger of losing force by mis- 
direction of well-meant endeavors. 
First: Do not expect a miracle to be 
wrought in your case. Although some cases 
here reported are marvelous for the rapidity 
with which they have marched health-ward; 
still many of the most satisfactory and even 
brilliant cures have been slower paced. A 
state of disease that has been many years in 
maturing has become, as it were, consolidated, 
even when no disorganization has taken place. 
Is it not unreasonable to expect in such cases 
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can result in the short time of a week or 
two? The influence that is at work is be- 
nign, and in its action is more like that of the 
mild spring weather upon the frost-bound 
hills and vales, land and stream. How these 
genial forces of Nature work for days and 
weeks, unheard and unseen, until at length 
the general rush of things declares with what 
energy and for what length of time they have 
acted ! 
Second: It is important to recognize the 
fact, that no one gets well at a uniform rate. 
You very well know that one who declines 
in health even unto death, has very many 
seasons of apparent improvement. How 
many times are hopes inspired of a complete 
restoration, and this even to the verge of dis- 
solution. So the reverse is true. 
Again and again, after a season of satisfac- 
tory convalescence, the invalid will be dis- 
couraged by the return of his sufferings, and 
tempted to give up trying any longer. But 
soon the clouds will again be dissipated, and 
he is brought to a hill-top for a more ex- 
tended outlook than before. Often have pa- 66 
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tients been heard to earnestly declare, just 
before the final struggle of the disease : “ Oli 
lam just as bad as I ever was!” Neither 
should you fret yourselves on all these occa- 
sions by self-accusations that you have im- 
prudently “caught cold.” Although it may 
sometimes be true, yet these seasons of aggra- 
vations will come, cold or no cold. 
Third : There is another fact quite as im- 
portant to be borne in mind. Through years 
of declining health, one passes through dis- 
tinct states of suffering and disease. Each 
succeeding state possesses some new features 
not observed in former ones. In this way, 
various symptoms of pain and discomfort 
have their day and seem to disappear. It is 
a delusion, however, to suppose that they 
have been eliminated, and no longer enter as 
elements into the present state of the bodily 
trouble. From careful observation the ap- 
pearance is that they are stored away in 
series deposited like successive geological 
strata. Now in the event of the invalid’s 
restoration to health by an orderly and satis- 
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to return; but in the reverse order in which 
they first appeared and disappeared. But 
these return states are as a rule less severe in 
force and duration than the original ones. 
Fourth. It is necessary to put you on your 
guard in another direction. Occasionally it 
will seem as if the treatment were doing posi- 
tive harm; but this is simply an appearance, 
which you will be able to confirm. The res- 
toration of life currents through channels ob- 
structed or collapsed, at times produces much 
discomfort. It is never the ebbing away or 
cessation of the life currents that causes pain; 
it is only their more or less unsuccessful ef- 
forts to overcome the obstacles to their or- 
dained flow that is painful. The extremities 
may grow cold to numbness and not be the 
seat of pain. Even the body itself may grow 
torpid with cold, and that so insensibly as to 
yield up the whole life without a struggle 
sufficient to disturb one from a sitting pos- 
ture. But how, if the benumbed fingers have 
their life currents restored by the application 
of heat even gently applied ! Very few per- 
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which this process is attended. A sufficient 
number of persons who have passed through 
all the conscious stages of being drowned have 
come back to testify that there are none but 
the most pleasurable sensations in thus yield- 
ing up their life. But the agony produced by 
the efforts of these life forces to.resume their 
flow through their ordained channels, during 
the process of resuscitation, is beyond ex- 
pression. 
Long-continued and close observation has 
convinced me that in every case of restoration 
to health from protracted disease, there is 
a liability to similar discomforts, and from 
analogous causes. It is much to be doubted 
if they can be prevented in many cases. In 
some, the curative action may be conducted 
with sufficient gentleness to avoid such pain- 
ful conditions. But in any event they are 
of no moment beyond the temporary discom- 
fort which they excite. 
Of course, the true indications—and what 
common sense would suggest—are to cease 
urging these life forces until the obstructions 
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have gradually yielded to the forces already 
sufficiently at work. Thus, when such con- 
ditions excite your fears that the treatment 
may be injuring you, please to possess your 
souls in patience, and treat your body as you 
would an overloaded stomach—let it have 
rest for a day or two. 
Fifth. A circumstance which causes a great 
deal of trouble to patients, and much embar- 
rassment to the physician, may be thus stated : 
In the first flush of convalescence—like the 
peaceful season of a spring morning after a 
long, dreary storm—the sense of returning 
life is too exhilarating to be borne with the 
staid sobriety of meeker days. The tempta- 
tion to give outward expression to the life 
within is too great to be resisted. Acting 
from the inspiration of their physical and 
mental sensations rather than the exercise of 
judgment, they are betrayed into indulgences 
beyond their strength to bear, the penalty of 
which is a season of inactivity or suffering, 
or both. While enjoying delicious freedom 
from pain due to protracted infirmities, and 
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to realize that it is indeed young, and really 
very tender life. But reason should teach us 
that this new-born life must make to itself 
physical vessels in the organism, capable of 
containing it and giving adequate expression 
to it in external form and action. It is easy 
to see that these vessels must at first be of a 
purely infantile character; that they must 
grow and mature like the organism of child- 
hood, before they can be equal to bearing 
burdens. 
This is the hardest lesson to learn for one 
convalescing from a protracted disease. Par- 
ticularly is this the case with women, who 
are subjects of emotions rather than calcula- 
tion, and act more from impulse than from 
cool judgment, as do the rougher sex. It 
cannot be too strongly insisted upon—the 
necessity for patients to be on their guard 
against this insinuating tempter. Always be 
governed by this rule, when about to do any- 
thing that is calculated to put your physical 
and mental strength to the test. Be sure that 
you stop at the point at which you are certain 
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which you are really able to do. By scrupu- 
lously obeying this direction you will save 
yourself untold suffering, chagrin and self- 
reproach. 
From official records it is ascertained that 
more than 63,000 died in this country last 
year of this malady! twelve thousand each 
week, and seventeen hundred every day. 
Surely such a scourge demands a passing no- 
tice at our hands. The profound conviction 
of the writer is declared without hesitation, 
that more than eighty per cent, of these vic- 
tims could have been well people to-day had 
they made timely use of the Compound 
Oxygen. Please to note the emphasis laid 
upon the phrase, timely use. This is done 
to call your attention to a clearer enunciation 
of principles which obtain in this disease, and 
a statement of some facts, as well as some 
popular errors concerning it; and also to 
point out the quicksands which betray many 
of its victims to their destruction. 
A WORD TO CONSVMRTIVJES. 
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carries off tens of thousands every year in this 
country is no better established than that the 
disease can be cured. This assertion is not 
made upon the testimonials of patients, but 
upon the fact that post-mortem examinations 
of many persons who have died of other dis- 
eases, have revealed cicatrices or scars from 
ulcers healed in the lungs; clearly establishing 
the fact that they had had consumption, been 
cured of it, lived a number of years, and 
finally died of some disease having no analogy 
to consumption. And there is strong pre- 
sumptive evidence that Nature has cured 
many more of such cases than Art. This 
refutes entirely the popular notion that con- 
sumption cannot be cured : nay, more—it es- 
tablishes the fact that this disease may have 
progressed to the stage of disorganization of 
a part of the lungs and yet be cured. 
But there is also a popular error in the 
opposite direction—at least patients and in- 
terested friends act as if they believed it— 
that it may be cured at any stage of the 
malady. Let us examine this question. 
There is a condition of the body in which the COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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health-forces and the disease-forces are in 
exact equilibrium; in which all that the 
health-forces can do is just to hold their own. 
In such an event a slight adverse influence 
comes in, and these forces are placed at a dis- 
advantage. If this disadvantage has in- 
O o 
creased to a considerable degree, any remedial 
agent that may be used must be correspond- 
ingly potent in order to stay the progress of 
the disease, without making the least headway 
against it. Clearly, the preponderance of 
weight is on the wrong end of the balance. 
o o 
What are the quicksands which betray so 
many to their destruction ? The specious 
appearances of “ no danger ” until they sud- 
denly find themselves too deeply involved to 
be extricated. To change the figure—they 
are the insidious attack and approach of the 
enemy, and the fatally tiilse security into 
which they are lulled until the very citadel 
of life is besieged. Unhappily, there is no 
need of citing cases in point, for everybody 
has enough before the mind’s eye. 
Nearly all diseases of organs below the 
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in the great function of digestion, the stom- 
ach, bowels, liver, spleen and pancreas—pro- 
duce such a decided mental condition that 
they cannot labor in secret to work destruc- 
tion. But those of the organs above the 
diaphragm, especially the heart and lungs, 
scarcely ever produce any mental disquietude 
until the mischief be almost irremediable. 
In the light of these statements the conclu- 
sion of this whole matter may be summed up 
as follows: First. Pulmonary Consumption 
has been, is, and can be cured. Second. It 
may be cured even after disorganization of 
the lung tissue has made some progress. 
There is strong reason to believe that—when 
not complicated with other serious affections 
—if the original breathing capacity of the 
lungs be reduced only one-half, the case is not 
hopeless; but it should be fully understood 
that the lung capacity decreases in a much 
more rapid ratio than the apparent organic 
troubles increase. Third. It would seem that 
the more we imitate and assist Nature, and 
the less we interfere with her operations, 
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as simples or compounds, the greater the 
chance of cure. Fourth. When the victim 
or his friends are really aroused to a con- 
sciousness of his imminent danger, it may be 
—painfully often, is—too late to make reme- 
dial agents of any avail. 
The great practical lesson to be deduced 
from the above facts and reasonings—a lesson 
having a more direct bearing upon the wel- 
fare of the American people than human lan- 
guage can express—is, first, to be able to 
detect the first approaches of this insidious, 
cruel and relentless foe; and, second, to be 
able to realize and appreciate at once the dire- 
ful portent of the apparently insignificant 
indications. 
As the rattlesnake never strikes his deadly 
blow until he has sounded his note of omi- 
nous alarm in time to let him who recognizes 
and heeds it escape the thrust of that death- 
laden shaft, so this cold, slimy destroyer (is it 
the antitype of the crotalus horridus ?), with 
approach so stealthy that no footfall can be 
heard, yet gives as unmistakable evidence of 
its fearful nearness and deadly intent. But 76 
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he who knows not its meaning, or, knowing, 
gives no heed, is no whit safer than he who 
moves not when he hears the twang of the 
orotalus. 
Now what are the notes of warning which 
are so emphatically sounded on the approach 
of this demon? They are mainly three. 
The first is emaciation of the person, and 
without apparent cause. The person grows 
poor in flesh, but does not seem sick enough 
to account for it. Diabetes and some other 
diseases have the same symptom prominently, 
but they also have other and distinguishing 
symptoms. Unaccountably, it seems, the in- 
dividual begins to show a peculiar depression 
between the cheek-bone and the ear, the eye- 
socket deepens, the muscle leading up the 
side of the neck obliquely towards the ear 
becomes prominent from absorption of the 
adipose tissue around it; and upon trial there 
will be found a marked loss of weight. These 
signs of emaciation always indicate a vitiated 
nutrition, and are so generally dependent upon 
the presence of tubercles in the lungs that 
they should always be looked upon with COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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grave suspicion, in order to be sure that they 
depend upon some less formidable cause. 
If this emaciation be accompanied by the 
second note, a little cough, which is scarcely 
a cough at all—a slight, insignificant hack- 
ing, which no one is inclined to notice, which 
is more like a “habit,” and which he “can 
easily prevent if he chooses;” the suspicion 
of the presence of tubercles comes by far too 
near a confirmation to be comfortable. This 
kind of cough is occasioned by a very indefi- 
nite feeling of irritation, which he can neither 
describe nor locate, and is a thousand times 
more dangerous than a recent cough, which 
“ seems as if it would burst a blood-vessel.” 
It is very significant if it be contracted during 
the rough weather of winter and spring, and 
do not disappear on the approach of warm, 
settled weather; for this may take place even 
with the presence of tubercles, especially 
upon their first invasion. 
“ But may not a hacking cough and emaci- 
ation of the person exist together without 
being caused by the incipient stage of con- 
sumption ?” This is possible. Now be on 78 
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your guard to detect the presence or absence 
of the third note of warning. Examine care- 
fully and critically the depressions immedi- 
ately beneath the two clavicles or collar bones. 
In this stage of the disease one of the depres- 
sions will almost invariably be deeper and 
larger than the other, and scarcely from any 
other cause. The cause of this phenomenon 
will be readily understood by considering the 
following facts: Tubercles always invade 
the lung at its apex, and this is located im- 
mediately under the clavicle. Their presence 
occasions consolidation of the lung tissue, and 
consequently a shrinking or contraction of 
the same; hence the sinking in of the over- 
lying tissue at that point. One more fact: 
tubercles almost never invade both lungs in 
the incipiency of the disease. These three 
symptoms may be considered the ensigns of 
the Body and the two Wings of a well-or- 
ganized and well-appointed army, which has 
made a successful lodgment within your ter- 
ritory. Either one of these symptoms should 
be the more critically catechised, because tu- 
bercles may exist for a long time without COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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causing any marked pain, or any local sen- 
sation which would excite any suspicion of 
their presence. 
But what are tubercles ? for it is import- 
ant to have a proper understanding of the 
whole matter. Tubercles (crude) are lym- 
phatic glands which, by a depraved condition 
of the body, have become indurated; and in 
appearance are globular bodies of the size of 
a coriander seed and of the consistency of 
cheese, included in the lung tissue. If they 
would only remain in this crude condition, 
and not too many of them make their ap- 
pearance, they would be comparatively harm- 
less invaders. If in this state you but change 
that depraved condition of the body by re- 
storing the vital forces to a state of integrity, 
you would entirely cut off the supplies of the 
enemy. The tubercles would then become 
atrophied and wither away—would be ab- 
sorbed and eliminated from the body. This 
is the office of the Compound Oxygen, pre- 
eminent over every other agent ever known. 
Having thus given an account of consump- 
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plete the picture by tracing its progress to 
that stage which is popularly known as 
“ seated or confirmed consumption,” that is, 
when the substance of the lung is melting 
away. 
As the disease develops, these tubercles 
increase in size and number. Sometimes they 
are so close together as to appear like a clus- 
ter of small grapes. These clusters—or single 
ones, if sufficiently enlarged—now begin to 
act like a bullet, or some other foreign body, 
which might be imbedded in the lung tissue. 
Inflammation is set up immediately around 
the tubercles, which gradually increases in 
extent and severity. Contrary to the popular 
notion upon the subject, this local inflamma- 
tion does not differ in the process of develop- 
ment from that of any similar inflammations 
in other tissues of the body. Take the boil 
as a type, that being the most familiar ex- 
ample. The inflammation is accompanied by 
more or less induration of the tissue inflamed, 
painful sensibility, and great constitutional 
irritation and disturbance. The person is 
now very sick and suffering. The next stage 81 
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is that of suppuration, the stage of the boil 
when it has “ come to a head.” The pus, 
together with the tuberculous matter softened 
and broken down, form to themselves a sack ; 
and this, like all other collections of pus with- 
out an opening to the surface, is an Abscess. 
But this purulent matter, by absorbing the 
tissue which lies between it and the surface, 
makes to itself a passage for its discharge. 
We say of the boil, “it has broken.” It is 
now no longer an Abscess, but an Ulcer; and 
we have now ulceration of the lung, but not 
until now. Now real consumption takes 
place; and the patient may not recover from 
this state at all. But in many cases these 
ulcers behave just as those do which are 
nearer to the surface of the body where they 
can be watched. They continue to discharge 
purulent matter for a shorter or longer time, 
according to circumstances; but at length a 
healing process sets in, the ulcer closes up, 
and leaves merely a scar. Then may follow 
a season of quiet in the lung; the cough dis- 
appears, wholly or in a great measure, and the 
patient so much improves that sanguine hopes 82 
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are inspired that a complete recovery is ap- 
proaching. But the inclement season of the 
year, or some other adverse influence, super- 
venes, and another set of tubercles are made 
to develop and mature. This time the num- 
ber of tubercles in a state of activity is liable 
to be greater than before; and the system, 
weakened by the former campaign, is less 
able to bear the shock of invasion and the 
continued contest. Either in this or a subse- 
quent attack the recuperative forces become 
unequal to the task of healing the ulcer that 
is formed. It is either soon accompanied by 
others, or it involves more and more of the 
lung tissue by extension, until the poor 
bruised, harassed and wearied victim makes 
an unconditional surrender. How very few 
there are in this land of plenty and broad 
domain who cannot call up the picture of 
loved ones that have thus gone down in 
silence and in darkness ! 
Now you crave some advice concerning the 
admissibility of resorting to the Compound 
Oxygen in all cases of Phthisis (pronounced 
tee-sis) or Pulmonary Consumption. Not in COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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all cases would I recommend it, with the idea 
of holding out a promise of cure. In the 
later stages, it is true that life may be pro- 
longed, and made more comfortable to its 
close. Whether it would be worth the while 
to employ it for this purpose or not, must be 
decided by the patient or friends in each 
separate case. 
When, then, is the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment contra-indicated by the danger of 
holding out illusive hopes of recovery ? If 
the sputa sink readily in water, evidencing 
generally active ulceration; if red spots ap- 
pear upon the cheeks at stated hours in the 
afternoons, evidencing hectic fever, which in- 
dicates the rapid formation of purulent mat- 
ter ; if the feet and ankles swell and look 
waxy; these all signify that the time has long 
gone by when there was any hope of curing 
the case, and now it is of doubtful expediency. 
The practical value of this knowledge is the 
emphatic lesson which it teaches, of the neces- 
sity of giving most earnest heed to the first 
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CAUTION A HY SirOGJESTIOJSS. 
Those who are successfully convalescing 
from this disease are liable to experience 
troublesome and sometimes painful affections, 
which, if the patient be not put upon his 
guard, may lead him to adopt measures of 
relief which can but result disastrously. Ac- 
cording to the observations of Nusser, one of 
the following symptoms may supervene when 
a case of phthisis is making good progress 
health ward, and should be cherished as some- 
thing favorable, and should not on any ac- 
count be interfered with: 
1. Swelling of the glands in the axilla 
(armpit); or, 
2. Rheumatism in the muscles of the neck, 
shoulders, thorax, hips or extremities; or, 
3. Swelling of the glands on the neck and 
ear; or, 
4. The materia peccans (morbid or vitiated 
matter) rises from within towards the outside, 
contrary to the air, which passes during res- 
piration (inspiration ?) from without inward. 
