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PHIIiADELPHIA. -  THE 
Compound Oxygen 
TREATMENT, 
ITS MODE OF ACTION AND RESULTS. 
BY 
G. R. Starkey, A. M., M. D. 
NEW AND REVISED EDITION 
STARKEY & PALEN, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
1529 Arch Street, Copyrighted 1861, 
Dhs. Starkey & Palen. 
PRESS OP DUNLAP A CLARKE, 
•19 A 821 FILBERT ST. 
PHILADELPHIA. PREFACE. 
The first edition c this Brochure was issued in March, 
1870, and comprised thirty pages. During the seven years 
following it was enlarged four different times, simply by 
adding to its pages, until they numbered two hundred and 
twenty. This necessarily gave to the later editions a patch- 
work appearance; and yet the method seemed called for, 
fn order to record the growth and development of our sys- 
tem of treating chronic diseases. 
The time has arrived in which it appears to be proper and 
desirable to present the contents of the several instalments 
in a more homogeneous form; and thns, by the aid of our 
best thoughts—because the maturest—to render it more 
worthy of permanency. 
The principles herein promulgated, and the record of 
practical proofs of their soundness, leave little more to be 
desired in this direction. Our quarterly periodical “ Health 
and Life,” will contain the history of progress in the work 
of dispensing the virtues of Compound Oxygen. 
With a due sense and acknowledgment of our stewardship, 
we respond to the many expressions which comes to us of 
“ thankfulness that we are the medium of so great a boon 
to our fellow-men.” 
G. E.S. 
January, 1881. Compound Oxygen 
EXPOSITION. 
YGEN, as a distinct element, was discovered nearly 
one hundred years ago by Dr. Priestly. He learned 
that it was one of the constituent elements of the 
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air we breathe, comprising one-fifth part of the whole 
Y|> 7 atmosphere. He learned, too, that it constitutes that 
<s> part of the atmosphere which enables all air-breath- 
ing animals to live. Hence, he named it Vital Air; and by 
this name alone was it known for years. 
Knowing, as they did, that life can be preserved but a 
very few minutes without a due supply of oxygen, philoso- 
phers and physicians naturally enough came to think that 
oxygen ought to restore men to a full state of vitality, in case 
it had been partly lost by disease. 
For many years this conviction has been so strong that 
experiments by hundreds have been made to use oxygen as 
a curative agent. But the result hitherto has been so unsuc- 
cessful 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 as to the 
power of oxygen to cure disease, and he will tell you—honestly, 
too—tliat it has been tried faithfully over and again, and 
been found wanting. 4 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
And it is true that its use in an uncomomed state didv 
and probably always will, disappoint wbat would seem to be 
a reasonable expectation of its results. So, too, has a mixture 
of B with common air in various proportions failed to pro- 
duce the healing effects which have been looked for with so 
much hope. 
But it can now be demonstrated that all these strong con- 
victions, that oxygen ought to prove an inestimable boon to 
the millions who are suffering from disease, had their foun- 
dation in truth. 
What, then, is Compound Oxygen ? It is a combination 
of oxygen and nitrogen, the two elements which make up 
common or atmospheric air, in such proportion as to render 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 laughing gasand it differs essen- 
tially from all substances used in medical inhalations. It con- 
tains no medicament, unless the elements of pure air are medi- 
cines ; and its administration 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 prepara- 
tions of them have failed ? This shall be answered further 
on: but interesting as this question is, there is another of 
much greater interest, practically: Does it cure better than 
any other known agent f To answer this in the affirmative, 
thousands stand ready and willing. 
The brief history of this agent is as follows: To a New 
England physician is due the credit of the discovery or inven- 
tion of this particular combination of oxygen and nitrogen, and COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
of developing it into a practical, safe and powerfully curative 
agent: and this after a long and laborious scientific research. 
Having suflered from an attack of pneumonia which came 
very near proving fatal, he found his convalescence so slow 
and imperfect as to oblige him to relinquish his general prac- 
tice 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 recov- 
ering his former soundness of lungs, he thought to make 
available his scientific knowledge—particularly that of chem- 
istry. Like hundreds 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 who had failed to win the reward, he had a dearer 
interest in the success of his labors than the 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 successes of European savants, he entered upon his 
researches. The crown of all these efforts wras 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 of one hundred and ninety 
pounds. SOME PROPERTIES PECULIAR TO 
OXYGEN. 
cAo 
XYGEN is the most nearly universal element in the 
1 W globe. For a long time it was an unsolved problem— 
cS'-pl? how to produce an Oxygen vacuum; that is, a space 
from which all the oxygen would be entirely expelled. 
Wf It may be done as follows: Iron and steel, when 
<s> heated to redness, absorb oxygen with avidity; hence, 
articles made of this metal and polished, immediately lose 
their lustre when heated to redness. (The practical applica- 
tion of this knowledge is seen in the management of stoves 
and furnaces. In many of these the coal is contained in cast- 
iron cylinders. Now, if these cylinders are allowed to remain 
at red-heat, they abstract such an amount of oxygen from the 
air as to make it unfit for respiration. People perceive this 
condition readily enough, and attribute it to a lack of moisture 
in the air—which is a dangerous mistake. The remedy is in 
having the coal-chamber large enough to get the required 
amount of heat, while the coal is burning at a comparatively 
low temperature.) 
Experiment; Take a gun-barrel with the breech-vent 
closely sealed, put the breech end into the fire and heat six 
inches of it to redness. The oxygen of the air within the 
heated chamber is immediately absorbed. More oxygen 
rushes in inrough the muzzle to take its place. But there 
will be a portion of the heated chamber near the breech 
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which will be deprived of oxygen; because it will be all 
absorbed by the walls of the chamber nearer the muzzle. In 
the deepest part of the chamber, therefore, there will be a 
VACUUM of oxygen. , The inside of the walls of that part of 
the chamber will not oxydize. Pieces of polished steel thrown 
into it will not tarnish, although heated to redness. Advan- 
tage is taken of this vacuum of oxygen to heat needles, awls, 
and other small polished articles, for the purpose of “ temper- 
ing” them. 
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Oxygen, as we see, is the more nearly universal in its pres- 
ence than any other element in the world. It combines with 
a greater number of elements than any other. While it is the 
life-giving principle of the atmosphere, it is the most potent 
and unwearied agent in the disintegration of material sub' 
stances. 
These are some of the many interesting properties of crude 
oxygen. The study of it in any elementary treatise on chem- 
istry will well repay the most casual reader. But we must 
hasten to repeat, and further consider the question: 
What is Compound Oxygen? 
It is difficult to declare just what our ‘''Compound Oxygen" 
is. That it contains the elements of the atmosphere we can 
prove to any one capable of appreciating the value of chemi- 
cal tests. 
This is truly a compound of oxygen and other elements. 
Hence the name of “Compound Oxygen” is a proper epi- 
thet to apply to it; somewhat abbreviated for convenience. 
But it is more than simply a compound of oxygen and 
nitrogen. In the atmosphere, these elements exist in the 
proportion of one of oxygen to five of nitrogen; and the com- 
bination of them is that known as “mechanical mixture;” 8 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
and so, neither element is changed by being mixed with the 
other. 
In the Compound Oxygen the proportion of the elements 
is so altered that the oxygen is greatly in excess. And in 
the manufacture of it, the oxygen is magnetized; which gives 
to it the quality known by scientists as “ Ozone.” That this 
is so, can also be proved by applying the well-recognized test* 
of ozone to the contents of our gasometer. • 
The change that is thus wrought in the mixture of oxygen 
and nitrogen is almost too great to be believed. By virtue of 
its being magnetized, its activity is enhanced many fold. But 
this is not all, nor the principal change. From being the 
almost insoluble element that crude oxygen is, the “ Com- 
pound” is rendered very soluble. Water will take up several 
times its own volume, simply by their being brought into 
contact with each other. 
How Does Oxygen Act Curatively? 
Why some substances act as emetics and others as cathar- 
tics, diuretics, diaphoretics, tonics, 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 action, a specific or al- 
terative action w'hich distinguishes it from every other sub- 
stance in its class. So also we may not know how oxygen 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. 
To teach exhaustively the modes by which this agent acts 
in the work of restoring a diseased body to health, would re- 
quire an intimate knowledge of the human body in health COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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and in disease, and of all the collateral sciences taught in our 
medical colleges; nor would that suffice. 
We must be content with the effort to state it very gener- 
ally, and in as few words as possible, compatible with clear- 
ness of expression. Compound Oxygen acts curatively in 
three general and distinct modes, which we will consider 
separately; and first, 
Its Mechanical Action. 
The most obvious function of the lungs is to take into them- 
selves a volume of atmospheric air, and directly to expel it. 
This process, which is constantly going on during the whole 
of our conscious lives, is respiration, or breathing. The lungs 
are made up in part of multitudes of little cells, which are 
formed to receive the air. In a normal (natural) state of 
things, each one of these cells receives its due share of air; 
and this is necessary to the integrity, or best welfare, of the 
body. 
But in our artificial mode of life, this condition of the lungs 
is almost an impossibility. Vicious attitudes of the body 
contracted into habits, breathing the air of ill-ventilated 
apartments, and especially the limited motion of the walls of 
the chest during respiration, occasioned by too tightly-fitting 
apparel, all conspire to prevent a large portion of these air- 
cells from performing their function-—that of receiving and 
expelling the air. Under these circumstances the air-cells 
farthest from the centre soon close up, on the well-known 
principle—that all parts of the body, when prevented from 
performing their functions, lose the power to perform them; 
this closing up, or collapsing, of the extreme air-cells is 
gradually transferred to the next interior series, and so oq 
indefinitely. 10 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
During ordinary respiration, one of the forces that keeps 
the air-cells in working order, is a mechanical one, viz., the 
alternate ingress and egress of the air. But ordinary respi- 
ration does not prevent the collapsing of the air-cells from 
going on; much less will it open those that are collapsed 
Now, in a large majority of diseases, a cure is very diffi- 
cult, unless we use some force to reclaim the lost function of 
these collapsed air-cells. 
The Compound Oxygen presents two modes of action by 
which this reclamation is facilitated, mechanically. One is 
by the frequent practice of forcible inspiration and expira- 
tion. Hence, Dr. S. S. Fitch and others make great account 
of this practice as an adjuvant in their treatment. And some 
gravely claim to have cured cases of phthisis by that means 
alone. But the efficacy of this forcible respiration is greatly 
increased—even as a mechanical force—when the substance 
inhaled is much richer in oxygen. 
The lungs and oxygen are by creation fitted for a wonder- 
ful adaptation to each other. The relation between them is 
that between a principal cause and its instrumental cause. 
Hence the particles of oxygen insinuate themselves into their 
natural recepticles—the air-cells—more than any other sub- 
stance. 
Important as the action of Compound Oxygen is upon this 
plane, it is quite subordinate to 
Its Chemical Action. 
When we breathe ordinarily we inhale a certain quantity 
of atmospheric air, and immediately 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, 
pearly all the oxygen, is absorbed into the system. Now, COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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whatever else this vital element may do in the body, it per- 
forms 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 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 did in the oppo- 
site 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 impuri- 
ties, 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 bountiful sup- 
ply 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 our well-being. Setting aside the first effect of 12 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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 purified 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 ail healthy action, but they be- 
come poisonous in their character; and if they accumulate 
beyond a certain amount, they cause “blood-poisoned” dis- 
eases, such as typhoid, jail and putrid fevers. Our bodies 
being, in consequence, diseased, overcharged with worn-out 
tissues of the body, require the aid of artificial 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 re- 
move the carbonaceous 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 re- 
mover of those matters ? 
The blood, coming in contact with the overplus of oxygen, 
seizes it with avidity, and in about four minutes has dis- 
tributed a part of it to every portion of the body. By this 
means every organ has received a new installment of vigor 
and life. At the same time a larger proportion of worn-out 
tissue is dissolved and removed. This, of course, liberates 
the oppressed vital actions (already invigorated) by remov- 
ing those obstructions, and creates the sensation of a void, a 
want of something to fill the places of the substances removed, 
which is felt as an appetite. With their vigor renewed, the COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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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 install- 
ment 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 re- 
newed and vigorous action and reaction, elimination and 
assimilation, each assisting the other in ridding the system 
of health-destroying debris, and storing up health-giving 
energy. 
All tills would take place from breathing an atmosphere 
simply richer in crude oxygen. How much must this chem- 
ical action be enhanced if the atmosphere inhaled be, not 
only richer in oxygen, but if the oxygen be also rendered in- 
tensely active by virtue of its magnetic property, as shown to 
be the case just below. 
But more important still, of course, is 
Its Vital Action. 
To understand this part of the subject, it is necessary to 
bear in mind what we have said about the magnetic property 
of our agent, and its solubility. 
Compound Oxygen stands out clear and distinct from all 
other combinations, in that by its manufacture it is made to 
act magnetically upon the human organism. This is proved 
by numbers of patients who are abnormally sensitive to the 
action of this agent. One of these, who has taken it many 
times, is prevented from going into a clairvoyant state each 
time she takes it only by making a strong resistance to this 
tendency. Several others are similarly affected. 
Here follows a most important consideration, and % order 14 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
to appreciate it fully, it will be necessary to recall a few ana. 
tomical and physiological facts. The great sympathetic system 
of nerves lies within the large cavities of the body, beginning 
in the head and extending all the way through the thorax, 
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, are 
woven into most wonderful, complex and intricate arrange- 
ments, called plexuses. 
But it concerns us particularly to know that each separate 
ganglion is a miniature 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 is a galvanic battery; that it generates a galvanism or 
magnetism—for these are convertible forces—and that this 
force being transmitted 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 produced by 
chemical action, as the nature of organic bodies differs from 
that of inorganic bodies. 
The brain is the “ great nervous centrethe spinal cord 
and the ganglia of the posterior 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 pre- 
side over those organs whose functions we cannot control by COMPOUND OXYGNN 
any direct effort of the will. These are the so-called vegeta- 
tive functions, because vegetables possess 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 himself; but the first principles in the 
body, those from which all things else derive their being and 
action, are the nebye centres, which are here thus empha- 
sized. 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 disturbance. Such as is the state of the nervous 
centres then, such will be the kind and degree 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. 
This relation of cause and effect exists by virtue of the ner- 
vous centres being galvanic batteries, generating magnetic 
forces which act upon all the planes below them. Feeble or 
deranged centres give forth feeble or deranged activities to 
all and every part subordinated to them. 
As said above, Compound Oxygen acts upon the human 
organism magnetically. The nervous centres, therefore, must 
be the first to feel its influence. Acting upon these fountains 
of life, there is virtually an increase of vital force in the body. 
If it were a temporary 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 administered. 16 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
It is rather renewing the zinc and copper in these vital bat- 
teries, 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 inhala- 
tions in the twenty-four hours may work such results. We 
do 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 magnet- 
ically 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 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 instance, re- 
ceives 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 multitudinous organs and parts of organs 
appropriate 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 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 confirm it ? There is at least 
a strong presumptive 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 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
struck by tlie variety of diseases which, it is claimed, are 
amenable to the Compound Oxygen Treatment—“ Does it not 
sound like quackery to promise relief or cure in so many 
different maladies? For these statements imply that it is 
almost a cure-all, which is generally equivalent to being good 
for nothing.” On page 4 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 between the 
action of this agent and that of any medicine. 
But 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 as- 
signing an adequate cause for known effects, nevertheless it 
is of small moment compared with the facts of the case, 
that such universality of action is so clearly established. WHAT DISEASES ARE AMENABLE TO 
THIS TREATMENT? 
cAo 
YTV-0 pretend that this is a cure-all would be no less an 
offense against good taste than a perversion of truth. 
But that all states of invalidism may be improved by 
it is what enlightened common sense would expect 
Yip and experience abundantly proves. 
$> Dyspepsia, that “ hydra-headed monster,” in every 
form and in almost every stage may be radically cured. If 
it be conceded that the oxygen treatment proves to be a 
specialty in any class of diseases, unquestionably it must be 
in the one mentioned, and in that of the respiratory organs. 
Still, the wonderful rapidity with which other serious ail- 
ments improve makes us pause in awarding it a superior 
efficacy in those just named. Contrary to what might be 
looked for, cases of diabetes will almost always exhibit 
marked improvement in a single week. And if there be in 
that dreadful trouble, spermatorrhoea (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 ob- 
noxious remedy known. 
Did they know what q boon it holds in trust for them, 
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thousands of our wives, sisters and daughters would avail 
themselves of it without delay. 
Those who have readied what has been so appropriately 
termed “ the critical period,” find more relief and sup- 
port 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 number of 
years, are promptly smothered. The mental depression that 
so embitters the existence of the patient and her friends is 
speedily dissipated, and the indefinite variety of nervous 
affections which attend the change are quietly allayed. 
That omnibus of diseases, the convenient and oft-abused 
term, diver complaint or biliousness, which sends the 
patient, either with or without the sanction of the physician, 
to “blue mass,” “vegetable pills,” or “podophyllin,” breaks 
down on this road. Congestions, chronic inflammations and 
indurations of the liver, with all the attendant pains and dis- 
comforts, are entirely amenable to this treatment. 
The host of nervous derangements cannot be so suc- 
cessfully treated by any other known method. Neuralgia, 
Nervous Headache, St. Vitus’ Dance, and other spas- 
modic affections, nervous prostration or debility, and 
many other similar disorders may be mentioned in the same 
category. If the oxygen treatment had no efficacy beyond that 
which it can assuredly accomplish in the multiplicity 01 ner- 
vous disorders -alone, it would still be a priceless boon to 
humanity. 
* Our report of cases, entitled “ Diseases Peculiar to Women,” will 
be sent to any one who will write to us for it. In it will be found a 
record of results under the Compound Oxygen Treatment, which, if 
widely known, would not only surprise, but gladden the hearts of 
thousands of weary sufferers with whorn hope hag failed- 20 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
The diseases of the kidneys, which are comparatively 
few, have been treated with uniform success. Its use in dia- 
betes has already been alluded to. But in that more fearful 
malady called Bright’s Disease, we have seen wonderful 
results. In such a disease, in which all other modes of cure 
are woefully at fault, it surely becomes a matter of mere com- 
mon prudence for all who discover albumen in their urine to 
give oxygen inhalation a fair trial. 
Scrofula, although a vague term as generally used, is 
properly used to designate a condition of the system which 
ever tends to deposit tubercles in various organs, and to pro- 
duce enlargement and suppuration of lymphatic glands, espe- 
cially those located on the sides of the neck and under the 
lower jaw. Its development 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 suf- 
ferers who make the greatest demand upon our sympathies. 
Many persons are impressed with the importance of having 
the “ blood purified and twice a year or oftener they are 
accustomed to resort to such means as they hope may accom- 
plish 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 oxy- 
gen when taken into the lungs. The ocular 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 
recover* its brightness and bloom, the eyes their brilliancy. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
21 
jttiQ the skin its velvety softness. What surer tokens than 
these of restored health ? 
Said a patient one day, who had been wonderfully relieved 
of a most severe and obstinate asthma (Mrs. 1. N. Gregory, 
p. 96;: “ There is one disease, doctor, which Compound Oxy- 
gen 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 lam cured.” A 
number of other brilliant cures of a similar character are suffi- 
cient data upon which to affirm the efficacy of this agent in this 
and other varieties of headaches. One oi 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 witn 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 offensive; and then 
it is known as Ozcena. 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, rendering one’s life an almost intoler- 
able 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 
recorded. After being under the care of a physician 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’ COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
treatment, not only of the Ozcena, but also of a variety of 
other distressing ailments. If there be any other remedial 
agent or mode of treatment which holds out such promise of 
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 Treat- 
ment, and by considerations of the highest character, to 
speak; notwithstanding Prudery declares it should be name- 
less. But upon what principles 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 every- 
thing which He creates very good. Is it not highly signifi- 
cant that all previous creations were pronounced simply 
good; but not until He had created man and woman—a male 
and a female—was any creation pronounced “very good?” 
Were not every part of the human body really and truly 
consecrated, how could it by any possibility be the “ temple 
of the Holy Spirit ?” 
After this prelude, for which an apology would seem to be 
called for, it will be understood that the affection which we 
approach with such deep concern is the involuntary loss of 
that fluid winch it is the distinctive function of the male to 
produce;—or Spermatorrhoea. The production of this sperm 
or seed costs the body more, in the expenditure of its lift*- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
23 
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, men- 
tally 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 ganglionic system of nerves, which has 
been here critically considered? and being so, that whatever 
serves to restore them to a state of integrity will most cer- 
tainly and most effectually put a stop to that wasteful and 
fatal flow of man’s life current? 
Be that as it may, a few facts may be stated, which are 
worthy of.grave consideration : First. The victims are woe- 
fully numerous, and they are the result mainly of youthful 
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 emasculated, thousands of women 
dying unwed, and many more cheated of manliness in their 
husbands; impoverished progeny, many inmates of asylums 
and mad-houses, and graves filled with epileptics, consump- 
tives and suicides. Third. Medicines are almost powerless to 
meet this disease successfully. A large majority of intelli- 
gent physicians would undoubtedly head the list of opprobria 
medendi with this disease. Hence it is that the army of 
charlatans find their richest harvest among these unfortu- 
nates. Fourth. The success of the Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment in these cases, so full of interest to every well-wisher of 
his kind, has been nothing short of brilliant. The single case COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
reported in this work, page 83, is one of many that might 
be reported, but for obvious reasons are withheld. If any- 
thing 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. 
We have made not a few brilliant cures of Rheumatism, 
for which we have received our due meed of reward and 
gratitude. But there are many cases presented to us, to urn 
dertake which we have no courage. 
These are of so long standing that the tissues have under* 
gone 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 be tantamount to a 
physical regeneration of the man. But in recent cases of 
Rheumatism we are ready to risk our reputation as healers oi 
the sick upon the result of our treatment. 
Our success in a number of marked cases of Paralysis 
warrants us in promising greater results in all recent cases, 
not produced by destruction of nerve-tissue, than can be 
hoped for from all other known methods of cure. 
We are free to confess that up to this time we have 
nothing in our experience to encourage us in cases of Para- 
plegia—paralysis of the lower half of the body. Of course 
we must except the case of Mrs. Kelley, nee Hornbrook, 
page 111. True, we have only treated cases of years’ stand- 
ing, and which have been through all sorts of treatment 
previously. 
To the newly-made victims of this disease, and also those of 
that relentless foe, Progressive Locomotor Ataxia, we 
can hold out inducements to give the Compound Oxygen a 
trial. We believe that in the earlier stages of these diseases 
this Treatment will do, what nothing else will or can da 
stay the progress of the disease. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
"We have treated, with very marked success, Diabetes, 
Enlargement op the Prostate (see Ustick, p. 123), and 
other serious diseases of the bladder and urinary organs. 
We find that many cases of this kind have been cured inci- 
dentally; not complained of at the first statement of the 
disease, but mentioned when these affections have been no- 
ticed to disappear with the more serious ones with which 
they were complicated. We have also cured one marked 
case of Albuminuria—Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys. PULMONARY CONSUMPTION. 
qAq 
is one disease which, in this country, counts its 
victims by greater numbers than almost all other chronic 
diseases put together. Should an epidemic invade 
JL our cities, and carry off as many people as Constjmp- 
Yoy tion carries off every month in the year, it would 
<s> create a panic. This is sufficient reason why we 
should devote a special chapter to this disease and its treat- 
ment. 
In a recent number of Harpers Bazar we find a statement 
which, if it be as true in regard to other localities as to New 
York City, is certainly “startling;” and involves considera- 
tions of the gravest character. The writer says: 
Its Mortality. 
“Pulmonary diseases have been gradually increasing in 
this country during the past few years, especially during the 
■winter months, which are particularly perilous to those who 
•’have delicate lungs. The figures are startling. According 
to the records of the Board of Health of this city, the loss of 
life by Consumption alone during the five years ending December 
Slst, 1879, was 20,910. Pneumonia and bronchitis are also 
very fatal diseases; the former causing more than one-half as 
many deaths as Consumption, and the latter nearly one-fourth 
the number.” 
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27 
Taking the population of New York City at one million, 
and the whole number of deaths from Consumption, pneumo« 
nia and bronchitis at 36,750 in every five years, this would 
give for the United States a death-roll from these three kin* 
dred diseases, of 1,470,000; or one-fifth of that number 
(294,000) in every single year! 
We have no means of verifying this conclusion as to tho 
aggregate of deaths from pulmonary diseases. But we find, 
on reference to the list of interments for a single week in the 
city of Philadelphia, eighty-three deaths from lung and 
throat affections; which would give over four thousand for 
the year. This would make the average of deaths for Phila- 
delphia about the same as for the City of New York. Take 
off ten, fifteen, or even twenty per cent., in order to reach the 
average for the whole United States, and the figures are still 
appalling I 
Now, the most serious and alarming fact connected with 
the ravages of pulmonary diseases in this country, is the one 
stated by the writer above referred to, viz.: that they have 
been for some years past steadily on the increase! It shows 
that, with all its advancement in skill and in knowledge of 
curative forces, the medical profession does not know how to deal 
with Consumption, and cannot cure it ! 
Surely such a scourge demands a passing notice at our 
hands. The profound conviction of the writer is declared 
without hesitation, that more than eighty per cent, of these 
victims could have been well people to-day had they made 
timeey use of the Compound Oxygen. Note the emphasis 
Jaid upon the phrase, timely use. This is done to call yom 
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 quick* 
jands which betray many of its victims to their destruction. 28 
COMPOUND OXYGEN 
First Popular Error. 
The fact that Consumption of the Lungs carries off’ tens 01 
thousands every year in this country is no better established 
than that the disease CAN BE cubed. 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 diseases, 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 presumptive evidence 
that Nature has cured many more of such cases than Art. 
This refutes entirely the popular notion that Consumption 
cannot be cured: nay, more—it establishes the fact that this 
disease may have progressed to the stage of disorganization 
of a part of the lungs and yet be cured. 
Second Popular Error. 
But there is also a popular error in the opposite direction 
—at least, patients and interested friends act as if they be- 
lieved 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 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 disadvan- 
tage. If this disadvantage has increased to a considerable 
degree, any remedial agent that may be used must be corres- 
pondingly 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. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Wliat are the quicksands which betray so many to their 
destruction? The specious appearances of “no danger” 
until they suddenly 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 false 
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. 
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Nearly all diseases of organs below the diaphragm—those 
whose forces are enlisted in the great function of digestion, 
the stomach, bowels, liver, spleen and pancreas—produce 
such a decided mental condition that they cannot labor in 
secret to work destruction. 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. 
Practical Lesson. 
In the light of these statements the conclusion of this 
whole matter may be summed up as follows: First. Pul- 
monary Consumption lias been, is, and can be, aired. 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 un- 
derstood 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, espe- 
cially by administering crude drugs, either as simples or 
compounds, the greater the chance of cure. Fourth. When 30 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
the victim or his friends are really aroused to a consciousness 
of his imminent danger, it may be—painfully often, is—too 
late to make remedial 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 welfare of the American people than human lan* 
guage can express—is, first, to be able to detect the first ap- 
proaches 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 ominous 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 oi 
the crotalus horridus?), with approach so stealthy that no foot- 
hill can be heard, yet gives as unmistakable evidence of its 
fearful nearness and deadly intent. But 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 croiolus. 
Signals of Fatal Dangers. 
Cruel and merciless as is this foe to our natural lives, and 
insidious as is its attack, he announces his approach by sig- 
nals which give no uncertain sound. Who will understand 
them ? Wise is he who does, and refuses to take up the 
gauntlet—the gauge of battle—but flees in time to a place o< 
refuge. 
Now what are the notes of warning which are so emphat- 
ically 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 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
does not seem sick enough to account for it. Diabetes and som« 
stiier diseases have the same symptom prominently, but they 
rlso have other and distinguishing symptoms. Unaccounk 
ably, it seems, the individual begins to show a peculiar d*» 
pression between the cheek-bone and the ear, the eye-socket 
deepens, the muscle leading up the side of the neck obliquely 
toward the ear becomes prominent from absorption of the 
adipose tissure 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 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, insig- 
nificant hacking, which no one is inclined to notice, which is 
more like a “ habit,” and which he “ can easily prevent if he 
choosesthe 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 indefinite 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 emaciation of the per- 
son exist together without being caused by the incipient 
stage of Consumption ?” This is possible. Now be on your 
guard to detect the presence or absence of the third note ol 
warning. Examine carefully and critically the depressions 
Immediately beneath the two clavicles, or collar bones. In COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
this stage of the disease one of the depressions 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 lo- 
cated immediately under the clavicle. Their presence occa- 
sions consolidation of the lung tissue, and consequently a 
shrinking or contraction of the same; hence the sinking in 
of the overlying tissue at that point. One more fact: tuber- 
cles almost never invade both lungs in the incipiency of the 
disease. These three symptoms may be considered the en- 
signs of the Body and the two Wings of a well-organized and 
well-appointed army, which has made a successful lodgment 
within your territory. Either one of these symptoms should 
be the more critically catechised, because tubercles may exist 
for a long time without causing any marked pain, or any 
local sensation which would excite any suspicion of their 
presence. 
Pathology of Consumption. 
But what are tubercles ? for it is important to have a pro- 
per understanding of the whole matter. Tubercles (crude) 
are lymphatic 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 appearance, they would be comparatively harm 
less invaders. If in this state you but change that depraved 
condition of the body by restoring the vital forces to a state 
of integrity, you would entirely cut off the supplies of the 
•oemy. The tubercles would then become atrophied and COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
33 
wither away—would be absorbed and eliminated from the 
body. This is the office of the Compound Oxygen, pre-emi- 
nent over every other agent ever known. 
Having thus given an account of Consumption in its cur- 
able stage, it remains to complete the picture by tracing its 
progress to that stage which is popularly known as “ seated 
or confirmed Consumptionthat 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 ap- 
pear like a cluster 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 
inflammation does not differ in the process of development 
from that of any similar inflammations in other tissues of the 
body. Take the boil as a type, that being the most familiar 
example. 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 is that of sup- 
puration, 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 without 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 
Incurable Stage. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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 re- 
cover 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 dis- 
charge purulent matter for a shorter or longer time, accord- 
ing 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 disappears, 
wholly or in a great measure, and the patient so much im- 
proves that sanguine hopes are inspired that a complete re- 
covery is approaching. But the inclement season of the 
year, or some other adverse influence, supervenes, and an- 
other set of tubercles are made to develop and mature. 
This time the number 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 in- 
vasion 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 
go*e down in silence and in darkness 1 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Policy of Resorting to Compound Oxygen. 
Now you crave some advice concerning the propriety of 
resorting to the Compound Oxygen in all cases of Phthisis 
(pronounced ty~sis) or Pulmonary Consumption. Not in all 
cases would we recommend it, with the idea of holding out a 
promise of cure. In the later stages, it is true that life 
may be prolonged, 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 re- 
covery ? If the sputa sink readily in water, evidencing gene* 
rally active ulceration; if red spots appear upon the cheeks 
at stated hours in the afternoons, evidencing hectic fever, 
which indicates the rapid formation of purulent matter; 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 necessity of giving most earnest heed 
t© the first signs of the disease. 
Final Words to Consumptives. 
A solemn conviction that the Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment, 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 of these words. 
The absolute certainty that even this treatment will not cure 
a single case unless the conditions are strictly observed, will COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
36 
fully account for our anxiety to provide every inducement 6® 
the threatened victims 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 im- 
portance of this class of invalids giving good heed, even 
observing scrupulously, 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, earnest and persistent co-operation, no means, 
either human or divine, can avail to restore you to the en- 
joyment of life, usefulness to your loved ones, and the inesti- 
mable tx-easure 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 de- 
gree. Other maladies are more demonstrative; they goad 
the sufferer into doing something from sheer self-defense. 
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 more 
confirmation than is contained in the following clinical 
records and testimonials ? These, it is here solemnly asserted, 
are litei’al expressions of facts as they transpired. Any one, 
upon application, will be furnished with the exact address of 
any or all of these cases. The number could be greatly in- 
creased, but would do little toward making the fact of its uni- 
versal efficacy more pronounced. 
The awful importance of attending to the first signals of 
the invasion of tubercles in the lungs, so oppresses us, we 
are forced to run the risk of being accused of spleen, ungra« 
oiousness, or something worse, in order to emphasize what 
We have stated, restated and reiterated upon the subject. 
If physicians would be true to their obligations to the COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
37 
families which intrust their health to the care of the doctor, 
many more consumptives would resort to the Compound 
Oxygen in season to be cured. Any tolerably skillful physi- 
cian can determine the presence of tubercles in the lungs 
very soon after the invasion. (See Dr. Furness.) Then is 
the time to say to the patient what is genuinely true; there 
is no certainty, and scarcely a probability, that any system of 
treatment based upon Medication can prevent a fatal termi- 
nation of the affection. True, the prospective patronage of 
the patient during the months, perhaps years, of decline 
is too rare a morsel to be voluntarily relinquished ; and it is 
hardly in human nature to look for it. And there is one 
word to be said in extenuation: they do not believe that any 
other treatment promises more than their own; neither is 
it always, simply because they don’t wish to believe it. 
Cautionary Suggestions. 
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 re- 
sult disastrously. According to the observations of Nusser, 
one of the following symptoms may supervene when a case 
of phthisis is making good progress healthward, and should 
be cherished as something favorable, and should not on any 
account be interfered with: 
1. Swelling of the glands in the axilla (armpit); or, 
2. Rheumatism in the muscles of the neck, shoulders, 
throat, hips or extremities; or, 
3. Swelling of the glands on the neck and ear; or, 
4. The materia peccans (morbid or vitiated matter) rises 38 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
from within toward the outside, contrary to the air, which 
passes during respiration (inspiration?) from without in- 
ward. The chest feels lighter, but the trachea and laxynx 
become affected in a manner, to produce hoarseness, which 
subsiding, the nose becomes sore, and finally ends with pim- 
ples 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 suppression 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 be borne as 
complacently as sinks and slop-jars are. ARE THE EFFECTS OF COMPOUND 
OXYGEN PERMANENT? 
Wife HIS is almost the first question which will occur 
£{2|7\2 any one whose attention is called to it as a treatment 
gra&te adapted to his or her case. 
jITL Many intelligent persons would not hesitate to 
Yop answer it emphatically in the negative, and would 
$ persuade themselves that by so doing they exhibited 
some unequivocal marks of sagacity and scientific acumen. 
The process of reasoning by which they would reach their 
conclusion is sufficiently correct, and its logic would be fault- 
less did they not 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 
followed by a corresponding reaction; oxygen, when in- 
haled, 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 administered in the form fitted to be a remedial agent, 
« any more of a stimulus than wholesome food is to the 
vtomach, sound to the ear, or light to the eye. 
What are the facts in the case ? Almost immediately th« COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
patient perceives a marked increase of appetite; a real zest 
for food, which, recalls the relish of youthful days—days of 
fishing, nutting, gaming and skating. The digestive organs 
respond to the new regulations of “ the commissary depart- 
ment,” and gradually adapt themselves to the exigencies of 
increased supplies. The new material, manufactured 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 consequence enlarge, 
get firmer, redder, stronger, more active and more elastic. 
All the other tissues thrive sympathetically with them; the 
intellectual faculties work with more ease, 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 facts, that the whole amount of this newly- 
acquired physical virtue is genuine, and will last until it 
be WORK OUT. In other words, it differs in no manner or 
degree from that acquired through the normal circumstances 
of an inherited good constitution, youthful vigor and a prop- 
erly-matured manhood. As the latter may be destroyed, and 
certainly will be under certain influences, so may the former, 
under similar influences; no more speedily nor surely. 
A Word of Encouragement to the Hopeless. 
There is a large class of persons whose condition 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 doc- 
tor called,” nor to go away health-seeking, and consequently COMPOUND OXYGEN, 
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they get little sympathy, and are treated with less considera- 
tion. Still they feel miserable and forlorn, find a burden in 
.'.very task, however 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 administra- 
tion of oxygen, faithfully tried for a fortnight, will convince 
them that there is for them a “ balm in Gilead,” and that 
they may 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 joyousness of being alive will recall 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 gener- 
ally, and especially 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, depressed by its confinement, and harassed by its 
destruction of regular habits, they would fain fly to seaside, 
mountain summit or invigorating 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- 
ating to themselves some of this invigorating and renovating 
element, they will receive more available strength and work- 
ing capacity than they can be made to believe without the 
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A fifth class are the weary convalescents. Their vitality 
nearly crushed 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 t» 
return. No other treatment will so promptly give aft im- 
petus to the jaded forces as Nature’s magical vitalizer. 
In the preceding 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 exten- 
sive knowledge of what it has accomplished to state scrupu- 
lously and without exaggeration the promises for good which 
it holds out to those who choose to avail themselves of its 
virtues. 
Concluding Remarks. 
It is not claimed, as intimated before, that by this treat- 
ment all cases can be cured, but it is claimed that seventy, 
five out of every hundred who are able to visit the office, 
including even those who are laboring under confirmed pul- 
monary Consumption, can be restored to health. 
It is claimed, too, that they can be raised to a higher 
standard of health than by any other known method. All 
that medicine can do is to assist Nature in removing obstruc- 
tions, 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 consider- 
ation, 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 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
TO DO—either physically or intellectually—is one’s ordinary 
capacity of breathing, which means his ability to appropriate 
oxygen from the atmosphere. Who that understands hia 
business ever buys a working animal without looking to his 
“ wind,” and also to the size of his nostrils ? Who ever saw 
a successful scholar or athlete with pinched-up nostrils and & 
contracted chest? 
Now the very act of receiving this treatment, the forcible 
inhalation of oxygen, affords 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. [See p. 9], (the mechanical effect of Compound 
Oxygen). 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 continued forcible inspirations may restore 
them to a state of healthy activity, thus considerably enlarg- 
ing the working material of the lungs. Hence there is little 
doubt that much genuine good has been done by those treat- 
ments which consist in directions to forcibly breathe the 
common air. 
But we have a more potent force tending to the same end 
in the presence and contact of oxygen, Nature’s own stimulus, 
but here in multiplied proportions, to the air-cells themselves. 
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 
eavil. 
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, 
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they appropriate an additional amount of oxygen from 
ture’s vast laboratory. 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 b« 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 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 ac- 
tion. From the conclusions arrived at in this exposition, 
especially those concerning the increase of power in the re- 
spiratory 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 discovered itself inci- 
dentally. Singers, while being treated for ailments, have 
voluntarily testified that they could sing with more ease and 
precision, while their friends have remarked the improve 
ment in both the strength and quality of the voice. 
There can be scarcely a doubt that singers, clergymen, 
pleaders, lecturers and elocutionists would find this a most 
efficient means of restoring a weakened or an abused voice, 
and of rendering effective a naturally defective one. And 
wrhile they are considering this question, let them not forget 
that at the same time they will be rapidly improving in all 
the other departments of their being. HOME TREATMENT 
»HE foregoing reasonings, deductions and conclusions 
are all based upon absolute results obtained by the 
administration of the Compound Oxygen in the 
office. (See Clinical Cases.) We now earnestly call 
attention to our significantly-styled “The Home 
$ Treatment.” 
For a number of years this modified form of the Compound 
Oxygen was a recognized power of no little value; but the 
means of its production being limited, and the supply of 
course correspondingly limited, it held a position of small 
prominence in the minds of its dispensers. But in not a few 
cases in which it had been used very startling results were 
obtained. The writer’s attention was forcibly arrested by 
these facts. Were they not indications of a region unex- 
plored, which challenged the most thoughtful and earnest 
investigation ? So, indeed, it seemed to him. 
The number of persons who can avail themselves of the 
virtues of this wonderful agent in offices, even if they were 
established in every city in the country, is comparatively 
small. It is within bounds to say that for every one to whom 
it could be made available as an exclusive office treatment, 
there are a thousand to whom it would be an inestimable 
boon, if brought within their reach and means. 
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COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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 improve 
its quality to the highest state of efficiency; third, how to 
prepare it so economically as to bring it within the means oi 
all who need it; and last, not least, how to persuade the sick 
that the Compound Oxygen really oilers to them a helper 
so powerful that the fictitious potency of giants and genii of 
ail fairy-land seems peurile. 
To the solution of these several parts of the problem (save 
the last) the writer assiduously addressed himself with an 
earnestness commensurate with the responsibility which—as 
he felt—devolved upon him,—to provide a boon for which 
millions are eagerly and longingly holding out their hands. 
He 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 production of< a curative agent move 
efficacious than anything ever before offered to the multitudes 
of invalids in our land, and in this respect second to nothing" 
but the Compound Oxygen as dispensed in the office. This 
exception is made in favor of the office treatment, solely as 
regardg the degree of activity manifested by the two modes of 
administration. The kind of effect is identical, and with the 
office treatment the results may be, in some special cases, 
reached in less time. The Home Treatment has been sub- 
jected to tests the most delicate and the most severe, and 
many times repeated. The results have been such that a 
plain statement of them would subject the deponent to the 
charge of extravagance in expression. But it is unhesi- 
tatingly pronounced to be at once the most potent and the 
most harmless, the most particular and the most universal, 
in its applicability to the various diseased conditions, of anv COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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 its merits may be acknowledged at their real worth. 
The above statements concerning our “Home Treat- 
ment” were written nine years ago. What modifications 
have our opinions concerning that form of administering the 
Compound Oxygen undergone? Very important ones. 
The developments of almost a decade show us that when we 
brought forth that engine with which to combat the diseases 
of humanity, we “ builded better than we knew.” 
We challenge the world to show such a brilliant roll of 
genuine cures, in almost every variety of disease, as our 
published testimonials exhibit. And during the last eight 
years, nineteen in twenty of those cases have been cured by 
the Home Treatment alone. 
As might have been reasonably expected, we have suc- 
ceeded in providing for our patients an article decidedly 
superior to that used at first. What progress may still be 
made in that direction—by energetic and well-directed effort 
-—we cannot foresee; but that which we are now able to fur- 
nish appears to leave very little to be desired. 
Now, when asked : “Is not the Office Treatment superior 
to the Home Treatment?” we are obliged to hesitate. Doubt- 
less there are cases which will get well sooner—and possibly 
some who would not otherwise get well at all—by resorting 
to the Office Treatment. But, surely, a part of that supe- 
riority must be set down to the advantage of the physician’s 
daily personal care and ready resources. These, and espe- 
cially the moral support, especially in exceptional cases, be- 
come an important factor in the problem of cure. 
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forced to yield the palm in favor of the Home Treatment. 
Humbers of our patients within easy reach of the office, after 
having tried both, are well content to rely upon the form of 
administration which they use in common with thousands 
whom we have never seen. True, our Office Treatment re- 
ceives at our hands every care and consideration which so 
eminent an agent demands. The longer our patients avail 
themselves of it, the better are they satisfied. Hence, our 
oldest patrons of the Office Treatment are the most pro- 
nounced Oxygenists. 
But if it were possible to preserve only one form of this 
Treatment—the Office, or the Home Treatment—and it were 
optional with us, we should emphatically say—preserve the 
Home Treatment. A WORD TO HEALTH-SEEKERS 
fEEE is a candidate for your confidence and accept- 
ance, 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 woi'd 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 to- 
gether! You have undoubtedly had many good promises of 
relief made to the ear, only to be broken to the heart. Failure 
has not only resulted in painful disappointment, it may also 
have begotten a sullen purpose to reject every proffer of re- 
lief that may be made. But should you not remember 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 re- 
jecting it untried and untested? 
There is one strong argument—albeit a negative one—in 
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ing made worse. You avoid that fearful paraphernalia of 
DBUGB, of which Dr. O. W. Holmes declared before a national 
assembly of physicians and surgeons: “If they were all cast 
iato the sea—excepting only wine and opium—it would be 
all the better for mankind, but all the worse for the fishes.” 
Granting that medication—when exactly affiliated to the dis- 
ease, in character, grade, tissue and location-—will cure the 
sick (and only when thus administered is there any hope of 
cure), still the chances of having all these conditions an- 
swered 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 poisonous drugs—for they are all 
poisonous—is simply appalling. "What quantities of these 
pernicious mixtures are swallowed is evidenced by the scores 
of palatial stores and residences ■which are reared with the 
profits on their sale by those who yearly spend hundreds of 
thousands of dollars simply in advertising them. For each 
one who receives any real benefit from these nostrums, who 
can compute the number of those who have sacrificed 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 I You have essayed to prove 
that we ought not to try any of the many nostrums; are not COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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the same or similar arguments good against meddling with 
this also ?” Well, you are here presented with an array of 
facts in clinical records from the writer’s books, the truthful- 
ness 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 individuals can be seen personally. These state- 
ments being so fully indorsed, it is submitted whether these 
cures are not among the most remarkable ever recorded—re- 
markable, 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 in which the Treatment had proved a failure.” 
There are some such, it is true; but, taking the ten years’ 
experience, those cases will not amount to more than three 
per cent, of the number treated. We have published many 
eases of slow and tedious convalescence; and they are very 
instructive. 
Many cases get well with wonderful rapidity. But time 
has developed the fact that some others, apparently no more 
severe in character, will resist the action of the Treatment 
for a long period; yielding at length, and resulting in some 
of our most brilliant cures. 
Another fact of vast importance must be taken into con- 
sideration in deciding this question; you run no risk by this 
jpethod of being harmed in the least. Let this fact be pitted COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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 narcotics which have become 
seeming necessities, from the prolonged use of nostrums. 
Safety in its use, then, is a genuine plea in favor of the Com- 
pound Oxygen Treatment as against all promiscuous drug- 
ging. 
One more fact:—each case is cured upon the same general 
principle, viz., by regenerating the foundation of the 
system, as an efficient basis upon which a superstructure of 
health may be orderly reared, and permanently established. 
This involves a feature of inestimable value;—by the ac- 
tion of many so-called remedial agents, thousands of local 
affections are apparently cured. The local symptoms may 
be made to disappear; but the local affection is modified at 
the expense of the welfare of other portions of the organism. 
Or, what is still worse, and of fearfully frequent occurrence, 
the local symptoms are merely suppressed, and the diseased 
action is driven to some more vital organs—to work a 
deadlier mischief. 
The Compound Oxygen, on the other hand, cures all local 
affections by giving to every part of the organism a more 
healthful and vigorous status. 
Are the Objections against Trying 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 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
statement is granted, if it clearly appear that no greater 
promise is held out by this treatment than by all the nos- 
trums known. It is granted, too, if it be of no moment—if it 
be not of immense importance—that in the Compound Oxy- 
gen there is almost a complete guaranty against any possible 
harm. It is also granted, if it appear that any trial short of 
©ne month is sufficient to test the virtues, the curative power 
of any agent in long standing, constitutional 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 indefinite 
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 testimo- 
nials what one and two months’ treatment 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 
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 enter- 
prise.” This is a more serious matter. Your family physi- 
cian is presumed to be your skilled counselor in all that con- 
cerns 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 legiti- 
mately in the line of his profession. This relation of trust 
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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 
Imre, let us look this matter fairly in the face. If, as the 
appointed and inaugurated consevator and restorer of the 
health of you and yours, he has proved himself an efficient 
and successful servant or guardian, then'this whole question 
has no interest for you. “ They that are whole,” etc. This 
all is intended solely for those who have been less fortunate 
in the choice of their medical adviser. 
Let us first inquire what are the physician’s opportunities 
of being able to give you intelligent counsel upon this vital 
question. Second, granting his ability to render you intelli- 
gent service in this matter, what are the liabilities of his 
giving you disinterested advice? First, then, he knows 
literally nothing of this agent, and therefore can know nothing 
of ita 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 
intelligent 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 ? 
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 pos- 
sessed of all the desirable qualities claimed for it, and even 
more and greater than any yet known of it, can you reason- 
ably expect him to give you the benefit of that discovery ? 
and say to you: “ Yes, by all means, give it a fair trial. I 
am satisfied that it will do more for you than anything I COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
have to offer you.” There is no need of assigning to physi- 
cians any more of human nature than all other professionals 
are endowed with. You do not expect any merchant, artisan 
or professional man to tell his patrons that his neighbor in 
the same line of business has articles of the same kind as hia 
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 himself prescribe, he does it knowing that he 
loses your patronage for the time being. And if he be con- 
vinced of the superior virtues of the remedy, he knows that 
he loses not only your present patronage, but also your 
prospective future patronage indefinitely. Do you not vir- 
tually 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 
Compound 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 
t© have their patients die under some pet mode of practice, 
to getting well under any other mode. Can professional 
depravity sink lower? I am persuaded by long-con finned 
observation that the practice of medicine tends strongly to 
make a good man better, and a bad man worse. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Exclusiveness and Secrecy. 
It is expected that my professional brethren, as a rule, will 
look askance upon this whole enterprise, because of the ex- 
clusive manner in which the agent is dispensed, and because 
the mode of its preparation is not divulged. 
That its mode of preparation is not divulged 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 con- 
fident that the agent is not what it is claimed to be“ that 
it is impossible to condense oxygen into such a portable 
formand “ 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 were 
called by a wrong title ?—which it certainly is not. 
As to the second: The first steamer which crossed the 
Atlantic brought an absolute demonstration 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 medication 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 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Medicine. The solid facts of the cures wrought by this won- 
derful agent rise clear above all carping and caviling. 
N. B.—Having spent much time, labor and money in try- 
ing to induce my professional brethren to avail themselves ol 
the virtues of this agent—all to no purpose—l have for years 
dispensed with all facilities for furnishing physicians with 
the means of setting up the Office Treatment. TO COMPOUND-OXYGEN PATIENTS, 
fN the supposition that what you have now learned 
from the perusal of this Brochure, and perhaps from 
other sources, has inspired you with sufficient confi- 
dence to venture an effort to recover lost health in 
this direction, some suggestions may help you to pro- 
ceed with more certainty of good results, and with 
less danger of losing force by misdirection 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 un- 
reasonable to expect in such cases that a change so radical as 
to be appreciated can result in the short time of a week or 
two ? The influence that is at work is benign, and in its 
action is more like that of the mild spring weather upon the 
frost-bound hills and rales, 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 the;? ham 
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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 sea 
sons of apparent improvement. How many times are hopes 
inspired of a complete restoration, and tkis even to the verge 
of dissolution. So the reverse is true. 
Again and again, alter a season of satisfactory convales- 
cence, the invalid will be discouraged 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 extended out-look than before. Often 
have patients been heard to earnestly declare, just before the 
final struggle of the disease; “ Oh, lam just as bad as I ever 
was I” Neither should you fret yourselves on all these occa- 
sions by self-accusations that you have imprudently “caught 
cold.” Although it may sometimes be true, yet these seasons 
ox aggravations will come, cold or no cold. 
Third : There is another fact quite as important to be 
borne in mind. Through years of declining health, one 
passes through distinct 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 de- 
lusion, 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 appearance is 
that they are stored away in series—deposited like successive 
geological strata. Now, in the event of the invalid’s restora- 
tion to health by an orderly and satisfactory process, these old 
states are very liable to return; but in the reverse order i» 
which they first appeared and disappeared. But these re- 
turn states are, as a rule, less severe in force and duration 
khan original ones. 60 
compound oxygen. 
FoUBTH: It is necessary to put you on your guard i& 
another direction. Occasionally it will seem as if the treat' 
xnent were doing positive harm; but this is simply an ap- 
pearance—as you will be able to confirm. The restoration 
of life-currents through channels obstructed or collapsed, al 
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 efforts to overcome the 
obstacles to their ordained flow that is painful. The extremi- 
ties 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 posture. But how, if 
the benumbed fingers have their life-currents restored by the 
application of heat even gently applied? Very few persons 
are ignorant of the exquisite pain with 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 yielding 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 expression. 
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 painful 
conditions. But in any event they are of no moment beyond 
the temporary discomfort which they excite. 
Of course, the true indications—and what common sense 
■flrould suggest—are to cease urging these life-forces until the COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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obstructions which are the occasion of the tumult shall have 
gradually yielded to the forces already sufficiently at work. 
Thus, when such conditions excite your fears that the treat- 
ment 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 trou- 
ble to patients, and much embarrassment to the physician, 
may be thus stated: In the first flush of convalescence—like 
the peaceful season of a spring morning after a long, dx-eary 
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 expi’ession 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 suffer- 
ing, or both. While enjoying delicious freedom from pain due 
to protracted infirmities, and a consciousness of young life, it 
is impossible 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 childhood, 
before they can be equal to bearing burdens. 
This is the hardest lesson to learn for one convalescing 
from a protracted disease. Particularly is this the case with 
women, who are subjects of emotions x'ather than calculation, 
and act more from impulse than from cool judgment, as do 
the rougher sex. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon— 
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insinuating tempter. Always be governed by this rule, when 
about to do anything that is calculated to put your physical 
and mental strength to the test. Be sure you stop at the 
point at which you are certain that you have done only one- 
half of that which you are really able to do. By scrupulously 
obeying this direction you will save yourself untold suffering, 
chagrin and self-reproach. 
There is a lai’ge class of patients wdio claim our sympathy, 
and to whom we would speak a special word. 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 sojourners at St. Paul, 
Colorado, Aiken, Jacksonville, 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 in- 
valid ? 
Unfavorable, indeed, must be the surroundings of a home 
in which the Compound Oxygen will not do pinch more for 
the radical 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 oj 
home-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 
occupation 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 Consumption, Al- 
most every one of this class is as helpless a victim of haMuci 
nation as of the disease. 