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larynx become affected in a manner to pro- 
duce hoarseness, which subsiding, the nose 
becomes sore, and finally ends with pimples 
and pustules around the nose; or, 
5. The ears become affected, from mere 
ringing in the ears to suppuration within 
them; or, 
6. The eyes become inflamed; or, 
7. Headache and toothache set in ; in such 
a case let the patient suffer; a sudden sup- 
pression of them would quickly bring back 
all the troubles to the chest; or, 
8. An eruption on the thorax, with or 
without itching on the chest or back; or, 
9. Sweating of the feet; or, 
10. Hemorrhoidal irritations and tumors; 
or, 
11. Violent colds in the head; or, 
12. The morbid action goes down into the 
intestines, and throws out gall, acid, mucus 
or gas, until it finally develops itself in a 
cutaneous disease, first attacking the head, 
the upper extremities, the thorax, and so all 
the way down, like small-pox. 
These are blessings in disguise, and should 86 
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be borne as complacently as sinks and slop- 
jars. 
This Word to Consumptives has indeed 
proved to be a long one; but does not the 
grave importance of the subject fully warrant 
it ? A solemn conviction that the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment, if only adopted in the 
earliest stages in which it can be detected, 
would save many thousands who else must 
go down to a premature grave, must plead in 
extenuation. The absolute certainty that 
even this treatment will not cure a single case 
unless the conditions are strictly observed, 
will fully account for my anxiety to pro- 
vide every facility for the threatened vic- 
tims of consumption to avail themselves of 
the most powerful aid that has ever been 
known. 
And lastly, it cannot be too strongly stated, 
the great importance of this class of invalids 
giving good heed, even observing scrupu- 
lously the directions on Hygiene, or making 
inquiry when a departure from them seems 
desirable. Your destiny lies mainly in your 
own hands, inasmuch as without your cordial, 87 
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earnest, and persistent co-operation, no means, 
either human or divine, can avail to restore 
you to the enjoyment of life, usefulness to 
your loved ones, and the inestimable treasure 
of a ripened manhood. 
In thus giving such marked prominence 
to the action of the Compound Oxygen in 
Pulmonary Consumption, it is by no means 
intended to convey the idea that its efficacy 
in other diseases is to be called in question in 
the slightest degree. Other maladies are 
more demonstrative; they goad the sufferer 
into doing something from sheer self-defence. 
Besides, a few weeks’ loss of time in these 
cases is far from being so fatal as in those of 
phthisis. Is there need of confirmation more 
than is contained in the following clinical 
records and testimonials? These, it is here 
solemnly asserted, are literal expressions of 
facts as they transpired. Any one upon ap- 
plication will be furnished with the exact 
address of any or all of these cases. The 
number could be greatly increased, but would 
do little towards making the fact of its uni- 
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SPECIFICATIONS OF TREATMENT. 
For practical convenience, chronic diseases 
may be classified as follows : First, those af- 
fecting the Respiratory organs—lungs, bron- 
chial tubes, larynx and throat. Second, those 
affecting the Digestive organs—stomach, bow- 
els, liver, spleen, etc., including hemor- 
rhoids. Third, those affecting the Generative 
organs of women. Although but one agent 
is used in all cases, yet observation and expe- 
rience have shown that some modification in 
the dispensing of it is necessary in order to 
secure the most prompt and desirable results. 
Hence it is important, when ordering treat- 
ment, to specify to which of these classes each 
particular case belongs. 
There is a suggestion which may as well 
be thrown out here. It is not expected that 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment is to super- 
sede the need of skilled physicians, but rather 
enhance their value; but it may enable every- 
body who uses it to dispense with the serv- 
ices (?) of poor ones. In any event, they who 
have the Home Treatment in their houses 
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of childhood—and of adults as well—than to 
make hap-hazard prescriptions of Indian 
vegetable pills, calomel and jalap, blue mass, 
castor-oil, salts and senna, or of any of the 
multitudinous bitters, elixirs, etc. Although 
in the use of this treatment no such imme- 
diate effects occur as follow the operation of 
an active purge, yet a reasonable trust in its 
efficacy will, in a large majority of cases, be 
well rewarded by a prompt and quiet recov- 
ery. Any harmless agent which will do 
something effectually towards redeeming the. 
race from the thraldom of pernicious drugs— 
even if it do nothing more—is a priceless 
boon. 
Yes! just as one can take too much pure 
cold water, too much sunshine, too much of 
the very best food that ever Omniscience de- 
vised. Almost every one who takes the 
Oxygen at the office, feels it sensibly in the 
head. A majority of them feel a peculiar 
warmth in the chest, which diffuses itself 
through the whole body—even to the toes’ 
ends—like a gentle thrill, as if every nerve 
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were thrown into a delicate vibration. The 
sensation in the cerebrum is like the first 
effects of a glass of champagne or other fine 
wine—a delightful exhilaration. Those who 
do not feel a 'positive pleasure during the 
stance are the rare exceptions, whose chan- 
nels of circulation have received some twist 
or other derangement. 
This has been stated here, because some 
individuals—perhaps not a few—are so sen- 
sitive to the action of this agent as to be 
affected by the Home Treatment in the same 
way as the Office Treatment affects a very 
large majority. Without this hint such per- 
sons might become disconcerted if they should 
experience such a sensation unexpectedly. 
This would be all in order, and no harm 
would follow, even if the sensation were to 
be so strong as to disable the person for the 
time being from walking with perfect equili- 
brium. By observing complete repose for a 
very few minutes the normal sensation will 
be perfectly restored. For want of a better 
word, persons experiencing this will tell you 
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because it has uone of the quasi nausea or 
sickness which always accompanies giddiness. 
CAJJTIOy, 
Each package is accompanied by explicit 
directions how to manage the season of in- 
haling. But there is a very great difference 
in people’s susceptibility to the action of the 
Compound Oxygen. And as any consider- 
able degree of over-action is more to be de- 
precated than a greater degree of under-action, 
these guards should be heeded. Strict obedi- 
ence to directions as to the seasons and man- 
ner of inhalation are of course the only condi- 
tions upon which a patient has any right to 
expect the promised results. But during any 
stage of the curative process obstructions may 
occur as has already been pointed out, which 
will cause various kinds of discomfort; chiefly 
fullness in the head, and feelings as if some 
or all the functions were being performed 
under a burden. Then the proper thing to 
do is to wait until the system shall have 
adapted itself to receive kindly and normally 
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merit should be resumed with a little caution. 
It is expected that these remarks will be 
applicable to but few, but these few should 
be considered. 
Whenever one experiences the cerebral and 
other sensations mentioned just above, the 
treatment should not be resorted to but once 
a day. It is not to be understood that a de- 
cided cerebral sensation is at all essential to 
the most satisfactory progress; while on the 
other hand the greatest amount of sensation 
could produce no more harm than would 
seriously overloading the stomach with excel- 
lent food. 
It is expected that my professional breth- 
ren, as a rule, will look askant upon this 
whole enterprise, because of the exclusive 
manner in which the agent is dispensed, and 
because the mode of its preparation is not 
divulged. It is perfectly safe to say that 
every physician who wishes to dispense the 
Compound Oxygen can do so upon the same 
terms as the writer, and in the same manner. 
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So it is clearly not open to the charge of 
exclusiveness. 
That its mode of preparation is not di- 
vulged is true. And if it were, the number 
of physicians is exceedingly small who would 
spare the time and labor from their general 
practice which are absolutely necessary for 
manufacturing and dispensing it. Hence it 
would almost inevitably fall into the hands 
of charlatans and irresponsible men. 
Some of them are much aggrieved because 
“ they are confident that the agent is not 
what it is claimed to be;” “ that it is impos- 
sible to condense oxygen into such a portable 
form;” and “ that there must be some kind 
of medication in it.” 
As to the first occasion of being aggrieved, 
one assertion is just as good as another, if 
both are unsupported by any proof. Besides, 
inasmuch as the preparation of the agent is 
a secret, would its virtues be any the less 
valuable even if it wei'e called by a wrong 
title ?—which it certainly is not. 
As to the second : The first steamer which 
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raonstration by Dr. Lardner, one of the first 
scientists of his day, of the impossibility of a 
steamer’s crossing the said ocean. But it was 
very easy for the learned magnates to do a 
seeming impossibility when Columbus showed 
them how to make an egg stand on end. 
As to the third: If there be any medica- 
tion so subtle as to elude detection by the 
most scrutinizing analysis, which can work 
such wonders in such a variety of maladies, 
certainly nothing else like it has ever been 
known in the history of medicine. The 
solid facts of the cures wrought by this won- 
derful agent rise clear above all carping and 
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CIjIXTIGA.Ii casks. 
Case I. Sept. 28, 1869.—Mrs. T. K., aged forty-nine 
years, seven years ago had an attack of stoppage (intus- 
susception) of the bowels. Was with her thirty-six 
hours at that time. She came very near dying; so 
near as to lose consciousness for some hours. 
From the effects of that attack she has never recov- 
ered. She has more or less pain—sometimes very 
severe—every night on retiring, through a large portion 
of the abdomen. Her digestion ever since the attack 
has been so feeble that she dares not eat anything but 
bread and meat. Her appetite is very poor, and she is 
of course very weak. There has been a steady decline 
of constitutional health during these seven years. 
About six weeks ago she had an attack of low fever, 
from which she has very imperfectly convalesced. At 
my instigation she resorts to the treatment by Com- 
pound Oxygen, then under the ministration of Hr. 
Hartwell. I could think of nothing else which prom- 
ised any considerable relief. For seven years I had 
exhausted my skill in endeavoring to restore her to 
health, the only result of which was seasons of pallia- 
tion, of greater or less degree. She has lost all hope 
of being materially helped, but feeling it to be her duty 
to try something else, and because I have recommended 
this treatment, she very mechanically goes about it. 
Oct. 12.—She now comes under my personal care. 
Thinks she has experienced some change in her general 
state of feeling, yet there are no decided indications of 
improvement. 
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cal change in all the symptoms. She can rest at night 
without pain; begins to have a natural relish for food, 
and indulges in a little variety at the table, and with no 
bad results. 
25th.—The improvement in all particulars is very 
rapid. She is gaining in strength, appetite, flesh and 
spirits. 
28th.—Thus ends one month’s treatment, she having 
visited the office twenty-six times. To-day she ad- 
dressed to me the following: “Now, Doctor, I will do 
just as you say about continuing the treatment. I have 
nothing to be doctored for! I was never in better 
health in my life ! I sleep all night long ! and oh it is 
so good to eat 1” Of course, treatment is discontinued. 
(copy.) 
“I have read Dr. Starkey’s clinical record of my case 
written above, and cordially endorse the statements 
therein made, as they are essentially in accordance with 
the facts according to the best of my memory, and they 
are not overstated. 
“My own testimonial would be as follows: After suf- 
fering from weak digestion for seven years, during which 
time—notwithstanding the most careful attention to 
diet—I was accustomed to lie awake several hours every 
night from distress in the stomach, I had a low fever, 
from which I partially recovered, I was able to sit up 
about half the time, but the stomach rejected even the 
most simple food. There was no alternative but to try 
some new remedy or continue to grow weaker. In this 
condition I began to receive the Compound Oxygen 
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improvement in my health. At the end of four weeks 
I could partake of a variety of food with zest; could 
sleep soundly all night, and felt better and stronger 
than I had for ten years. In fact, I was well. 
“ And now, after a lapse of more than two years, I am 
still enjoying the benefit of that month’s treatment! for 
I have never had a return of my seven years’ trouble, 
although I have put my renewed health to some severe 
tests. 
(Signed) “Mrs. T. K. 
“ Keixtville, Delaware Co., Pa., March 25, 1872.” 
Case 11. May 12, 1870.—Miss A. W., aged nineteen 
years. Was brought to the office in her father’s arms. 
(He told me afterwards that he was afraid at the time 
that he should not reach home with her alive.) Six 
years ago she contracted scarlet fever, and has never 
been well since. Every winter she has had repeated 
attacks of congestion of the lungs. Her health would 
improve to some extent during the summer months, but 
each year found her with Jess health than the year be- 
fore. Four years ago her parents left their New Eng- 
land home to see what a milder climate would do for 
their child. If any change in her condition was dis- 
coverable in consequence of the removal, she simply 
did not fail quite so fast as before. 
She has just passed through the severest winter of 
all. She is extremely emaciated ; no appetite; hands 
almost transparent; a clammy coldness of all the ex- 
tremities; dull aching through the whole chest, with 
great soreness to touch, on motion and from breathing; 
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ingly depressed. Her respiration was so exceedingly 
imperfect, that when she tried to make a forcible inspi- 
ration not the least motion of the chest could be de- 
tected by either of the senses. Her mother tells me 
that she had watched her for hours, both sleeping and 
waking, and could never tell whether she breathed or 
not, save that she was still living. 
May 16.—She has been to the office each day, but 
neither of us can tell if she has been able to inhale any 
oxygen. 
19tli.—Has experienced some sensation while inhal- 
ing, and feels a slight sense of relief about the chest; 
also slightly less of the painful lassitude. 
20th.—Came to the office to-day in a street car; owns 
to a little, but decided, improvement in general tone. 
26th.—Begins to be warmer; slight return of appe- 
tite; a little moral courage and better sleep. She now 
feels such a hunger or craving for the oxygen, that on 
Sundays and other occasional days of interruption she 
is restless, discontented and miserable. It seems to her 
that she must have it I 
June 12.—Is much improved in every respect. For 
the last week has come to the office in a street car by 
herself. She has a good appetite; her figure straightens 
up ; she sleeps all night; circulation in the extremities 
is fully restored, and her ordinary respiration may be 
seen across the room. The craving for oxygen has in 
a measure subsided. 
A. phenomenon of much interest has transpired during 
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she winced and uttered an exclamation. What is the 
matter? said I. Placing her hand over the upper por- 
tion of the left lung, she replied, “Something pulls 
apart here.” Does it hurt ? “ No! but it makes me 
feel nervous !” Each succeeding day the event was 
repeated, but each time the sensation was experienced 
a little lower in the lung. This was continued on 
through the entire length of that lung, when the same 
process was repeated in the top of the right lung, and 
was continued until it reached the upper part of the 
middle third of that lung. Then it ceased, and nothing 
of the kind has since appeared. 
Query: What could have produced this set of sensa- 
tions except the re-opening of air-cells whose walls had 
long been collapsed by repeated congestions ? 
July 12.—After two months’ treatment, she is hardly 
to be recognized by her friends who have not seen her 
since she commenced. She doesn’t remember of ever 
having felt so well as at present. One day she ex- 
claimed, “ How good it is to breathe! All winter long 
I scarcely took a breath that I did not mentally ask 
myself—how shall I ever get another one ! Now there 
is a perfect luxury in filling my lungs again and again 
and again to their utmost capacity !” 
Aug. 9.—Is still improving most satisfactorily. When 
she began treatment, and for years before, her chest was 
fallen in, and her head and shoulders drooped forward 
and downward seriously. Now it is with real difficulty 
that she can force herself into that position. Her chest 
has developed to such an extent as to cause a feeling of 
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sure of the shoulders and head. She now leaves for a 
visit in the country. 
Oct. 1.—Has been to the office since returning from 
the country. Has steadily improved in strength and 
weight. During previous years she would contract a 
severe cold in September, which would last the entire 
autumn and winter and most of the spring. Last month 
she escaped. 
Jan. 1, 1871.—Has had an attack of neuralgia this 
winter, but no congestion and no cough. 
March 1.—Has taken oxygen quite irregularly through 
the winter. Has been able to attend evening parties, 
practice on the piano three or four hours a day, and has 
no shrinking from the cold. 
March 1, 1872.—It may be properly said that she has 
been under no treatment for one year. Very few young 
ladies are in the uniform enjoyment of so good health 
as she. 
It remains to record another and recent phenomenon 
in her case. In the early part of the winter just past 
she had a whitlow upon the left index finger. By local 
application of nitric acid, etc., the inflammatory process 
was arrested short of the suppurative stage. The finger, 
however, continued to be very sensitive, preventing her 
from using it, and was all the time quite cold. About 
three weeks ago it began to pain her night and day, so 
that she apprehended another whitlow on the same 
finger. After suffering from it two weeks she applied 
for advice. She received the usual medicines for that 
state of things, but with no avail. She was then ad- 
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ence with other patients, I led her to expect an imme- 
diate sensation in that finger. On taking the oxygen 
she exclaimed, “ I feel it in all the fingers but that one!” 
The next day she informed me that, after returning 
home, that finger began to tingle, to get warm, to grow 
more sensitive to the touch, and to be less painful. 
She had a better night than for two weeks before. At 
this time she took a single inhalation, and immediately 
felt shootings and slight lancinating pains in that finger, 
and no sensation anywhere else. 
(copy.) 
March 30, 1872.—“ The above is a perfectly correct 
statement of the simple facts of my case, although it is 
not one-half of what could have been truthfully said 
concerning the wonderful cure performed by the Com- 
pound Oxygen Treatment. 1 am confident that there 
is nothing else which could have relieved me, much less 
performed so marvelous a cure. And had it not been 
for this treatment I should not now be in the enjoyment 
of life, to say nothing of the almost perfect health with 
which I am now blessed. 
“ A few' weeks since I had an attack of canker in my 
-throat, which by taking some of the usual remedies was 
somewhat relieved. Dr. Starkey then sent me some of 
the Home Treatment, which in a few days strengthened 
my throat and prevented its affecting my lungs as it had 
always done before, for I had been troubled with it for 
many years, having inherited from my father; and 
now it seems entirely removed. 
“ I have tried the Horae Treatment thoroughly, and 
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office treatment: more could not be said in its favor. 
I wish that all who are suffering as I have been could 
know what I do concerning the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment. 
(Signed) “A. M. W.” 
“ With pleasure I endorse the above statement of my 
daughter. 
(Signed) “Ambrose W. 
“ Philadelphia, April 5,1572.” 
Case 111. Nov. 1, 1870.—Mr. E. E. W., aged 
twenty-three years. Has been troubled many years, or 
a large portion of his life, with severe Nasal Catarrh. 
For the last twelve years it has been a constant and 
awfully-offensive Ozsena. 