The picture is too familiar to be exhibited. It is nothing RECEPTION PARLOR.—Page 161 COMPOUND OXYGEN, 
that he 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 provoca- 
tion ;“it is nothing much; it will be all right soon!” Thus, 
like the will-o’-the-wisp, hope beguiles and lures him on, ob- 
stinately blind to danger until he falls in utter helplessness. 
Who can teach this unfortunate? Whose eloquence can 
startle him from his fatal security ? Who else is so unrea- 
soning as the hallucinated Consumptive ? “ Sixty thousand 
yearly mortality from phthisis” reads him no lesson. It 
matters not that the most sagacious physician assures him of 
the presence of tubercles in his lungs—the essentials of a 
fatal disease. Who may declare, in tones that such will 
near, that he who goes through one summer without getting 
rid of a cough contracted during the inclement season, so 
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 interesting class of suf- 
ferers, because: first, there is so much at stake; second, it is 
so nearly impossible to make them realize it; third, because 
we know that we can do so much more and better for them 
than everybody else, unless they have the same agent with 
which to help them. 
That we “ speak by the card,” we refer to two letters. The 
first k from a well-known manufacturer (Mr. W. M. Claflia, COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
page 85), whose case is a marked instance of Consumption 
cubed. 
The author of the other letter is chief clerk of the Archi- 
tectural Bureau (Mr. H. G. Jacobs, page 86). His letter 
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 encouraging him to try 
once more to recover his health. He continues in sound health. 
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 en- 
joyed good health, are overtaken with some severe illness, 
such as Pneumonia, Pleurisy, Bilious or Typhoid Fevers, In- 
flammations of important organs, Rheumatism, Diphtheria, 
etc. A large majority of them never get back the health thef 
had before, 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 invisible. 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 Oxy- 
gen for this purpose, we have yet to learn what it is. We 
have need only to refer to our exposition of this agent in the 
pages of the Brochure, and the many testimonials which WQ 
have published in support of our opinion. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
65 
There is one other class which we cannot forbear to men- 
tion—the mentally overworked. In this class we hud pro- 
fessional men, authors, etc., but especially ambitious men oi 
business—heads of great enterprises—who have to be brains 
for a regiment of subordinates. These are brilliant, involun- 
tary suicides. They usually manage to approach the prime 
of life when they begin to falter, and soon deteriorate into 
paralytics, imbeciles or victims to softening of the brain. In 
either event their career is permanently ended, and from the 
same cause—absolute exhaustion of some great nerve-centre. 
Theoretically, Ave 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 experiences. A former treasurer of the Penn- 
sylvania Central Railroad, Avhose case is recorded on page 
65, is in point. A stronger one is that of T. S. Arthur, 
page 102. SPECIFICATIONS OF TREATMENT 
cAa 
fOR .practical convenience, chronic diseases may he 
classified as follows: First, those affecting the Re- 
spiratory organs—lungs, bronchial tubes, larynx and 
throat. Second, those affecting the Digestive organs 
—sromach, bowels, liver, spleen, etc., including 
hemorrhoids. Third, those affecting the Generative 
©rgans of women. Although but one agent is used in all 
cases, yet observation and experience 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 treatment, 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 Treat- 
ment is to supersede the need of skilled physicians, but 
rather .enhance their value; hut it may enable everybody 
who uses it to dispense with the services (?) of poor ones. 
In any event, they who have the Home Treatment in their 
houses can do infinitely better for the ordinary ills of child- 
hood—and of adults as well—than 10 make hap-hazard pre- 
scriptions of Indian vegetable pills, calomel and jalap, blue 
mass, castor-oil, salts and senna, or of any of the multitudin- 
ous bitters, elixirs, etc. Although in the use of this treatment 
no such immediate effects occur as follow the operation of an 
66 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
active purge, yet a reasonable trust in its efficacy will, in a 
large majority of cases, be well rewarded by a prompt and 
quiet recovery. Any harmless agent which will do some- 
thing effectually toward redeeming the race from the 
thraldom of pernicious drugs—even if it do nothing more 
is a priceless boon. 
Gan One Take too Much? 
Yes! just as one can take too much pure cold water, toe 
much sunshine, too much of the very best food that ever 
Omniscience devised. Almost every one who. takes the Oxy- 
gen 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 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 delight- 
ful exhilaration. Those who do not feel a 'positive pleasure 
while inhaling are the rare exceptions, whose channels of 
circulation have received some twist or other derangement. 
This has been stated here, because some individuals—one 
in seventy-five or a hundred—are so sensitive to the action 
of this agent as to be affected by the Home Treatment in the 
lame way as the Office Treatment affects a very large ma- 
jority. Without this hint such persons might become discon- 
certed if they should experience such a sensation unexpect- 
edly. 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 
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a better word, persons experiencing this will tell you that 
they are giddy ; but it is not giddiness, because it has none 
of the quasi nausea or sickness which always accompanies 
giddiness. 
Suggestion. 
Each package is accompanied by explicit directions how to 
manage during the time of inhaling. But there is a very great 
difference in'people’s susceptibility to the action of the Com- 
pound Oxygen. And as any considerable degree of over- 
action is more to be deprecated than a greater degree of un- 
der-action, these guards should be heeded. Strict obedience 
to directions as to the seasons and manner of inhalation are 
of coarse the only conditions 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 discom- 
fort ; 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 the new 
influx of vital force, when the treatment 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 sensa- 
tions mentioned just above, the treatment should not be re- 
sorted to but once a day. It is not to be understood that a 
decided cerebral sensation is at all essential to the most satis- 
factory progress; while on the other hand the greatest 
amount of sensation could produce no more harm than would 
Seriously overloading the stomach with excellent food. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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Our Partnership. 
In October, 1869, the senior partner, after twenty years of 
j-uccessful general practice, during which time he occupied a 
professorship in one of the best medical colleges in this city 
for five consecutive years—adopted the Compound Oxygen 
as a specialty. The conviction which then possessed him— 
that by so doing he could fill a greater sphere of usefulness 
than falls to the lot of but very few of his professional breth- 
ren—has been more and more confirmed each succeeding 
year. 
After eight years of single-handed labor in developing and 
administering this curative agent, in May, 1877, he associated 
with himself, as partner in the business, G. E. Paeen, Ph. 8., 
M. D., a man of education, a practical chemist, having well- 
trained business habits and of unquestioned integrity. 
In thus uniting our experience, means and energy, we have 
set ourselves to the solution 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. 
[This was uttered and published nearly four years ago. 
How well we have kept the pledge may be inferred from the 
fact that the demand for Compound Oxygen has largely 
increased with each succeeding year, and that we are in the 
constant receipt of letters from old patients, testifying to the 
permanency of results.] CLINICAL CASES. 
-Ao 
BHE following Clinical Cases were among those of our 
first patients, and, of course, were watched with great 
, care. One of these patients has since passed into 
dfL the other world, being nearly eighty-five years old. 
Yff We believe the remainder would now (1881) indorse 
$ the Compound Oxygen Treatment as enthusiastically 
as when the clinical records were penned. 
Case I. September 28th, 1809.—Mrs. T. K., aged forty-nine 
years, had, seven years ago, an attack of stoppage (intussuscep- 
tion) 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 recovered. She 
has more or less pain—sometimes very severe—every night on 
retiring, through a large portion of the abdomen. Her diges- 
tion 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 instiga- 
tion she resorts to the treatment by Compound Oxygen, then 
in the hands of my predecessor. I could think of nothing else 
which promised 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 palliation, 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. 
70 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
October 12th.—She now comes under my persona! care. 
Thinks she has experienced some change in her general slate 
of feeling, yet there are no decided indications of improvement. 
18th.—During the last week she has perceived a radical change 
In all the symptoms. She can rest at night without pain; be- 
gins 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. Shs 
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 addressed to me the 
following; “Now, doctor, I will do just as you say about con- 
tinuing the treatment. I have nothing to be doctored for! 1 
was never in better health in my life! I sleep all night long! 
and olr, it is so good to eat!" Of course, treatment is discon- 
tinued. 
“ I have read Dr. Starkey’s clinical record of my case, written 
above, and cordially indorse 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 suffering 
from weak digestion for seven years, during which time—not- 
withstanding the most careful attention to diet—l was accus- 
tomed to lie awake several hours every night from distress in 
.the stomach. I had a low fever, from which I partially recov- 
ered. 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 Treat- 
ment. In less than two weeks there was a decided improve- 
ment 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. Mbs. T. K. 
“ Kelleyyille, Deuawabe Co., Pa., March 25th, 1872.” 
Case 11. May 12th, 1870.—Miss A. W., aged nineteen years. 
Was brought to the office in her father’s arms. (He told me af- 
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reach home with her alive.) Six years ago she contracted soar- 
let 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 less health than the year before. 
Pour years ago her parents left their New England home to see 
what a milder climate would do for their child. If any change 
in her condition was discoverable in consequence of the re- 
moval, she simply did not fail quite so fast as before. 
She has just passed through the severest winter of all. She it 
extremely emaciated; no appetite; hands almost transparent; 
a clammy coldness of all the extremities; dull aching through 
the whole chest, with great soreness to touch, on motion and 
from breathing; and every function, both physical and mental, 
exceedingly depressed. Her respiration was so exceedingly 
imperfect, that when she tried to make a forcible inspiration 
not the least motion of the chest could be detected 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 16th.—She has been to the office each day, but neither of 
us can tell if she has been able to inhale any oxygen. 
19th.—Has experienced some sensation while inhaling, 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 appetite; a little 
moral courage and better sleep. She now feels such a hunger 
or craving for the oxygen, that on Sundays and other occa- 
sional days of interruption nhe is restless, discontented and 
miserable. It seems to her that she must have it! 
June 12th.—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 oxy- 
gen has in a measure subsided. 
A phenomenon of much interest has transpired during the 
last two weeks. One day, while inhaling oxygen, she winced 
and uttered an exclamation. “What is the matter?” said I. 
Placing her hand over the upper portion 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. 
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Query: What could have produced this set of sensations ex- 
cept the re-opening of air-cells whose walls had long been col 
lapsed by repeated congestions ? 
July 12th.—After two months’ treatment, she is hardly to be 
recognized by her friends who have not seen her since she com- 
menced. She doesn’t remember of ever having felt so well as 
at present. One day she exclaimed, “ How good it is to breathe I 
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!” 
August 9th.—ls 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 weariness, occasioned by the con- 
tinued backward pressure of the shoulders and head. She now 
leaves for a visit in the country. 
October Ist.—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 Sep- 
tember, which would last the entire autumn and winter, and 
most of the spring. Last month she escaped. 
January Ist, 1871.—Has had an attack of neuralgia this win- 
ter, but no congestion and no cough. 
March Ist.—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 Ist, 1872.—1t may be properly said that she has been un- 
der no treatment for a 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 suppu- 
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live, 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 ad- 
vice. She received the usual medicines for that state of things, 
but with no avail. She was then advised to try the Compound 
Oxygen. From my experience with other patients, I led her to 
expect an immediate 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. 
F March 80th, 1872.—“ The above is a perfectly correct statement 
of facts of my case, although it is not one-half of what 
could have been truthfully said concerning the wonderful cure 
performed by the Compound Oxygen Treatment. I am confi- 
dent 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 Treat- 
ment, which in a few days strengthened my throat and pre- 
vented its affecting my lungs as it had always done before, for 
I had been troubled with it for many years, having inherited it 
from my father; and now it seems entirely removed. 
“ I have tried the Home Treatment thoroughly, and think it 
fully equal, both in quality and degree, to the Office Treatment; 
more could not be said in its favor. I wish that all wrho are suf- 
fering as I have been could know what I do concerning the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. A. M. W.” 
“ With pleasure I indorse the above statement of my daugh- 
ter. Ambrose W. 
“ Philadelphia, April sth, 1872.” 
CASK 111. November Ist, 1870.—Mr. E. E. W., aged twenty- 
tferee years. Has been troubled many years, or a large portion COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
®f 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 ulceration of the 
membrane which lines the frontal sinus; is very distressing, and 
at no time entirely absent. He is much emaciated; very 
ansemic (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 removes 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 protracted misery, and with no hope of relief. 
November Bth.—His extremities begin to be warmed, and the 
nasal mucus is thrown off with more facility. The most marked 
change is in his spirits; some feeling of courage and interest in 
life. 
15th.—The plugs do not form so large, and are softer and more 
easily removed. There is an increase of appetite, more elas- 
ticity of motion, returning warmth to the limbs, and decided 
relief of the frontal headache. 
22d.—After three weeks’ treatment, and with nothing hut 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. 
January Ist, 1871.—Has continued to gain very satisfeictoftiy in 
all respects. Has taken one cold, which revived the offensive 
odor, but only in a slight degree. Without resorting to any 
other remedy, it lasted but four or five days. 
February 10th.—Since the first of December he has taken but 
one month’s treatment. With the above-mentioned exception, 
there has been no offensive od or 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. 
“ The above record is a correct statement of my case. I am 
happy to be able to say that my health has remained all the 
year as good as it was when I left off the Compound Oxygen 
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never returned, and the discharge is never troublesome except 
when 1 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. E. E. W. 
“ Philadelphia, March 30th, 1872.” 
Case IV. May Ist, 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, in- 
volving 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 suffocation 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 occasionally 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 2d. Was pleasantly affected by the inhalation yesterday; 
has no fear in taking it. 
3d.—Feels an indefinite sense of relief; thinks she slept a little 
better last night; is eager to take it. 
6th.—Feels a decided amelioration, of all the symptoms; 
marked improvement in her sleep; the first normal and un- 
aided stool since she was sick. 
16th.—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 Ist.—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 wnether 
her head be in its proper relation to the body. The normal 
sensibility is returning to the paralyzed side of the face. There 
is no symptom which does not indicate a marked improve- 
ment. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
July Ist.—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 vio- 
lently 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. 
August Ist.—Visited my office nine times last month. She is 
in better health now than for years before. The prediction ot 
her friends that she was being stimulated, and would run down 
speedily anon, has entirely failed of verification. 
October Ist.—Spent the month of August in the country; 
visited my office six times in September, and continues to im- 
prove. Can use her eyes considerably with comfort. Much of 
the time there is no dropsical swelling. 
November Ist.—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 Ist, 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 indorse every statement made here if she 
were present. 
Case V. May 31st, 1870.—Mr. J. W. McA., aged thirty-four 
years. From long-continued office business, as the managing 
officer of a large company, he is completely broken down in his 
muscular, nervous and mental systems. 
His physician, who had been his faithful medical adviser for 
years, having moved to another city, told him by letter that if 
he refused to put himself under the Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment, he should ere long pronounce 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 complete physical and 
mental exhaustion, long continued. He suffers severely from 
dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheumatism and mental despondency. 
August 6th.—Has taken the Compound Oxygen quite regu- 
larly to the present time, and has taken just two months’ treat- 
ment in all. 
improvement was apparent early in the treatment, and has 
progressed satisfactorily to both physician and patient. He 
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September 20th.—Reports himself as so well that he gladly 
says that he can dispense with further treatment for the pres- 
ent. 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 Bth, 1871.—Mr. T. T. F., aged sixty-five years. 
Effect of too constant and too prolonged application to busi- 
ness. 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 partially drawn to the right, showing partial facial 
paralysis of the left side; and cerebral symptoms, which indi- 
cate threatened apoplexy. 
These symptoms are ail so much aggravated by the cold sea- 
son that he has been obliged, with much sacrifice of time and 
inclination, to move South in the past two months of Novem- 
ber, and spend the whole winter there each year. 
July 31st.—He has taken the Compound Oxygen sixteen times 
during the month of June and twelve times during the present 
month. Has improved steadily from the beginning of Treat- 
ment. He now takes a two-weeks’ trip to Lake Superior and 
vicinity. 
August 16th,—Reports himself as so well that he needs no 
further treatment; but “will return on the first intimation of 
renewed trouble.” 
November Ist.—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.—Made 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 VII. March 23d, 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 
inches in height, and weighs one hundred and ninety-eight 
pounds. 
For four months past has been suffering with difficulty of 
breathing. A short walk of two squares, even at a moderate 
pace, would cause such labored and painful breathing as to 
compel him to stop for rest. The same distress when he first lies down, and upon any slight exertion, especially on going up- 
stairs. His appetite is very poor, although he really eats hut 
one meal a day. This state of things has steadily increased in 
spite of remedies which seemed skillfully chosen. 
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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 in succes- 
sion, and very seldom seven. 
Takes the Compound Oxygen daily, and no other remedy. 
March 30th.—No change, except that he walks with n little 
more ease. 
April 15th.—The dyspnoea (difficult respiration) is decidedly 
less. I have counted as high as seventy beats without interrup- 
tion. The pulse, too, is less labored. 
May Ist.—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. 
31st.—During this month has taken the Compound 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. 
He was in that condition in which many people die suddenly, 
and without sufficient warning to inform any one. He has 
taken just one and one-half month’s treatment in all. 
“ Philadelphia, April 14th, 1872. 
“ I have read the above record of my ease, by Dr. G. R. Star- 
key, 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, L. O. H.” 
Case VIII. November 28th, 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 prostra- 
tion, and severe pain in the stomach. 
December 4th.—A clear case of gastric fever is now fully de- 
veloped. The attack is very severe, and the impression upon 
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She is being treated with appropriate remedies in such cases 
used. 
6th.—The case has rapidly assumed a typhoid character within 
the last twelve hours, with very great prostration, and other 
symptoms of approaching dissolution. She now gets two or 
three inhalations of Compound Oxygen, and in twelve hours as 
much more. 
7th.—The typhoid symptoms have entirely disappeared. 
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 fc«w inhalations of oxygen every eight 
hours. 
10th.—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. 
17th.—She improves each and every day; continues to take 
the Oxygen, but no medicine for a number of days. 
January Ist, 1872.—Her improvement is a continual wonder to 
ell her friends. There seem to be no relapses, but a uniform 
convalescence, which is eminently satisfactory. 
From this point I will let her give her own account of her 
sickness and recovery; 
“ 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 in- 
distinct. Judging by the mental hallucinations which I can 
vividly recall, my impressions during a number of days were 
very unreliable. I 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 an- 
other part of the room. And although I could reason myself 
into the belief that they were not realities, I had no power for 
several days to disabuse myself of the hallucination. 
“Philadelphia, April, 1872. 
“ 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. 
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Bteps toward recovery, but it is enough that each day I could 
eount up the gain made the twenty-four hours previous. Dur- 
ing 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 dear- 
est of friends. I can now recall the vivid impression, 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 compared with 
this for severity; and I never recovered so rapidly, nor so hap- 
pily—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 ade- 
quate description of my emotions of wonder and gratitude on 
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 wonder- 
ful curative power, and hope Dr. Starkey will give my name in 
full, Maetha 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 lam in somewhat feeble health—had 
not the doctor sustained my strength by prescribing the Com- 
pound Oxygen for me each day. By that means I was always 
able to be at my post. 
“ 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 recovery—enables me to testify 
strongly to the accuracy and truthfulness of Dr. Starkey’s re- 
cord of my sister’s case. 
“ I have witnessed much sickness of a severe character, as six 
adult members of the family have died; but I have never seen 
such marked effect of gny 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. 
“Mks. Wm. H. Knight. 
“P. S.—I feel that some good to somebody nj,ay come of my 
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“ 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 progress, I be- 
gan to take the Oxygen. In less than a week its progress was 
completely cheeked, and it did not reach the height which it 
had never before failed to reach. The attack was also very ma- 
terially shortened, and I was not nearly so much reduced at the 
close of it as had uniformly been the case. 
“ Mrs. W. H. K.” 
Case IX. January 6th, 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. * 
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. 
January 13th.—Feels a sense of relief, yet slight and rather in- 
definite. 
20th.—Has gained in appetite and strength; cough symptoms 
less severe; and upon the whole she thinks she is better. 
February 10th.—Has taken just one month’s treatment. She 
now says: “ Doctor, lam so much better, I would like to sus- 
pend the treatment for a time.” I reply: Yes, you are decidedly 
better, but not well! You may stop now, on condition that you 
will return for treatment just as soon as your health begins to 
fa! ter. This being agreed to, she stops treatment. 
“ Philadelphia, May, 1872. 
“ Mrs. G. W. K., the subject of the above clinical record, was 
my patient at that date; and she was induced to try the Com- 
pound 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 tuber- 
culosis of the right lung. I recommended her to try that treat- 
ment, 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 Ido not 
hesitate to say that hers is a clear case of Pulmonary Consump- 
tion, eared. R, S., M. D.” COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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In some respects, this is the most remarkable case that I have 
.•wer had. That there was quite a large deposit of tubercles in her 
Vight lung, no one who is anything of an expert in physical ex- 
aminations 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. Whoever heard of Consumption being cured 
by a four-weeks’ treatment! And but for the frank and cordial 
indorsement of the whole account of the case by her physician, 
Dr. S., I should not have presumed to publish it. The full 
restoration to health was not completed until the following 
autumn. I have never seen her since that 10th of February, 
1870. 
Case X. May sth, 1871.—Mr. J. A., aged twenty-six, writes 
from the country that he is much reduced by spermatorrhoea 
of several years’ standing. He not being able to visit the city, 
I forward the Home Treatment to him. 
July 15th.—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 my share 
of work [on a farm], and in fact I am an entirely changed man. 
“ J. A.” TESTIMONIALS. 
& 
3KN these Testimonials I have given, by permission, tha 
PIP names and addresses of a number of patients who have 
been treated by Compound Oxygen, some of whom are 
A well known to the public and in the communities where 
t they reside. Such testimonials cannot fail to establish 
4 faith in this new Treatment. Where names are not 
given, it is because permission has not been obtained, 
and they could not be used without a breach of professional 
confidence. But each testimonial is genuine, and verbatim 
in the language of the patient. 
If, under any treatment or system of cure a tithe of such 
remarkable results has ever been obtained, it is certainly not 
to be found in medical history. 
The following letter was written to me before I espoused 
the cause of the Compound Oxygen. I have recently seen a 
photograph of Mrs. Batchelder, and she is a specimen oi 
blooming health. 
Consumption. 
“Gr. R. Starkey, M. D.; Dear Mr—Your note was not re- 
ceived until last evening (being away from home), and in re- 
ply I would state, that I commenced treatment with Dr. 
ta August, 1867, when my own father, who is an M. D., com 
“ Exeter, September Ibth, 1869. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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sidered mine a hopeless case of Pulmonary Consumption. Aftei 
the second inhalation of the Compound 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 nineteen 
pounds, and was a very different person. I then went to th« 
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 in- 
halations once a week until the following January, by which 
time I forgot that 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 ti’eatment, with the blessing of God, 
saved my life. No return of my disease has ever taken place, as 
was predicted 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, 
“ Mbs, E. S, Batchblder.” 
Mr. Waldo M. Claflin, whose testimonial is given below, 
continues in good health, and is actively engaged in business: 
“ Dr. G. R. Starkey : Dear Sir—You ask me for a statement 
»f my experience with the Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
Well, two years ago I was very sick with what was called Con- 
sumption. 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 im- 
prove very soon, so that all my friends were surprised. 
“ Philadelphia, June Bth, 1877. 
“ I was able to resume business in September, increasing in 
weight, strength and comfort. I took the Compound Oxygen 
at irregular intervals (only once in two weeks, after November) 
until spring. An occasional cold, from which I promptly re* 
cover, is all that has troubled me since. If there be any diseas* 
about me for the last year, they* hi no evidence of it. 
'• "VALDO M. CLAFIiUI.” 86 
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The author of the following letter is chief clerk of the 
Architectural Bureau : 
“ Washington, D. C., June 7th, 1877. 
“ Db. G. R. Stakkby : 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 con 
sidered it), in April, two years ago. At that time I was so re- 
duced in strength, by frequent hemorrhages, 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. 
It is now more than five years that he has enjoyed uni- 
formly good health. 
“ Very truly yonre, H. G. Jacobs.” 
A clergyman in Newville, Pa., says, in a letter dated Oc- 
tober 7th, 1880: 
“Three weeks have passed since my wife commenced using 
your Home Treatment, and as per instructions, I now report 
results. From the first inhalation, as I told you in my last, the 
soreness left her lungs almost immediately, and only twice has she 
experienced anything of it since, and then but comparatively 
little, and for a week past none at all. The constant dull, heavy 
•pain or aching she had has left also. She can now rest comfortably 
far a considerable time on her left side,-which she had been unable to 
do for nearly a year previous to adopting your Home Treatment. 
For some weeks she had been to some degree bent forward, 
being tall, and could not straighten up without difficulty, and some- 
times considerable pain; but now she walks as erect and with as 
much ease as she ever did. She has been very much annoyed 
With a very troublesome rash, which she thinks is perhaps a 
good omen. I should like to have your opinion as to this. At 
first her appetite seemed to be more than natural, almost ravenous, 
but now it is apparently quite natural. She still coughs and spits 
to some extent, but the discharges from the lungs are not putrid 
and offensive as they were, but show more of a natural appearance 
(somewhat frothy) as described in the Brochure. Her muscular 
system seems to be getting firmer and stronger than for some time, 
c year at least, and she is gaining in flesh, while her general ap- 
Imiremee is so much fresher and healthier that those who saw her LABORATORY.—Page 161. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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four or five weeks ago, are very much surprised at the change. II 
she continues to improve as she has done, I think she will ha 
entirely cured by the time the two months’ Treatment has been 
applied, and think it will be a boon from Heaven to us.” 
From a patient in Virginia comes the following report: 
“ With pleasure I inclose to you my second three weeks’ re- 
port. The first week of this period, I invariably slept well, and 
would rise feeling, as far as I could judge, much refreshed and 
brighter. No bad feelings. I would cough a good deal some- 
times; right often when fresh drafts of air would strike me. 
As soon as I would awake in the morning, I would have a spell 
of coughing, and would expectorate copiously—its color a little 
yellowish, no perceptible taste or odor. My appetite was gen- 
erally good all the week. While inhaling, would feel a kind of 
rattling sensation about the lower part of the left lung—would 
feel this same feeling when coughing also. The second week 
was about the first over again. As a general thing, my sleep 
was not so good; my appetite was good; did not cough quite 
so much—the sensations in the lung were not felt on inhaling 
or coughing, as of last week. I experience no sensations while 
inhaling, except a stretched feeling across the upper part of 
chest. Sometimes when the spells of coughing come on, a spell 
of heaving would follow. The third week, as a general thing, 
my sleep was good: would cough in spells after rising—expec- 
torating copiously; would have spells of heaving occasionally. 
During the day I cough very little, and when I do, it is much 
easier than the previous week. While inhaling would feel a 
tickling sensation, which would cause mo to cough, sometimes 
quite frequently. My appetite is excellent; I take as much exercise. 
as lean without getting tired. I seldom ever have a tired feeling.” 
A gentleman in Arkansas sent for a Treatment for his 
wife, and three weeks after it was received made the follow- 
ing satisfactory report: 
“ I received the Home Treatment in due time, and my wife 
began taking it on the Bth of September. She has had no hem- 
orrhage since. After commencing she had, at each inhalation, 
a kind of stricture across the lower part of the right lung, which 
seemed to get lower down at each inhalation until it disap- 
peared. Since then she has been gradually improving, although 
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she is much better than when she commenced. I can see a markedt 
improvement; her skin was sallow and her eyes had rather a dull 
look; now her skin is clearer than for a long time, and her eyes 
have more animation, and she says she can see better. She has for 
months had a pain in her chest, generally under her shoulder 
blades, but now that is nearly all gone. She still coughs a good 
deal, but does not expectorate any matter. The expectoration 
looks like the white of an egg, frothed a little; this is about as 
it was before she commenced taking the Treatment, only there 
is not so much of it. She can hold her shoulders back and ex- 
pand her chest now without pain, and I think her chest looks as if 
it was filling out some. Upon the whole, lam well pleased with 
the progress she is making in the direction of good health, and if 
she still continues to improve you may look for more patients 
from this section of the country.” 
A very decided gain is shown in the following case of a 
patient residing in Carthage, Miss.: 
“ I have been taking your ‘ Home Treatment ’ of Compound 
Oxygen six weeks, and am glad to say that I am improving. 
When I began the Treatment my limbs were so weak that I could 
scarcely stand on them, and they pained me a great deal. My 
cough was bad, and at times I could hardly breathe, and I suf- 
fered a great deal with pains in my stomach and lungs. I have 
now gained some five or six pounds in weight, and can walk two 
miles easily; the pain in limbs is entirely gone, my cough is 
much better. It does not tear me to pieces to cough now as it did six 
weeks ago. The pain in my stomach is gone, while the pain in 
my lungs has moved up.” 
A gentleman at San Marco, Texas, writes October Bth, 1880: 
“ My wife’s case is the most decided cure of Consumption I have 
ever seen. She had been coughing for two years, with occa- 
sional hemorrhage. For four or five months had been having 
fever all the time, expectorating profusely; so much so that she 
could not sleep at night, having night sweats, and reduced so in 
flesh and strength that she could barely leave her bed. She was at- 
tended by the best physicians in the State, taut without any 
good results. Two Home Treatments of Compound Oxygen cured 
her, and for eighteen months she has been in better health than for 
many years. Everybody is surprised at her recovery, and she 
stands to-day a walking advertisement of the virtues of Com- COMPOUND OXYGEN, 
pound Oxygen. If you would like to have hei testimonial 
she will take pleasure in sending it.” 
The following reports are all very satisfactory; 
511 have now been using the Compound Oxygen Treatment for 
about four weeks with a good deal of benefit, I am not of 
course well, but much better; my case has varied a good deal, 
from better to worse; but I begin to feel now that the crisis has 
passed, and I also realize that I have really been sick. The ma- 
larial fever seems to be gone, night sweats also. Pulse normal, 
seventy-two—for the first time in six months; temperature of the 
body not quite down. Dropped in weight to 135 pounds; have 
gained two pounds in the last three or four days. Appetite natu- 
ral, digestion good, never any trouble that way; am gaining a 
little strength every day. Can lift 380 pounds on the health lift 
without difficulty. I began with 100 pounds. I ride several 
miles each day on horseback, and walk as many more. There 
Is no lack of exercise. Cough diminished more than one-half. 
Expectorate less than one-half.” 
“ I have improved steadily since my last report, have gained 
In weight and strength; can almost swing along at my old gait. 
Which Avas a long, rapid stride. lam sore from the chair exer- 
cise, which exercise has helped my right lung considerable; the 
left don’t bother me any. In the morning I expectorate a 
heavy yelloAV mucus, while during the day it becomes more 
light and frothy till night. I suppose you will advise another 
Treatment, of course, and I believe that I should take another, 
Avhich, I think, would effect a cure, so I will order as soon as I 
can raise the funds, meanwhile I will take all the care I can 
and trust to the Lord, Avithout Avhose blessing all the remedies 
would fail, and I have every reason to be thankful, for I believe 
that each Treatment has lengthened my life, and by taking another 
there may be many days yet in store for me.” 
“ It affords me very much pleasure to add another testimonial 
to the efficacy of the Oxygen Treatment. I have now been using 
It for about three Aveeks, and have been Arery much benefited in 
that short time. My cough troubles me scarcely any now, my ap- 
petite is greatly improved, and I feel stronger, and better in every tvay, 
I can noAv go about in bad weather without experiencing any 
inconvenience, when formerly the least change in the weather 
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merit for pulmonary complaints I ever heard of, and know it is the 
best I have ever tried, and I have tried many,'” 
“I am very glad to report decided improvement. I still cough 
when I have been lying down and rise, but can talk with less 
fatigue and sing better than I have for several years. I have 
been Using the Compound Oxygen four weeks last Tuesday. 
Weighed only 93 pounds a few days after I commenced, and now 
weigh 107 pounds, a gain of 14 pov/nds. I knew that I ivas improv- 
ing, hut had no idea I ivas gaining so rapidly. * * * Am not so 
nervous, and sleep much better than formerly.” 
“ I got a Treatment for Mr. , who was quite sick, and was 
entering upon the first stages of Consumption. He has since 
been improving quite fast, to the surprise of his friends and recent 
employers. As for my own case, I can sincerely thank the Lord 
for the benefit I have received from Compound Oxygen. When I 
first commenced using it I was only able to sit up four or five 
hours a day, and had been so for two years. Now I am not 
only able to walk around without getting exhausted, but can do 
a full day's work. I was using the last of my first Treatment be- 
fore any marked change could be seen, and my improvement was 
just as rapid after it was used up ; ivhich I think a great thing in its 
favor. I have been so well since the last Treatment was received 
that I have stopped taking it. I am not entirely well, but I 
think it would be better to save it for cold weather, as I am 
quite apt to catch cold in winter, which generally settles on my 
lungs; and when I remember what it did for me last March in curing 
a cold, I think it would be better to keep than use it now. Please 
give me your opinion on the subject.” 
“I am improving slowly, I think; my husband says rapidly, 
but I think differently. I am gaining in flesh and a little in 
strength, and if I can make the gain permanent, I shall be so 
very, very thankful; but when any one has been sick so long as 
I have been, they are not very sanguine as a general thing. I 
-tried to improve a long time before there was much change for 
the better. Dr. would tell me I was better. I believed 
him, because I had confidence in his telling me the truth; but 
now any one can tell it. I look better every way; better than any 
of my friends ever thought to see me. Dr. examined my lungs 
some few days since; says they are better, decidedly better, and not 
near so much inflammation of the bronchi as there has been 
for a long time—two years, perhaps.” To-day, after the third week of the Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment, the results are: lam stronger; my appetite good; I rest 
much better at nights. Have not had any of those penetrating 
coughing spells, yet my cough is as frequent and expectoration 
the same in quantity and color. My voice has improved. For 
several days last week was worse than usual, without any ap- 
parent cause. In the three weeks have lost three pounds. All 
my friends note a change in me for the better. I desire to continue 
the treatment.” 
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“ I take no other medicine whatever, therefore must attribute 
my improved condition to Compound Oxygen. Four weeks ago 
I was weak, unable to sit up long at a time, with paroxysms of 
coughing that would make my lungs feel sore and prostrate me 
very much. The change has been so surprising to me and my 
family—but sometimes fear to be elated too much.” 
“ Appetite better; get hungry and can eat a hearty meal; feel 
stronger, and can walk with ease and breathe free, even when 
going up hill; sore throat left entirely; chest feels free; cough 
very little when going to bed, and sleep better; have no cough 
over night when waking up. Have not had any more bleeding 
since using the Treatment.” 
Catarrh, Neuralgia, Nervous Depression, Inter- 
mittent Fever, Dyspepsia, Prolapsus Uteri. 
The following is from a well-known clergyman in Massa- 
chusetts. It is especially valuable as exhibiting the uniform 
efficiency of the Home Treatment, and because X have never 
seen him nor either of the other parties here alluded to; 
“ 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 
Philadelphia, 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 ALL WHO MAY NEED LIKE HELP. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
to bear my ills through life, I was induced by my friends to ap* 
ply to him for advice in November, 1871. 
“ Being dyspeptic, with indigestion and biliousness, I 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 heredi- 
tary and chronic Catarrh. 
“ December 21st, I wrote the doctor that I had used the Inhala- 
tion a fortnight with great improvement in appetite and diges- 
tion, and with reliei from Catarrh, so that I had dispensed with 
the nasal douche, so long used three or four 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 diminished till they 
ceased, and I could brave the severest weather with impunity. 
I also experienced considerable expansion of chest, and gained 
vapidly in flesh. In the joyous buoyancy of a new life my grati- 
tude 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 at- 
tendant vigor; second, the bestowment of good digestion, with 
Its health fulness; third, the removal of nervous suffering; and 
fourth, the healing of a life-long Catarrh. It is for the entire 
cure of this last that I am continuing the Treatment, and from 
constant gain I hope soon to reach it. 
“ I have Just conversed with an experienced physician, 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 description, and whose condition 
■was such, under the powerful opiates (subcutaneous injections) 
that partially benumbed her to her torture, that Dr. Starkey 
could give no encouragement; and wrote, ‘ I profess to do mar- 
Vels with our Treatment, but not to work miracles.’ The trial 
was quietly made with her, and with new appetite and diges- 
tion, despite the severity of winter, she soon gave up the opiates, 
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been unable to be taken from her bed of languishing into the 
open air, but now the inspiration of out-of-door life seemed 
brought to her, and she gained a vigor and flush of health be- 
yond any expectation, 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 illnesa 
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 stand- 
ing, received decided benefit. Aggravated Dyspepsia gave way 
to improved appetite and increase of flesh; the removal of hot 
flushes showed a renovation of blopd; and difficulties peculiar 
to her sex were 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 inhala- 
tion of the Compound Oxygen was felt by the patient to relieve 
and heal, and she was soon liberated 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 consumptive ten- 
dency. In a similar attack, two years before, 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 sustained by inhalation, notwithstanding pro- 
fuse expectoration and the raising of some blood, which condi- 
tion caused solicitude, would have been decidedly alarming 
had not a process of renovation and healing been indicated; on, 
completion of which the cough suddenly ceased, followed by a 
rapid gain in flesh and healthfulness. 
“ 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 unyielding continu- 
ance. * 
’* When I read Part First of the Brochure, I thought, as with 
many things rlew, that the statements, though so scientific, 
clear and philosophical, should be received with considerable 
abatement; but from experience and observation, I must say 
that more in its favor might be 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 with- 
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seek, I must also say, happy will many be who even with much 
self-denial obtain it; but let such make a faithful and perse- 
vering trial, as some of the persons 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. 
“Rev. C. D. L.” 
Neuralgia. 
The subjoined letter, which came unsolicited, cannot fail to 
arrest the reader’s attention. ' Until its receipt, we were not 
aware of the full results of the Compound Oxygen Treatment: 
“ Mescalero Agency, South Fork, New Mexico, 
“ June sth, 1879. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Palen In the spring of 1878,1 happened 
to see your advertisement in Scribner’s Monthly. Although I 
seldom read a medical advertisement, I was at the time (as I am 
now) so situated that ‘ reading matter ’ of almost any kind was 
desirable; and I read your advertisement of ‘ Compound Oxy- 
gen.’ I felt satisfied that if the remedy was really what you 
claimed it to be, it was just what I wanted for a daughter who 
had been a sufferer with Neuralgia for more than fifteen years. I 
wrote you for a copy of your ‘ Treatise on Compound Oxygen.’ 
After reading this little work, and the certificates of such men 
as Judge Kelley, T. S. Arthur and others, I felt that if these were 
genuine, there must be real merit in the remedy. 
“ But I had tried so many remedies, and so many physicians 
of good standing and practice, without any permanent benefit, 
that I had almost despaired of my daughter ever getting well, 
and was afraid to incur the expense without more assurance 
that I would not be disappointed, and wrote to a clergyman of 
your city, and inquired about your standing in the city as phy- 
sicians, and the genuineness of the certificates referred to. His 
answer satisfied me, and I ordered the remedy sent to my 
daughter in Kansas. That was about one year ago, and since 
using the supply then ordered (I forget the quantity, but th« 
expense was only fifteen dollars) my daughter has not only not 
had Neuralgia, but considers herself in perfect health. 
“ On my return to ‘ the States,’ last fall, I stopped at Colorado 
Springs, and made partial arrangements for my daughter to 
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ter either in lowa or in Kansas, where she was temporarily 
stopping. Bat when I met her in Kansas, she said to me that 
she had written you, and had just received a reply that if she 
would use another supply of the Oxygen you would insure her 
a comfortable winter in any climate. On this assurance, we 
proceeded to our home in Des Moines, lowa. I then proposed 
ordering a second supply of Oxygen, and its use as a surety 
against a return of the disease; but my daughter objected until 
she felt the need of it -then, said she, ‘ I want it.’ I did not 
order it, and it has not been needed, and we are fully convinced 
that it will not be. 
“ Regarding my daughter as having, through the blessing of 
God, been permanently cured of as stubborn a case of Neuralgia as 
it is possible for any person to be afflicted with and live, by the use oj 
your Compound Oxygen, I esteem it a pleasure and a duty to 
send you this statement. It is, perhaps, too long to publish; if 
you should wish to do so; but you are at liberty to use it in any 
■way you see proper. 
“ I feel that I cannot over-estimate or say too much in praise 
of your remedy. 
“ Respectfully yours, S. A. Russell.” 
An emphatic testimonial, given without solicitation, is the 
following from Eev. I). 1). Read, of South Amboy, New Jer- 
sey, who has had good opportunity for observing the action 
of Compound Oxygen, as well in other cases as in his own: 
Brain Exhaustion 
“ Messrs. Starkey & Palen : Gentlemen—Permit me to add 
my testimony to that of others, as to the value of your ‘ Com- 
pound Oxygen Home Treatment.’ 
“ South Amboy, N. J., May 21st, 1879. 
“ After a most thorough and continued trial of its worth as a 
remedial and restorative agent, I pronounce its value to be 
above that of gold and silver. I freely and voluntarily commend 
it to all brain-workers as the best thing they can use to secure 
a restoration of exhausted energies. 
“ Gratefully yours. Rev. D. D. Read.” 
“ The Compound Oxygen administered by Dr. Starkey has 
been of great benefit to myself and to a Dumber of my friends. 
“ United States Mint, June 3d, 1872. COMPOUND OXYGEN 
“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 debility to good digestion, steady 
nerves and marked improvement in flesh. I am in better 
health and weigh more than at any former period of my life- 
now fifty-four years of age. 
“ H. C. Hickok, U. 8. Mint, 
“ Ex-State Superintendent Common Schools of Pennsylvania.” 
Asthma. 
“Dr. Starkey; Dear Sir—You ask for a statement of my ex- 
perience with the Compound Oxygen Treatment. More than 
ten years ago I began to have attacks of Asthma. These at- 
tacks 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 
apparent relief at all. 
“ Philadelphia, June, 1872. 
“In the summer of 1869,1 had the longest and most severe at- 
tack that I ever had. In the month of September I was so 
much reduced that I could not bear the weight of sufficient bed- 
olothing to keep me warm. I had to be carried up and down 
stairs, and it seemed doubtful 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 pre- 
monitory symptoms 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 are the facts. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
“ My health now, at the age of fifty-three, is better than it ha« 
been for many years. Respectfully, 
“ Mrs. I. N. Geegoey." 
The following is a record of tine severest case of Asthma 
that I have ever seen: 
“ De. G. R. Starkey : Dear Sir—You ask me for a sketch of 
my case. It is with sincere pleasure I comply with jmur 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 sufferings 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 at a 
time I would be obliged to sit bolt upright, or leaning 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 ex- 
hausted 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 October. 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 commenced treatment I had an attack of Asthma, 
hut 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, hut 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 
wiy friends and a joy to myself. 
“ Philadelphia, February 25th, 1873. 
Your grateful patient, 
*• Mrs. Anna Lijfkins, 
“ No. 2120 Wallace Street.” COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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One of tlie worst forms of Nasal Catarrh, in that fearful 
torm known as Ozcena, is recorded in Clinical Case 111. 
Catarrh. 
Another, almost as bad, is the following • 
“ Germantown (Phila.), April 15th, 1872. 
“To G. 11. Starkey, M. D.: Sir—ln reply to your favor would 
beg to say that I was suffering from Catarrh of the head (Ozoena) 
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 1 
was induced to try the Homoepathic system, and placed myselt 
in charge of a celebrated practitioner of that school for a period 
of two years; and found myself no better. Becoming discour- 
aged, 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 appe- 
tite returned to its natural 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 per- 
son. 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. Miss F. A.” 
It is now more than ten years since Miss A. was discharged, 
cured. She has been in the enjoyment of almost perfect 
health ever since. 
The country owes to Compound Oxygen a tribute of grati- 
tude, at least. To prolong 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 brilliantly and so faithfully served as a public man. 
It is with no little pride that I here record his grateful and 
hearty acknowledgment of services rendered in his case: COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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“ Dr. G. R. Starkey, Philadelphia. Dear Sir—Just about four 
years have elapsed since, overcoming a violent prejudice against 
any treatment that was offered as a specific for a wide range of 
apparently unrelated diseases, I yielded to the wishes of my 
friends, and abandoning other medicine, put myself in your 
charge. 
“ "West Philadelphia, June 6th, 1877. 
“ Gratitude to you and duty to those who may be suffering as 
I was from chronic Catarrh and almost daily effusion of blood, 
in greater or less quantities, but always sufficient to keep one 
reminded of his mortality, impel me to say to you, and to 
authorize you to give any degree of publicity to my assertion, 
that the use of your gas, at intervals, has so far restored my 
health that I am not conscious of having discharged any blood 
for more than a year: and that my cough, the severity of which 
made me a frequent object of sympathy, has disappeared. 
“ In short, my experience under your treatment has convinced 
me that no future dispensatory will be complete that does not 
embrace the 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. Your grateful friend, 
The judge wears his three-and-a-half added years since the 
above was written with becoming grace and dignity, as his 
efforts in the late Presidential canvass and his entrance upon 
a new and important enterprise will attest. 
“ Wi. D. Kelley.” 
Mr, W. A. S , of Houston, Texas, who had long suf- 
fered from a most distressing Catarrh, makes this report of 
the results of the Compound Oxygen Treatment in his case. 
His letter is dated September 7th, 1878: 
“ Agreeable to your request, I report after using your ‘ Oxygen 
Treatment.’ That I have been greatly benefited by it, lam 
happy to acknowledge. But lam not cured. I have used two- 
thirds of the oxygenaqua. A prolonged absence from the city 
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of the Treatment. The results attained so far have been thesth 
I had a distressing Catarrh, which obliged me sometimes to 
rise from my meals to expectorate. It seemed as if there was a 
lump in my throat that would not let my food go down prop- 
erly. That is all, or very nearly all gone, and it is very rarely 
I expectorate at all. My food tastes better, and my chest has 
expanded one inch, but no increase of weight. The general ef- 
fect on my system has been very good.” 
In this letter Mr. S wrote for a new supply of Oxy- 
gen. But a few days afterward wrote again, saying; 
“ I wrote you on Saturday to send me another supply. I write 
now to say that I am improving so fast that 1 believe the bal- 
ance of what I have on hand will do me. So don’t send,” 
We knew nothing of the result in this next case until the 
following letter, voluntarily sent, came to hand. The testi- 
monial, coming as it does from a gentleman occupying so 
high a position in his State, is one of great value: 
“ River Falls, Wisconsin, September 4th, 1879. 
“State Normal School, 
“ Rrs. Starkey & Palen : Gents—After enduring post-nasal 
Catarrh for eleven years, at times greatly annoyed and sick- 
ened by the abundance of the secretion, in the full belief that 
Catarrh is incurable, I procured your Compound Oxygen, and 
after three months’ steady application the secretion wholly 
ceased, and has not yet returned, six months having elapsed since 
I have used the Oxygen. I therefore commend your specific to 
the thousands of sufferers from Catarrh, with its attendant ills. 
“I shall take pleasure in testifying for the benefit of any 
inquirer. 
“Respectfully, W. D. Parker, 
“ President State Normal School.” 
The following extracts from letters written to us by Dr. W, 
H. Harris, of Sparta, Georgia, are important as giving a pro* 
fessioual as well as a personal testimony to the value of Com* 
pound Oxygen in Catarrh : COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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“ It is with much pleasure that I write to say that I have de- 
rived very decided benefit from the Compound Oxygen Treat- 
ment. I received it about two months ago, and have been 
using it, at first every day, until my disease, * Chronic Catarrh,’ 
is so much relieved, that I have no need to employ it except 
occasionally. I would not be without it for a great deal.” In a 
later communication, Dr. Harris says: “Since I began the use 
of it last fall, with such decided benefit, a good many have been 
induced to give it a trial, and I think it sustains its reputation 
as a remedy of great value.” And in a still later one: “You 
have my full and free consent to publish my opinion of the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. My belief in its value is 
strengthened by the cumulative testimony in its favor; but the 
most convincing argument has been its marked improvement 
of my own condition.” 
The following are extracts from a letter written by a sis- 
ter-in-law of one of President, Grant’s secretaries. She had 
constantly declined in heahfi for three years when she came 
under my care, in spite of all that could be done for her in 
New York: 
Nervous Exhaustion and Depression. 
“ New York, July loth, 1871. 
“ Dear Doctor : * * * I suppose you 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 nourishment 
for her, the ‘ Oxygen baby.’ 
“My own health has been excellent /—all owing to those de- 
lightful Inhalations in your office. I am 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 suffi- 
cient 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 one ailing or suffering 
Without feeling it my duty to recommend and urge upon them 
your Treatment. 
“ Very respectfully. Mbs. ——~ •——. 102 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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 Treat- 
ment with some regularity through the 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 fol- 
lowing he informed me, that when he first came to ray office 
he had, to all intents 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 suc- 
cessful], and I consider my ability to accomplish 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: “ There is one feature of the Oxygen 
Treatment which surprises 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 Treat- 
ment, occasionally, during the time. I have another book, 
two-thirds written, which will be finished in a few weeks, 
and I perform every day’s labor with more satisfaction and less 
exhaustion than I have known for many years.” 
I presented the above statement to Mr. Arthur for “bis in- 
dorsement or disapproval. After keeping it for a day or 
two, he returned it with the following note’: 
u Dear Doctorl have made only a few changes in your cir- 
cular. If anything I can say will help you, or extend the Treat- 
ment, I shall be gratified. Very truly yours, 
“ T. S. Arthur.” 
“ Philadelphia, February 11th, 1873. 
Up to the autumn of 1869 my two older daughters, now 
respectively seventeen and fifteen years of age, had been ah most entirely deprived of school advantages from sheer 
physical inability to pursue their studies. Very soon after 
beginning to take the Compound 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 sat- 
isfy any reasonable demand of even- ambitious parents. 
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Now, after eleven years, the result above stated can be 
emphasized. 
Congestion of Lungs. 
The following letter explains itself: 
“ My Dear Sir .--—Learning that you are about to publish a few 
-confirmations of the many virtues claimed for the Compound 
Oxygen, I would like to have my mite 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 of Gilead.’ 
“ Philadelphia, February, 1873. 
“ 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 II of Clinical Record in the Bro- 
chure). Being a druggist by profession, and thus more or less 
conversant 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 
tny daughter’s case, cannot be overstated. 
“ When I recall the six long, weary winters of unremitting 
Buffering through which she passed—each one more severe than 
the preceding—l can hardly realize that she is the same person 
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 deprived of its just value, as if it were COMEOVNU OXYGEN. 
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 consider hers 
an exceptional case, unless it may he in the matter of degree. It 
is worthy of record that although she has experienced such 
marvelous results from the Office Treatment, after having given 
the Home Treatment a faithful trial, she expresses an unquali- 
fied preference for the latter. 
“ Ambrose Warren. 
“ G. B. Starkey, M. D.” 
“ Gratefully yours, 
If the above report had been written now (eight years 
later), it would have been still stronger. 
Heart Disease. 
Rev. T. I. Holcomb, Hector 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 th« 
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 aU kinds. This fall she has been in a terrible state. The 
paroxysms of pain grew more frequent and more severe. Her 
appetite left her, and her strength also, of course. For three COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
weeks before she commenced the' Oxygen she had no sleep, ex- 
cept from the effect of morphia or chloroform. Her cries, when 
in pain, were agonizing. When Mr. H. read the pamphlet, he 
showed it to the last doctor they had called, and asked his ad- 
vice. It was simply: *lf you can hear of anything that offers 
the shadow of a hope for Nellie, send eok it.’ They wrote at 
once. In the meantime, they were nursing her night and day, 
and were nearly worn out. They wrote tor Mrs. H.’s sist®r to 
come and help them take care of her. The child had chills every 
third day, frequent and intense 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 administered it to 
her. That night she slept from eight o’clock till five, 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; 
and 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. Sha said 
to me, with her eyes full of tears: ‘ Our Christmas is very differ- 
ent from what it would have been if wo had never heard of the 
Oxygen.’ ” 
“ 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 improving daily. If she con- 
tinues to improve, there is nothing that I can say that will be 
too extravagant in praise of the ‘ Compound Oxygen.’” 
In a letter from her father, written the day after, he says: 
“ My little Nellie continues to improve, and has had no return 
of pain. * * * Our hopes of a permanent recovery are daily 
strengthening.” 
In a letter dated January 6th, 1873, he writes : 
Ten days later he writes 
Nellie is still improving. She has had no return of pain.” 
On the 22d ult, he inclosed to me her photograph, and 
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“ I want you to see the girl that plays out of doors half of eacl 
day.1' 
The last intelligence from her is on the 6th inst., and an 
nounces continued improvement. In a letter, dated January 
29th, 1878, her mother writes: 
“Nellie, our blessed child, remains perfectly well, and is a 
marvel to all who know her. We never cease to praise tho 
wonderful Oxygen, and shall always work for you and this 
noble remedy where and whenever we can. 
“ Mbs. Lizzie W. Holcomb.” 
A fine photograph of Miss Nellie, taken May, 1880, sent 
to me by its owner,—is now hanging in our office, and it is 
worth a short journey to see it. 
In September, 1872, Mr. S. M. Morris, of Wilsonville, 
lowa, sent for a supply of Compound Oxygen for his wife. 
March Bth. he writes • 
Liver Disease. 