He has severe headache across the forehead and root 
of the nose. This pain is undoubtedly caused by ulcer- 
ation of the membrane which lines the frontal sinus ; is 
very distressing, and at no time entirely absent. He is 
much emaciated; very amende—too little blood; and 
legs cold half way above the knees. Of course there is 
great general weakness, so that he can with difficulty 
attend to any business. 
The disgusting discharge, of a thick greenish yellow 
color, is always very profuse. , Every day or two he re- 
moves from his nostrils large, tough, elastic plugs of 
a green color, and from one and a half to two inches in 
length. As can be perceived, his case is one of pro- 
tracted misery, and with no hope of relief. 
Nov. 8.—His extremities begin to be warmed, and 
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most marked change is in his spirits; some feeling of 
courage and interest in life. 
loth.—The plugs do not form so large, and are softer 
and more easily removed. There is an increase of ap- 
petite, more elasticity of motion, returning Avarmth to 
the limbs, and decided relief of the frontal headache. 
22d.—After three weeks’ treatment, and with nothing 
but the Compound Oxygen, he declares, upon the authority 
of his wife, that the disgusting odor is all gone. He has 
gained in flesh, a healthy color is returning to his face, 
and in all respects he is a changed man. 
Jan. 1, 1871.—Has continued to gain very satisfac- 
torily in all respects. Has taken one cold, which re- 
vived the offensive odor, but only in a slight degree. 
Without resorting to any other remedy it lasted but 
four or five days. 
Feb. 10.—Since the first of December he has taken 
but one month’s treatment. With the above-mentioned 
exception, there has been no offensive odor since the 
close of the first three weeks’ treatment. He is no more 
troubled with catarrh than thousands of people who 
never surmised that they had any such affection. He 
has gained nine pounds in weight, and can perform his 
full quota of business with ease and satisfaction. Stops 
treatment. 
(copy.) 
“ The above record is a correct statement of my case. 
I am happy to be able to say that my health has re- 
mained all the year as good as it was when I left off 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment a year ago last Feb- 
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discharge is never troublesome except when I take a bad 
cold. I feel overjoyed when I think how much my 
health has been improved by the Compound Oxygen ; 
and I say to the afflicted, try the Treatment. 
(Signed) “ E. E. W. 
“Philadelphia, March SO, 1872.” 
Case IV. May 1, 1871.—Miss M. P., aged fifty-six 
years. Has been a martyr to neuralgia for many years. 
About six months ago it culminated in paralysis of the 
left side of the face, involving all the parts supplied by 
the fifth pair of nerves upon that side, the left shoulder 
and arm, the muscles of the chest and the heart. The 
irregular action of the heart and great sense of suffo- 
cation now cause her constant pain and apprehension. 
At all times the neuralgic affection is very severe in the 
face, walls of the chest, arm, nape of the neck, and occa- 
sionally in other parts of the body. She is of immense 
size from anasarca, or general dropsy. Constipation is 
a source of great suffering. Serious weakness of the 
optic nerves. 
There is one unique symptom : every morning when 
waking she must carry her hand to the back of the head 
to ascertain whether the head be joined to the neck. 
She is afraid of the oxygen ; thinks the chances are that 
it will kill her, and brings a friend to report the case, 
in the prospect of such an event. 
May 2,—Was pleasantly affected by the inhalation 
yesterday ; has no fear in taking it. 
May 3.—Feels an indefinite sense of relief; thinks she 
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May 6.—Feels a decided amelioration of all the 
symptoms; marked improvement in her sleep; the first 
normal and unaided stool since she was sick. 
May 15.—Daily improvement of all the symptoms; 
stool each day, with occasional exceptions, and with no 
trouble. The most marked amelioration at this time is 
of the suffocation and other painful symptoms of the 
heart. Slight decrease of the dropsical swelling. Eats 
with a decided zest. 
June 1.—Has had some hours of decided freedom 
from pain. The sleeves of her dress, which were tight 
to her arms one month ago, will admit a fold of two 
inches easily, and a like change has taken place in the 
size of her chest. She no longer needs to put her hand 
to her neck when waking, to see whether her head be 
in its proper relation to the body. The normal sensi- 
bility is returning to the paralyzed side of the face. 
There is no symptom which does not indicate a marked 
improvement. 
July 1.—About the middle of last month she was 
called to pass through very trying scenes. An invalid 
brother came from Washington and stopped at a hotel. 
Here he was violently attacked, and after three or four 
days’ illness died. Miss P. nursed him day and night, 
and watched him assiduously until his departure. Still, 
at the present writing, her health is much better than 
it was a month ago. 
Aug. I.—Visited my office nine times last month. 
She is in better health now than for years before. The 
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and would run down speedily anon, has entirely failed 
of verification. 
> . 
Oct. 1.—Spent the month of August in the country ; 
visited my office six times in September, and continues 
to improve. Can use her eyes considerably with com- 
fort. Much of the time there is no dropsical swelling. 
Nov. 1.—Visited the office six times last month, and 
treatment closed. 
A more grateful patient I am sure no physician ever 
had. She soon joins a party of friends on a pleasure 
journey to California. 
March 1, 1872.—Miss P. has just sent me a message 
that she is enjoying excellent health and everything 
about her. I am sure that she would endorse every 
statement made here if she were present. 
The two following cases are of gentlemen 
who are in responsible public positions. They 
have kindly permitted me to refer to them 
for confirmation of what is here recorded; but 
their caution has rendered these cases excep- 
tions among the clinical records as not having 
the persons’ signatures attached : 
Case V. May 31, 1870.—Mr. J. W. Me A., aged 
thirty-four years. From long-continued office business 
as the managing officer of a large company, he is com- 
pletely broken down in his muscular, nervous and men- 
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adviser for years, having moved to another city, told 
him by letter that if he refused to put himself under the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment lie should ere long pro- 
nounce upon his case—“death by suicide.” 
There seems to be no serious organic disease in the 
case, more than would naturally follow a state of com- 
plete physical and mental exhaustion, long continued. 
He suffers severely from dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheum- 
atism and mental despondency. 
Aug. 6.—Has taken the Compound Oxygen quite 
regularly to the present time, and has taken just two 
months’ treatment in all. 
Improvement was apparent early in the treatment, 
and has progressed satisfactorily to both physician and 
patient. He now avails himself of a few weeks to 
travel. 
Sept. 20.—Reports himself as so well that he gladly 
says that he can dispense with further treatment for the 
present. Will return for relief when there shall be need 
of it. Treatment is suspended. 
March, 1872.—Have seen him at different intervals, 
but he has needed no further relief from chronic 
ailments. 
Case VI. June 8, 1871.—Mr. T. T. F., aged sixty- 
five years. Effect of too constant, and too prolonged 
application to business. He is troubled with vertigo ; 
neuralgia of the left side of the face, head and shoulder; 
a sensation of stoppage in the left ear, with hardness 
of hearing and troublesome noise in the same; face 
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paralysis of the left side; and cerebral symptoms, which 
indicate threatened apoplexy. 
These symptoms are all so much aggravated by the 
cold season that he has been obliged, with much sac- 
rifice of time and inclination, to move South in the past 
two months of November, and spend the whole winter 
there each year. 
July 31.—He has taken the Compound Oxygen six- 
teen times during the month of June and twelve times 
during the present month. Has improved steadily 
from the beginning of treatment. He now takes a two 
weeks’ trip to Lake Superior and vicinity. 
Aug. 16.—Reports himself as so well that he needs no 
further treatment; but “ will return on the first intima- 
tion of renewed trouble.” 
Nov. 1.—Called at his office—not having seen him 
since the last date—to see if he were obliged to go to 
Florida this autumn! “No,” said he, “I haven’t 
thought of it! lam getting on excellently !” 
March, 1872.—rMade a second call. He said; “I 
have had some annoyance during the coldest spells, but 
have got through the winter swimmingly, and without 
being once disabled.” 
Case YII. March 23, 1870.—Mr. L. O. H., aged 
sixty-nine years. A foreman in a machine shop. Has 
always been a small eater, but is very corpulent; is five 
feet six and a half indies in height, and weighs one 
hundred and ninety-eight pounds. 
For four months past has been suffering with diffi- 
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at a moderate pace, would cause such labored and pain- 
ful breathing as to compel him to stop for rest. The 
same distress when he first lies down, and upon anv 
slight exertion, especially on going up stairs. His 
appetite is very poor, although he really eats but one 
meal a day. This state of things has steadily increased 
in spite of remedies which seemed skilfully chosen. 
The beating of the heart is very labored. For some 
minutes together three beats of the pulse at the wrist 
would be followed by a lost beat. Sometimes there 
would be five beats in succession, and very seldom 
seven. 
Takes the Compound Oxygen daily, and no other 
remedy. 
March 30.—No change, except that he walks with 
a little more ease. 
April 15.—The dyspnoea (difficult respiration) is de- 
cidedly less. I have counted as high as seventy beats 
without interruption. The pulse, too, is less labored. 
May 1.—There is little to record, except that there 
has been a uniform improvement in all particulars. 
The appetite, sleep and general feeling are all decidedly 
better. 
May 31.—During this month has taken the Com- 
pound Oxygen only one-third of the days. He feels 
that he has recovered his health, and needs no further 
treatment. Discharged. 
Mr. H. was suffering from accumulation of fat around 
the heart, and very probably from fatty degeneration 
of that organ. Fie was in that condition in which 
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ing to inform any one. He has taken just one and one- 
half months’ treatment in all. 
(copy.) 
“ I haye read the above record of my case, by Dr. G. 
R. Starkey, and pronounce it correct to the best of my 
memory. I have enjoyed almost constant good health 
since I left off the Compound Oxygen Treatment, and 
have had no return of the trouble which I was treated 
for at that time. 
“ Philadelphia, April 14,1872. 
(Signed) “ L. O. H.” 
Case YIIT. Nov. 28, 1871.—Miss Martha Evans, 
aged years. Miss Evans has been under the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment on several occasions, 
and with very marked benefit. From a combination 
of untoward influences she was prostrated upon her 
bed; is now suffering, and feels obliged to call profes- 
sional assistance. Complains of having chills, great 
prostration, and severe pain in the stomach. 
Dec. 4.—A clear case of gastric fever is now fully 
developed. The attack is very severe, and the impres- 
sion upon the system is so great as to cause no little 
anxiety to her friends. She is being treated with ap- 
propriate remedies in such cases used. 
Dec. 6.—The case has rapidly assumed a typhoid 
character within the last twelve hours, with very great 
prostration, and other symptoms of approaching disso- 
lution. She now gets two or three inhalations of Com- 
pound Oxygen, and in twelve hours as much more. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Dec. 7.—The typhoid symptoms have entirely disap- 
peared. There is yet great sensitiveness to pressure in 
the region of the stomach, with shooting pains ; inability 
to retain either food or drink, or to sleep more than a 
few minutes at a time, and great tympanitis. Gets 
a few inhalations of oxygen every eight hours. 
Dec. 10.—There is a marked change in her condition, 
and she may be said to be fairly convalescing. She 
begins to take a little nourishment, and to have some 
natural sleep. 
Dec. 17.—She improves each and every day; con- 
tinues to take the oxygen, but no medicine for a num- 
ber of days. 
Jan. 1, 1872.—Her improvement is a continual won- 
der to all her friends. There seem to be no relapses, 
but a uniform convalescence, which is eminently satis- 
factorv. 
From this point I will let her give her own account 
of her sickness and recovery: 
(copy.) 
“I have read the above record of my recent illness, 
as given by Dr. Starkey. The main incidents I know 
to be correct, but my memory concerning some of the 
time reported is very indistinct. Judging by the men- 
tal hallucinations which I can vividly recall, my im- 
pressions daring a number of days were very unreliable. 
can remember that I was haunted by the presence in one 
part of my room of an uncouth, hideous, scaly dragon; 
and by a monster snake, which was coiled up in another 
part of the room. And although I could reason myself 
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into the belief that they were not realities, I had no 
power for several days to disabuse myself of the hal- 
lucination. 
“ I remember distinctly the feeling which the first 
inhalation of the Compound Oxygen gave me. It 
seemed as if new life were being infused into my whole 
being. The next day I felt like one whose spirit had 
been tight bound, and the fetters were being broken off. 
There was a distinct sensation of the fluids of the body 
beginning to move; at first very slightly, but gradually 
with more freedom. 
“It is simply impossible for me to describe the suc- 
cessive steps towards recovery, but it is enough that 
each day I could count up the gain made the twenty- 
four hours previous. During this period I was allowed 
to take the oxygen three times daily; and no hungry 
child ever looked forward to the hour for meals with 
more intense interest than I did to the time for taking 
the oxygen. At first the impression was that it was my 
only physical salvation, and for weeks it seemed like 
the dearest of friends. I can now recall the vivid im- 
pression, that the uncouth India-rubber bag in which it 
was brought to me, and from which I inhaled it, was 
the most beautiful thing I saw. 
“ I have had other sicknesses, but none to be com- 
pared with this for severity; and I never recovered 
so rapidly, nor so happily—l may say joyously—as 
from that sickness. And now I have renewed my 
youth ! and feel a more buoyant life than I have before 
for fifteen years. Language fails to give any adequate 
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realizing what the Compound Oxygen has wrought in 
my case. 
“I deem it both a duty and a real privilege to give 
even this feeble expression of my estimate of the virtues 
of this wonderful curative power, and hope Dr. Starkey 
will give my name in full. 
(Signed) “ Martha Evans.” 
“Miss Evans, whose case is recorded just above, is 
my sister, and she passed through that illness in my 
house. I nursed her all the time, being with her night 
and day for weeks. This I could never have done—as 
I am in somewhat feeble health—had not the doctor 
sustained my strength by prescribing the Compound 
Oxygen for me each day. By that means I was always 
able to be at ray post. 
(copy.) 
“ The anxious solicitude with which I watched every 
symptom and phase of the disease during those dreadful 
days of suspense—when we all despaired of her recov- 
ery—enables me to testify strongly to the accuracy and 
truthfulness of Dr. Starkey’s record of my sister’s case. 
“I have witnessed much sickness of a severe charac- 
ter, as six adult members of the family have died; but 
I have never seen such marked effect of any curative 
means used as was plainly manifest from the use of the 
Compound Oxygen in the case above reported. Her 
convalescence has been a subject of real wonder to all 
her friends, and others who have witnessed it. 
(Signed) “Mrs. Wm. H. Knight.” 
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of my telling the effect of the Compound Oxygen in my 
own case. 
“ For twenty years I have not escaped for one season 
an attack of ‘yearly cold/ or ‘hay asthma.’ What I 
had suffered for eight or ten weeks each year from that 
disease I could hardly make any one believe. 
“Last season, before the attack had made much pro- 
gress, I began to take the Oxygen. In less than a week 
its progress was completely checked, and it did not 
reach the height which it had never before failed to 
reach. The attack was also very materially shortened, 
and I was not nearly so much reduced at the close of it 
as had uniformly been the case. 
Case IX. Jan. 6, 1870.—-Mrs. G. W. K., aged 
twenty-six years. Had been complaining of ill health 
for a year and a half. She is now suffering from a state 
of general debility which has much increased since the 
birth of her child, now about six months old. 
(Signed) » “ Mrs. W. H. K.” 
Pain in the top of the right lung; cough much of the 
time, distressing when she gets cold; some spitting of 
blood. Takes the Compound Oxygen daily. 
Jan. 13.—Feels a sense of relief, yet slight and rather 
indefinite. 
Jan. 20.—Has gained in appetite and strength ; cough 
symptoms less severe; and upon the whole she thinks 
she is better. 
Feb. 10.—Has taken just one month’s treatment. She 
now says: “Doctor, I am so much better, I would like 
to suspend the treatment for a time.” I reply; Yes, you 
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on condition that you will return for treatment just as 
soon as your health begins to falter. This being agreed 
to, she stops treatment. 
(copy.) 
“Mrs. G. W. K., the subject of the above clinical 
record, was my patient at that date; and she was induced 
to try the Compound Oxygen method of treatment 
under Dr. Starkey’s care, by myself. I was satisfied 
then, and have not changed my opinion since, that she 
was laboring under quite serious tuberculosis of the 
right lung. I recommended her to try that treatment, 
not so much because I expected a cure, as because I had 
no faith in any system of medication as being able to 
cure the case. I have been her medical adviser ever 
since; and I do not hesitate to say that hers is a clear 
case of pulmonary consumption, cured. 
“ Philadelphia, May, 1872. 
(Signed) “R.S., M.D.” 
In some respects, this is the most remark- 
able case that I have ever had. That there 
was quite a large deposit of tubercles in her 
right lung, no one who is anything of an 
expert in physical examinations of the chest 
could for a moment doubt. She gave me no 
credit for curing her of consumption; and it 
should not be wondered at. Who ever heard 
of consumption being cured by a four-weeks’ 
treatment! And but for the frank and 116 
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cordial endorsement of the whole account of 
the case by her physician, Dr. S., I should not 
have presumed to publish it. The full resto- 
ration to health was not completed until the 
following autumn. I have never seen her 
since that 10th of February. 
Case X. May 5, 1871.—Mr. J. A., aged twenty-six, 
writes from the country that he is much reduced by 
spermatorrhoea of several years’ standing. Pie not being 
able to visit the city, I forward the Home Treatment to 
him. 
July 15.—A second letter informs me that he has not 
taken up all of the first month’s treatment, “ because 
there was no need of it.” His language is: “ That drain 
from my system is entirely ceased. lam heavier, feel 
stronger, can do ray share of work [on a farm], and in 
fact I am an entirely changed man. 
(Signed) “ J. A.” COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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TESTIMONIA LS. 
The following was published in a religious 
weekly about the time it was written : 
“Mount Kollt, N. J., Nov. 30,1868. 
“H, J. Hartwell, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.: 
(copy.) 
“ Most esteemed and Respected Friend and Benefactor: 
For about twenty years 1 had suffered with that most 
horrid disease, Dyspepsia, in its most aggravated form. 
Language fails me to describe my feelings and suffer- 
ings, before applying to you for treatment. I employed 
several of the best physicians to but little or no purpose. 
Indeed, my family and friends began to think that not 
only was my disease incurable, but that death would soon 
put an end to my sufferings. I feel certain that I could 
not have endured it much longer. I began your treat- 
ment of Compound Oxygen February 26, 1867, and 
under your care I felt a marked improvement during 
the first week. 