“ I have delayed reporting my wife’s ease, in order to see 
what effect 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 difficulty in breathing this winter. * * * 
She has enjoyed 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 Watee her stomach improved very much, and con- 
tinued to improve. * * * Now, doctor, we have given your 
remedies a fair trial in a very complicated case of Chronic Dis- 
ease of the Lungs, Liver and Stomach, and the patient has re- 
ceived much benefit in every way. But she does not appear to be 
cured entirely of either one of the troubles; therefore I want 
you to send me two months’ supply of the Compound Oxygen.” 
Arrested Development. 
The following letter is from the wife of one of the first 
lawyers in Ohio, It is of unusual interest, First, as a con* COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
donation of the great curative power of the Home Treat- 
ment. Can there be found in the whole realm of medical 
literature two other cases in which a genuine curative agent 
has produced results so nearly magical as in “ Annie’s ” case 
and that of little Nellie Holcomb (see p. 105). Second, it is 
very strongly confirmatory of the claim set up, that the 
Compound Oxygen is a yitaeizer. Not only is it apparent 
in the remarkable physical development of the child, but 
also (which Mrs. Niles, through inadvertence, undoubtedly, 
omitted to state) in her mental development. She did not 
articulate a syllable until she had taken the Compound Oxy- 
gen two or three weeks. This might have been a coinci- 
dence. 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. 
“ Urban A, Ohio, June 19 th, 1877. 
“ Dr. G. E. Starkey : Dear Sir—How much 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. 
“ 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 having change of air fof a week, 
she held her head up. The next summer she sat alone upon the 
floor; the next, when more than two and a half years old, shs 
moved for the first time-a kind of pushing or 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 half years old, I determined to take her to 
the seashore. 
“ 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 disease of the kidneys. 
“A summer at the seashore so far strengthened her that she 
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(fraw herself up by the bed or any strong thing and stand fljp a 
moment. She soon began to lose this strength, however. 
“In February she was attacked Avith scarlet fever, and wad 
severely ill. A little before this time I had heard of the Com- 
pound Oxygen through a friend in Washington, and was pre- 
paring to take her there for treatment. 
“ As she was from the fever she had a large abscess 
upon her neck, which broke. This Avas folloAved by another 
and larger one on the side of the throat and under her ear. 
“ At this point of time I tried to have her inhale some of the 
Home Treatment, which had been sent to me, without much 
hope that she could do it. One inhalation 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 Aveather of 1876 I took her again to 
the seashore, and about the middle of September to Dr. Star- 
key, Avhere she remained until the first of November. 
“ From the first moment almost of her treatment under the 
Oxygen the change Avas 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 from want of use. They are now, hoAvever, 
groAving rapidly.. 
“ After all tf 3 Oxygen has done for Annie I would shout its 
name high as tne heavens, if it would but reach the ear of all the 
afflicted. 
“ Gertrude James Niles.” 
Her mother wrote to us early in 1878, that Annie was sur. 
prising her acquaintances by running about the streets liks 
other children. 
Intelligence has repeatedly come to us since from her 
mother and near relatives, and always of the most satisfactory 
character. 
Bronchitis. 
In the early part of August, 1878, a clergyman in Orange, 
Neyr Jersey, seventy-one years of age, wrote to us as follows; COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
For more than two years I have suffered from a Catarrhal 
flifticulty, first in the larynx and bronchia, and, for a year past, 
It has taken the form of a diarrhoea. This has not yielded to 
any medicine. * * * My strength is reduced, though I have 
not been entirely disabled from work. * * * If you think 
that at my age the Compound Oxygen Treatment would be 
helpful, please send me by express C. O. D. what will give me a 
fair trial—say for two months. But if you think that at my age 
It is not worth while to contend with the weakness that I have 
upon me, please to be frank, and act at once on your judg- 
ment.” 
The Treatment was sent. At the end of three weeks a 
most decided improvement was reported, and at the end of 
six weeks the patient wrote in part as follows: 
“ My appetite is strong, eating followed by no pain or drowsi- 
ness, and I eat fruit and vegetables ad lib.—a thing not allow- 
able for the last thirteen months before. My sleep is sound and 
satisfying, without dreams; and often I work the day through 
without lying down. 
“My strength is in all respects up to the full health-mark. I 
«njoy walking and I enjoy work. 
“ My breathing is deeper and fuller than for many years be- 
fore. I should say than ever before, if it did not seem preposter- 
ous for a person seventy-one years old to say such a thing of 
himself. * * * At present I am resting from the use of the 
Compound Oxygen, for I do not know why I should just now 
continue it. My friends are rejoicing in my improved looks, 
%nd say I never looked better; and certainly, for three years 
and a half I have not written a letter with the ease and comfort 
With which I am writing this. 
“With feelings of gratitude to God which I cannot express, 
and with sincere congratulations to you on the precious stew- 
ardship which I believe you have in your hands, I am,” etc. 
A lady in Carmel, New York, after using the Oxygen 
Treatment for about four weeks, writes as follows in regard 
to the T’e«ul+ 
“ Four years ago I had an attack of Acute Bronchitis. It was 
two or three months before I got over it, and then I had lost my 
voice. I could not sing. The next winter I had two attacks, and 
Jn the spring I had chronic inflammation of the throat. I was 
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to Brooklyn for medical treatment. 1 got very much better,- 
but as soon as the weather became cold I took cold and had tc. 
stay in the house for most of the time, with an inflamed throat. 
When I sent for the Oxygen I had just had the worst attack 
from which I had ever suffered. I feared that I was going to 
lose my voice entirely, it hurt me so to talk. Last year, every 
time I had a cold it left mo with a pain in the lower part of my left 
lung. This summer the doctor sounded my lung, and said all 
the trouble was in the larger air-passage. 
“ The first time I inhaled the Oxygen, that pain left me in half 
an hour, and I have not felt it since. For two days my lung felt 
real good; then the inhaling made it feel sore, and every time I 
coughed it seemed to come from that place where the pain had 
been, and what I passed had a very bad taste 
“ I have taken a great many different things, but never in my 
life took anything like the Oxygen. I feel so strong and well, and 
have such a good, healthy appetite.” 
Many other cases of Brmiekitis—as well as of all the other 
diseases reported in this Treatise—may be found detailed in 
our periodical, “ Health and Life.” 
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 
veracity by publishing it, were the person’s parents not ready 
to attest to the truthfulness of the statements. 
Paralysis. 
Some time ago, while standing in my office-door, cogitat- 
ing which direction lo 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. To my surprise, she 
turned toward my door, and, with an amused smile, accosted 
me. Of course, such a more than civil salutation must be 
answered. “ You don’t know me, then ?” she said. Slightly 
embarrassed by being taken at a disadvantage, I replied, “I 
beg your pardon; no.” A little triumphant laugh was her PACKING ROOMS,—Page 161. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
response. Tins betrayed her. “ Can this be Mrs. Kelley f’ 
“ Yes, this is Mrs. Kelley.” Now for the story. 
Mrs. Kelley is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Jacob 
Hornbrook, of Wheeling, W- Ya. In September, 1873, the 
parents brought her on a bed to Philadelphia. A completer 
wreck can scarcely be conceived of. A pitiable victim, whose 
zeal in a prolonged work of philanthropy outran her strength,!' 
if not her judgment! During the war she was a Florence 
Nightingale, paymistress to the wives and families of the 
State soldiers, and right-hand man to her father, whose gra- 
tuitous 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, imme- 
diately 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 profuse hemorrhage from the lungs, although they 
were not diseased. Fearful convulsions, each seemingly 
enough to end her life, set in and followed her at intervals of 
two or three weeks daring the whole time. Soon there was 
a total Paralysis from the hips to the 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 neu- 
ralgic 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 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
more lielp than any medicine could afford. He warned 
them, however, that, with the most favorable results, then 
would be no perceptible improvement short of a year. 
I confess to feeling guilty of the sin of presumption when 
I gave 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, stimulants and all other 
drugs. In three months the neuralgia had entirely disap- 
peared, 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-hack, 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, was 
able to sit in a rolling-chair some hours each day, and do a 
little very clumsy walking, if supported at her shoulders. 
The treatment was then suspended; as I supposed the invig- 
orating sea air would carry on the cure. She was most fa- 
vorably situated, took warm sea- water baths, was cheerful, 
and had a good appetite. 
This regime, continued for six weeks, failed to produce 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 re- 
turned to the city and virtually stopped treatment. In No- 
vember, she could walk to and from church, go shopping and 
mount stairs like other people. 
The following February, while at Washington, I received 
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Captain Kelley; and with it an invitation to be present at 
the wedding. 
A noted member of Congress was in my office at the time, 
to whom her father had related something of her case. To 
some, who observed his surprise at the announcement, he ex- 
claimed : “ 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. 
Only last October (1880) both mother and child visited the 
office; but neither of them for medical treatment. 
The following report of a case in which the patient, a 
prominent citizen in one of our Northern States, and a man 
actively engaged in business, gives his condition when he 
began using Compound Oxygen, and his condition after two 
months, shows its effect in incipient Paralysis. Our first 
communication from this gentleman was dated June Ist, 
1880, in which he says : 
“ As to efficiency of Treatment in case of progressive Paraly- 
sis—l am fifty-four; weigh now two hundred; have weighed 
two hundred and twenty: am five feet eight inches high. Have 
been troubled more or less for sixteen years with nervousness, 
debility, confusion of ideas, difficulty in handling legs and arms, 
though not amounting to helplessness at all. Have traveled in 
this country, chiefly in summer, and on and about the sea; also 
in 1877 crossed the Atlantic twice. Still attend to business, but it 
goes hard. Speech affected a little; hearing and eyes dull. Weak 
all over, but ride and walk and try to enjoy myself. Formerly 
had congestion of the stomach. Appetite good. For past month 
have dieted enough to reduce my weight sixteen pounds, and 
for same length of time have not used cigars, wines, liquors or 
beer—formerly used all daily. Have been treating with ergot 
and bromide pot assium—grow weaker in body and mind, I think, 
every day. Slight darting pains in shoulders, arms and legs, 
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elety and business; but now both are a burden* Walk withoit? 
a cane, and am not lame. Have used electricity.” 
After receiving our reply to this letter, he sent for a 
“ Home Treatment.” 
After two months’ use of the Oxygen, August 9th, we have 
this report: 
“Being about to close use of Compound Oxygen for eight 
consecutive weeks, and having material left, I would ask 
whether I should continue the Treatment right on, or discon- 
tinue for a time. I have taken it twice a day for the period 
named, without a miss, except on Fridays—that day omitted it, 
The result has been entirely satisfactory. I did not anticipate that 
the use of the Compound Oxygen would cure me in two 
months, nor even make me a boy again. But, so far as I can 
judge, I am in very many respects greatly improved by its use, and 
shall continue as you advise,” 
Another case is that of a clergyman in Fulton, New York. 
Unless there had been in Compound Oxygen an active prin- 
ciple competent to remove obstructions in the more interior 
organism, where life flows in, and to revitalize the sluggish 
forces of nature, no result of so remarkable a character could 
possibly have taken plane in this exceptionally severe test of 
its virtue. The extracts given below are from letters written 
by the wife of the clergyman referred to, and tell their own 
story. The first extract is taken from a letter dated May 23d, 
1879, written a few weeks after the patient commenced the 
Oxygen Treatment: 
“ Within the last seven years my husband has had two shocJu 
of Paralysis; each time from being overheated. He soon re- 
covered the use of his limbs, but not his strength. That has 
been less and less until he would often faint with little exertion, 
Last winter I discovered by accident that his pulse was quick— 
as fast as I could count—but not attended with heat, as his hands 
were always cold, and he was often chilly, and his breath wag 
nearly twice to my once. It seemed like an infant’s breath* 
-diort and soft. In short, his body seemed a burden to him. 
M That was how the Treatment found him. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
“Changes that I have marked. His constipation cured; or 
he has had no occasion to use pills since the Treatment. Hia 
breathing is nearly right, as well as his pulse. He is not so ut- 
terly prostrated as he was, and does not require so much effort 
to rise from his seat.” 
A month later the writer says: 
“ His hands, which were so bloodless and cold, are now red, and 
the veins stand out, shovnng a renewed circulation. His shoulders. 
which were bovjed at an angle of forty-jive degrees, now are ereci 
and perpendicular; his breath, which has been offensive for 
years, is much better. My reasonings are, if Oxygen can make 
these changes, will it not restore to strength in time?” 
October 15th, 1879, after nearly four months, we have this 
further report: 
“My husband continues to improve. About the last of July 
his left leg, which had a paralytic limp, straightened out, so that now 
he steps evenly on both legs. The parti all condition of 
the right hand and the left side of his face, which were affected 
by the last shock, that weakened his tongue on the left side so 
as to prevent in a measure his utterance, has also disappeared. 
The right eye, which has been turned out and had an unnatural 
look, is nearly righted; and he often forgets Ms cane when he 
goes out.” 
A lady in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who had suffered from 
Hay Fever and Asthma, procured our Oxygen Treatment. 
After using it as directed, she found herself so much benefited 
that she ordered a second supply. In writing for this, July 
21st, 1880, she said : 
Hay Fever. 
“ E presume you wish to know how I am enjoying myself this 
Hay Fever weather. I will give you a list of my doings this 
week, which will enable you to form an idea of my powers o! 
endurance. Monday morning, at seven A. M.,left home for a 
drive of seven miles, and a sail on the lake. Returned at two 
P. M/, ate my dinner, and walked from my home to town, a 
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to exhaust the most robust), and drove home. Tuesday, did all 
the ironing—all plain clothes—for our family of six; received 
two calls, and then drove up street to see a gentleman whom 
you will see before long, if talking Oxygen has taken effect. I 
fancy he has bronchial Consumption, not of long standing. I 
talked fast enough to cause Asthma, but it didn’t. Now, perhaps, 
you think I have rid myself of the chokes, but I have not, and 
feel it almost every day, and am obliged to use Oxygen. My 
friends are afraid it will wear out. Do you think it possible ? 
Will it not always give me strength, and help me in every 
way ?” 
A teacher writes us from Napierville, 111., July 27th, 1880 : 
“ I would have written sooner, but I was watching what I 
called Asthma symptoms for some time, but I am now satisfied 
from your description of Hag Fever, that that is what troubles 
me at this season of the year: but it came on earlier this year 
than usual. This year the difficulty began about two weeks 
ago by disturbed sleep during the fore part of the night, and 
inability to sleep from.three A. M. till about six A. M., and for 
about a week I had slight difficulty in breathing during this 
time (three to six), but not so bad but what I could lie in bed 
without discomfort, which in former years I could not begin to do. 
In former years I also had a very violent cough during this 
period, especially in the morning; but this time the cough was 
very slight and easy. My appetite, too, is much better this time than 
formerly during this period, and last night I had a good night's 
sleep and rest—the first in about two weeks. The only sign of 
Hay Asthma, or fever, that remains, so far as I can see, is a rat- 
tling in the throat, wheezing and slight cough, and considerable 
discharge from the nostrils, and this perhaps would have dis- 
appeared if I had seen and followed your directions for Hay Fever 
before this morning. I have not sniffed water from the inhaler 
before to-day, but will do so, however, hereafter. For about 
two weeks I have been taking the Oxygen twice a day. 1 feel 
confident that Compound Oxygen will cure me.” 
A month later, August 31st, he wrote as follows: 
“ To-morrow our school opens again, and I must go to work. 
I am glad to say that, physically, I am in a better condition for 
work than I have been for several years. The day after i wrote 
the last letter, I took a severe cold while bathing when I was 
too warm; the consequence was an attack of Asthma and terrible 
coughing for about a week. But, by the use of Compound* Oxy- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
<en, I suffered less than usually and got over the attack quicker. 
After I was able to leave home, I took a trip to the northern 
part of this State and to lowa. I took the Compound Oxygen 
along, and used the Treatment as regularly as possible under 
the circumstances. I still take it once a day. I sleep well, eat 
well, and feel as though I could do good work, mentally. If 1 
continue to improve during the next nine months as much as I 
have done during the past three, I shall be a strong man again,” 
Insomnia. 
There are few morbid conditions more difficult to reach 
than Sleeplessness, while the drugs used for its cure give, 
usually, only a temporary relief; the patient, after their ac- 
tion ceases, generally finding himself in a worse condition 
than before. Every intelligent physician understands the 
bad effects which invariably follow the steady use of ano- 
dynes, and knows his patient to be in a very serious, if not 
perilous, condition, when sleep cannot be obtained except by 
their agency. 
One of the almost invariable results which follow the use 
of Compound Oxygen is to give the patient sound and re- 
freshing sleep. We offer a few extracts from our letters 
bearing on this point, and could give many more; but these 
are sufficient to show its quieting effect on the brain and ner- 
vous system. 
“My daughter has improved in flesh and looks well. She sleeps 
well at night—sleeps all night, a thing she ivas wnaceustomed to do. 
Before taking the Oxygen, wakefulness ivas one of her troubles. I 
can see that she is much less nervous, and is in better spirits.” 
“ I am happy to inform you that there is still a gradual im- 
provement in my general health. * * * I sleep better and 
longer without interruption.” 
“ Before I commenced taking it (the Compound Oxygen) I did 
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troublesome that 1 had no rest. Since I commenced taking 1\ 
I have slept well at night; my appetite has very much improved; 
F scarcely cough at all; and, in fact, I feel better in every way." 
“ Improvement was steady and rapid, though chloral, which 
had been resorted to for a long time, was still used to procure 
sleep, but in smaller and smaller doses. The continued use oi 
Compound Oxygen soon gave her healthy and refreshing sleep, and 
all anodynes are abandoned.” 
“ Since using your remedy, my sleep is natural and good. My 
spirits are in a much more healthy condition. I have no need oj 
anodynes—have more actual strength than for years past.” 
“After omitting the chloral, we were obliged to use hyper der- 
mic injections to quiet her nerves so that she could sleep—could not 
omit them as soon as you wrote that you wished to have us. 
About ten days since, we omitted the hyperdermic injections, 
and she has rested very well nights—has no cough and no appear- 
ance of Asthma.” 
“ I have followed your directions as nearly as possible. Have 
left off all the medicines and stimulants my wife was taking, 
and the result of your Treatment so far has been more satisfac- 
tory tTian anything preceding it. She has been able to sleep good 
at night without the use of chloral, a thing she could never do before.'” 
“ My headache all gone, good appetite, and can sleep all night 
without coughing, a thing I have not been able to do for a year. I 
feel like a new person. I can breathe now.” 
IMPROVEMENT IN APPETITE, DIGESTION AND GENERAL 
Health. 
The universal testimony which comes from our patients is 
to the fact that the use of Compound Oxygen raises the standard 
of hecdth. No matter how slow its action, in the work of dis- 
lodging some chronic disease, which has for years been 
steadily making headway in spite of physicians and medi- 
cines, one result is almost always admitted, an improvement 
in the general health. 
Take the following extracts from recent letters: COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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“ I feel that I have derived much benefit from the use of the 
Oxygen. My appetite is notv good, my digestion better, and I may 
my tluU there has been a decided improvement in my general health 
during the past two months. Were it not that my breathing 
organs were still affected I’d truthfully state that I am compar- 
atively a well person. I must tell you, too, that I have used the 
Oxygen under very unfavorable circumstances; sickness and 
other duties have forced me to neglect myself.” 
“ I have been taking your Compound Oxygen two months, 
and think it has done me more good than anything I have 
taken. I have been growing stronger and my appetite is good. 
I have not had much pain to speak of, although my cough is 
pretty bad, and bothers me a good deal.” 
“ I feel encouraged, for my appetite is better, and I feel so much 
stronger.” 
“ During the first month I could see no decided improvement, 
owing, partly, perhaps, to the fact that we had sickness in the 
family; but since then I have improved rapidly; have not felt so 
well in two years ; appetite is good; blood circulates well; pains in 
back, limbs and lungs has disappeared, and I sleep such sound and 
refreshing sleeps that 1 begin to feel like a new person. I still have 
some severe headaches, when I cannot avoid the use of warm 
bread; ha ve pain in left side sometimes, and lameness in my 
back. I cannot do much work without getting tired, but feel 
satisfied that the Oxygen has done more for me than all the drugs 1 
have ever taken." 
“Having, within the last two years, used your Compound 
Oxygen with positive benefit to myself, I am Induced thereby 
to send for another supply for a member of my family. I com 
fess to great neglect in not reporting results to you last spring- 
according to your written request; but, after all, the best testh 
monial of appreciation I can give for the Oxygen is to send for 
some more. To be brief, allow me to say that I have been much, 
aye, even vastly, benefited in health by Us use; the general tone of 
my system haring been brought up; lungs restored to healthy ac- 
tion, and vitality improved.” 
“My health Is better than it has been for fifteen years, and 1 
am stronger at forty-nine than ever in my life. I still suffer 
With the numbness in my hands and arms, at times, particu- 
larly after doing anything that is hard on the muscles of th« 
hands, fingers and thumbs.” 120 
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“ I have not anything very definite to report, but think I am 
some stronger. Appetite better, and not so much pain in chest and 
arms, and do not cough so much—sleep better. But such compli- 
cations of aches and pains cannot be driven off in a few weeks. 
It is fourteen years I’ve been a sufferer. I daily thank God and 
take courage.” 
“ You will remember me as one of your patients a year ago. 
I took a two months’ Treatment, and it is with the greatest 
pleasure that I once more testify to the good it did me. I feel 
like a new person. I have gained twenty-five pounds in weight, and 
never enjoyed better health than I do this summer.” 
“ The first use of the inhalent warmed me through and through, 
and my lungs felt on fire, but since then that or any other sen- 
sation has been absent; except a few time's the lightheadedness 
mentioned by you. The change most apparent to me, as well 
as to my friends, is an elasticity in my movements, that has 
been lacking for some years. * * * One thing I am very 
grateful for—my mind seems clearer, and facts I had forgotten 
come trooping along most unexpectedly at times. I feel very 
hopeful, and my friends say they can see a great change in these 
few days of its use. Oh 1 to be well, and resume the work laid 
down, will be such a pleasure, if it is best, otherwise the strength 
to bear in silence, and be as true as I know how to smaller 
things.” 
Marasmus. 
A physician already quoted, writes: 
“[The Compound Oxygen in his hands] has cured a grea 
number of cases of gastro-intestinal trouble, painful and debili- 
tating in their nature, under my immediate observation ; one 
an infant in the last stages of Marasmus, also in the case oi 
many clerks, and other men of business.” OOMPO UND OXYGEPr. 
Spermatorrhcea. 
Jlinical Case No. X is one in point. As we have to get 
onsent to publish testimonials, the reason that our lists of 
:hese cases is so meagre is quite obvious. 
Mr. W. F. D. was afflicted with two diseases, either of 
which would baffle the best-directed medical treatment for 
months, if not entirely. Having used the Compound Oxy- 
gen six weeks, and finding that it “ had benefited him so little,” 
he wrote us a letter in high “ dudgeon.” In reply, we pointed 
out to him the unreasonableness of his complaint, and that 
our part of the contract had been kept to the letter. 
On May 4th, he writes: 
“ I would beg leave to add my testimony to the efficacy of the 
’Compound Oxygen Treatment. When I wrote that discour- 
iging letter last February, I had about two weeks’ supply re- 
maining, and had resolved to abandon the treatment. At that 
lime your letter came, hinting that perhaps I had not done my 
duty thoroughly. I then resumed it, and with these results: 
the seminal emissions have entirely ceased. The catarrh has 
been greatly benefited, but not entirely cured. In fact, I did 
not expect both diseases would be cured by tv: - months’ treat- 
ment, owing to the exhausted state of my vital powers. But 
there is one disease for which I will recommend the Compound 
Oxygen. To all who are afflicted with Spermatorrhoea, I would 
say to you, with all the solicitude of one who has been afflicted 
as you have been: procure without delay this wonderfully 
vitalizing remedy. Those terribly weakening emissions, that 
feeling of lassitude and depression, will all disappear under the 
influence of this potent remedy. All that you have hoped for 
during years of suffering and pain will be fully realized, and 
the manhood you have squandered restored. Remember, 1 
write as one having authority. Yours in sympathy, 
“W. F. D.” COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
Compound Oxygen as a Protection from Disease, 
The following, which we take from a letter received from 
one of our old patients, dated June sth, 1880, shows the effect 
of Compound Oxygen in keeping up vitality under circum- 
stances of great fatigue, loss of rest, exposure to a fever, 
changed atmosphere and all the depressing influences attend- 
ant on the sickness and death of near and dear relatives: 
“ It (the Oxygen) has certainly been a blessing to me since I 
first tested its virtues. My father (the late Judge ), who 
was not at all inclined to like new remedies, often remarked 
that he believed in the Oxygen without understanding it, be- 
cause he saw the good it did me. 
“ I have always thought it might have saved my father if he 
could have tried it at the beginning of his illness, but he con- 
tracted the fever when off on his circuit, and was dangerously 
ill when he reached home. I think, hoivever, that the use of the 
Compound Oxygen saved me from contracting the fever. 
“ For ten weeks my sister and I nursed him constantly, day and 
night, she losing one-half and I the other of each night. I took 
the Oxygen regularly. twice a day, and, though feeble and much ex- 
hausted, did not have any symptoms of the fever; while my sister, 
who did not use the Oxygen at all, took the fever and died. She too 
was very delicate, but I do not believe she would have had the 
fever if she had been using the Oxygen.” 
The following has a double interest, as it involves two 
cases. The first was affected with a disease pronounced by 
his physicians “incurable.” The other is one of those brilliant 
cases, which it is difficult, at first presentation, to believe. 
Failing Vision. 
“Messrs. Starkey & Paten: I have been taking your 
‘Home Treatment’ about six weeks, and will report results.” 
October 3d, 1878, he writes: 
After stating that he had suffered twelve years from a 
“wasting away of the body, confusion of mind and failure of 
eyesight,” he continues ? COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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“I am decidedly improved. My appetite is sensibly better; 
my mind has become clearer; but the most marked improve- 
ment is in my eyesight. Before using the Treatment, I could 
not read five minutes without being obliged to rest my eyes; 
now I can read that many hours without inconvenience. 
“ I have a nephew thirteen years old who had been suffering 
with Dropsy. The physicians who treated him brought on a 
diarrhoea, which they could not control. I had him brought to 
my boarding-house that I might try the virtue of the Oxygen 
Treatment on him. 
“ When I took him in hand he was the most unpromising case 
I ever saw. It looked like sacrilege to attempt to save his life. 
He had been drugged with opiates, until they had no effect; 
and he was reduced to a skeleton, weighing thirty-five pounds. 
“I administered the Dxygenaqua and Home Treatment ac- 
cording to directions. \n ten days I sent him home, seven 
pounds heavier than I received him; his bowels in a healthy 
condition, and his general appearance betokening a speedy re- 
covery. 
“ All who witnessed the cure, are astonished at the result. 
They can’t understand how such a cure could be effected with 
a tasteless medicine. B. F. P. 
“ Cypress Top, Harris County, Texas.” 