“I continued the treatment for one month; at the end 
of that time I felt like a new creature—indeed, I was 
a well man; and to-day I would not take a fortune for 
what was then done for me. Suffice it to say that, 
whereas I was once an invalid, lam now a well man ! 
“I offer this statement of my disease and its marvel- 
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that through such use of it as you may think best others 
may be induced to try your treatment. 
“Yours, respectfully, 
“Horatio E. Conover.” 
The “ Methodist Home Journal,” in which 
this testimonial appeared, thus endorses the 
character of the writer; 
“We ask our readers to peruse the letter of Mr. H. 
E. Conover, of Mount Holly, N. J. Mr. Conover is 
well and favorably known as a gentleman of undoubted 
integrity.” 
Last September, Mr. Conover came to my 
office, and stated that, from Jong-continued 
overwork, he had brought on an attack of 
bilious fever. As he convalesced, he felt for 
the first time since the above testimonial some 
return of his old enemy. He was discon- 
certed, because he could not leave his home 
for treatment. I supplied him with the 
Home Treatment, and told him to visit the 
office once a week. I neither saw him again 
nor heard from him, till I wrote him a note 
last month, to learn from him his then pres- 
ent state of health, his experience of the 
Horae Treatment, and a word about his 
daughter, who, as he told me in September, COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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Lad taken treatment of Dr. Hartwell at the 
same time he took it. 
In reply to that letter I received the fol- 
lowing : 
(copy.) 
“ Mount llollt, April 3,1872. 
“ Dr. G. E. Starkey : 
u Dear Sir: I have nothing more to say in addition 
to the above statement, except that ray health continues 
excellent. The Home Treatment is all that I could 
desire, and my confidence in the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment is as firm as the everlasting hills. 
“In regard to the cure of my daughter of the Chills 
and Fever by the above treatment, I can truthfully say 
that it is radical; as she has never had the least intima- 
tion of its return, and that with only eight applications. 
The following was published some years 
ago: 
“ Eespectfully, H. E. Conover.” 
(copy.) 
“ Bristol, Pa., Not. 10,1868. 
“ H. J. Hartwell, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.: 
“Dear Sir: For many years I have been afflicted 
with Heart Disease. I obtained all procurable medi- 
cal aid, which only gave me temporary relief. Three 
physicians, who had attended me, pronounced my case 
incurable. I suffered much pain ; was so weak I could 
scarcely walk; appetite entirely gone, so that for three 
months my only diet was panada. 
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friends not to leave me alone, as I was liable to die at 
any moment. Such was my condition one year ago, 
when I was induced to try your treatment of Compound 
Oxygen by Inhalation, which I continued two months. 
“ I am now in ray fifty-ninth year, and not for the 
last ten years have I enjoyed so good health as at 
present. 
“ Yours truly, Rachel Maitland.” 
I also wrote to her last month, calling to 
her mind the above testimonial, and making 
inquiries concerning her health. To that 
letter I received the following reply: 
(copy.) 
“ Bristol, April 12, 1872. 
“ G. R. Stakkey, M. D.: 
“ In reply to yours I can say that I now feel as well as 
when I wrote that testimonial for Dr. Hartwell, and am 
perfectly willing that you should publish it. 
“Yours respectfully, 
“ Rachel Maitland.” 
(copy.) 
“ Mullica Hill, N. J., Nov. 4,1868. 
“ H. J. Haktwell, M. D.: 
“Dear Sir: Yours of the 2d inst. is before me. In 
reply, I must say, after taking your treatment [of Com- 
pound Oxygen] for six months, I am convinced beyond 
a doubt that in diseases of the air passages, lungs and 
liver; in dyspepsia, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous 
debility, etc., it is superior to all other kinds of treat- 
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“I would recommend to all who are afflicted with 
any of the above diseases, or any disease in which the 
blood is implicated, to take your treatment in preference 
to all others. 
“Yours, truly, F. A. Cutter, M. D.” 
(copy.) 
“ Roadsiwn, N. J., Nov. 13,1868. 
uH. J. Hartwell, M. I)., 2034 Arch street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.: 
“ Esteemed Sir: It is with pleasure I come to my pen 
this morning, that through it I may add my testimony 
to the efficacy of your treatment by Inhalation. In Feb- 
ruary last my little nephew, then six years old, caught 
a severe cold, which was followed by pneumonia, from 
which he had gained but little relief when pleurisy in 
its worst form set in. It was terrible to witness his suf- 
ferings. We did not think it possible for him to live. 
But after a lime the intense pain seemed in a measure 
to subside. Still in other ways he grew worse. Plis 
cough was the most fearfully distressing I ever heard— 
the paroxysms, one alter another, lasting so very long, 
we thought each one would be his last. He got no 
sleep. His poor little emaciated frame racked almost 
constantly, and his deeply-sunken eye, fully attested the 
intensity of his suffering. He expectorated fearfully, 
and to ail the rest was added a serious heart affection. 
But, with his wearing frame, his mind seemed to gain 
strength and his eyes intensity. He was, by all who 
saw him thought in the last stages of Consumption. It 
was heart-rending to look at him. We had two phy- 
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up—said he could not live; but as a last hope urged us 
to try for him your treatment. We did so ; and had not 
given it to him a week ere we saw a decided change. 
This continued until, by the time he had taken the one 
month’s treatment, lie seemed entirely restored. To 
this we have added nothing since, and now he seems 
perfectly well. 
“No one seeing him could imagine he was the weak 
skeleton of a few months since. He has no cough at 
ail, and is as fat and rosy as can be—the very picture 
of health, and the wonder of all who saw him during 
his illness. 
“ Gratitude to you for undertaking the case, and who 
we feel has been the instrument in the hands of God of 
saving to us our darling pet, has prompted this testi- 
monial. 
“ Yours, truly, (Signed) S. S. H.” 
In answer to a letter to Miss S. S. H., for 
information concerning the present health of 
her nephew, I received the following reply: 
(copy.) 
“ Bridgeton, N. J., May 4,1872. 
“ Dr. Starkey : 
“Sir: Your letter of April was some time in reach- 
ing me, as I moved from my former home in Roadstown 
more than a year ago. My nephew is still with me, 
now grown to be a tall, rosy, healthy boy of ten. 
(Signed) “ Miss S. S. H.” 
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spected and most successful physicians, who has 
spent more than a half century in active labor 
in his profession, an average lifetime in each 
of the two prevailing schools of medicine. 
He is now in his eightieth year, and none 
of us who, during three weeks, daily watched 
for intelligence that he had obeyed the last 
summons, can realize that the hale old man 
of to-day was that invalid. 
At that time four or five physicians who 
attended him gave their opinions unquali- 
fiedly that he could not recover from that 
attack. Dr. Hartwell, who administered the 
Compound Oxygen to him, informed me that 
the collapsed state was fearful, and that his 
memory was exceedingly impaired ; 
“ Dr. G. E. Starkey : 
(copy.) 
“Dear Sir: You ask for a brief account of the ad- 
vantage I received from the use of the Compound Oxy- 
gen Treatment. It proved a god-send to me by bring- 
ing about a recovery from a severe attack of Pneumonia, 
in April, 1869. I was reduced very low, nigli unto 
death, but through the blessing of Him who holds the 
issues of life and death I was restored. 
“ During the past three years I have been consider- 
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in many cases, and I do not hesitate to sa.y that it ex- 
ceeds all known remedies in the power to control dis- 
eases of the lungs, bronchitis, indigestion, and all de- 
bilitated and other irregular conditions of the nervous 
system. 
“ Truly yours, 
(Signed) “E.G., M. D. 
“Philadelphia, April, 1872.’' 
The following is from a well-known cler- 
gyman in Massachusetts. It is especially 
valuable as exhibiting the uniform efficiency 
of the Home Treatment • as I have never 
seen him nor either of the other parties here 
alluded to: 
(copy.) 
TO ALL WHO MAY NEED LIKE HELP. 
“ With hearty desire to benefit such, I give a partial 
statement of great good received by myself and a 
circle of friends from the Compound Oxygen Treatment, 
Having suffered debility for some years from labors in 
the ministry, with but partial relief from all remedial 
agencies, and learning that Dr. Starkey, of Philadel- 
phia, dispensed the Compound Oxygen for the cure of 
chronic diseases, and also provided a Home Treatment 
of the same for those who could not visit his office, 
though expecting to bear my ills through life, I was 
induced by my friends to apply to him for advice in 
November, 1871. 
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suffered oppression, and often severe general nerve pain, 
followed by prostration that unfitted me for persistent 
effort. Cold weather greatly increased the difficulty, so 
that I had longed to spend my winters South, and the 
trouble was aggravated by hereditary and chronic 
catarrh. 
“Dec. 21, I wrote the Doctor that I had used the 
Inhalation a fortnight with great improvement in appe- 
tite and digestion, and with relief from catarrh, so that 
I had dispensed with the nasal douche, so long used 
three or more times a day. There was also a marked 
improvement in strength and tone of voice; but under 
the influence of the severe winter I was suffering more 
in my nervous system, which I feared would never be 
restored. 
“In less than a month, however, the healing powers 
reached my nerves, and the periods of suffering dimin- 
ished till they ceased, and I could brave the severest 
weather with impunity. I also experienced consider- 
able expansion of chest, and gained rapidly in flesh. 
In the joyous buoyancy of a new life my gratitude was 
more than I might express. I have persevered in 
regular inhalation above four months, and for any one 
of the four principal benefits I would again be at the 
whole trouble and expense: first, increased breathing 
capacity, with its attendant vigor; second, the bestow- 
ment of good digestion, with its healthfulness; third, 
the removal of nervous suffering; and, fourth, the heal- 
ing of a life-long catarrh. It is for the entire cure of 
this last that I am continuing the Treatment, and from 
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“I have just conversed with an experienced physi- 
cian, who thinks the cure will soon be complete. After 
such deliverance, if I were to fail to commend it to 
others, it would show want of devotion to their welfare. 
“ Another marked case of efficacious treatment is that 
of a friend, seventy-one years of age, who for some 
years has endured Neuralgia excruciating past descrip- 
tion, and whose condition was such, under the powerful 
opiates (subcutaneous injections) that partially benumbed 
her to her torture, that Dr. Starkey could give no encour- 
agement; and wrote, ‘ I profess to do marvels with our 
Treatment, but not to work miracles.’ The trial was 
quietly made with her, and with new appetite and di- 
gestion, despite the severity of winter, she soon gave up 
the opiates, and with diminishing pain rapidly increased 
in flesh. She had been unable to be taken from her 
bed of languishing into the open air, but now the inspi- 
ration of out-of-door life seemed brought to her, and 
she gained a vigor and flush of health beyond any ex- 
pectation, and, feeling quite youthful again, she says, 
‘a very large marvel has been done,’ Quite likely, at her 
age, as her physicians have expressed, in any ‘cold’ or 
other illness she will have some neuralgic pain ; but 
she has never before found such general deliverance, 
and feels that she has a new lease of life and a great 
safeguard in the future. 
“Another friend, under complicated difficulties of 
long standing, received decided benefit. Aggravated 
Dyspepsia gave way to improved appetite and increase 
of flesh ; the removal of hot flushes showed a renova- 
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overcome as never before. The value of the Treatment 
was especially manifest in an attack of diphtheria, with 
canker, and Western chills and fever. Ice was tried 
for the suffering throat, but could not be borne; but 
each inhalation of the Compound Oxygen was felt by 
the patient to relieve and heal, and she was soon liber- 
ated from the bed. With this attack the old loss of 
appetite returned, but Inhalation alone was relied upon 
for its removal. 
“Another instance is that of a youth who suffered a 
severe attack of cold and protracted cough, with con- 
sumptive tendency. In a similar attack, two years be- 
fore, all efforts failed to prevent declining appetite and 
strength; a change of locality was requisite to arrest 
the disease. But now appetite and strength were sus- 
tained by Inhalation, notwithstanding profuse expecto- 
ration and the raising of some blood, which condition 
caused solicitude, would have been decidedly alarming 
had not a process of renovation and healing been indi- 
cated ; on completion of which the cough suddenly 
ceased, followed by a rapid gain in flesh and health- 
fulness. 
“Others have been greatly helped whose experience I 
need not recount; but one great benefit should be noted, 
the healing of prolapsus uteri, and recti, of long and un- 
yielding continuance. 
“When I read Part First of the Brochure I thought, 
as with many things new, that the statements, though 
so scientific, clear and philosophical, should be received 
with considerable abatement; but from experience and 
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truly affirmed; and I join others in the assertion that 
the Compound Oxygen is the most widely curative and 
harmless agent we have ever met with ; and without 
unwisely supposing that every one will find the relief 
they seek, I must also say, happy will many be who 
even with much self-denial obtain it; but let such make 
a faithful and persevering trial, as some of the per- 
sons above alluded to would have otherwise missed the 
blessing which they found. 
“If this testimony should help to lead some suffering 
ones to seek relief by this wonderful agent, it will bring 
a large reward. 
(Signed) “ C. D. L.” 
The subjoined testimonial contains some 
features which are of so remarkable a nature 
that Mrs. Lippincott freely consents to give 
her full address: 
(copy.) 
“ Philadelphia, April 5,1872. 
“ I am fifty-four years old. When I was about four- 
teen years old I was supposed to be in Consumption; 
but going to Florida, I got well, although my lungs 
have never been strong since. 
“ Ten years ago, while walking across the room, I 
felt something in my back like a shock of electricity; 
and it seemed to me that ray spine parted, and the frag- 
ments separated from each other. I fell to the floor 
helpless. For four weeks I could not move a limb ex- 
cept my fingers. After that, if I put my foot to the 
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pettier, and when I lifted the foot they would separate 
again. 
“ Since then I have not been free from severe, excru- 
ciating pain in that part of the back and rny limbs, until 
the last three months. The joints of all my limbs be- 
came enlarged; those of my fingers to such an extent 
that when the hand is open the fingers separate into a 
fan shape. During all these years I could close neither 
hand more than about half way; that is, the fingers 
would make a rude square with the palm of the hand. 
I was not able to lift the smallest weight; it would fall 
in spite of me. 
“ Since the attack in my back I have been liable to 
similar ones, though less severe. For a number of 
years I have been subject to a violent cough, attended 
with great pain and soreness through both lungs, every 
winter. If I should step on the ground in winter I 
would invariably get a severe cold. So I wrould keep 
housed all winter. All this time I have bad as good 
doctors as I could get. 
“In the autumn of 1870 my daughter was under the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment with Dr. Starkey, and as 
I accompanied her, the Doctor saw that I was suffering 
much, and induced me to take some of the Oxygen. I 
felt considerably relieved by it. But as we moved to 
Brooklyn in the early part of last year, the treatment 
was stopped. 
“Last January I began again, taking the Oxygen two 
or three times a week, and now I have to report that 
lam almost a well woman. Indeed, I feel as young as 
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free from pain for long intervals. I have been out ol 
doors in almost all weathers the past winter, but have 
had no cold and no cough. My finger joints have so 
much decreased in size that my fingers lie close together, 
except only the tips of the first and middle fingers. I 
can carry a large pitcher of water in ray hand, and can 
run up stairs almost as fast as ever I could. 
“If I had had as much confidence in the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment as I now have, I should have had 
my hands photographed, so that any one could have 
seen what effect it has had on me. One of them I can 
now close so that the fingers touch the palm, and those 
of the other within three-quarters of an inch, and they 
are improving every day. The joints, too, are perfectly 
limber now as far as they move, which was far from 
being the case before. And very few, I think, know 
the luxury of sleeping as I do. 
“The change in all my bodily feelings is not a bit 
more wonderful than the change which has taken place 
in my spirits and mental state. Nothing looks to me 
now as it has for the last ten years. Indeed, I have 
renewed my youth. 
“ I have volunteered this plain statement of my case 
as an expression of the gratitude I feel for the marvel- 
ous relief which the Compound Oxygen has given me. 
“When my daughter visited Dr. Starkey, neither she 
nor I expected her to live more than two weeks. Hers 
was the most distressing case of Hemorrhoids I ever 
knew. After taking the Treatment irregularly through 
the winter, she went to Virginia, just a year ago. She 
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since, till now the hemorrhoids make their appearance 
only at intervals. Could she have had the Treatment 
during the winter just past, I have no doubt she would 
now be a well woman. 
(Signed) “ Mrs. E. C. Lippincott, 
“No. 433 Pine street.” 
The following letter was written to me 
before I espoused the cause of the Compound 
Oxygen. I have recently seen a photograph 
of Mrs. Batch elder, and she is a specimen 
of blooming health. 
“ Exeter, Sept. 15,1869. 
“ G. R. Starkey, M. D.: 
(copy.) 
“Dear Sir: Your note was not received until last 
evening (being away from home), and in reply I would 
state, that I commenced treatment with Dr. Hartwell 
in August, 1867, when my own father, who is an M.D., 
considered mine a hopeless case of pulmonary con- 
sumption. After the second inhalation of the Com- 
pound Oxygen I was able to sleep without spasms of 
coughing, and felt better than I had for weeks. 
“At the end of three months I had gained some nine- 
teen pounds, and was a very different person. I then 
went to the doctor’s office every other day, and my chest 
had increased in circumference nearly nine inches. In 
November my cough had left me, but the expectoration 
continued. I continued the inhalations once a week 
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I had been ill. If at any time I took cold, I was sure 
of a remedy in the Inhalation. 
“I made no change in diet or other habits, except 
taking a prescribed bath daily and retiring at ten 
o’clock: and I may safely say that the doctor’s treat- 
ment, with the blessing of God, saved my life. No 
return of my disease has ever taken place, as was pre- 
dicted by my friends. 
“I know other cases as marvelous as my own, and I 
give this testimony cheerfully for the benefit done to 
me. If any more particular information should be 
desired I should be most happy to oblige you. 
“Very respectfully, 
(Signed) “Mrs. E. S, Batchelder.” 
The following are extracts from a letter 
written by a sister-in-law of one of Presi- 
dent Grant’s secretaries. She had constantly 
declined in health for three years when she 
came under my care, in spite of all that could 
be done for her in New York. 
“New York, July 15,1871. 
11 Dear Doctor : 
(copy.) 
*** “ J SUppose yon have heard what a nice little 
baby girl we have got? A little black-eyed, black- 
haired beauty! too pretty, too good and too nice for any 
use / 
“ She is so healthy; and I have plenty of good COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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nourishment for her. We call her lire ‘ Oxygen baby,’ 
although her proper name is . 
“My own health has been excellent!—all owing to 
those delightful Inhalations in your office. lam far 
from being strong this summer, and am as thin as when 
you first saw me; but it is not owing to poor health. I 
cannot expect to be strong while I am nursing, and am 
perfectly content to see the round cheeks and roses on 
the little one so long as good health sufficient to take 
care of her is given to me. 
“ When I think of the poor, miserable creature I was 
when I first placed myself under your professional care, 
I cannot be thankful enough for the change that has 
made me a well woman and a happy mother. And 
Oxygen did work such wonders with me last summer, 
that I never see any one ailing or suffering without feel- 
ing it my duty to recommend and urge upon them your 
treatment. Very respectfully, 
“ On. G. E. Starkey. (Signed) Mrs.— ” 
(copy.) 
“ Germantown (Phila.), April 15.1872. 
“To G. E. Starkey, M. D.: 
“Sir: In reply to your favor would beg to say that I 
was suffering from catarrh of the head (Oztena) and 
general debility for a long time. I had been under the 
care of one of the most eminent Allopathic physicians 
of our city for over two months without receiving any 
benefit. After that I was induced to try the Homceopainic 
system, and placed myself in charge of a celebrated 
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found myself no better. Becoming discouraged, at the 
urgent solicitation of friends who had received benefit 
from your system of treatment, and one of whom had 
been cured of the same disease as mine, I was induced 
to place myself under your professional care. In two 
months, to my surprise and great gratification, I was able 
to discontinue the use of the Compound Oxygen treatment. 
The catarrh ceased to annoy me; my general health 
was greatly improved ; my appetite returned to its natu- 
ral state; the chronic indigestion by which the catarrh 
was accompanied disappeared; and, in short, I became 
what I had despaired of again becoming—a well person. 
It is now two years since I left off the treatment, and I 
have had no occasion since to resort to any remedy for 
my old distressing malady. 
“I would strongly recommend any who are suffering 
from the same disease to try your system of treatment, 
believing they will experience the same benefits that I 
have. (Signed) 
(copy.) 
“ Miss F. A.” 
“ Philadelphia, May, 1872. 
“Du. G. K Starkey: 
“ Dear Sir: I have just returned from a winter’s stay in 
Georgia. Learning that you are about publishing some 
testimonials of what the Compound Oxygen can do, I 
would like to add mine. 
“ During the month of March, 1871, I had nine 
hemorrhages from the lungs. In five of these I lost at 
least a quart of blood each time. Of course I was carried 
to death’s door. In the six weeks following I rallied a COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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little. My attending physician holding out no hope of 
my being better, I sent for two as eminent physicians as 
the city contains. 
“ They unhesitatingly pronounced my lungs to he in 
a state of almost complete dissolution, and gave me no 
reason to expect to live more than six weeks longer. In 
this extremity, hearing of your mode of treatment by 
inhalation from a friend and neighbor, I managed to 
get to your office. You were willing to undertake my 
case, but held out very little encouragement. 
“In a week I was feeling better, notwithstanding I 
had given up all my stimulants and tonics. I continued 
to gain every day, till, on the 20th of June, I was able 
to go to Schooley’s Mountain, where I spent the summer. 
In the autumn I went to Mary’s Elver, Georgia, and 
spent my time in shooting alligators and similar deli- 
cate recreations. 
“ Now I cough a little occasionally, and that is all. 
My chest is three inches larger when expanded by an 
inspiration than when in repose. I have gained more 
than twenty pounds in solid flesh, and am ready to run 
a race with most anybody. 
“ I would be happy to see any person who would like 
to have particulars of my case. 
“ Truly and fraternally, 
(Signed) “ C. C. Yanhoen.” 
(copy.) 
“ Philadelphia, June, 1872. 
“ Dr. Starkey : 
“ Dear Sir: You ask for a statement of my experience 
with the Compound Oxygen Treatment. More than 136 
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ten years ago I began to have attacks of Asthma. 
These attacks increased in frequency and severity from 
year to year, and were of the most distressing and 
intractable character. I had tried faithfully all the 
fumigations and other domestic remedies, exhausted the 
resources of the allopathic art, and also that of the 
homoeopathic art, and all with a like result—no appa- 
rent relief at all. 
“ In the summer of 1869, 1 had the longest and most 
severe attack that I ever had. In the month of Sep- 
tember I was so much reduced that I could not bear 
the weight of sufficient bed-clothing to keep me warm. 
I had to be carried up and down stairs, and it seemed doubt- 
ful to my friends whether I should ever rally again. 
“I then began to take your treatment, and in a very 
short time began to convalesce. My return to health 
was at a slow pace, but every month marked a clear 
onward progress. I took the Oxygen very irregularly, 
sometimes going many weeks without resorting to it. 
“My last attack, which was brought on by severely 
taxing my strength for a whole week, occurred in April 
last year. It has been more than six months since I 
took the last inhalation of the Compound Oxygen, 
and during that time I have not only had no attack of 
asthma, but I have not even had the premonitory symp- 
toms of it; and this in spite of being subjected, during 
six consecutive weeks, to circumstances in every par- 
ticular as trying as those which induced my last attack 
more than a year ago. As ‘no one can say he is happy 
till he dies/ so I cannot say that lam cured; but these 
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“My health now, at the age of fifty-three, is bettei 
than it has been for many years. 
“ Respectfully, 
(Signed) “ Mns. I. N. Gregory” 
(copy.) 
“The Compound Oxygen administered by Dr. Star- 
key has been of great benefit to myself and to a number 
of my friends. 
“United States Mint, June 3,1872. 
“In my own case it imparted a strong, relishing 
appetite, gave me the first sound, unbroken night’s 
sleep I had in a dozen years; and toned up my system 
generally from a state of extreme nervousness and de- 
bility to good digestion, steady nerves and marked 
improvement in flesh. lam in better health and weigh 
more than at any former period of my life—now fifty- 
four years of age. 
(Signed) “H. G. Hickok, 
“ Ex-State Superintendent Common Schools of Pennsylvania.” 
It may, and it may not, add to the weight 
of the above mass of testimony to state that 
I have used this Treatment with eminent ad- 
vantage in my own family. In June, IB6h, 
my wife had a serious illness, from which, 
in spite of my own skill and that of several 
professional brethren, she made a very imper- 
fect convalescence. In September following, 
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Compound Oxygen. She began immediately 
to rally, and continued to do so until she fully 
recovered; and ever since, at intervals, she 
has experienced very marked benefit from the 
treatment. 
Up to the autumn of 1869 my two older 
daughters, now respectively seventeen and 
fifteen years of age, had been almost entirely 
deprived of school advantages from sheer 
physical inability to pursue their studies. 
Very soon after beginning to take the Com- 
pound Oxygen a decided change in their 
health was perceptible. For the last year 
and a half it is so well established that they 
are able to go through their forty weeks’ 
term of study in a style which would satisfy 
any reasonable demand of even ambitious 
parents. 
CAUTION'. 
Any system of curative treatment which 
possesses the powers and virtues here claimed 
for the Compound Oxygen will naturally 
attract attention from many people, and it 
may reasonably be expected that those who 
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Such we find to be the case in regard to 
this. It would not matter so much, how- 
ever, were it not that, as a rule, those imi- 
tators belong to a class of unprincipled or 
irresponsible persons. We would hereby put 
all those who are seeking a safe and effica- 
cious curative agent on their guard against 
those who dispense “ medicinal oxygen,” 
“oxygenized air,” “combined oxygen” and 
similarly-named agents, claiming them to be 
identical with the “ Compound Oxygen,” and 
sometimes even “ superior to it.” While 
urging the claims of the Home Treatment 
upon those who cannot by any possibility 
avail themselves of the Office Treatment, 
we earnestly advise all those who reside in 
the various cities and towns where this latter 
is dispensed, and who desire to be under the 
personal care of competent practitioners in 
the Compound Oxygen, to act accordingly. 
At the same time the caution is repeated : 
be sure that you are about to get the genu- 
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DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE DOME 
TREATMENT. 
The Horae Treatment is put up in boxes, 
each of which contains the necessary appara- 
tus and instructions, and material enough to 
I-ast a full month. The price of this is 
fifteen dollars.* 
A post-office money order for the amount 
may be sent at the time of ordering the 
Treatment, or the Treatment may be for- 
warded by express marked C. O. D. The 
next best method is that by a registered letter. 
It is not safe to send money in an ordinary 
letter. 
G. E. STAEKEY, A. M., M. D., 
1116 Girard Street. 
Philadelphia, June, 1872. 
* For present prices and terms, see page 194. FEBRUARY BULLETIN 
IFOIR, 1873. 
The last term in the series of disease is DEATH. 
“The general effect of Oxygen in Nature is that of a 
Life-Giving principle.” 
Circle of the Sciences. 
In its inmost principle, is not diseased action a Unit?—and 
Is there then a Universal Remedy ? 
The rapidity with which this Remedial 
Agent is making its way into favor among 
the intelligent portion of the community is 
worthy of record, and an earnest of its wide- 
spread adoption in the near future. One of 
the most encouraging signs of the times is 
the fact that Physicians are appreciating 
and calling to their aid its wonderful healing 
virtues. While it is true that with skillfully 
chosen and judiciously administered drugs 
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much may be done to assist the human or- 
ganism to resist baleful influences and to 
throw off their pernicious effects—yet phy- 
sicians are often compelled to confess their 
impotence when called upon to combat dis- 
ease in a system so devitalized as are thou- 
sands of cases of chronic disease, to success- 
fully treat which they are vainly summoned. 
Apropos of this sentiment, since penning it, 
I have read the address of its President to a 
State Medical Society, holding its annual 
session in Harrisburg the present month, in 
which are the following passages : 
Neither the self-styled regular school of medicine, 
with ail its accumulated store of three thousand years 
of knowledge, experience and experimentation, nor 
homoeopathy, with about sixty-three years of medical 
reformation, have, as far as I know, as yet struck at the 
proper object or aim in saving, in the aggregate, human 
life. What disease has ever yet been blotted out of ex- 
istence ? what malady that existed three thousand years 
ago is there that is not now to be found prevailing as 
fatally as then? While the number has largely in- 
creased, and some of them have become infinitely more 
prevalent and fatal. These may be unprofessional 
ideas ; but a man can afford to be heretical upon a sub- 
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gress has been made. Physicians are battling disease 
with the small end of the club while they hold the 
large, unwiedly butt. 
won Its OF CUE Ell FROM PHYSICIAN'S. 
One physician writes under date January 
30, 1873: 
“ I confess to a great measure of confidence in your 
treatment; my judgment being based solely upon theo- 
retical grounds. I well remember that Prof. Hering 
said that the effort ‘was being made’ to impregnate 
Water with Oxygen; and predicted that it would be- 
come a remedial agent of great importance. I wish, 
therefore, for a month’s supply of your Home-Treat- 
ment ; and also the Oxygenaqita in sufficient quantity 
to afford me an opportunity to thoroughly test it.” 
Another, who states that he is Secretary of 
a State Medical Society, writes under date 
January 27, 1873: 
“ Col. F. S. K. has placed in my hands your pamphlet 
relative to the cure performed by the ‘ Compound Oxy- 
gen’ administered according to your plan. Another 
patient of mine, Mr. G. S. W., has also spoken very 
highly of the result of the treatment in his case. lam 
induced to write to you to inquire, etc.” 
The wife of Col. F. S. K., and also Mr. 
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Pulmonary Consumption. Col. K., under 
date January 11, 1873, writes : 
“ Am glad to say Mrs. K. continues quite -well.” 
Still another Physician, under date Janu- 
ary 29, 1873, writes: 
“ I have been testing 1 the Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment/ and am very much pleased with its mode of ac- 
tion in all cases in which I have applied it. If it holds 
out as it begins, I think there is nothing better for 
Throat, Lungs or Nervous Affections; jpdging by my 
experience in the above cases. * * * It is taking 
splendidly. All who see its action are willing to try it. 
They read your book, and send for it at once. Please 
to send me four full Treatments.” 
Under date of February —, 1873, the 
same Physician writes: 
“With one exception, all the cases are progressing 
very favorably. Send four more full Treatments.” 
Still another, of very extensive experience, 
under date January 10, 1873, writes: 
“I have employed the ‘Compound Oxygen’ very 
extensively in my practice, and have found it to be a 
remarkably useful agent in various diseases. The Office 
Treatment has almost entirely removed a Chronic Ca- 
tarrh [his own son’s case] of a very obstinate and dis- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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tressing character. The Oxygexaqtja has cured a 
great number of cases of gastrointestinal trouble, pain- 
ful and debilitating in their nature, under my imme- 
diate observation: one an infant in the last stages of 
Marasmus, also in the case of many clerks, and other 
men of business. I know of no remedy so uniformly 
and so remarkably successful in the cure of Indigestion 
and Dyspepsia.” 
So much for the unsolicited testimony of 
well-educated and successful Physicians, each 
living in a different State. 
CURES RT HOME TREATMENT. 
In the second edition of my treatise, pub- 
lished last year, I have recorded many cases 
of brilliant cures; but those were all effected 
by means of the Office Treatment. Since 
the event of that publication, and mainly in 
consequence of it, the use of the Home Treat- 
ment lias extended with great rapidity. It 
is of much more concern to the general public 
to know whether there be any, and how much, 
curative virtue in this modified form of the 
Compound Oxygen. 
Hey. D. W. Chase, of Independence, 
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having asked his permission—ordered the 
Home Treatment for his daughter. Under 
date of December 17, 1872, he writes: 
* * * Now, with regard to myself: I have 
been a dyspeptic nearly all my life. I have had bron- 
chitis for years; and at last it reached my lungs. Last 
March I had a hemorrhage, and lost from a pint to a 
quart of blood. Being in feeble health, and sixty-two 
years old, I was fearfully prostrated. A cough, and 
more or less profuse expectoration set in, and my phy- 
sician told me that I had been in consumption two 
years, and informed me that I could not live long. As 
you kindly suggested that a second person might inhale 
the Oxygen to advantage by re-heating it, I tried it, 
without much hope of benefit. But, after a few weeks, 
to my delight and astonishment, my cough and expecto- 
ration rapidly subsided, and for two weeks I have had 
almost no cough, and have raised nothing, as far as I can 
judge, from my lungs, I have a good appetite, and can 
take a long, full breath. Two Sundays ago I read the 
full service, and preached, with but little fatigue; and 
this for the first time, without the assistance of a lay 
reader, in eight months. My palpitation of the heart 
has almost ceased, and I am gaining in strength and 
flesh. My friends can see that I am decidedly better, 
and congratulate me; but I can see that they fear a re- 
turn of my alarming symptoms. But, for myself, I 
have strong hopes, and I make this record with gratitude 
to God. Many of my friends are awaiting the result of 
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order it for himself. Please send me two months’ sup- 
ply by express.” 
Rev. T. I. Holcomb, Rector of Trinity 
Church, Rock Island, 111., ordered the Home 
Treatment for his little daughter. He writes 
me that her case 
“Is extensively known in St. Louis. St. Paul, Winona, 
Chicago, and in this city, and has solicited the liveliest 
sympathy. I have spent much for professional advice 
and medicine. Physicians can do nothing for her. I 
send to you, because Ido not know what else to do. May 
your remedy prove to be the long-sought relief for our 
suffering child.” 
The best account of the case is furnished 
by a letter from the wife of Col. F. (stationed 
at Rock Island), to a friend in Philadelphia, 
who has kindly favored me with a copy of 
the following, with the consent of Mrs. F.: 
“I saw a happy family yesterday, made so by the 
Oxygen Treatment. You know I wanted the pamphlet 
for Mr. H., our minister. His little girl, Nellie, eight 
years old, has had what was called Disease of the Heart, 
for years, growing continually worse. She had the best 
medical advice here and in St. Louis, and all kinds. 
This fall she has been in a terrible state. The parox- 
ysms of pain grew more frequent and more severe. Her 
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three weeks before she commenced the Oxygen she had 
no sleep, except from the effect of morphia or chloro- 
form. Her cries, when in pain, were agonizing. When 
Mr. H. read the pamphlet, lie showed it to the last doc- 
tor they had called, and asked his advice. It was sim- 
ply : ‘lf you can hear of anything that offers the shadow 
of a hope for Nellie, send for it.’ They wrote at 
once. In the meantime, they were nursing her night 
and day, and were nearly worn out. They wrote for 
Mrs. PL’s sister to come and help them take care of her. 
The child had chills every third day, frequent and in- 
tense pain, no appetite and no strength. Her spine was 
so tender that the slightest touch would make her 
shriek. The night before the Oxygen came she took a 
heavy dose of morphia, and had the chloroform given 
her five times. As soon as it came the ,doctor admis- 
tered it to her. That nicjht she slept from eight o’clock 
till live, without disturbance. The next was her chill 
day. She had a very slight one, and a little pain. Has 
slept well ever since, appetite much improved, runs 
about the house, and is cheerful and willing to play. 
Her spine has lost all tenderness, and her color is much 
better. Mrs. H. says she inhaled it after Nellie had 
finished [it can be made to do for a second patient by 
increasing the temperature of the water], in twenty-four 
hours it had benefited her so much that she is now able 
to sleep on her left side, which she had not done before 
for years, on account of the pain it occasioned. She 
said to me, with her eyes full of tears; 1 Our Christmas 
is very different from what it would have been if we 
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“ I do think your sending the pamphlet when you did 
saved the child’s life. I doubt if she could have held 
out two weeks longer.” 
In a letter from her father, written the day 
following, he writes: 
“I know the ‘two weeks’ have not yet transpired, 
but I feel like writing you at once. My little daughter 
has been entirely relieved thus far, and seems to be im- 
proving daily. If she continues to improve, there is 
nothing that I can say that will be too extravagant in 
praise of the ‘ Comp. Ox.’ ” 
In a letter dated January 6, 1873, he 
writes; 
“ My little Nellie continues to improve, and has had 
no return of pain. * * * Our hopes of a permanent 
recovery are daily strengthening. We rejoice every day 
in it, and bless the kind Providence that has revealed 
to us this wonderful agent for her recovery.” 
Ten days later he writes : 
“ Nellie is still improving. She has had no return of 
pain or chills.” 
On the 22d ult. he inclosed to me her pho- 
tograph, and writes: 
“ I want you to see the girl that plays out of doors 
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The last intelligence from her is on the 6th 
inst., and announces continued improvement. 