“I have no objection to your publishing the case of my 
nephew. His name is William P. Mathews, of Hunters’ Retreat, 
Montgomery County, Texas. I saw him last Sunday, and he 
was looking well.” 
October 22d, he writes: 
The following case stands by itself, so far as the author is 
aware, a complete cure of that most distressing affection. The 
patient, now nearly an octogenarian, up to this date has ex- 
perienced entire exemption from the disease: 
Enlarged Prostate. 
“ De. G. R. Starkey : Dear Sir—ln accordance with the re- 
quest for me to give you an account of my peculiar case for pub* 
lication, I, with much pleasure, make the following statement. 
“ I had, for several years, been suffering from an enlargement 
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of the prostate gland without knowing the cause of toy illness, 
when In July, 1876, the enlargement had so increased as to en- 
tirely close the urinary canal (which was revealed by the critical 
examination to which you subjected me), and consequently, the 
passage could only he opened by the use of the catheter. As the 
gland was greatly enlarged, the introduction of the instrument 
was very difficult and attended with considerable pain; and 
the painfulness was increased by the fact that there was much 
soreness, not only in the perinseum, but also in the groin and 
the lower part of the abdomen. 
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“ 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 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 reducing the swelling of these parts, but 
also in diminishing their soreness. The enlargement of the 
prostate gland was reduced simultaneously with the reduction 
of the swelling of the spermatic cords and parts connected 
with, 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 fur- 
ther 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 treatment 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 instrument 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 rap- 
idly, 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 
nf time in which the recovery from it was 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. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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“ I do not wish to be understood as underestimating the effi- 
cacy 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 preparation for the healing operation, which must 
be from within. 
“Very truly yours, Stephen Ustick, 
“ No. 134 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia.” 
General Debility and Nervous Exhaustion. 
A very large number of persons are suffering from physi- 
cal or nervous exhaustion and a low state of vitality, brought 
on by various causes. They are not sick enough to be classed 
as invalids, nor well enough to enjoy life, or do any bodily 
or mental work without excessive weariness or complete 
prostration. For this class of persons Compound Oxygen is 
especially adapted, and often acts like a charm. Its use by 
overworked business and professional men would save many 
hundreds of lives every year, and give to thousands more the 
ability to work without the weariness, exhaustion and peril 
which now attend them. We give a few out of many cases 
which have been relieved by our Treatment. 
The cashier of a bank in one of our Western cities writes us: 
“ I took the Oxygen for a little over a month, and then found 
myself so much better that I gradually left it off. 
“ I gained eight and a half pounds while I was taking it, and 
almost began to think that I was growing young again. As I 
had no distinct ailrilent, but only a general sense of good-for- 
nothingness, accompanied by extreme nervousness, and an in- 
ability to sleep long at a time, my case is not so striking as 
many others of which I read In your pamphlets! but there 
must be multitudes in my condition who would use your prep- 
aration gladly if they knew of it.” 
The publisher of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who had becom« 
so much exhausted, in consequence of prolonged and almost COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
incessant devotion to business, that both he and his friend# 
were getting anxious and alarmed, was induced to try Com' 
pound Oxygen. The result is given in his own voluntary 
testimonial: 
“ Office of the Inter-Ocean, 
“ Chicago, January 10th, 1880. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Pales : Gentlemen—lt is contrary to my 
rules to give certificates to the many healing remedies that are 
advertised, but my experience with ‘ Compound Oxygen ’ has 
been such that I feel it my duty to recommend it to all my ac- 
quaintances suffering from overwork and a tendency to pul- 
monary trouble. In October, 1878, I was in very poor health. 
My system had been much overtaxed, and a cold contracted in 
the spring, seemed to have taken permanent hold on my lungs. 
I had had several slight hemorrhages, was troubled with a 
cough, and was much reduced in flesh, I was discouraged, and 
my family alarmed at my condition. A friend in Boston sent my 
wife one of your little books, strongly recommending your 
remedy. I was besought to order the ‘ Plome Treatment,’ and 
did so. I followed instructions faithfully, and in three months 
was a new man. My troubles had almost entirely disappeared. 
The improvement had been quiet, but certain and sure from 
the time I first began its use. I feel very grateful to you for it, 
and I wish that I could persuade all suflering in a similar way 
to perseveringly use your very simple and effective remedy. 
Business is very confining and exacting, and when I take cold 
and feel myself running down, I resort to Compound Oxygen, 
and it is always prompt in its results. I feel like commending 
it to all. It is not a kill-or-cure remedy. If it does not cure, it 
surely does not injure. 
“ Yours truly, Wm. Penn Nixon.” 
From an overworked scho®l-girl, one of a large class of 
sufferers from nervous prostration, we have the following 
voluntary testimonial; 
“ Cinnaminson, N. J., August, 1880, 
“ From a feeling of gratitude and a desire to benefit others in 
si like situation, I voluntarily give my experience with the 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. When I began it I had for 
more than a year been suffering from nervous prostration; for 
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school-girls. The organ most in need of a remedy was my 
throat, which on the slightest exposure became congested or 
ulcerated by turns, so that my voice was often a minus quan- 
tity. My general improvement for nearly two months after I 
began the Home Treatment was scarcely perceptible, but at the 
end of that time I began to improve, and now after eleven 
months have passed, I can safely say that I have been cured for 
several months. I sleep and rest well, and am generally in pos- 
session of a good appetite, while headaches and backaches are 
quite unheard of. My throat is cured and my voice is stronger 
than ever before. I surprise my friends by my greatly in- 
creased physical strength.” 
Dyspepsia. 
Dr. John Turner, writing from Saugerties, N. Y., reports, 
under date of October 6th, 1880, a cure in a case of Dyspqasia, 
which we may safely say is without a parallel in medical 
history: 
“ Monday, August 30th, 1880, was called to see a Miss Demill. 
She was suffering from Chronic Dyspepsia, and was completely 
run down with constant nausea, etc. * * * She could keep no 
food or aliment of any kind on her stomach—so that she almost 
lived on air. * * * I used the medicines indicated in Miss D.’s 
symptoms, and visited her for a week. No benefit. She took 
as nourishment only one-quarter of a teaspoonful of Valentine’s 
Meat Juice three times a day ; and even that she could not keep down. 
“ Miss D. had been brought up from Brooklyn a week or so 
before I saw her, and now the difficulty was to get her back to 
her home. On the 7th of September I prevailed on her to try 
the Compound Oxygen. 
“ From the very first inhalation she was benefited, and would 
have been able to have gone to New York by the boat on the 
Monday following, if the storms had permitted. As it was, she 
went to the city by the night boat, on Friday, September 17th, 
fust ten days after she began using the Oxygen, and was able to 
sit up on deck till eleven o’clock P. M. 
“ When I saw Miss Demill first, 30th August and up to 7th 
September, she looked as if she could not recover, but very soon 
after using the Compound Oxygen she began to improve—could 
take soup and bear the smell of food, which she had not been 
able to do for months before.» 128 
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The following letter from the brother of Miss Demill not 
only corroborates the above, but shows the case to have been 
even more desperate than Dr. Turner has stated it: 
“ 55 Liberty Street, New York, September 2%/h, 1880. 
“John Turner, M. D.: Dear Sir—My sister had intended to 
reply to your kind letter herself, but fearing to fatigue herself 
in the midst of many other duties which she thinks must be 
discharged, she has deputed me to undertake the office for Iffir. 
She is fully sensible that but for the 1 Compound Oxygen ’ recom- 
mended by you, she would, in all human probability, by this time 
be no longer among the living. As it is, she is improving in 
health and strength every day. As for appetite, Ido not think 
she has occasion to improve in that respect. What a different 
state of circumstances this is from that of a few weeks back! 
We shall be very well pleased to have you see her improved 
condition on any visit you may make to the city. I am sure 
our friends in Saugerties would be amazed if they should wit- 
ness the contrast. I have never been any great upholder of nos- 
trums—but seeing is believing. And I feel that this compound 
of such gases as nature is giving to us every moment of our 
lives cannot be put in the same category with drugs which are 
foreign to the body. It will, doubtless, be a source of great 
gratification to our friends at Saugerties to know that my sister's 
visit to them has been the means of saving her life. 
“ Yours, very truly, R. Demxll.” 
Laryngitis. 
A patient writing to us, April 6th, 1880, makes the follow- 
ing statement of the results of the use of Compound Oxygen 
in Laryngitis: 
“In August, 1878,1 began to inhale Compound Oxygen for a 
diseased throat—Laryngitis—with which I had suffered more 
than twenty-five years without being materially benefited, al- 
though I had been treated by three or roar good and skillful 
physicians. I used Compound Oxygen twice a day, as in- 
structed, until the first of October, and then had to discontinue 
its use entirely, because I was too busy to take inhalations 
regularly until April, 1879, when I began again, and used it COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
1-egularly twice daily for six weeks; and then had to discon- 
tinue again because I was traveling and attending to business, 
which prevented me from using it till Ist instant, when I began 
using it again. The bottle you sent me in August, 1878, will be 
empty in a few days, and I want another. My throat is much 
better than it has been in more than twenty-five years, and I believe 
if I had discontinued tobacco as you suggested, and had been so 
circumstanced that I could have used Compound Oxygen regu- 
larly and continuously for six or twelve months, my throat 
would have been entirely well. I discontinued the use of to- 
bacco the 9th of last February, and now propose to give Com, 
pound Oxygen a fair trial, which I have not yet done; though 
I know I have been materially benefited by its use, both as regards 
my diseased throat and my general health, which has been invigor- 
ated and vitalized.” 
Constipation. 
The following extracts from patients’ letters show how 
promptly our Treatment acts in this disease. We could fill 
pages with similar extracts: 
“ It is time to make a report, but I know not what to say. 
Have been feeling badly for several days—thought last week 1 
was getting on nicely; taut for the last four or five days, have 
suffered much with distressed stomach and bowels. Constipa- 
tion, which is my oldest difficulty, and from which I have suf- 
fered more or less most of the time for forty-five years, seems to have 
yielded beautifully to the Oxygen Treatment; also the acidity from 
which I had been suffering several weeks; and why I should 
be suffering so much distress at present, I am at a loss to deter- 
mine. Have been stronger and felt better, but this distress 
makes me weak and miserable. If you can explain, I should 
like to know the reason. Perhaps I have taken cold or too 
much fatigue. Though I know you say these things will hap- 
pen, but as I have no constipation or acidity, which I thought 
was the cause before, Ido not understand it. lam obliged to 
leave off the Treatment occasionally on account of my head 
pressure, but return to it again as soon as it gets settled. Ap- 
petite and digestion very much improved. Hoped to write you 
much more favorably by this time, and should, had I Avritten 
a week ago. The weather is very changeable, and perhaps that 
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soon. To sum up the whole, lam much improved; constipation, 
indigestion, acidity, all relieved, and appetite much improved, etc. ; 
but whether I shall get strength, remains to be seen.” 
“ I am very happy Indeed to inform you that I am Improving. 
When I commenced taking the Compound Oxygen I was pros- 
trated—was having great pain in my chest, and was coughing 
almost incessantly, with a heavy expectoration, and my liver 
was so torpid and my digestion so bad, that I could not eat any- 
thing scarcely that did not disagree with me, and huas so con- 
stipated that I could not have an action from my bowels without 
medicine of some kind ; now, at the expiration of three weeks, I have 
tegular actions; the size of my liver is very much reduced (it 
was so swollen before, that I could feel it and see it). My diges- 
tion is better, though not good by any means yet. My breath- 
ing is much freer and easier, and I don’t have anything like 
the pain in my chest that I did—and I have a very strong hope 
now that it will cure me, and that I will again be able for busi- 
ness, which I had given up.” 
“ I have now taken nearly all of my second supply of Com- 
pound Oxygen, and feel that I have been much benefited by it, 
quite as much as could be expected at the age of sixty-seven in 
so complicated a case, of over thirty years’ standing; yet I am 
by no means cured of my worse ailment, Dyspepsia, which, 
being hereditary in our family for several generations, cannot 
be expected to yield in any great degree to any remedy. * * * 
My life-long constipation appears to be entirely cured—and I now 
seldom have even slight symptoms of neuralgia in the face, or 
sick headache, from which I suffered so much before I took the 
Home Treatment. * * * With heartfelt thanks for the gen- 
erous kindness you have shown me while under your care, and 
the sincere desire that many years of usefulness, health and 
prosperity may be granted to you this side the * River,’ I re- 
main yours, most truly and gratefully.” 
“My wife has been using it for my daughter, aged sixteen, 
who has been a sufferer from Constipation from childhood. 
She reports that it acts like a charm.” 
“ It has been some time since I finished the Compound Oxy- 
gen. I have been waiting to observe its effects, while close at 
work at the academy. My great difficulty for years past, has been 
confirmed Constipation, accompanied by coated tongue, bitter 
jste and lassitude. Thanks to your Compound Oxygen, the 
Constipation has passed away, and the other symptoms have dis- 
eppeared.” COMPOUND OXYGEN 
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"My appetite has been unusually good since t commenced 
its use, and I have been troubled less with Constipation. 
Extracts from patients’ letters: 
Nervous Disorders. 
A physician says: “ The very favorable effect of what 1 have 
used in allaying Nervous Disorders of long standing, compels me 
to value it very highly.” 
“ I am getting stronger gradually; can sit up, and exercise 
moderately all day. My nerves are gradually getting steadier, and 
I think I have no cause to regret sending to you for the Com- 
pound Oxygen.” 
“ I am a little improved in nervous condition, sleep a little 
better, but poorly still, and my head will bear a little more than 
it did.” 
“ My physician has described my disease as Nervous Prostra- 
tion. My back is so weak that I have to lie down considerable 
to rest. My lungs are impoverished, and stomach weak—though 
it is much better since I have been taking the Oxygen. * * * 
I have gained in weight, also, since using the Treatment—over 
five pounds in fifteen days.” 
“My health is much improved under the Treatment. I notice 
a great improvement in my nerves, which were sadly disorganized 
from overwork in the ministry. My throat has been strength- 
ened, and I can preach now without becoming hoarse and my 
throat raw. lam recommending your Oxygen Treatment, be- 
cause I believe it to be a good thing. I propose to continue the 
Treatment steadily.” 
“ Your Oxygen came all right, and as soon as it could be un- 
packed I began its use. The first night it caused me to rest 
well, and the next day was a blessed one to me, so comfortable, none 
of that miserable, don't-care-to-livefeeling which I have had for 
four months past—it has benefited me in other ways also.” 
Extracts from patients’ letters: 
Headache. 
■*Vr. C "’As had two attacks of Headache, but not^ccom- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
panied by any delirium, nor that tired, exhausted feeling which 
has been so frequent. How his head would hold out taxed as It 
formerly was I cannot say, though he appears to do all he at- 
tempts with greater ease than for a long time. * * * I think 
he is stronger in every way. * * * He feels a good effect from 
each inhalation; a kind of healthy, comfortable sensation all 
over him.” 
AMy daily headache and fever have left me. * * * I am very 
grateful for the relief already received. I hope by the time my 
Oxygen is gone to be able to report a perfect cure.” 
“ Headaches, which were frequent, have almost entirely disap- 
peared; likewise the awful feelings of prostration. In fact, the 
nervous trouble seems to be entirely cured.” 
“ My mother has also been inhaling with incalculable benefit. 
She has been a sufferer from nervous headaches so long that it 
did seem as if nothing would cure her. * * * It has put a veto 
on my mother's headaches, for which we all feel grateful.” 
“ I am feeling very well. Head and throat better than for 
years. Not an hour's headache since I commenced, and I have 
gained six pounds of flesh—this at a season during which I 
usually lose.” 
“Igo to sleep quicker after retiring than I did before. I have 
not had that roaring in my head which I had before, which is a 
great relief. I think my general health is improved; and, what 
to me is a great benefit and relief, I have not had a severe head- 
ache since taking the Treatment. I have suffered all my life with 
severe headache, commencing with a blur before my eyes, my 
lips and fingers would become numb for awhile, and then the 
blur would pass off and the headache begin.” 
Kidney and Urinary Troubles. 
Extracts from patients’ letters: 
“ You will perhaps remember that I mentioned in my letter 
to you that 1 had been suffering from Urinary trouble. lam 
now entirely relieved from that trouble, and my urinary discharges 
are perfectly natural again.” 
Condition of patient: COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
“High inflammatory condition of the urinary organs, tho 
discharge being scant, frequent, albuminous and profuse, witto 
pink deposit.” 
Report, after use of Compound Oxygen : 
“In three weeks’ time urinary derangement had almost dis\. 
appeared, and constipated condition was greatly regulated.” 
“ I have very greatly improved since I last wrote. My kidneys 
trouble me very little now, and I am, I think, growing strong as 
fast as can be expected.” 
“ I find my kidneys all right again, and my head aches only 
when I am in a draft, or take what I call little colds, and they 
are removed by inhalation.” 
Protection from Colds. 
Extracts from patients’ letters; 
“ I have kept free from cold. For the first winter in my life I 
have not had a cold.” 
“ She (my sister) is not near so liable to contract colds as she was 
before inhaling the Oxygen.” 
“ Spring is upon us, and I write to let you know that I still 
live, and have gotten through the winter very well. I have had 
no cough, and scarcely any cold. I have ceased to be apprehensive 
in that regard, as I have but little if any pain in my chest now.” 
“I conclude to try your Compound Oxygen two months 
longer. It has kept me free from cold on lungs, which often trou- 
ble me in winter. Nervous system seems stronger, and I be- 
lieve a further trial will pay.” 
“ Derived considerable benefit from its use, especially in check- 
ing colds.” 
Permanence of Cure. 
On tins point we offer the following important testimony 
of T. S. Arthur, the well-known American Author, who, 
after many years of invalidism, has been restored to full 
health by the use of this New Treatment: COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
In July, 1877, the following appeared in his Home Maga* 
1 nine : 
“ Nearly seven years have passed since I began using this 
Treatment. Up to that period my health had been steadily de- 
dining; not in consequence of any organic disease, but from, 
overwork and consequent physical and nervous exhaustion. 
The very weight of the body had become tiresome to bear, and 
1 regarded my days of earnest literary work as gone forever. But 
.almost from the very beginning of my use of the COMPOUND 
OX Y GEN, an improvement began. There was a sense of physical 
comfort and vitality not felt for years, and this slowly but steadily 
increased. Literary work was resumed within a few months, 
my mind acting with a new vigor, and my body free from the old 
sense of weariness and exhaustion. A better digestion, an almost 
entire freedom from severe attacks of nervous headache, from which 
I 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.'” 
Six months afterwards Mr. Arthur wrote to us as follows: 
“ Des. Stare ivy & Palen; Dear Sirs~l do not think that 1 
can say anything stronger in favor of your Oxygen Treatment 
than I have already said. Your Dr. Starkey knows how run 
down, enervated and exhausted I had become, and with what 
reluctance and lack of faith I at last yielded to his friendly 
efforts to induce me to try the new agent of cure which had 
come into his hands. 
“227 S. Sixth St., Philadelphia, January Ist, 1878. 
“ Office Aether’? Home Magazine, 
“At that time, as I then told him, I had laid down all earnest 
literary work, and never expected to take it up again. My 
friends gave me but a short lease of life. But within six months 
my pen was resumed,and before the year closedl had completed 
one of my largest and most earnestly-written books; closing the 
last page without any of the old sense of exhaust ion. Since then 
there has scarcely been a day in which I have not been hard at 
work in my study for from three to five hours; and all this 
without any return of the weak and tired feeling from which I 
had suffered for so many years. 
“ The constant remark I now hear on meeting those who have 
long known me, is, ‘ How well you are looking!’ And yet, in a 
few months I shall enter my seventieth year. Jam at the tim® COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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of life when most men find themselves laid on the shelf; and 
where I believed that I was about being laid some seven years 
ago, when I began to use this Oxygen Treatment; but now 1 
have a sense of vitality of which I once knew nothing, and feel 
as if there were yet in me at least ten good working years. 
“ For all this I consider myself indebted to your Compound 
Oxygen Treatment. Yours, etc., 
Two years later, Mr. Arthur says: 
“ T. S. Arthur.” 
“The benefit received from the use of ‘Compound Oxygen* 
has been permanent. The testimonial I gave you voluntarily, 
two years ago, is as true to-day, in regard to my general heal th, 
as when it was given.” USE OF COMPOUND OXYGEN BY THE 
MEDICAL PROFESSION. 
cAo 
... • 
TmiW.o fact is more significant than the action of num- 
hers of intelligent physicians throughout the country, 
some of whom have used the Home Treatment in 
J1 behalf of their patients only, and others in behalf of 
Wf their own persons and those of their families. 
<s> They are often compelled to confess their impo- 
tence when called upon to combat disease in systems so 
devitalized as are thousands in cases of chronic ailments. In 
the address of its President to a State Medical Society, hold- 
ing its annual session in Harrisburg, occurs the following 
significant passage: 
“Neither the self-styled regular school of medicine, with all 
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 aggre- 
gate, human life. What disease has ever yet been blotted out 
of existence? 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 increased, and some of 
them have become infinitely more prevalent and fatal. These 
may be unprofessional ideas; but a man can afford to be hereti- 
cal upon a subject in which so comparatively little real visible 
progress has been made. Physicians are battling disease with 
the small end of the club while they hold the large, unwieldy 
butt.” 
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A physician residing in Mississippi in ordering Compound 
Oxygen for trial in some of the so-called “incurable” cases, 
says: 
“ I have been regularly in the practice of medicine for twenty 
years. For some time past my attention has been directed to 
the treatment of bronchial and pulmonary affections by inhalation, 
I am well assured that this mode of treatment ivill supersede all 
others in the treatment of that class of diseases. For a year past I 
have been looking into your ‘Oxygen Treatment’ with a good 
degree of interest. I have carefully read your ‘ Brochure,’ and 
feel so well assured that you have a good principle in you* 
mode of treatment, that I have determined to give it a full and 
fair trial in a number of cases—patients of mine to whom I can only 
give partial relief. 
“As a practitioner of medicine, I have for many years past 
been thoroughly impressed with the very unsatisfactory results 
obtainable from the remedies and modes of treatment now in vogue 
•with the various schools of medicine in a very large class of diseases 
—and more especially the class of bronchial and pulmonary affec- 
tions that so rapidly waste the source of all vitality, the nervous sys- 
tem; and for years past I have been earnestly seeking for some- 
thing more satisfactory in the treatment of a very large class of 
diseases that I meet with almost daily in my practice. Inhalar 
tion, I am satisfied, is the mode in the treatment of a large class 
of affections that nothing else can he made to reach; but the arti- 
cle, or articles, to be used—‘There is the rub.’ If scientific 
investigation and good fortune have favored you with the 
possession of this important and inestimable agent, let us have 
it, and I, for one, will down with prejudice, and ‘ thank CTod and 
take courage.’ 
“ I know full well the prejudice of our profession against secret 
remedies. I hold that a well-ordered mind should have no 
prejudices. I claim to have none; but I do oppose the charla- 
tanism of the age. Ido not class you in this justly-condemned 
category; but I will greatly rejoice in your success, or the suc- 
cess of any man who will help us to a new power to alleviate the 
thousands of ills of our common, suffering humanity.” 
It was only natural for the profession to regard with doubt 
and suspicion the high claims set up for the “Compound 
Oxygen Treatment.” But as these claims had not only a 
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substantial one of undisputed facts and steadily accumulating 
results, intelligent physicians in all parts of the country soon 
began to examine them, and many who had cases which they 
were unable to cure, to try the new Treatment. In scarcely 
a single instance, where the trial has been fairly made, has 
this agent failed to exhibit its singular power over the en- 
feebled life-forces, or to satisfy the physician that it possesses 
a vitalizing and curative value of the most remarkable 
character. 
I offer here a few extracts from our correspondence with 
some of these physicians. 
Only in a few cases are the names given. It will readily 
be seen that the larger number, for personal and professional 
reasons, would not care to have this done, and any such un- 
authorized publication on our part would be a violation of 
the sacredness of private correspondence. Our readers 
may be assured, however, that every extract is genuine. The 
first that we present is from an intelligent practitioner re- 
siding in the South. (Dr. R. C. Strother, of Monroe, La.) 
He says: 
“ I have watched the wonderful vitalizing power in two or 
three instances in which the patients were using the Home 
Treatment. One of these patients was a sister, and her rapid 
improvement from a low condition of nervous debility and 
muscular prostration, resulting from severe acute disease, was 
a most miraculous. Your little work, ‘ The Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, its Mode of Action and Results,’ has fallen into my 
hands, and the therapeutical and pathological views therein 
inculcated being, to a great extent, in accord with what theory 
and experience have been Impressing on me, I have read it 
with unusual care and interest. I am sure you have found a 
curative agent of incalculable remedial and vitalizing power, 
and adapted to a wide range of diseases.” 
He then ordered a “ Home Treatment ” for one of the par 
dents, and alter using it for a few weeks, wrote as follows: COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
139 
“My patient is a lady, forty’-five years of age. After a long 
existing case of Chronic Bronchitis, tubercles were deposited in 
the lungs from hereditary taints. She has been a regular pa- 
tient of mine for six or eight months, and her almost incessant 
cough, pain, loss of appetite, and the many other symptoms 
that attend such a condition, have been very distressing; and 
while I am not a very heroic allopathic practitioner, having 
learned many valuable lessons from Dr. Brinton and Dr. Da 
Costa, of your city, still I put her through a long catalogue oi 
medicines; but she says she has been more benefited already 
by the ‘ Compound Oxygen Treatment ’ than by all I ever did 
for her; and she certainly has been. Every one of the more 
distressing symptoms has been alleviated. I candidly admit 
that she has improved astonishingly.” 
He has since ordered a number of Treatments for other 
patients. 
Dr. , of Knoxville, Tenn., writes, November 20th, 
1879: 
“My case of Consumption, that has been using Compound 
Oxygen, is still improving, to the astonishment of all who knew 
her. Her expectoration has been reduced from about three 
pints to half a pint. Hectic fever subsiding ; strength improving 
a little; sleeps well at night; cough abating gradually.” 
Dr. R. C. Smedley, of West Chester, Pa., makes the fol- 
lowing report of one of his cases in which he used Compound 
Oxygen: 
“Mrs. H. M. H., of West Chester, Pa., commenced in August, 
1879, to take Compound Oxygen. She had been troubled with 
a hacking cough for many years, which had grown much worse 
for a year past. She had new pain and soreness in chest, dull- 
ness on percussion in upper portion of both lungs, respiration 
impeded, with distinct crepitation, dyspnoea, weak, becoming 
emaciated and pale; expectoration rather difficult. 
“ Commenced improving soon after taking the Oxygen. Im- 
proved all winter. Has grown strong, fleshy and florid. Says 
she is better than she has been for many years. 