On January 9, Rev. A. A. T,, of Illinois, 
at the instigation of Rev. F. AY. Conrad, 
D.D., of Philadelphia, writes : 
‘•'Please to send me one month’s supply of your Com- 
pound Oxygen for my wife. She has serious lung 
difficulty, and is supposed, by some, to he going into 
Consumption. Our family physician fears that he can- 
not get her over the month of March. If it prove suc- 
cessful in her case, as 1 hope it will, I shall spare no 
pains to make it known to the utmost of my ability,” 
So far from fulfilling the doctor’s predic- 
tion, she has not lost anything, according to 
several reports. On the 4th of March, Mr. 
T. writes: 
“ My wife has been decidedly improved, I think, by 
the Treatment. At any rate, we feel sufficiently en- 
couraged to try another month—[she has taken only 
one month]. The first week in April we think of mov- 
ing to Kansas. I feel very much encouraged, and hope 
that by the aid of the Compound Oxygen and a dryer 
climate, my wife will be restored to health again and 
spared to her family.” 
In September last, S. M. Morris, of AYil- 
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of Compound Oxygen for his wife. March 
Bth, ho writes: 
“ I have delayed reporting my wife’s case, in order to 
see what eilect the winter would have upon her lungs. 
Her health is much better every way than it was one 
year ago. She has gained twenty pounds in flesh, and 
has not been troubled with shortness of breath or difli- 
culty in breathing this winter. * * * She has en- 
joyed much better health this winter than she has for a 
number of years past She had been troubled with sour 
stomach for many years After she commenced taking 
the Oxygen Water tier stomach improved very much, 
and continued to improve. * * * Now, doctor, we 
have given your Remedies a fair trial in a very compli- 
cated case of Chronic Disease of the Lungs, Liver and 
Stomach, and the patient has received much benefit in 
every way. But she does not appear to be cured en- 
tirely of either one of the troubles; therefore, I want 
you to send me two months’ supply of the Compound 
Oxygen, and four months’ supply of the Oxygen 
Water.” 
This account was unsolicited, and entirely 
unexpected. 
AV M. D. SPEAKS. 
One of my patients has Kindly given me 
the following account of his case. While not 
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obvious reasons, he is entirely willing to be 
referred to by any honest inquirer: 
Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 1873. 
Dr. G. E. Starkey : 
[copy.] 
A statement of my case may be of service in guiding 
some one similarly afflicted to a means of cure. While 
a student of medicine at Gottingen (Germany), during 
the winter of 1859 and 1860,1 contracted a violent acute 
Bronchitis, which, in spite of the best professional talent 
there, terminated in a chronic form of the disease, of a 
very severe type. After graduating and returning home, 
I entered the army, and was stationed in Florida for 
sixteen months. The climate seemed to benefit me 
somewhat, and I returned North in 1865, settled in 
Philadelphia, and entered upon the practice of my pro- 
fession. I availed myself of the skill and advice of my 
fellow-surgeons and physicians at every opportunity. 
In August, 1868, I had two very violent hemorrhages, 
one lasting three hours. Soon after I was examined by 
several of the best diagnosticians for Chest Diseases in 
the city. They all agreed that there was extensive ulcer- 
ation in the upper lobe of my right lung. Since then I 
have had frequent attacks of acute Bronchitis, due to 
the exposure incident to following my profession. My 
condition being very unsatisfactory, about a year ago I 
placed myself under the professional care of an expert 
in Pulmonary Diseases, of a different school from the 
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trying his hand on my case for nine months, he advised 
me to avail myself of the Compound Oxygen Treatment ; 
and, now, although a little more than two months have 
elapsed, and in spite of this unprecedently inclement 
winter, my strength is greater, appetite better, and my 
general health is much improved. My disease seems to 
be slowly but surely giving way to the influence of the 
Oxygen Treatment, and I have scarce a doubt, ulti- 
mately, of a complete cure by its means. 
Signed, D. It., M.D. 
The following is a record of the severest 
case of Asthma that I have ever seen: 
STRONG TESTIMONIALS. 
[copy.] 
■Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1873. 
Dr. G. E. Starkey : 
Dear Sir;— You ask me for a sketch of my case. It is 
with sincere pleasure I comply with your request. I 
would be very glad to see any one who is interested to 
know more than this short statement. lam forty-two 
years old, and the mother of eight children. For four 
years I have suffered more from Asthma than words can 
express. I have paid large sums of money to a number of 
the best physicians I could get. Year by year my suf- 
ferings increased. The last year I could not go out of 
doors without getting cold, and I couldn’t get a cold 
without having a severe attack of Asthma. For a week 
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ing forward a little. Often the difficulty and distress of 
breathing would bring on violent convulsions about the 
face, neck and breast, as the doctors will tell you. 
Sometimes, when I had got so exhausted that it seemed 
as if I would die, my attendants would say, “ She is 
getting easier.” My pulse would give one beat and 
then skip two. I went to your office the Bth of last Oc- 
tober. I didn’t get a cold then; the first time for many 
months. I went so irregularly it took about two months 
and a half to get one month’s treatment, I began to 
improve from the first. A week or two after I com- 
menced treatment I had an attack of Asthma, but much 
lighter than for many months before. Since then I 
have had no attack at all. I have had one severe cold, 
which went on to my breast, but I had no Asthma. 
Once, too, this winter, one of my children had Croup, 
and I had to be up with it day and night for several 
days. I got much beat out, but had no Asthma. Now, 
I can go out when I wish, sleep in a cold room, and do 
as other people do. I have not taken any Oxygen but 
once or twice since before Christmas, and am a wonder 
to my friends and a joy to myself. 
Your grateful patient, 
Signed, Mrs. Anna Lijfktns, 
No. 2120 Wallace Street. 
The following letter explains itself: 
My Dear Sir;— Learning that you are about to pub- 
lish a few confirmations of the many virtues claimed for 
the Compound Oxygen, I would like to have my mite 
Philadelphia, Feb., 1873. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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help swell the volume, with the sincere hope that the 
testimony will help to confirm the wavering purpose of 
some sufferer who may be casting a longing look toward 
this “ Balm in Gilead.” The profound gratitude which 
my wife and I feel for the unexpected restoration to 
health of our only child, will permit me to do no less. 
(See case 11. of Clinical Record in the Brochure). Be- 
ing a druggist by profession, and thus more or less con- 
versant with the action of medicines, I could not for 
months bring myself to believe that the changes which 
I saw taking place daily were due to such an agent, or 
that the results would prove to be lasting; but now, 
after almost three years, I can assert that it is among 
my most profound convictions, that the curative virtues 
of the Compound Oxygen, as exemplified in my daugh- 
ter’s case, cannot be overstated. When I recall the six 
long, weary winters of unremitting suffering through 
which she passed—each one more severe than the pre- 
ceding—l can hardly realize that she is the same per- 
son who is spending this—the severest winter of them 
all—in the full flush of health, strength and elasticity 
without so much as a single cold! Indeed, very few can 
be met who are so nearly in perfect health ; and this, 
after having omitted the Treatment, almost entirely, 
nearly a year and a half. Nor should her case be de- 
prived of its just value, as if it were an isolated one. I 
have been conversant, personally, with the history of 
this Treatment, literally, in scores of other cases, and I 
have seen nothing which in the least leads me to con- 
sider hers an exceptional case, unless it may be in the 
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she has experienced such marvelous results from the 
Office Treatment, after having given the Home Treat- 
ment a faithful trial, she expresses an unqualified pre- 
ference for the latter. 
Gratefully yours, 
Ambrose Warren. 
G, E. Starkey, M.D. 
PERM.t VBVCY OF EE SUETS. 
Before receiving the above emphatic in- 
dorsement of the lasting effect of the Treat- 
ment, as well as confirmation of the absolute 
virtues of the Home Treatment, I had penned 
the following: There is one question of such 
grave practical importance, that it here merits 
an earnest consideration. Are the cures 
wrought by the use of the Compound Oxy- 
gen genuine cures; or are they only apparent 
cures, and, therefore, temporary and falla- 
cious? This question has, indeed, already 
been fully answered ; still, the doubt which 
yet lingers about it deters many, who cannot 
gainsay the immediate results, from availing 
themselves of its benefits. It is really the 
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the matter, from making a trial of it. S'me, 
however, tacitly acknowledging its populari- 
ty, admit that “ it is a very excellent thing, 
but it is not suited to your case;” and they 
never find the case to which it is “ suited.” 
“It acts like all other stimulants; it will 
make one feel better for a time, perhaps, but 
a reaction soon follows.” “If you once use 
the Oxygen Treatment you will have to keep 
resorting to it, or soon lose the good you 
seemed to get.” These and similar expres- 
sions are not seldom heard. I have much 
sympathy for those dealing in this sort of 
skepticism, as I myself fought the movement 
“on that line” for many months. 
In addition to the negative fact that there 
is not reported one authentic case to confirm 
the above doubts, it is allowable to record 
some positive testimony bearing upon the 
question. 
In December, 1870, Mr. T. S. Arthur— 
whose name has long been an affectionate 
household word—came to my office to take 
the Compound Oxygen, and continued the 
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winter. At the close of it he remarked to 
me, that for the first time during many years 
he had escaped colds and influenza. In the 
autumn following he informed me, that when 
he first came to my office he had, to all in- 
tents and purposes, closed his literary labors, 
excepting what was necessary to conduct his 
magazine; “ but now,” he remarked, “ I have 
just finished one of the largest works I have 
ever written [it has since proved the most 
successful], and I consider my ability to ac- 
complish the labor fairly due to the effects of 
the Oxygen Treatment.” In a conversation 
with him, a few weeks since, he volunteered 
the following remarks : u There is one fea- 
ture of the Oxygen Treatment which sur- 
prises me, that is, the permanency of its 
results. I don’t remember ever having 
before passed two consecutive years of such 
uninterrupted good health as the last two; 
and I have done nothing more nor less than 
I have done for many years, except using 
your Oxygen Treatment, occasionally, during 
the time. I have another book, two-thirds 
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and I perform every day’s labor with more 
satisfaction and less exhaustion than I have 
known for many years. This is now the third 
winter that I have escaped colds and coughs, 
from which I suffered much before I used 
the Oxygen.” 
I presented the above statement to Mr. 
Arthur for his indorsement or disapproval. 
After keeping it a day or two, he returned it 
with the following note : 
Dear Doctor:—I have made only a few changes in 
your circular. If anything I can say will help you, or 
extend the Treatment, I shall he gratified. 
Philadelphia, Feb. 11, 1873. 
Very truly yours, 
T. S. Arthur. 
If it were needed, perhaps the above-men- 
tioned facts would add to the significance of 
the following from Mr. Arthur’s pen, in the 
March number of his Home Magazine: 
We have had very favorable opportunities, during 
the past two years, for observing the effects of what is 
called the “Compound Oxygen Treatment,” as dis- 
pensed by Dr. G. E. Starkey, No. 1116 Girard Street, 
A NEW TREATMENT OF DISEASE COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
of this city, and can speak of it from personal observa- 
tion as well as from personal experience. The mode of 
Treatment is by simple inhalation. The gas inhaled is 
“ composed of the elements of the atmosphere, with 
Oxygen in excess.” The immediate effect produced by 
inhalation is a slight sense of exhilaration and warmth 
in the chest, followed in most cases by a new feeling of 
strength, elasticity and physical comfort. Especially in 
Pulmonary Diseases, and in weak, nervous conditions 
of the body, has this new treatment been found of great 
value. A very large number of Consumptive patients 
have • been treated in the past two or three years, and 
with almost unvarying good results. The uniform first 
effects of inhalation are an increase of appetite, a re- 
newal of flesh and strength, and, as before said, a sense 
of physical elasticity and comfort. And this seems not to 
be a temporary state. It is not lost in a few days or weeks, 
but with most persons becomes permanent. It has been 
so in our own case. We advise those who are suffering 
from Chronic Diseases of any kind, especially of the 
chest, to visit Dr. Starkey, or write for his pamphlet, 
descriptive of this new mode of Treatment. For persons 
living at a distance, he has a “ Home Treatment,” which 
any one can use for himself. 
The Commercial List and Price Current 
copies the above, prefacing it with, the fol- 
lowing : 
“We have several times called attention to the re- 
markable claims of the Compound Oxygen Treatment. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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We are very glad to have our sentiments indorsed, and 
in such an emphatic manner, by an authority which onr 
readers will be so little inclined to question, as that of 
Mr. T. S. Arthur. The testimony of one whose con- 
clusions are so painstaking, and who is so careful to ex- 
press just the truth, is invaluable. As a labor of love 
he writes in the March number of his Home Magazine 
as follows—” 
There is another division of this subject, 
which I approach with much greater concern 
—the difficulty of impressing my readers with 
my conviction of the very great value of the 
To state all I know of its power for good 
would seem so extravagant as to risk the re- 
jection of the whole statement as being too 
absurd to be soberly entertained at all. To 
say just enough to insure a trial of it would 
afford me quiet contentment—and the experi- 
menter the liveliest satisfaction. 
OXYGEN A Q XT A. 
As with a view to make the Compound 
Oxygen available to the greatest number, I 
have toiled much and long to perfect the 
Home Treatment, and to bring the bless- 
ings of the Office Treatment to many far-dis- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
tant homes—so have I labored to bring the 
same blessings within the reach of many who 
cannot make the Home Treatment avail- 
able. This lias been accomplished with a 
success that could not have been reasonably 
looked for. 
The cost of producing the Home Treatment 
is sufficient to prevent some—who have the 
means even—from investing the amount of 
the price in what might not do them any 
good. Bat of the Oxygen a qua, a single 
bottle has often cured very grave and long- 
standing maladies. While no curative action 
is claimed for it outside of diseases connected 
with the stomach and bowels, and their asso- 
ciate organs—the liver, spleen, etc,—yet, 
when resorted to for these troubles, many 
affections have disappeared, which do not 
seem connected—or very remotely, at least— 
with those of the alimentary canal. When 
it is realized how large a proportion of our 
brethren are suffering from some form of 
these ills, the field of operation is indeed 
painfully large. The results of the action 
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Affections—the only ones yet tried—are suf- 
ficient]}7 marked to warrant me in soliciting 
some cases for gratuitous treatment; which 1 
do, here and now. The testimony of one 
physician concerning the efficacy of this form 
of the Agent, already recorded in this Bulle- 
tin, is worthy of careful consideration. The 
same physician prescribed a small bottle of it 
to one of our post-office officers, in the mid- 
dle of our dreadful summer of 1872. The 
doctor informed me that his patient was com- 
pletely disabled by a very protracted Bowel 
Complaint, which was entirely relieved in 
one week. This patient gave mo the follow- 
ing testimonial: 
This is to certify that I have used the Oxygenaqua 
as a remedy for derangement of the digestive organs, 
attended with Chronic Diarrhoea, and have found its 
curative powers prompt and permanent; no return of 
the disease having occurred for the last six months. 
January 29, 1873. 
Signed, W. 
Many other cases could be reported, did 
space permit. The following, which was 
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Miss H., Ohio, aged twenty years, was urged, almost 
forced, to leave her home and come to Philadelphia last 
summer to be under my professional care. She had 
been a great invalid for four years or more, and for six 
months previous to this time was a great sufferer. Her 
case was seriously complicated by uterine displacement 
and irritation ; but the most prominent symptoms were 
of a gastric nature. For a long time she could eat almost 
nothing, owing to an unconquerable disgust for all kinds 
of food. The mere mention of wholesome food would 
produce loathing, even to nausea. Of course, there was 
great debility, and all the concomitants of a system 
nearly deprived of nourishment. Medicines faithfully 
prescribed by several skillful physicians, had no appa- 
rent effect. Finding all remedies to fail, I took her to 
the sea-shore. Hearing from yourself the virtues of 
Oxygen aqua, on our return to the city, I thought hers 
might prove a test-case for that Agent. After using it 
a few days—only three or four—she began to eat her 
meals regularly. Before she had finished the second 
six-ounce bottle she was so far recovered that she went 
to Washington and other cities, on a pleasure-trip, pre- 
vious to her return home. All her ailments left her 
with equal pace. Intelligence from her at home, re- 
ceived within a few weeks, announces that she remains 
well. One feature of her case was a long-continued and 
obstinate constipation, which entirely passed away with 
her other troubles. 
[case.] 
One word about my own case. I had suffered for 
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Diarrhoea. I took the Oxygexaqua at the same 
time I was prescribing it for Miss 11. It made a more 
prompt and favorable impression upon my trouble than 
anything else I had ever tried. For three months I 
was without a return. Then a slight attack was en- 
tirely relieved by two or three doses of Oxygexaqua. 
Signed, Thos. S. Williams, M.D. 
To G. R. Starkey, M.D. 
Philadelphia, Feb. 2G, 1873. 
Dr. S., of N. J., writes, February 27: 
“ Sometime during the autumn, Dr. Williams wished 
me to try your Compound Oxygex for Hemorrhages 
of the Lungs, which I was having frequently. He left 
me a bottle of Oxygex Water, also a tube, etc., for 
Home Treatment by inhalation. I used the Water, 
and felt much invigorated and stronger. As I have 
been much better this winter, and had no hemorrhages, 
I have not had occasion to try the Homo Treatment, 
but intend doing so, if required.” 
compound oxygex extiiusr,is ar. 
Many other testimonials are crowding for 
expression here; but they may wait. Room, 
however, must be made for tbe following. 
Pardoning a little to a genuine enthusiasm, 
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travagance, on the score of a warm friendship, 
it may be relied upon. 
No one who knows the writer well, and 
the depths of suffering from which she has 
come up, will doubt that she writes from a 
full heart: 
Dear Sir and Friend:—You promise me a little cor- 
ner of your Bulletin to let me “say my say.” You 
know that very few, if any, of your numerous patients 
have had so large and varied experience in the curative 
action of The Compound Oxygen, in all its modes of 
administration, as myself. I cannot write a hundredth 
part of what I can say about the Glorious Oxygen. 
And I cannot say a hundreth part of what I feel. “ The 
wealth of the Indies” could not purchase the joy I feel 
of being released from the unutterable bondage of re- 
lentless disease for more than twenty years. If yon 
should ask me to which I give the preference—to the 
Office Treatment, the Home Treatment or the Oxy- 
gen aqua—l should reply—to the one I took last. You 
may tell who I am, and where I live. And if any one 
wishes to hear my story, shall be most happy to tell it. 
If they wish for more witnesses, I have two sisters who 
are most worthy of credence, and will more than con- 
firm all I have to say. 
Your ever grateful friend, 
Mks. M. T. Peiksol, 
No. 1621 Wallace Street. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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The fall address of any or all of the per- 
sons referred to in the foregoing pages, by 
their initials, will be given on application 
being made. 
Note.—The delay of going through the 
press has enabled me to incorporate a few 
testimonials which reached me a few days 
later than February. THE NEW CENTURY BULLETIN, 
1877. 
Foup years ago, was sent out the “Feb- 
ruary Bulletin,” which recorded some of the 
wonderful results achieved by using The 
Compound, Oxygon. 
This one, both following and accompany- 
ing the former—this first year of our second 
century—does not pretend to record any more 
surprising cures, perhaps, than the other (for 
that seems hardly possible), but to assure the 
many friends of the Compound Oxygen that 
its career has been, and is, worthy of its good 
reputation. 
The event which most directly inspires the 
present issue is one of more than ordinary 
importance. After eight years of single- 
handed labor in developing and administer- 
this curative agent, I (the former proprietor) 
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169 
have just associated with myself, as partner 
in the business, G. E. Paeen, Ph. 8., M.D., 
a man of education, a practical chemist, hav- 
ing well-trained business habits and of un- 
questioned integrity. 
In thus uniting our experience, means and 
energy, we have set ourselves to the solu- 
tion of this problem: to bring to the highest 
state of efficiency an agent which by nature 
contains the greatest curative powers of any 
substance yet known ; to make it available to 
the greatest number of our suffering brothers 
and sisters; and to earn the reward which 
belongs to well-directed efforts. 
To this we are pledged, and with nothing 
short of it shall we be satisfied. 
An important means of solving the second 
part of the problem, is to succeed in making 
invalids realize what may be truthfully prom- 
ised them. Every year, thousands leave 
their friends, their homes and home-comforts 
to find stay-places, either in foreign lands or 
in distant States of our own. 
Have you listened to the stories of sojourn- 
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ville, and other places?—how familiar they 
grow to the sight of the “ pine box ” so often 
sent to retrace the anxious and suffering 
journey of the invalid? 
Unfavorable indeed must be the sur- 
roundings of a home in which the Compound 
Oxygen will not do much more for the radi- 
cal relief of the patient than a winter’s stay 
abroad ! It is our firm conviction that, in all 
ordinary cases, this Treatment has much 
greater power to cure—independent of horme- 
comforts—than all the favorite resorts of 
invalids, with all their supposed superior 
advantages. 
But this is setting ourselves the herculean 
task of educating the people in the art of 
preserving life! no more congenial occupa- 
tion would offer, if we could but find docile 
listeners. In such an event we should first 
address ourselves to the most intractable 
class—and, lamentably, the most numerous— 
of invalids, the victims of Pulmonary Con- 
sumption. Almost every one of this class is 
as helpless a victim of hallucination as of the 
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The picture is too familiar to be exhibited. 
It is nothing that lie coughs! “It is only a 
little hack—the veriest habit, which he must 
break up!” nothing, that he loses weight; 
nothing, that his breath gets strangely short 
when he runs up a few steps; nothing, that 
he feels pains wandering about the chest; 
nothing, that he gets a cold on the least pro- 
vocation ; “it is nothing much; it Avill be all 
right soon !” Thus, like the will-o’-the-wisp, 
hope beguiles and lures him on, obstinately 
blind to danger until he falls in utter help- 
lessness. 
Who can teach this unfortunate ? Whose 
eloquence can startle him from his fatal secu- 
rity? Who else is so unreasoning as the 
hallucinated Consumptive? “Sixty thou- 
sand yearly mortality from phthisis” reads 
him no lesson. It matters not that the most 
sagacious physician assures him of the pre- 
sence of tubercles in his lungs—the essentials 
of a fatal disease. Who may declare, in tones 
that such will hear, that he who goes through 
one summer without getting rid of a cough 
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slight, perhaps, as hardly to attract attention, 
and especially if he finds himself slowly losing 
avoirdupois weight, is surely being drawn 
into a maelstrom from which there is no 
rescue ? 
In this early stage—the invasion of the 
disease—nine out of every ten could be 
cured. But in the stage in which this class 
of invalids usually present themselves, it 
is a marvel that one in twice ten could be 
rescued. 
We dwell so long upon this most interest- 
ing class of sufferers, because: first, there is 
so much at stake; second, it is so nearly im- 
possible to make them realize it; third, be- 
cause we know that we can do so much more 
and better for them than everybody else, un- 
less they have the same agent with which 
to help them. 
That we “ speak by the card,” we will copy 
the two following letters from among our 
many testimonials, partly because we have 
just received them. The first is from a well- 
known manufacturer, whose case is a marked 
instance of consumption cubed ; COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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[copy.] 
Philadelphia, June 8, 1577. 
Dr. G. Pi. Starkey : 
Dear Sir:—You ask me for a statement of my expe- 
rience with the Compound Oxygen Treatment. Well, 
two years ago I was very sick with what was called 
Consumption. I was too sick to attend to business— 
even to write a letter. My physician got discouraged, 
and took me, almost by force, to your office, about the 
20th of July. I began to improve very soon, so that all 
my friends were surprised. 
I was able to resume business in September, increas- 
ing in weight, strength and comfort. I took the Com- 
pound Oxygen at irregular intervals (only once in two 
weeks, after November), until spring. An occasional 
cold, from which I promptly recover, is all that has 
troubled me since. If there be any disease about me 
for the last year, there is no evidence of it. 
Signed, Waldo M. Claflin. 
The author of the following letter is chief 
clerk of the Architectural Bureau. His let- 
ter fails to present adequately his condition 
when he began treatment. He does not state, 
as he might, that he had had more than forty 
hemorrhages; that some had blamed me, and 
more had considered me a fool, for encourag- 
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Up to last February, he had had no occasion 
to ask a doctor for a prescription: 
[copy.] 
Washington, D. C., June 7, 1877. 
Dr. G. R. Starkey : 
Dear Sir:—-Your favor of the 6th inst. is received; 
and in reply, I have pleasure in bearing testimony as 
to the efficacy of your Oxygen Treatment in my case. 
As you will remember, I began the experiment (for 
so I considered it) in April, two years ago. At that 
time I was so reduced in strength, by frequent hemorr- 
hages, as to be unable to walk to and from my office 
without the utmost exertion. 
After two months’ trial, I discontinued the Treatment 
at your suggestion, being so far recovered as to feel no 
need of it. My health has been uniformly good from 
that time to the present. 
Very truly yours, 
11. G. Jacobs. 
There is another large and most interesting 
class which needs especially to be educated 
in this direction; I mean the convalescents, 
those who are recovering from severe acute 
diseases. 
A small army of people every year, who 
have hitherto enjoyed good health, are over- 
taken with some severe illness, such as Pneu- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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raonia, Pleurisy, Bilious or Typhoid Fevers, 
Inflammations of important organs, Rheuma- 
tism, Diphtheria, etc. A large majority of 
them never get back the health they had be- 
fore, although far short of middle life. Some 
recover to a state of invalidism more or less 
mild, to nurse their broken powers for, it may 
be, many years. A greater number approach 
their pristine health only to enter upon a state, 
the very name of which carries terror with it 
—a Decline. 
All these unfortunates struggle helplessly 
in toils which are no less real because invisi- 
ble. Medicine can do little or nothing for 
them, because it does not vitalize. Medicine 
can do good only by reacting against active 
or vital forces. 
Now, what shall increase these vital forces ? 
If there be anything in the world which is 
equal to the Compound Oxygen for this pur- 
pose, we have yet to learn what it is. \\re 
have need only to refer to our exposition of 
this agent in the pages of the Brochure, and 
the many testimonials which we have pub- 
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There is one other class which we cannot 
forbear to mention—the mentally overworked. 
In this class we find professional men, authors, 
etc., but especially ambitious men of business 
—heads of great enterprises—who have to be 
brains for a regiment of subordinates. These 
are brilliant, involuntary suicides. They 
usually manage to approach the prime of life 
when they begin to falter, and soon deteriorate 
into paralytics, imbeciles or victims to soften- 
ing of the brain. In either event their career 
is prematurely ended, and from the same 
cause—absolute exhaustion of some great 
nerve-centre. 
Theoretically, we should say at once that 
the Compound Oxygen, the sole vital element 
of the atmosphere, and this in a magnetic 
state, must meet such cases successfully if 
taken in season. The correctness of the 
theory is amply sustained by interesting ex- 
perience. A former treasurer of the Penn- 
sylvania Central Railroad, whose case is re- 
corded on page 107 of the Brochure, is in 
point. A stronger one is that of T. S. Ar- 
thur, related in a former issue of the Bulletin. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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How much that means can be known only by 
reading the following editorial in the July 
issue of his Home Magazine. Comment 
thereon is not called for : 
“ In our magazine for this month -will be found an 
advertisement of what is known as the ‘ Compound Oxy- 
gen Treatment,’ for which unusual curative powers are 
claimed. Two or three years ago we spoke very favor- 
ably of this Treatment. Since then we have had large 
opportunity for observing its effects, as well in our own 
case as in that of others, and can now speak of it with 
even greater confidence than before. One of the marked 
effects attendant on this Treatment is an increase of 
healthy action in the whole system, every part of which 
seems to respond to the influx of a new life. We found 
this especially so in our own case, and in that of many 
others with whom we have conversed. 
“ THE COMPOUND OXYGEN TREATMENT. 
“ Nearly five years have passed since we began using 
this Treatment. Up to that period our health had been 
steadily declining; not in consequence of any organic 
disease, hut from overwork and consequent physical and 
nervous exhaustion. The very weight of the body had 
become tiresome to bear, and we regarded our days of 
earnest literary work as gone forever. But almost from 
the very beginning of our use of the Compound Oxygen 
an improvement began. There was a sense of physical 
comfort and vitality not felt for years; and this slowly 
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within a few months, the mind acting with new vigor, 
and the body free from the old sense of weariness and 
exhaustion. A better digestion, an almost entire free- 
dom from severe attacks of nervous headache, from 
which we had suffered for twenty years, and from a 
liability to take cold on the least exposure, were the 
results of the first year’s use of the new Treatment; and 
this benefit has remained permanent. As to literary 
work in these five years, we can only say that it has been 
constant and earnest; and if its acceptance with the 
public may be regarded as any test of its quality, it is 
far the best work we have done. 
“So much for the results of the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment in our own case; and we give it for the 
benefit of any and all who, in despair of old curative 
agencies, are looking anxiously for relief in some new 
direction.” 
I trust that the interest which attaches to 
the following case will be my excuse for the 
minuteness of detail with which it is reported, 
I would hardly risk my character for ve- 
racity by publishing it, were the person’s 
parents not ready to attest to the truthful- 
ness of the statements. 
A few weeks ago, while standing in my office door, 
cogitating which direction to take, I was conscious that 
a woman, in the morning of life, was coming down the 
street, leading a romping child about two years old. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
179 
To my surprise, she turned towards my door, and, with 
an amused smile, accosted me. Of course, such a more 
than civil salutation must he answered. “ You don’t 
know me, then!” she said. Slightly embarrassed hy 
being taken at a disadvantage, I replied, “ I beg your 
pardon; no.” A little triumphant laugh was her're- 
sponse. This betrayed her. “ Can this be Mrs. Kelley ?” 
“ Yes, this is Mrs. Kelley.” Now for the story. 
Mrs. Kelley is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. 
Jacob Ilombrook, of Wheeling, W.Ya. In September, 
1873, the parents brought her on a bed to Philadelphia. 
A completer wreck can scarcely be conceived. A piti- 
able victim, whose zeal in a prolonged work of philan- 
thropy outran her strength, if not her judgment! 
During the war she was a Florence Nightingale, pay- 
mistress to the wives and families of the State soldiers, 
and right-hand man to her father, whose gratuitous 
services in the army carried him to death’s door three 
several times. 
By dint of unremitting care and the use of every 
means that wealth could procure, including a long 
European voyage, she had nearly recovered from a 
most severe illness, immediately after the war. Fifteen 
months before her advent in this city she was again 
violently attacked, and the already weakened frame 
completely succumbed. The first shock caused a pro- 
fuse hemorrhage from the lungs, although they were 
not diseased. Fearful convulsions, each seemingly 
enough to end her life, set in and followed her at inter- 
vals of two or three weeks during the whole time. 
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feet. She could neither move a muscle nor experience 
a sensation in the lower half of the body. The upper 
half was the seat of dreadful neuralgic pains, almost 
without cessation; but the oft-recurring paroxysms, 
especially when the heart was involved, which was far 
from seldom, were excruciating beyond description. 
She was emaciated almost to a skeleton, and could 
scarcely raise an eyelid or utter a whisper. 
Such was the invalid, brought hundreds of miles, 
upon which I was to try the virtues of the Compound 
Oxygen. Her physician, by whose advice she was 
brought here, told them that she could live but a few 
weeks longer without more help than any medicine 
could afford. He warned them, however, that, with 
the most favorable results, there would be no perceptible 
improvement short of one year. 
I confess to feeling guilty of the sin of presumption 
when I gave her the first inhalation ; but I was not so 
daring as to hold out to them the least hope of success. 
The progress must be rapidly sketched. She has 
never had a convulsion since the first inhalation. In 
three weeks she gave up all her tonics, anodynes, stimu- 
lants and all other drugs. In three months the neu- 
ralgia had entirely disappeared, except at rare intervals. 
At the end of five months she could stand, by being 
steadied upon her feet, which she could move a little 
on the floor. About this time she had a serious set- 
back, owing to a severe illness of her mother, who was 
her only nurse. 
At the end of eight months she went to the sea-shore, 
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and do a little very clumsy walking, if supported at 
her shoulders. The treatment was then suspended ; as 
I supposed the invigorating sea air would carry on the 
cure. She was most favorably situated, took warm 
sea-water baths, was cheerful, and had a good appe- 
tite. 
This regime, continued for six weeks, failed to pro- 
duce any appreciable change. She then took the Home 
Treatment; and the next eight weeks terminated the 
year. 
She hardly considered herself longer an invalid. 
She could walk, by occasionally resting her hand upon 
articles of furniture as she passed, many yards on a 
level floor, and was often the life of her little coterie of 
friends. She then returned to the city and virtually 
stopped treatment. In November, she could walk to 
and from church, go shopping and mount stairs like 
other people. 
The following February, while at Washington, I re- 
received from her the intelligence that she was about 
to be married to Captain Kelley; and with it an invi- 
tation to be present at the wedding. 
A noted member of Congress was in my offi.ce at the 
time, to whom her father had related something of her 
case. To some, who observed his surprise at the an- 
nouncement, he exclaimed; “ I have never read such 
a case outside of the New Testament!” 
In due time she took her baby and went traveling 
through the South, visiting and astonishing her friends. 
And that is the little lady to whom I was introduced 
when her mother met me at the office door. 182 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
But the country owes to Compound Oxy- 
gen a tribute of gratitude, at least. To pro- 
long for years the active usefulness of such a 
life as that of the Hon. William D. Kelley is 
a feat which may well call for honorable 
mention by a people whom he has so bril- 
liantly and so faithfully served as a public 
man. 
It is with no little pride that I here record 
his graceful and hearty acknowledgment of 
services rendered in his case : 
[copy.] 
West Philadelphia, June 6, 1877. 
Dr. G. E. 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 appar- 
ently 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 
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that I am not conscious of having discharged any 
blood for more than a year; and that my cough, the 
severity of which made me a frequent object of sym- 
pathy, has disappeared. 
In short, my experience under your treatment has 
convinced me that no future dispensatory will be com- 
plete that does not embrace the administration, 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, 
Wm. I). Kelley. 
The following letter is from the wife of 
one of the first lawyers in Ohio. It is of 
unusual interest—First, as a confirmation of 
the great curative power of the Home Teeat- 
ment. Can there be found in the whole 
realm of medical literature two other cases 
in which a genuine curative agent has pro- 
duced results so nearly magical as in Annie’s 
case and that of little ISTellie Holcomb (see 
Feb. Bulletin, p. 4). Second, it is very 
strongly confirmatory of the claim set up, 
that the Compound Oxygen is a vitalized. 184 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Not only is it apparent in the remarkable 
physical development of the child, but also 
(which Mrs. Niles, through inadvertence un- 
doubtedly, omitted to state) in her mental 
development. She did not articulate a syl- 
lable until she had taken the Compound 
Oxygen two or three weeks. This might 
have been a coincidence. But she did not 
put words together till she began to take the 
office treatment. And then the rapidity of 
her progress in the ability to express ideas, 
and in a variety of mental manifestations, 
was remarked by all who were with her. 
Übbana, Ohio, June 19, 1877. 
Dr. G. E. Starkey : 
[copy.] 
Dear Sir:—How mucli to tell you about Annie I do 
not know. Her birth, as you know, was premature ;to 
which circumstance, I suppose, her weakness is due, as 
my other children were all well and strong. 
When she was nine months old she could not hold 
her head up at all. Each summer I carried her to 
the lake shore, where the change of air would have a 
decided effect upon her for a time. The first summer, 
after haying change of air for a week, she held her 
head up. The next summer she sat alone upon the 
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old, she moved for the first time—a kind of pushing 01 
sliding on the floor—and also for the first time held 
anything in her hand. The next summer I did not 
take her away. The next, when she was four and a 
lialf years old, I determined to take her to the sea- 
shore. 
Previous to this time she had very severe spells of 
illness; one prolonged spell of dysentery and measles 
when she was two years old, which left her with dis- 
ease of the kidneys of a most severe type. Although 
she was cared for by a skillful physician, from her 
general want of vigor, disease did not seem to yield. 
A summer at the sea-shore so far strengthened her 
that she bore her weight upon her feet, and when she 
came home could draw herself up by the bed or any 
strong thing and stand for a moment. She soon began 
to lose this strength, however, and by December could 
no longer stand. 
In February she was attacked with scarlet fever, and 
was severely ill. A little before this time I had heard 
of the Compound Oxygen through a friend in Wash- 
ington, and was preparing to take her there for treat- 
ment. 
As she was recovering from the fever she had a large 
abscess upon her neck, which broke. This was fol- 
lowed by another and larger one on the side of the 
throat and under her ear. She took medicine con- 
stantly for it, but it kept increasing in size, and finally 
exhibited ten red spots. 