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Oxygen, and has not yet, at present writing, April I6th, 1880, 
taken a whole bottle. Frequent attacks of a chronic diarrhoea 
were relieved each time, by using the Oxygen water, and finally 
cured.” 
Dr. Preston L. Lake, of Maquoketa, lowa, sends us the 
following, under date December 2d, 1879: 
“ For nearly thirty years I was a severe sufferer from asthma, 
caused by inhaling a large quantity of ipecacuanha, producing 
what the old authors called ‘vesicular emphysema’ of my 
lungs. I began inhaling the Oxygen you first sent me thrice a 
day, first before breakfast, second before dinner, and third be- 
fore going to bed—in short, on an empty stomach. Iso used it 
for about a week, when the dyspnoea was all gone. I now use it 
only when I take cold, or have any symptoms of difficult 
breathing. 
“ I am strongly convinced that the proper use of the Com- 
pound Oxygen is the most pleasant as well as the most reason- 
able treatment for almost any of the diseases to which human 
beings are subjected.” 
Rev. S. H. Platt, M. D., of Ridgefield, Conn., who has been 
using Compound Oxygen in his practice, gives, December 
6th, 1880, the following report in six cases: 
“ Case 1. Bronchial irritation, cured with one Home Treat- 
ment.” 
“ Case 2. A child seven years of age, very much prostrated by 
gastritis. The acute symptoms had subsided, but she did not 
rally. Cured by the same Treatment as above—used by her 
father.” 
“ Case 3. A boy seven years old. Hooping cough and pneu- 
monia, when three years old, had made him a confirmed in- 
valid, with prospect of early consumption. When the Home 
Treatment was first used, he had chronic bronchitis, lateral 
curvature of the spine; one lung almost totally useless; great 
emaciation and corresponding weakness. One Treatment 
‘ made him a well boy,’ as his mother expressed it.” 
“ Case 4. Boy thirteen years of age; for two years a victim of 
hallucinations of a very annoying character to himself and the COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
whole family. Could not read, or enter the garreu, nor leave 
the house, after five o’clock P. M., nor permit his mother to do 
so. The house must be quiet after that hour; no playing on 
the piano, singing, nor loud talking. Could not pass certain 
boundaries on the streets; could not move a muscle in bed, but 
lay all night precisely as when ije first lay down. -Two Home 
Treatments have destroyed nearly all his notions, enabled him 
to work all day and read a stack of books within a year more 
than a foot high. The few remaining notions he is-overcoming 
one by one.” * 
“ Case. 5. Great nervous derangement from long-continued 
overwork of the brain, attended with frequent chills and strong 
tendency to paralysis. One Home Treatment worked a com- 
plete change, and caused the patient, although over fifty year’s 
of age, to renew his youth.” 
“ Case 6. A young theological student—never strong, but 
specially worn by hard work. The first Treatment about half 
gone, and he writes: ‘ The Compound Oxygen is working splen- 
didly.’ He is recommending it wherever he goes.” 
“ The above,” says Dr. Platt, “ comprise not quite half the 
cases in which I have prescribed it. Three I have not heard 
from; three have not been fairly tested, while one has failed to 
do any good, and one was working splendidly, but its effects 
were neutralized by miscarriage. 
“In several other cases I have recommended it and it has 
been procured, but of the results I am not informed.” 
A physician in lowa, who is using Compound Oxygen in 
many of his chronic cases, reports October, 1880, the follow- 
ing as some of the results of the new Treatment: 
“The case of Mrs. N., previously mentioned, increased in 
weight from 75 to 110 pounds, her present weight, and gained 
in strength in proportion; no cough nor diarrhoea; says she 
feels perfectly well, except soreness and stiffness of joints. 
Appetite and digestion are remarkably good. Ever since the diar- 
rhoea stopped, there has been symptoms of ascites, but not 
marked; no medicine used for it—still uses Compound Oxygen. 
“ I will mention some other cases treated. Mrs. W.’s case of 
catarrh of six years' standing, with general debility; could not 
le»ve her rooms for a drive, without suffering intensely for sey- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
eral days afterwards. An offensive discharge from the nos® 
into the throat; tenderness in the region of the ovaries and 
uterus, with leucorrhoea. Entirely relieved by seven weeks' inha- 
lation. Seven months have elapsed and no return of diseases.” 
“ Mr. S—a young man, lost flesh, ten pounds a month, for 
three months previous to Treatment. Sunken at apex of lungs; 
slight cough, and expectoration streaked with blood. Has had 
three attacks of hemorrhage, and the last one reduced him so 
that he could not stand on his feet for several flays. Dullness 
over the left lung, and at the apex of right. Pains through the 
lungs, frequently extending along underside of the arms, and 
night sweats. Two of the family died of consumption. At the 
end of first month's inhalation, had gained ten pounds in weight. 
Night sweats entirely stopped. No hemorrhage nor streaked expec- 
torations ; lungs filling out with air, and shoulders pushed back to 
their natural position. Eighth week, still improving, and has per- 
formed light labor all week, the first In four months or more. 
“ I administered Compound Oxygen to a lady for catalepsy, and 
entirely relieved her in two weeks. Heard from her three months 
later, no return of the disease. 
“ I have eleven cases now under treatment. I will freely give 
my testimony in favor of Compound Oxygen to any one who 
will address me. You are at liberty to use a part, or all of my 
communications, as you may-desire, to convince others. 
The address of Dr. K will be furnished to any one 
who may wish to write him. 
“ J. M. K , M. D.” 
The following report of a case in which, to all appearances, 
the patient was beyond the reach of curative agencies, is one 
among the many surprising results which are continually 
tending the use of Compound Oxygen : 
“The last Home Treatment of Compound Oxygen that I 
ordered from you,” (writes a physician in Vermont), “was for 
Mrs. . She was given over to die by her old physician (who has 
treated her for twenty-two years) and friends. I was called to 
see her when she could not speak a loud word, or lift her head from 
the pillow; could take no food except a little beef tea. Her 
bowels moving once in two or three weeks; flowing badly 
every two weeks; could not make water without having to us® COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
the catheter and fainting away. I sent to you for a Home Treat- 
ment of Oxygen and your advice. She has been steadily im- 
proving; she is around the house seeing to her household affairs; 
bowels regular; have not had to draw her water tor two months. 
Her neighbors say that if she gets well there is no use of ar.- 
one's dying.” 
See case reported by Dr. John Turner, page 128. 
Another physician writes: 
“ At the time I ordered the Oxygen my patient was perfectly 
prostrate from night sweats, hectic fever, general debility, loss of ap- 
petite, severe paroxysms of coughing, etc., etc. Not able to take the 
least amount of food; no relish for anything in that line; not 
able to sit up in bed; not able to hold the glass in her own 
hands ; not able to hold the apparatus or take more than two 
or three inhalations. Now (after three weeks) she sits up all day 
long; can walk anywhere she pleases; does light work; is able to 
wait upon herself; can ride in a carriage a distance of fifteen 
nailes without complaint, and eats very heartily,” IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE. 
.VilriHE following important correspondence, which we 
the consent of all tlie individuals whose 
names appear, cannot fail to arrest the attention of 
health-seekers. It comes in the shape of corroborat- 
y|)Y ing evidence, and is of a character which cannot be 
gainsaid. It answers the question which is asked by 
hundreds of those who read our Treatise on Compound Oxy- 
gen and the various Reports of Cases which we make from 
time to time—“Are these testimonials true?” 
The history of this correspondence can be told in a few 
words. A lady residing in Augusta, Ga., whose son was 
threatened with Consumption, sent for and received our 
Treatise on Compound Oxygen and some of our Reports of 
Cases. Naturally skeptical in regard to medical advertise- 
ments, and knowing that testimonials were too often manu- 
factured, she resolved to write to a number of those whose 
names and testimonials we had given, and thus satisfy her- 
self as to their genuineness. Accordingly, a letter was 
addressed to seven or eight of these persons, and below we 
give the several answers which the lady received. Subse- 
quently, and after the patient had come under our treatment, 
the fact of this correspondence was made known to us, and 
the letters, at our request, placed at our disposal. We 
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publish them with, as stated above, the full consent of the 
writers: 
“Sparta, Qa., June 12ih, 1880. 
“Dear Madam: Your letter of inquiry is just received, and 
In reply I would say that the opinion expressed by me as to the 
value of the Compound Oxygen is exactly as published in the 
pamphlet of Starkey & Palen. I believe that the Treatment is 
capable of doing great good in many cases of diseases which re- 
sist ordinary medical treatment, and would most urgently ad- 
vise a thorough and faithful trial of it by your son; for while I 
do not believe that all and every case will be benefited by it, I 
am satisfied that it will relieve and cure a great many cases of 
pulmonary troubles specially. 
“ Hoping that your son may be entirely restored to health, I 
am yours, most respectfully, W. H. Harris, M. D.” 
“ Matteawan, N. Y., June Uth, 1880. 
“Mrs. M , Augusta, Ga.: Yours of the 11th instant was 
forwarded to me at this place, my present residence. Your in- 
quiries are proper, and if I can be of the means of alleviating 
suffering or prolonging life I am always willing to do it cheer- 
fully. 
“ I have had over thirty years of experience battling and stay- 
ing the inroads of Consumption, and have in that time for my 
family employed different physicians and tried various reme- 
dies advertised, and have not found anything that is at all 
equal to the Compound Oxygen to which you refer. 
“ Unfortunately I did not learn of it before my two sons had 
died, and my wife was passed beyond hope of recovery. Yet 
from the good effect it had on her in rendering her so much 
more comfortable and thus prolonging her life, I am satisfied 
that if I had known it a few years sooner she would be living 
now. I ordered it upon the first sight of an advertisement, be- 
cause it commended itself to my reason and common sense, 
and I was not disappointed. 
“ It must be always borne in mind, that when the disease has 
progressed too far, i. e., when the lungs are already nearly 
wasted away, that this nor any other known remedy will avail 
anything. A faithful use of the Compound Oxygen Treatment 
in the early stages of Consumption will help, and I know of 
nothing better. I furnished it to my wife’s sister, who was 
rapidly declining, and had no longer the use of both lungs, and 
after taking it a few times, she felt a loosening of her left lung, 146 
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and after that she breathed freer and easier, and has been better 
ever since. 
“You have it now, and I advise you to persevere with it, for 
there is nothing within my knowledge you can rely upon with 
equal hope and confidence. Physicians, to a great extent, are 
discouraging the use of it, because it is outside of the regular 
practice; yet they advise, and wisely, too, that consumptives 
must be out of doors, and in the pure air. This Treatment is to 
supply in larger quantities the oxygen of the common air, just 
what they advise open-air exercise for. The use of Compound 
Oxygen and open air are both desirable, and if these do not 
benefit, then there is no hope. Those who condemn Compound 
Oxygen Treatment ought to be able to propose a better remedy 
and not destroy our only hope. 
“Yours, etc., L. Dederick.” 
“ Philadelphia, June llth, 1880. 
“Mrs. M : Dear Madam—Yours of the 11th inst. just 
received. It is my .privilege to say in reply to your inquiry 
about the Compound Oxygen Treatment—it is all it claims to 
be, and in some cases has exceeded its promise. My testimonial 
is genuine, and I am always glad of the opportunity to give my 
voice in favor of so great a blessing to humanity. As to your 
son’s case, I would say, persevere by all means. I think he has 
everything to expect; of course I cannot judge intelligently for 
him; but he can rely with all confidence upon Dr. Starkey’s 
word. I have known him for years. He is an intelligent and 
faithful physician and a true man. I would advise you to keep 
him posted, and follow his directions strictly. 
“ With my best wishes for the most happy results, I am yours 
very respectfully, Mrs. M. T. Piersol, 
“ No. 1636 Wallace Street.” 
“ Dear Madam : I regret very much that I was away when 
your letter came. It being a personal matter, my book-keeper 
didn’t feel at liberty to answer. 
“ Philadelphia, Pa., June 18th, 1880. 
“ My letter to Dr. Starkey, as in his pamphlet, is all right, and 
1 think the Treatment the greatest remedy in existence. The 
doctors are gentlemen in every sense. I cheerfully recommend 
their ‘ Compound Oxygen,’ Very truly yours, 
“ Waldo M. Claelin.” COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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“Philadelphia, June Vlth, 1880. 
“Mbs. M : In reply to your favor, I will state that the 
testimonial to which you refer is genuine. From what I have 
myself experienced and from what I know of the effect of Com- 
pound Oxygen in others, I am satisfied that this new remedy is 
one of remarkable curative power. Your son, I think, can 
hardly fail to receive benefit. Others as badly diseased and 
suffering for long years, have been cured, or greatly relieved by 
this Treatment, as you will see by Drs. Starkey & Palen’s Keporl 
of Cases. All of which are authentic. 
“ Yours respectfully, 
“ T. S. Arthur.” 
“ Treasury Department, 
“Mrs. M , Augusta, Ga.: Dear Madam—Yours of the 
11th inst., inquiring as to the authenticity of a testimonial as- 
cribed to me in the pamphlet of Starkey & Palen, of Philadel- 
phia, is at hand. 
“ Office of the Supervising Architect, 
“ Washington, D. C., June lUh, 1880. 
“The testimonial is genuine, and, under Providence, I feel 
that I owe my life to Compound Oxygen; still I hesitate to 
recommend it to every one, as in one or two instances where I 
have recommended it, it has not met expectations. I was for- 
tunate in having the Office Treatment under the personal 
supervision of Dr. Starkey, yet it was some two or three weeks 
before I could perceive any improvement; on the contrary, I 
felt detrimental effects from at first, and was fearful that it 
would injure instead of benefit me. Before the end of the first 
month’s trial, however, I began to improve rapidly, and at the 
end of the second month I felt entirely well. My trouble had 
been of long duration, having, as the physicians thought, been 
brought on by a gun-shot wound through the breast, near the 
lung, received during the war. I did not begin to bleed until 
about 1870; but the hemorrhage grew more frequent until, in 
September, 1874,1 had eighteen within two weeks. The spring 
following, being quite feeble and not expecting to recover, I 
tried the Oxygen Treatment with the beneficial results stated, 
and consequently have great faith in its efficacy. Were I to 
have any further lung difficulty I should immediately resort to 
it again, as I believe in inhalation for such troubles. I should 
not discontinue its use if at the end of a month I felt the least 
benefit from it, were lin your son’s condition; but if at the eao COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
of the second month I were not materially helped, I should 
consider that it would not meet my case. I used it but two 
months, and I have not been sick a day since. 
“ Trusting that it may prove as beneficial to your son as to 
me, I am, very truly yours, 
There are a large number of persons like the lady who 
drew out this correspondence, who, if they were only satis- 
fied as to the genuineness and truth of the testimonials and 
other evidence to the value of Compound Oxygen which we 
offer to the public, would gladly and eagerly avail themselves 
of its curative power. For the sake of these, and to strengthen 
the evidence above given, we make extracts from letters re- 
ceived from several of these old patients in answer to our 
request for permission to publish their correspondence with 
the Georgia lady. 
“H. G. Jacobs,” 
One of them says : 
“ You are quite welcome to use my letter to Mrs. in any 
way that you may see fit. 
“ My opinion of the merit of your Treatment is unchanged, 
and I hope that its success may be commensurate with its great 
merits.” 
Another says: 
“ I do not now remember just what I did write to Mrs. , but 
if you can make any use of it, you must be your own judge as to 
its publicity. I have answered quite a number of letter in- 
quiries since my name has been published by you, and I am 
willing to continue to do so if the people may only be enlight- 
ened on your remedy. I never fail to recommend it personally 
whenever an opportunity offers.” 
Another writes; 
“ My letter to Mrs. was not, of course, prepared for publi- 
cation, and I cannot now remember its contents, but if it will 
in any way promote the use of your Treatment, which I con- 
sider the most reasonable of all remedies for pulmonary oora- 
plaints, I certainly cannot object to its use by you in such 
manner as you may desire,” COLORADO, 
Not the Place for Neuralgic or Consumptive 
Patients. 
SHE last resort of physicians, in too many cases where 
the lungs are seriously affected, is to send their pa- 
tients to Colorado or Florida—either of them very 
JfC doubtful expedients. This change involves the loss 
YAY of home comforts, as well as the care of friends and 
$> family physician—always a serious drawback to the 
invalid. But worse than this, he has to encounter, in one 
case, a cold and often a too stimulating atmosphere; in the 
other, a warm and enervating one. In a large majority of 
cases, where patients are ordered to leave home, they return 
in a few months worse than when they went away—some 
never return at all. 
We have before us two or three letters in our private cor- 
respondence, written by physicians who are now, or have 
been, in Colorado, which bear strongly on this subject. One 
of these physicians, who spent nearly a year in Denver, says, 
under date of January 27th, 1880: 
“ Persons afflicted with the diseases that can he benefited by 
the Compound Oxygen do not, as a general rule, realize their ex- 
pectations in Colorado. Only those %vho are robust enough to pursue 
a rough-and-tumble out-of-door life realize signal benefit from the 
climate. The majority, accustomed to lean on physicians at 
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themselves in-doors, as they did at home. Indeed, the viciss». 
tudes of temperature and weather are severe there, except during 
the summer months 
Another physician, writing from one of the largest towns 
in Colorado, January 15th, 1880, says: 
“ I find here a peculiar tendency to.Neuralgia of certain nerves 
and their branches; especially of the fifth pair, causing tiodou- 
loureux of old authors. The throat and lungs, as well as all of 
the air-passages, are very subject to their peculiar diseases. 
Pneumonia is the fatal disease—especially at this season of the 
year—carrying off its victims in the early or congestive stage. 
“ Almost every one coming here is afflicted with loss of appe- 
tite and deranged digestive organs—for atime, at least; and al- 
though the thousands who are daily seen on the street and 
doing business will not admit that they are sick, yet they do not 
feel as ivell as in a lower altitude. 
“ Many get up in the morning feeling well, but before noon 
their energies are gone, and they do not feel well again until 
the next morning. 
“ Such is a hasty statement of the physical condition here in 
Colorado. 
“I learn that many doctors are prescribing blue mass and 
quinine largely in most cases, which you well know is not the 
thing. What is ivanted here is a vitalizer rather than a depresser." 
These extracts from letters written by observant physicians 
are worthy of the most serious attention from all health- 
seekers who are looking toward Colorado. It will he seen 
that the climate of this region “ gives a peculiar tendency to Neu- 
ralgia of certain nerves and their branches;” that the “ throat 
and lungs are very subject to their peculiar diseases,” and that 
“ Pneumonia is the fatal disease—carrying off its victims in 
the early or congestive stage.” “Loss of appetite” and 
“deranged digestive organs” are also noted as of frequent 
occurrence. While only those who “ are robust enough to 
pursue a rough-and-tumble out-of-door life, realize signal 
benefit from the climate.” 
The direct testimony of one of these physicians is to tV* COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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fact of a more rapid waste of energy in these higher altitudes. 
People feel well in the morning, but before noon their vitality is 
gone, and they do not feel right again until the next morning. 
A physician, who had recently removed to Colorado, after 
satisfying himself that the climatic conditions were especially 
unfavorable to invalids of a certain class, who were almost 
invariably worse for their residence there, determined to try 
the effect of Compound Oxygen as a vitalizing agent—that 
being, in his opinion, the great need of invalids in that 
region. After obtaining a supply of the “ Home Treatment,” 
he commenced administering it to some of his patients with, 
to use his own words, “to me the most astonishing results.” He 
then continues: 
“ The most marked results have been with two ladies. One 
has been troubled with a cough for more than a year ; one of those 
unsatisfactory coughs, with but little expectoration, and which gives 
a person but little rest, requiring some time after retiring at night to 
get to sleep. She has also had more or less pain following the 
course of the right sciatic nerve, which has given her considerable 
trouble, more particularly at night. She received benefit from the 
first inhalation, and has taken up to this time only four. To-day 
she says that she does not feel the need of any more. I am living 
in the same house with her, and know how much she coughed be- 
fore using the Oxygen, and how much she is coughing now. 1 
am astonished ai the effect of the remedy.” 
A well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Philadel- 
phia, who had been suffering from Consumption of the Lungs 
during the past few years, started for Colorado after a hard 
professional winter, in the hope of regaining some of his lost 
vitality in the purer air of that region. What he wanted 
was more Oxygen, not less, as is the case with the atmosphere 
in that elevated section of our country; and for lack of a suf- 
ficient supply of this very element of life his lungs became 
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rival. If, instead of going into a region where the air hat 
less Oxygen than that which he had been breathing, he had 
remained at home in Philadelphia, and obtained the larger 
supply which he needed through the use of Compound Oxy- 
gen, he might still be living among us, and pursuing his use- 
ful professional career. 
It will be seen from this testimony, so clearly stated and 
substantiated by facts, that invalids, especially those affected 
with Consumption or Neuralgia, make a great, and in many 
cases a fatal, mistake in going to Colorado. The climate, in- 
stead of benefiting, injures them. The very agent which, as 
our correspondents show, is needed in Colorado to relieve the 
patient under attacks of Pneumonia and Neuralgia, can be 
procured at home, and used under circumstances far more 
favorable to recovery. 
We scarcely need to emphasize the considerations here 
presented. If Compound Oxygen has to be resorted to in 
Colorado to relieve patients who are suffering from diseases 
for which the climate has been prescribed as a remedy, but 
which exacerbates instead of alleviating, is it not fair to con- 
clude that Compound Oxygen will much more speedily and 
surely give relief to such patients if they use it at home um 
der all the advantages of home surroundings? TWO REMARKABLE CASES. 
cAc5 
degree of suffering endured for years, and the ex. 
yjJvvi tent of relief obtained in a few months—-as exhibited 
in the following case—are almost incredible. 
‘ 'll-. In April, 1880, we were applied to for Compound 
f4 i oxyg(:n )n a case which had in it scarcely any promise 
$ of relief or cure. In a letter from the patient, a young 
lady in the State of Maine, received three weeks after the 
Treatment was sent, she says: 
“I expected nothing but an adverse opinion; still, I was not 
surprised. lam now at the place where nothing surprises, ex- 
cites, encourages, disappoints, soothes, or comforts me. You 
cannot understand—I hope you, nor no one else, ever will under- 
stand—what I have passed through; what lam still in, that I write 
such hopeless words. Sickness, pain and suffering I could en- 
dure and be patient, but when this deafness and maddening 
noise and pain in the head were added, I lost everything but 
the power to stay, in it and feel. The noise is like the sound 
of machinery, and of all kinds. ’Never slacks a second—when 
lam awake, and sometimes I hear it when asleep. How I long 
for a quiet place to lay my aching head, if only for five minutes 
at a time. It seems to me that I can never stay in it another 
hour, yet I drag out a miserable existence month after month. 
The doctors say if my nerves could be strengthened it would 
Stop. * * * I never knew what it was to be free from pain and 
■suffering.” 
The mother of our patient, writing a week previous to the 
date of the letter from which this extract is made, says: 
“We did think she slept a little after inhaling a few times, 
but last week seemed worse age4”*, “jid I canAtell of any good. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
She has been so long without food, except milk, that starva 
tion has almost taken place. * * * She was never very well 
or strong, but is now one of the greatest sufferers on the earth. If 
anything can help her it maybe your medicine, for we have tried 
nearly everything else. Oh, if it can help her, the blessing of one 
ready to perish be on you forever! Her food does not seem to 
hurt her so much for the last two days. I will write you again.” 
Two weeks later, the mother writes: 
“ All the worst symptoms are dulled, except the noises in her 
ears. * * * She has eaten some bread, a thing not done before 
for two years.” 
In a letter dated October Bth, 1880, nearly five months 
having elapsed, the mother says: 
“ The supply of Compound Oxygen has arrived safely. I was 
so anxious about it that I wrote you to send it along as fast as 
it could come. Carrie had used the other all up except one 
spoonful, and began to be so nervous that I feared a relapse. 
* * * She believes in the Compound Oxygen so firmly or I 
don’t know what I could do. One thing is certain, she has been 
relieved many times, and sometimes seems like herself again, when 
not in such terrible pain all the time. It must be the Oxygen 
that has done it, for she takes nothing else of medicine kind. 
* * * To say lam thankful seems so little for what you have done, 
but it is all I can do. May you be blessed in your good work!” 
The following letter, written December 2d, 1880, by the 
patient herself, gives so clear an idea of her condition before 
using the Oxygen Treatment, and the improvement estab- 
lished during a period of a little over six months, that we 
publish it nearly entire. An agent that can work so poten- 
tially, and in a case which every intelligent and honest phy- 
sician would pronounce incurable, must have in it a vitalizing 
and health-giving power beyond anything heretofore known 
in medicine. And this is what we claim for Compound 
Oxygen: 
“I hardly know where to begin, or how to express myself 
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My long letter last time; can only express the difference by 
•comparing the present with what has been for years. 
“ I have, since the middle of October stayed with the family 
nearly all the time; have eaten at the table with them, though 
not of the common food, of course; have a good appetite, and 
get real hungry at times; can eat apples, my favorite fruit, and 
for years a forbidden fruit, can chew anything not too hard, which 
I have not done for two years, not on account of my teeth, but be- 
cause the movement of the jaws pulled the nerves in the back of 
the head. 
“ Can do more and less, for I am not obliged to do something 
all the time, as I was last August, when I first commenced to 
try to sew, I couldn’t give close attention to anything enough 
to baste down a plain hem. Now can do many kinds of light sew- 
ing and fancy work, take care of my house plants and play with the 
kittens, cmd enjoy their company; can walk a few steps alone and 
stand a moment without support; my face and head have for three 
years been covered with a painful humor. For the last month, it has 
been entirely healed, and now the scars are hardly perceptible. The 
pain and soreness of the muscles, especially in the spring of the heels 
and toes and back is nearly gone. As for my back, I have less 
aching than I ever remember to have had in my life ; it has been lame 
and ached in every degree ever since I could remember ; still there 
is not a point in it but what is sore to the touch and movement 
now. I wished November to pass before writing, for it was one 
of my sick and cold months, but I have not taken cold, though 1 
have been to the door every day it did not storm. Now, I never dared 
In do such a thing for ten years ; it would have been not only care- 
less, but reckless for me to have gone into a cold room, even 
after cold weather, two minutes of freezing air would give me 
congestion of the lungs as surely as I breathed it, and as the best 
I could do, I had cplds and congestion three or four times a year, 
you may be sure I didn’t try many experiments. I have never 
had a cold since commencing the Treatment; never passed seven 
months without one in my life before. 
“It was twelve years in November since regurgitation and en- 
largement of heart, complicated with chronic inflammation and 
ulceration of stomach, attacked me. Since, at every acute at- 
tack of any disease—and I had nearly everything—acute inflam- 
mation of heart would set in, and run from ten to fifteen days. 