At this point of time I tried to have her inhale some 
of the Home Treatment, which had been sent to me, 186 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
without much hope that she could do it. One inhala- 
tion caused the redness to disappear. The next one 
caused the swelling to disappear. Her recovery was 
more rapid than I had ever seen from much less severe 
sicknesses. This determined me to put her under the 
Oxygen Treatment. 
During the very warm weather of 1876 I took her 
again to the sea-shore, and about the middle of Sep- 
tember to Dr. Starkey, where she remained until 
the first of November. 
From the first moment almost of her treatment under 
the Oxygen the change was marked, first causing her 
to be quite sick, and then going steadily on. 
For the first year in her life she has escaped violent 
colds lasting the entire winter. She can now, June, 
1877, walk with the least support of the hand, not 
firmly, of course ,• for although in weight and size she is 
what she should be, her feet and ankles are small and 
weak fi'om want of use. They are now, however, 
growing rapidly. 
After all the Oxygen lias done for Annie I would 
shout its name high as the heavens, if it would but 
reach the ear of all the afflicted. 
.(Signed,) 
Gertrude James Niles. 
“Compound Oxygen.—We desire to call attention 
to the announcement of Drs. Starkey and Palen in 
another column. The Compound Oxygen which they 
administer we know to be a most valuable curative 
[From The Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia, July G, 1877.] COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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agent, and are personally acquainted with some re- 
markable restorations to health which it lias effected. 
In one instance, a young lady of our acquaintance, 
entirely disabled by paralysis, was restored to good 
health, and is now married and a happy mother of a 
family. For pulmonary diseases, and especiallyfcr 
nervous exhaustion from overwork, we regard the treat- 
ment of the greatest value. We have been much 
benefited by its occasional use during the past few 
years, and take pleasure in commending it to all who 
may need it.” 
It JIEUMATISW. 
It is remarked that in former issues we 
have omitted to mention the efficacy of Com- 
pound Oxygen in this troublesome and de- 
moralizing disease. The truth is, we have 
made not a few brilliant cures of Rheuma- 
tism, for which we have received our due 
meed of reward and gratitude. Bat there 
are many cases presented to us, to undertake 
which we have no courage. 
These are of so long standing that the 
tissues have undergone a change; so many 
violent measures have been used the whole 
system is deranged, and the vitality reduced 
to a low ebb. A cure in such a case would 188 
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be tantamount to a physical regeneration of 
the man. But in recent cases of Rheumatism 
we are ready to risk our reputation as healers 
of the sick upon the result of our Treatment. 
FAMAITSIS. 
Our success in a number of marked cases 
in this affection warrants us in promising 
greater results in all recent cases, not pro- 
duced by destruction of nerve-tissue, than 
can be hoped for from all other known 
methods of cure. 
We have treated, with very marked suc- 
cess, Diabetes, Enlargement of the Prostate, 
and other serious diseases of the bladder and 
other of these organs. 
URJXAMY OROAXS. 
OX TG MX AQUA. 
What have four years developed concern- 
ing the virtues of Oxygenaquaf Enough to 
j>rove that, could it be substituted for all the 
“proprietary medicines” in vogue, the good COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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that would redound to the human race can- 
not be estimated. 
The first blessing—and that an immense 
one—would be negative; people would not 
be destroying their health and lives at such 
a rapid pace. Very many seem to have a 
mania for swallowing drugs; and the bigger 
and more nauseous the dose, the better satis- 
fied are the victims. Each and every article 
of the kind makes the invalid worse, as a 
rule, and he flies to something else to antidote 
the effect of it. His fate is not unlike that 
of the man who trusts himself to the waters 
of the rapids above Niagara. 
But the positive blessings are as much 
greater than the negative as something is 
greater than nothing; and that is indefinite. 
There are families who have been testing its 
qualities for five years, who could not be 
persuaded to be without Oxygenaqua. Every 
week develops some new curative power. Be- 
ing entirely free from drugs and alcoholic 
liquors, it is indeed harmless; yet it needs 
but a fair trial in the following-named affec- 
tions to convince one of its wonderful power 190 
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for good. These affections are mainly dis- 
eases of the digestive organs, and are—Indi- 
gestion, Diarrhoea, Dyspepsia, Dysentery, 
Cholera Infantum, Cholera Morbus and 
habitual Constipation. 
Those who have used it most have volun- 
teered to declare that it comes nearer being a 
Panacea than all the remedies ever con- 
cocted. Very many of the ills 10 which 
members of families are ordinarily liable are 
promptly met by a few small doses of it, and 
thus many cases of severe sickness are met in 
the outset, and the threatened calamities 
averted. In this way are warded off Bilious 
attacks, Fevers of various kinds, the large 
variety of Bowel Complaints, Influenzas, Ca- 
tarrhs and the many forms of Indigestion. 
What is surprising, many painful disorders, 
some kinds of which baffle the efforts of phy- 
sicians for years, have yielded to the action 
of Oxygenaqua; such as Neuralgia, Nervous 
Headache, acute Rheumatism and similar 
ailments. But that which is more surprising 
still is the power it exhibits in local appli- 
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which it touches. Hence, as a dressing for 
injuries of all kinds it has no equal. It has 
an almost magical effect upon Bruises, Burns, 
Inflamed and Ulcerated surfaces, but espe- 
cially Bleeding Wounds. Indeed, some very 
severe Chronic Affections have been cured by 
Oxygenaqua alone. There is strong pre- 
sumptive evidence that two cases of genuine 
Pulmonary Consumption have been cured 
by it. 
It is enough to say, further, that any 
family who gives it a fair trial will not be 
content to be without it, because the acute 
ailments which will not promptly yield to 
its administration call for the services of a 
skilled physician. IMITATIONS. 
We need no stronger proof of the genuine virtues of 
the Compound Oxygen than the many imitations of it, 
under different suggestive names, which are being foisted 
upon the public. Some of their proprietors will tell you 
that they dispense the same agent as the Compound Oxy- 
gen, and that they are the originators of it. Every such 
statement is a falsehood, pure and unadulterated. Some, 
that their agent is superior to the Compound Oxygen. 
We dare them to the proof that it is not vastly inferior. 
We sincerely doubt if there be, even by accident, a par- 
ticle of oxygen, in •any state to be available as oxygen. in 
any of their decoctions. And we humbly suggest that, 
if they will leave out of their preparations Alcohol, 
Balsam of Peru and Chloroform, they will hardly grow 
rich upon the sales of their decoctions. That they add 
some other medicament, which in very exceptional cases 
will do good, is probable. Not a few cures have been 
known to follow the administration of the celebrated 
“ Brown-Bread Pills." 
The first undersigned has for eight years made the 
treatment of diseases by the administration of the Com- 
192 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
193 
pound Oxygen a specialty. . He has devoted himself 
during that time almost exclusively to the elucidation of 
the principles governing its curative action—its practical 
application, and the development of its resources. The 
results are set forth in this and his other several publica ■ 
tions, and in the restored health of hundreds—nay, thou- 
sands—in various parts of the country. Sis principal 
work is a Brochure of one hundred and forty pages, 
which has received numerous flattering notices from the 
intelligent, both in and out of the profession. It will he 
sent free, when ordered. 
Headers of the current medical literature cannot fail 
of being struck with the numerous instances in which its 
writers speak in very strong terms of the curative virtues 
of oxygen. And it must he remembered that these en- 
comiums arc made upon simple oxygen, an agent very 
inferior to the Compound Oxygen. But the labor and 
skill required to manipulate this Agent deters almost 
every responsible physician from using it. 
To show what class of persons are patronizing this 
treatment, we are permitted, by themselves, to refer to 
lion. S. Field, Judge of United States Supreme Court, 
and his accomplished ivife; Mrs. Haitit Kilburn ; 
Judge Samuel Smith, New YorJt; Hon. Montgomery 
lilair; Ex-Governor Foreman, West Virginia ; Hon. 
William JO. Kelley; T. S. Arthur; Gen, Fits Henry 
Warren, and many more of scarcely less note. 194 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
TIEOR/IMIS. 
OFFICE TREATMENT. 
In this the patients are under the daily personal atten- 
tion of the subscribers; and the Agent used is a genuine 
Gas, generated under their own supervision. Fee for 
this Treatment, $30.00 per month, payable in advance. 
HOME THE A TMENT. 
This may be safely sent any distance, in small, com- 
pact packages. Price for two months’ supply, with 
apparatus and explicit directions, $15.00. lent by Ex- 
press, C. 0. D. and expressage for delivering the money, 
or on receipt of P. 0. money-order, or draft. 
OXYGEN AQUA. 
This is the last development; is sold in eight-ounce 
and in sixteen-ounce bottles. Price, 75 cents and $l.OO 
per bottle. A discount for quantities, not less than six 
bottles. 
STARKEY & PALEN, 
G. R. Starkey, A.M., M.D. 
G. E. Palek, Ph.B., M.D. 
1112 Girard St., Philadelphia. 195 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
The following testimonial is kindly fur- 
nished since the Brochure went to press. If 
there be another cure of that disease on 
record, we do not know what book contains 
it. 
Philadelphia, November 17, 1877. 
Dr. G. R. Starkey : 
Dear Sir:—In accordance with the request for me to 
give you an account of my peculiar case for publication, 
I, with much pleasure, make the following statement. 
I had, for several years, been suffering from an en- 
largement of the prostrate gland without knowing the 
cause of my illness, when in July, 1876, the enlarge- 
ment had so increased as to entirely close the urinary 
canal (which was revealed by the critical examination 
to which you subjected me) and consequently, the pas- 
sage could only be opened by the use of the catheter. 
As the gland was greatly enlarged the introduction of 
the instrument was very difficult and attended with con- 
siderable pain; and the painfulness was increased by 
the fact that there was much soreness, not only in the 
perinseum but in also in the groin and the lower part of 
the abdomen. 
As you remember, you put me under the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment and I began to improve, although 
the catheter had to be constantly used; but then I made 
known to you the fact that the right spermatic cord had 
been injured by a fall several years before and was at 
this time swollen and sore, and that the left cord was 196 
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sympathetically affected, and that parts connected with 
the cords were enlarged to several times their natural 
size and very sore. You, in addition to the “Compound 
Oxygen Treatment,” directed the frequent bathing of 
these affected parts with your “Oxygen Water,” and 
very soon a radical change was effected, not only in re- 
ducing the swelling of these parts, but also in diminish- 
ing their soreness. The enlargement of the prostrate 
gland was reduced simultaneously with the reduction of 
the swelling of the spermatic cords and parts connected 
therewith, and consequently, from the commencement 
of this change the use of the catheter could be partly 
dispensed with, and within a short time (say two or 
three weeks) I had no further use for it, and I have had 
no occasion to use it since, the urinary passage always, 
remaining open. 
As the use of the “Oxygen Water” was not adopted 
until some time after the commencement of the treat- 
ment of the case, the constant use of the catheter had 
to be continued much longer than would otherwise have 
been necessary; and (if my memory is correct) the in- 
strument was used nearly three weeks before it could 
be partly dispensed with. By this time I was greatly 
reduced in flesh and strength. I began to recover 
slowly from my illness from the time the catheter was 
but partly used, and when its use was entirely dispensed 
with I recovered rapidly, until my health was entirely 
restored. 
My case seems to be a very remarkable one, when we 
take into consideration the character of my illness and 
the shortness of time in which the recovery from it was COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
197 
effected and also the fact that although I am seventy- 
three years old, I am now, after having passed through 
such illness, apparently in as good health as I was ten 
years ago. 
I do not wish to be understood as underestimating 
the efficacy of the “ Compound Oxygen Treatment,” as 
I think my speedy and effectual recovery was, in a 
great measure, due to its internal action, while the 
“Oxygen Water” did its important work as a prepara- 
tion for the healing operation, which must be from 
within. 
Very truly yours, 
STEPHEN USTICK, 
No. 134 South Fourth Street, Phila. ustddeex- 
PAGE 
Acute diseases, definition of. 47 
“ Compound Oxygen in 47 
“ a case of. The author’s son 48 
Arthur, T. S., from his Home Magazine 159 
Author’s Family, effects of Compound Oxygen in 138 
Body, causes and effects in the 87 
Breathing capacity the measure of ability 25 
Bulletin for 1873 141 
“ New Century 168 
Business men and women, how benefited 23 
Catarrh, extensive case of 182 
Clinical records, genuine 56, 87 
“ Case 1., a seven years’ illness cured in four 
weeks 95 
“ “ 11., anemia, a wonderful cure 97 
“ “ 111., ozsena, cured in eight weeks 102 
“ “ IV., paralysis, neuralgia and dropsy 104 
“ “ V., broken-down constitution 106 
“ “ VI., facial paralysis and threatened apo- 
plexy 107 
“ “ VII., fatty degeneration of the heart 108 
“ “ VIII., acute case of gastritis 110 
“ “ IX., consumption cured in four weeks 114 
“ “ X., spermatorrhea 116 
Compound Oxygen, action of, upon the Sympathetic 
nerve 85 
Compound Oxygen, can one take too much? 89 
“ “ constituent elements of. 5 
“ “ history of. 6 
“ “ how it acts curatively 7 
“ “ modus operand! of. 32 
“ “ not a medication 18 
“ “ Treatment, are objections against its 
use valid? 58 
“ “ “ exclusiveness of. 92 
“ “ “ secresy of. 92 200 
INDEX. 
PAGE 
Compound Oxygen Treatment, general effects of 19 
“ “ “ diseases amenable to 13 
“ “ “ in acute diseases 47 
“ “ “ catarrhs 42 
“ “ “ diabetes 14 
“ “ “ dyspepsia 14 
“ “ “ diseases peculiar to 
women 15 
“ “ “ kidney diseases 16 
“ “ “ liver complaint 15 
“ “ “ nervous derangement 16 
“ “ “ ozsena „ 42 
“ “ “ paralysis 17 
“ “ “ pulmonary diseases 13 
“ " “ scrofula 17 
“ “ “ sick-headaches 42 
“ “ “ spermatorrhea 14, 45 
“ “ increases the original 
vital force 25 
“ “ “ not a cure-all 25 
“ “ “ permanent effects of. 18, 32 
“ “ produces no harm 21 
“ “ “ safety in the use of. 58 
“ “ “ shall it be tried? 56 
Consumption, admissibility of the Compound Oxygen in 82 
“ can be cured 72 
“ cured, W. M. Claflin 173 
“ “ H. G. Jacobs 174 
“ fatal progress of 82 
“ Incurable stage of. 81 
“ insidious approach of. 72 
“ practical lessons concerning 73 
“ “seated,” or “confirmed”...., 80 
“ statistics of 71 
“ symptoms, premonitory, of 76 
Consumptives, a word to 71, 171 
“ cautionary suggestions to.. 81 
Convalescence, Compound Oxygen in cases of. 24 
Convalescenls, an important word to 175 
Cures are both genuine and permanent 32 INDEX. 
PAGE 
Drugging, fearful effects of- . 55 
“ leads often to alcoholism 56 
Enthusiasm on Compound Oxygen 165 
Frauds, caution against 138 
Galvanic Batteries, the brain and other nervous 
centres 36 
Health-Seekers, a word to 53 
Holcomb, Nellie’s wonderful cure . 147 
Home Treatment 50 
“ “ a substitute for drugs, in families 88 
“ “ caution while taking it 91 
“ “ directions for obtaining 140 
“ “ problem to be solved concerning 51 
“ “ sensation while taking it 91 
“ “ wonderful improvement in 52 
Home, the folly of leaving, in search of health 169 
Hombrook, Miss Indana, remarkable case 178 
Imitations, caution against 192 
Inhalation,, a health-producing exercise 26 
Kelley, Hon. Wm. D’s case 182 
Magnetic action of the Compound Oxygen 34 
Niles, Annie, her remarkable case 183 
Objections to using the Compound Oxygen, are they 
valid? 58 
“ “ the treatment by physicians 60 
“ “ price of treatment 59 
Office treatment to be recommended 139 
Oxygen, curative power of, long ago suspected 4 
“ discovery of 3 
“ eliminator of poisons 10 
“ the greatest blood purifier 8 
“ the natural stimulus of the lungs 27 
Oxygenaqua, cures by . 145 
“ Dr. S. of N. J 165 
“ Dr. T. S. Williams on 165 
“ exposition of 163, 188 
“ external applications of. 191 
Paralysis and severe complications, cured 178 
Patients, a word to, in general 
“ do not get well at uniform 65 202 
INDEX. 
PAGE 
Patients get well in a reverse order of getting sick 66 
“ may have discomforts while doing well 67 
“ often presume on their improvement 69 
“ should not expect miracles 64 
“ should specify their general ailments 88 
Permanency of results * 156 
Physicians, words of cheer from 143 
Reference, important names of. 193 
Rheumatism 187 
Singers, to be benefited by the Compound Oxygen 28 
Sympathetic system of nerves, Compound Oxygen action 
on 35 
Terms and Fees 194 
Testimonials absolutely genuine 56, 87 
Testimonial concerning asthma. Mrs. I. N. Gregory 135 
“ “ “ Mrs. Anna Lufkins.... 153 
“ “ consumption, Rev. D. W. Chase 
“ “ “ Mrs. Batchelder. 131 
“ " “ effects of four 
weeks’ treatment in 134 
“ “ dyspepsia of twenty years’ 
standing 117 
« “ heart disease 119 
“ “ lung disease, S. M. Morris 150 
“ “ prostate, enlargement of cured, 
S. Ustick 195 
“ “ pneumonia, remarkable case.... 121 
“ “ ozama 133 
“ “ spinal disease 128 
“ of Cutter, F. A., M. D 120 
“ of Gardiner, R., M. D 123 
“ of another M.D 151 
“ confirming clinical case II 155 
“ of Hickok, H. C., Ex-Superintendent Com- 
mon Schools of Pennsylvania 137 
“ of a Massachusetts clergyman 124 
“ of a New York lady 132 
Urinary Organs, diseases of. 188 
Variety of diseases amenable to Compound Oxygen 40 
Vitalizing power of Compound Oxygen 183 Kind Reader: 
Should this little treatise hold out any 
promise of relief to you, rest assured that 
it will be fulfilled to the letter if you properly 
avail yourself of the virtues of the Oxygen 
Treatment. 
But if it hold out no such promise because 
you need no relief, at least please to earn for 
yourself a blessing by passing it to some 
neighbor less favored than you in the goods 
of physical health. 
STARKEY & PALEN. 
Office Houes feom 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.