I will tell how it was when at the best, and I thought it nicely, 
and you can judge of the worse: the enlargement would throw 
the ribs up three-fourths of an inch; sometimes could be seen 
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would have to get up three or four times in the night, and roll 
over and over on the floor; constant, and often acute pain un- 
der left shoulder, side and arm; couldn’t have shoulder or side 
touched, even by myself, in a number of places without faint- 
ing; couldn’t bear any one to sit or lie near that side without 
the most unbearable sense of suffocation. Every valve creak ed, 
and I couldn’t go four feet, or take a glass of water and drink 
without waiting for the palpitation to subside. 
“ My doctors did all that skill and friendship could do, but 
they all said I ‘put medicine to shame ;’ only hellebore had any effect, 
and I took that in one drop doses until since taking the Oxygen, 
haven’t taken a drop; my heart was the first to feel benefit; have 
but little pain there, only aching, and ache is not pain,— Webster to 
the contrary notwithstanding. It always seemed as if my lungs 
were tired of breathing—at times, as if the left one didn’t at all; 
now I breathe so easy. 
“Don’t know as those noises are much improved, but my 
throat is better; that place I wrote you about is nearly half 
gone, and so much less pain. 
“ Can hear some better; have seen some of my friends and 
neighbors; can hear their voices across the room, and some 
words; can talk with them some, but not join in the conversa- 
tion, they are very considerate, do not stay long or ask me ques- 
tions to fret my racked nerves; so I manage to brave it out. But 
no one but myself can have an idea how it distresses me to not 
hear, I don’t get used to it, and I can’t. 
“But they looked their astonishment at seeing me up and 
about. Two days ago an old lady who has known me all of my 
life called, and when I went out to see her, she not only looked, but 
spoke of her astonishment, and then, doctors, I did talk Oxygen. 
My good doctor used to say, Carrie could talk fast if she wanted 
to, and I did want to then; though my head has ached worse 
ever since to pay me for it, I am not sorry I talked. She said 
she had seen your advertisements in the papers, but thought it 
was like all newspaper stories; but she believed me wThen I told 
what it had done for me, when I told her that I wished every one 
could have it that was suffering, she said she didn’t see why they 
couldn’t; didn’t think it would cost as much as a doctor for the same 
length of time. 
“I am satisfied, but can’t help being impatient. I hope I shall 
not wear out your patience, for that has given me more than 
life. Yours, gratefully.” COMPOUND OXYGEN 
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From a later communication, December 24th, 1880, we 
make the following extract: 
“If there is anything in my case which you think will en- 
courage or help any other long-sufferer to hope for relief in tha 
Oxygen, and to hope almost against hope, use it by all means. 
Though there are but few of the cases which I have read that 
have equaled mine, yet it has helped me to read of others on the 
principle that misery loves company, perhaps. 
“ I am not cured yet, and am suffering all I can bear; for I 
have not the courage and patience that I used to have. Still, 
When I think of last winter, when I was screaming day and 
night, and neither morning nor night brought even a second of relief, 
J wonder if it is I who can sit down and eat, and walk about the 
house, and find some enjoyment in caring for things about me. I will 
say again, that I wish every one who is suffering could have the 
blessed Oxygen.” 
A Singular Case and a Marvelous Improvement. 
The following case presents many singular features. A 
day’s experience, as given in the patient’s own words, will 
furnish some idea of the distress which he endured and the 
strange complications presented by the diseases from which 
he was suffering. We make an extract from one of his let- 
ters, written a few weeks after commencing the use of Com- 
pound Oxygen. He says: 
“ I sit down with a view to give you a day's experience. Yes- 
terday was Sunday, and being Sunday, and having retired at a 
late hour Saturday evening, I did not arise until nearly eight 
o’clock in the morning. About seven o’clock I began to cough, 
and for nearly an hour I continued to do so, excepting only 
time at Intervals to raise and dispose of the mucus coming from 
my throat, or clear the nasal organs of what came through 
them. When I Anally arose, I could hardly master strength 
enough in my legs to carry my body. A cup of warm tea and 
a light breakfast added a little to my physical force, and gave 
some temporary relief to the feeling of weakness, but did not 
materially diminish the feeling of distress. At about nine 
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of inhaling, consuming about five minutes, which was as long 
as I could well continue, it tires so; my chest and side being 
sore, and it requiring considerable effort to fill the lungs, and 
the operation being accompanied with more or less pain every 
time I inhale. In fact, Ido not get a single respiration in my or- 
dinary breathing without a sense of pain. You can judge, then, 
what it must cost in the way of suffering to attempt to expand 
them to their utmost extent. Sometimes I feel a sense of tem- 
porary relief immediately after inhaling, but at others it seems 
to irritate the feeling of distress in my side. This was the case 
on Sunday, after inhaling. I felt a feverish irritation in my 
stomach and side, and in so much distress I lay down, hoping 
to get relief, but this set me to coughing, and I had to get up. 
After coughing and raising what I think to be the matter from 
an ulcerous condition of the bronchial tubes, I felt some relief, 
and getting a pillow, I took a position in a Boston rocker, with 
a pillow at my back, and endeavored to get all the ease and re- 
lief I could. This, however, was really but very little, for I was 
constantly in more or less pain in my stomach and side all the 
time. About the middle of the afternoon this pain began to in- 
crease, and my knees ached, until by five o’clock P. M. I was in 
about as much misery of body as it seemed to me I could well 
endure. Up to a late hour in the night I suffered inexpressibly. 
Toward morning I got more comfortable and obtained some 
sleep. When I arose on Monday morning I felt as though I 
had undergone a week’s hard sickness, from which I was just 
beginning to get relief. Now, my dear sirs, this is simply one 
day's experience. How many, alas, have I seen ivithin the past three 
years ! For the Lord's sake, tell me, is there no release from these 
terrible sufferings t" 
Two months later, November 15th, 1880, our patient 
makes the following report of his condition, which shows a 
marvelous improvement, and one far greater than we could 
have anticipated in so short a period 
“ I have no doubt you have anticipated hearing from me long 
before this, but I have deemed it best to wait until I could speak 
with some degree of assurance and satisfaction in regard to my 
physical condition. I gave so much trouble by my inquiries 
and questions at first, that you doubtless thought that I would 
be a troublesome patient at best, and I was in so much suffering 
that I hardly knew sometimes after I had mailed my letter what 1 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
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had written. I earnestly pray that the good Lord will mercifully 
save me from another such season of suffering as I endured last 
summer. 
“ For months previous to sending for the Oxygen, and for more 
than a month after I commenced its use, I did not see an hour that 
1 was not in greater or less pain, and much of the time the suffer- 
ing was beyond human expression, I bad tried so many remedies 
without any permanent relief, I confess I did not have much 
faith that anything would ever do me any good, and for some 
weeks after I commenced the use of the Oxygen the great pain 
and constant soreness in my stomach and right side was well 
calculated to make me despair. But physicians had told me this 
was my only hope, and intimated that even this was very doubtful, 
and it was therefore a case of life or death to me. Like a drowning 
man, I caught hold of this straw, and determined to hang on 
until I sunk or could swim. I was so situated in business that 
I could only take the Oxygen once a day with safety, unless I 
gave up business entirely, and that I did not think best, for it 
has been my rule always to keep moving as long as I could, be- 
lieving that exercise and air comprise the principal elements of 
life. I wrote you in regard to the distress in my stomach and 
side, you will remember, and mentioned, as you will remem- 
ber, that it hurt me to inhale; and you replied, take the juice 
of lemon and sugar, night and morning, and use the inhaler 
only once a day. I did so, and after a few days I began to feel 
a little relief in my stomach, and little by little I improved in 
this respect, though very slowly. I only continued the use of 
the lemon a few days, thinking the acid most too strong for my 
stomach. But lam much improved in that respect, now suffer- 
ing but little compared to what I did all summer. I have continued 
the use of the inhaler once a day, and for the past three weeks 
I think I perceive a good effect from it; rest belter nights; do not 
cough as much as I did nor so violently, and have a better appetite, 
and find I have gained about two pounds in weight. How much of 
this should be credited to -the cooler and more bracing weather 
I do not know; but I feel fully satisfied that the inhaling is a 
benefit to me. First. I rest much better nights; Second. Ido 
not cough so hard; Third. If I get a cold it seems to break it up in 
a short time, so I do not suffer so much from it; and. Fourth. 
I suffer less rheumatic pains in my limbs. All or most of which 
1 credit to the inhaler.” GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 
COMPOUND OXYGEN CURE. 
cAo 
steady increase from year to year in the demand for 
Compound Oxygen has been attended, of course, by 
a corresponding increase in our facilities for its pro- 
Ijtv duction. Our new rooms and laboratory, at Nos. 
Yip 1109 and 1111 Girard Street (between Chestnut and 
<s> Market Streets), now afford us ample space for its 
production, administration and general supply. 
In order to give some adequate idea of the growth and 
importance of our new Treatment for chronic diseases, we 
present engraved views of the various departments included 
in its production and dispensation. 
Business Office. 
Our first view shows the interior of our business office. 
Here, besides the ordinary business of the establishment, our 
extensive correspondence with patients is conducted, the 
number of letters received and answered daily being very 
large. As the greater number of these letters come from 
persons asking advice, or from patients under treatment 
whose separate cases require careful consideration, some 
idea may be formed of the importance of this department, 
luid of the professional knowledge and skill which must be BUSINESS OFFICE.—Page 160, COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
«t command in order to answer the queries of patients and 
give them proper advice while using our Treatment. 
A record is kept of the symptoms of every patient who 
submits Ins case in writing; and also a history of the case, 
while under treatment, as reported from time to, time by the 
patient. These records enable us to follow each case and to 
note its progress and the various symptoms developed while 
the patient is under the effects of Oxygen. 
Our consultation room is in the rear of the business office, 
from which it is separated by folding doors. Our engraving 
shows the two rooms as one. 
This is a view of our reception parlor and room for the 
administration of the Office Treatment. These two rooms 
are separated from each other by folding doors, which, in 
the engraving, are represented as thrown open, giving the 
effect of a single, long apartment. The office chairs and 
tube for inhalation are seen in the fore part of the view. 
Reception Parlor. 
Laboratory. 
In consequence of the rapidly-increasing demand for ©ur 
“ Home Treatment,” we have had to enlarge our Laboratory 
from time to time, and within a few months past to add 
greatly to our means of producing Compound Oxygen. The 
view here given will afford a fair impression of the extent 
and importance of this department of our business. 
Here the “Home Treatment” is packed and shipped. 
Packing Rooms. 
We present these several views in order that the public 
may have the means of knowing and clearly appreciating 
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treatment for chronic diseases, which, because of the relief 
from suffering that it gives and the many surprising cures it 
is effecting, is gaining a wider and wider recognition every 
year, and establishing itself more and more firmly in the 
confidence of the people. 
Experiments and Results. 
It was but natural, when Compound Oxygen was first 
offered to the public, and a claim made for it that it would 
cure certain forms of disease which the medical profession 
had come to regard ns incurable, that most people would give 
little heed to the claim, considering it nothing more than an 
empirical pretense. But there were invalids who, in their 
suffering and extremity, and in their failing hope of a cure 
in anything physicians of either of the great schools in 
medicine could do for them, were induced to try Compound 
Oxygen. The almost immediate relief which, in nearly 
every instance, was experienced, and the cures which were 
made in cases that seemed too far gone to leave any room 
for hope, at once established this new Treatment in the 
confidence of the few who became acquainted with these 
earlier results. 
Public Confidence Gained. 
As was natural, the evidence seen in an almost hopeless 
invalid restored to comparative health, was something that 
common-sense people were not disposed to ignore or class 
with “false facts.” Other sufferers from chronic ailments, 
for which relief had been sought in vain, were led to try 
Compound Oxygen; and it was a rare circumstance that any 
one failed to receive great and permanent benefit. 
As physicians, who were trying a new agent of cure, we 
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163 
Cases in which, from long professional experience, we could 
see no possible hope of a favorable result under any treat- 
ment, recovered through the use of Compound Oxygen. It 
was not long before a knowledge of these facts gave us a 
considerable Office practice, which has continued to in- 
crease until it has become very large. For several years 
our administration of Compound Oxygen was confined en- 
tirely to our Office Treatment; and many of our patients 
came from distant places, and were subject to much expense 
in consequence. 
In order to extend the benefit of our Treatment, and make 
it available for patients who could not come from a distance 
to our city, we instituted a series of carefully-conducted 
experiments, which, at last, resulted in the discovery of a 
method by which the Compound Oxygen could be held in 
solution, and released therefrom by heat. 
Home Treatment. 
Of course we watched the results of our efforts in this direc- 
tion with the keenest interest. Great was our gratification 
as testimonials of cure after cure, performed by the Home 
Treatment, came in. We spared no pains to make its 
efficiency approach as near as possible to that of the Office 
Treatment. As this process went on, and cases multipled, 
and testimonials increased in number and professional sig- 
nificance, we were startled into th.e conviction that in devel- 
oping this branch of our business we “ builded better than 
we knew.” 
To the question often asked us: Isn’t the Office Treatment 
more potent than the Home Treatment ? our answer used to 
be: Of course! The agent used in each is the same, and 
the effect identical in kind; but differs, presumably in degree. 
Brilliant Results. 164 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
But facts are stubborn things I Where is there such anothe* 
brilliant record of cures as that which we have already pub* 
lished as the effects solely of the Home Treatment? And yet 
we stand but in the gate-way of a field of action whose bounda- 
ries we cannot see. Now, when the above question is asked, 
we modify our former answer thus: Yes, in some cases the 
Office Treatment is the most efficacious. But these cannot 
always be determined beforehand. On the other hand, we 
are convinced that many cases—and we hardly dare state 
how large a proportion we think there may be—would get 
well quite as quickly and more pleasantly by using the 
Home Treatment alone. 
Since perfecting our Home Treatment, and giving it the 
potency that pertains to our Office Treatment, the number 
of our patients has, of course, largely and rapidly increased, 
and are to be found in every State in the Union, as well as 
in many foreign countries. 
Facts and Experience. 
There is a fact, which could be developed only by experi- 
ence ; and it is a most important one. Many of our earlier 
testimonials were, naturally enough, of cases which made a 
very rapid recovery. The effect of reading these, upon 
many who knew that their condition forbade such rapid 
recovery, was, as we have come to learn, to dishearten them 
and discourage them from making an attempt to get well. 
Now, however, we can recall numbers who have got well 
under the influence of the Compound Oxygen, even after 
several months’ trial had afforded no positive evidence of 
benefit received. 
In these cases something inspired the invalids with a con- 
viction that their only hope was in the Compound Oxygen. 
One of this class, in a recent letter, exclaims: “ Oh, there COMPOUND OXYOEN. 
it sometliing grand in this slow and steady march toward 
health!” 
From all this, we are honestly of the opinion that two posi- 
tions are sound, viz.: First, that the faithful and persistent 
use of the Compound Oxygen will cure ail cases in which 
the disease has not reached the stage when the life-forces 
are not dominated over by the hostile ones: also, very many 
cases that are incurable by any other known means. Second, 
those who fail to be cured under the above-mentioned use of 
the Compound Oxygen, would not have been cured had they 
employed, during the same time, any other known remedy 
or means of cure. 
Another development is this: While we can cure almost 
all diseases, in some of their stages, we are free to confess 
our inability to cure all cases of those diseases. 
But there is a graver phase to this subject. Our opinion is 
often sought, whether or no the invalid may expect to be 
cured—as a criterion for sending an order. Not seldom, the 
pay for a Supply accompanies the request for an opinion. 
In many cases the money has been returned with an adverse 
decision; and in some of them our judgment has been re- 
versed by their sending peremptory orders for the Compound 
Oxygen, and getting wonderfully helped by it. 
Again, some fail to get well, upon whose cases we have 
given favorable opinions: from all of which we conclude 
that we can make no claim to infallibility ; that prognosis is 
the weak point of Compound Oxygen; and that we could 
form more intelligent opinions if patients would not—inad- 
vertently or otherwise-—omit to state important symptoms. 
Upon the whole, we have not much to complain of, and 
neither have our patients, in the matter of failures in this 
direction. A FEW CONCLUDING REMARKS AND 
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 
t cAo t 
»i*HE success which has so far attended our administra- 
r jLxs on Compound Oxygen is sufficient to gratify those 
more sanguine than ourselves. To us it is an inspira- 
JTjL tion to increased effort and still greater devotion to 
Yiy the cause. 
Some speak of our agent as a “ medicine.” This is natural 
enough, but it is not appropriate. We have repeatedly 
stated that the Compound Oxygen is not a medication, but a 
genuine Vitaeizee. Please to call it “ Compound Oxygen,” 
or the “ Oxygen Remedy.” 
Nomenclature 
Let us not be misunderstood. We do not decry the use of 
medicines nor depreciate their value, when properly adminis- 
tered. Medicines are in reality poisons. They belong to the 
pharmacopoeia, and have their legitimate, but limited sphere 
of action. The Compound Oxygen is a General, Yital- 
izer; or, more truly, it puts the human organism in a con- 
dition to generate indefinitely a greater amount of living, 
healthy forces. 
Hopes Realized. 
The senior physician has for ten years made the treat- 
ment of diseases by the administration of the Compound 
166 COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
167 
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 publications, and in the re- 
stored health of hundreds—nay, thousands—in various parts 
of the country. His principal work is this Brochure, the 
growth of several years, which has received numerous flat- 
tering notices from the intelligent, both in and out of the 
profession. It will be sent free, when ordered. 
Readers 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 be remembered that these encomiums are made 
upon simple oxygen, an agent very inferior to the Compound 
Oxygen. This alone, of all the preparations of Oxygen, real- 
izes the dream of Scientist and Physician concerning its 
curative action. 
Slow Recovery. 
Patients who improve slowly under the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment are, naturally, more guarded in their reports than 
patients who improve rapidly, and are less inclined to give 
the Treatment its full meed of credit. This is not surprising. 
The simple inhalation of a gas which, in many cases make* 
but little sensible impression, and the re-vitalizing effects of 
which are often so gradual that they can scarcely be noted 
from day to day, does not leave upon the patient’s mind the 
idea of an adequate cause for improvement; and if any be 
recognized, the doubt comes in easily as to the agency which 
Compound Oxygen has had in the work. 
Some, after using their first supply, though improved in 
many ways, fail to continue the Treatment, and after awhile 168 
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drift back into the chronic condition from which the new 
remedy had partially lifted them. A moment’s reflection 
will make it clear to any one, that a disease which has been 
encroaching on the system for years cannot, in the nature of 
things, be eradicated in one, or two, or three months. If, in 
this time, any clear impression have been made upon it, and 
the general health of the patient improved, a great gain has 
been effected, and the chances for a complete restoration to 
health largely increased. 
Arresting Disease. 
In examining the various reports of cases and cures which 
we have, from time to time, presented to the public, the fact 
that so many diseases of long standing have been ameliorated 
or cured, is one which cannot have failed to arrest attention. 
What we particularly wish to impress upon irivalids and 
their friends, in connection with this fact, is the value of 
Compound Oxygen in arresting disease in its early stages 
and before chronic conditions have been established. It 
must be evident to the common sense of every one, that an 
agent which acts so potently in breaking the force of diseases 
which have been at work upon the system and exhausting it 
for years, can scarcely fail to arrest like diseases in their 
beginning, and when the vitality of the body has not been 
wasted. 
If, therefore, you have the symptoms of Consumption, Ca- 
tarrh, Bronchitis, Neuralgia, or the indications of any other 
disease which may keep its hold upon you until it becomes 
chronic, do not neglect the warning indications. Meet the 
enemy upon the very threshold, and while your vitality is 
yet unimpaired. If your regular physician fail to reach 
the case, then we offer you, in Compound Oxygen, an almost COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
169 
certain means of restoration—-the way back to health—the 
agent that may save you from a life of invalidism, or from 'prema- 
ture death. 
In saying this, we are not speaking lightly, nor from mere 
professional interest, nor from theory or general assumptions. 
In proof, we have offered in the Brochure an array of facts 
and results so large, so well authenticated, and so positive, 
that no one in the habit of weighing evidence can doubt 
them. 
In Sudden Sickness. 
In our interviews with patients, and in letters received 
from those who have procured the “ Home Treatment,” fre- 
quent mention is made of the almost immediate relief which 
has been obtained from the Oxygen in some sudden attack 
of illness. In one case, exposure in thin clothing to a cold 
north wind brought on a severe congestion of the lungs, 
which threatened serious, if not fatal consequences. The 
only thing available to the sufferer on reaching home at 
night was Compound Oxygen, and this was inhaled persist- 
ently until the worst symptoms began to yield, and then con- 
tinued, at intervals, for several hours; when the force of the 
attack was completely broken, and restoration followed with- 
out the use of any other remedy. 
Its immediate use, in cases where cold has been taken, 
will, in almost every instance, arrest its progress. 
Attitude toward our Patients. 
Our attitude to those who avail themselves of our Agent, 
we desire to be that of a physician to a patient. The busi- 
ness of our lives is to do the best thing to cure those who 
geek relief from us. We wish to watch their progress, to 170 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
afford advice, counsel and aid when needed, and practicable. 
This, within reasonable limits, adds nothing to the expense. 
The claim which we put forth for the curative power of 
our agent is unique. Free from medicinal action, it causes 
to grow all the organs whose office it is to generate vital 
forces—health forces. Hence, we do not enter the lists 
with the professors of either school of medicine ; and hence 
our relation to our patients is unique. 
As the building up of the constitution is of paramount im- 
portance in every case, all are treated, primarily, alike. 
But there is a variety of local affections, and different kinds 
of diseases. This necessitates several modifications of the 
treatment, and sometimes the scientific and intelligent ad- 
ministration of medicines. 
Office Patients. 
These patients are under our personal inspection and care, 
visiting the office daily, or as frequently as their cases may 
require. The treatment is by simple inhalation. 
In order that we may act intelligently, it is necessary for the 
patient at a distance to give us, in writing, a minute descrip- 
tion of the case, age, temperament, hereditary antecedents, 
present condition and capabilities of body, history of the 
affection, location and character of the pains, and what will 
aggravate and ameliorate them, and what remedies have 
been taken. 
Home-Treatment Patients, 
This will enable us to determine how much may be rea- 
sonably expected from the means at our disposal. Our 
opinion, based upon intelligence and rectitude, we will ren- COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
171 
der in the interest of the patient. If we should be satisfied 
that his condition is such as to leave little or no hope in oui 
treatment, we will honestly say so; if, on the contrary, from 
our wide experience in its action and effects, we see a rea- 
sonable hope of relief or restoration, we will encourage the 
patient to give the Oxygen a trial. In all cases we wish to 
keep in correspondence with our patients while they are 
using the Home Treatment, and to get regular reports from 
them in order, that we may give them the benefit of all the 
professional skill and advice in our power to offer. 
It is not derogatory to our sagacity that the results of ad- 
ministering the Compound Oxygen under the form of Home 
Treatment has exceeded our most sanguine hopes. Most 
of our remarkable cures have been done by that alone. And 
if there be another such brilliant record of cures as that 
which the Home Treatment has already made, we are not 
aware of it, and should like to see it. 
Our Quarterly Journal. 
We publish under the title of “Health and Life,” a 
Quarterly Journal, in which is given a current report of the 
most important cases which come under our treatment. Each 
number contains a record of cases and cures for the preceding 
three months. 
If under any system of medicine a tithe of such remarkabU 
results has ever been obtained, even in years, as is shown in each 
number of our Journal as the work of a few months, no authen- 
tic record of the fact has ever reached the public. 
“Health and Life” is intended for free circulation, and 
will be mailed to any one who will write to us for it. 172 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
These Reports cover a very large number of cases which 
have come under our Treatment, and give results in an ex- 
tended range of diseases, many of which have been regarded 
by the profession as incurable. 
Our Reports of Cases and Cures. 
They are in small pamphlet form, and designed for free 
circulation, in order to make known to invalids as widely as 
possible what Compound Oxygen has done and is doing for 
the relief of human suffering. 
The reports are made up entirely of extracts taken from our 
patients’ letters, all of which are on file at our office. They 
include the following diseases, each pamphlet report giving 
the results in a particular disease: 
Consumption, Asthma, 
Catarrh, Neuralgia, 
Dyspepsia, Diseases of Women, 
Bronchitis. 
Besides these, we have a report of cases in which testimony 
is given as to the action of Compound Oxygen as “ A revt 
TAEIZING AGENT.” 
It is here that the remarkable virtue of this new Treatment 
becomes most readily apparent. The number of persons who 
suffer from the loss of vitality, the result of various causes, is 
very great. Many of these are not sick enough to be classed 
with invalids, nor yet well enough to enjoy life or to do any 
physical or mental work without a wearisome and exhausting 
effort. Most of the time they feel miserable and forlorn, 
every task is a burden; they have no zest in life and little 
hope in the future. 
If you, reader, belong to this class, send for our pamphlet on 
“ Compound Oxygen as a Revitalizing Agent,” and 
learn what has been done for others who were sufferers like COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
yourself, but who are now rejoicing in the attainment of new 
strength and a new vitality. • 
We have also a pamphlet entitled “ Reports op Cases,” 
which is made up of the reports made by patients in a wide 
range of diseases. Also one entitled “ Unsolicited Testi- 
monials.” ' This last-named pamphlet contains the unso- 
licited testimonials of a number of persons, some of them 
well known throughout the country, to the great value of 
Compound Oxygen in their own cases. Some of these cases 
are very remarkable. 
One or more of the above-named reports will be mailed tc> 
any persons who taay desire to receive them. 174 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
The price charged for the Compound Oxygen Home Treat, 
ment—two months’ supply—is 115.00. Now and then a patient 
suggests that the price is high. A few words will set this matter 
in its true light, and show that our charge to patients, instead of 
being high, is in reality very loiv. 
COST OF “HOME TREATMENT.” 
We are physicians, and give our patients the right- of free con- 
sultation during the time they are using our Treatment. 
A Treatment, if used according to directions, will last from 
two to three months. It rarely happens that a patient uses, 
Compound Oxygen for this period of time without receiving 
very great benefit; in a large number of cases the disease for 
which it is taken is cured. And yet many of these patients have 
spent, as stated by themselves, many hundreds of dollars on physi- 
cians and medicines without obtaining auy relief. 
It will therefore be seen that the expense of this Oxygen Home 
Treatment, which lasts for over two months, during which time 
our distant patients have the right to consult us freely by letter, 
is, in reality, small; costing, in most cases, less than a doctor's or- 
dinary prescriptions while attending a patient during a like period 
—to say nothing of his regular fees. 
Dr. John Turner, 148 Fifth Avenue, between 18th and 20th Streets, 
who has charge of our Depository in New York city, will fill orders 
for the Compound Oxygen Treatment, and may be consulted by letter 
or in person. 
DEPOSITORY IN NEWYORK. 
DEPOSITORY ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 
We have established a Depository of our Compound Oxygen 
Home Treatment at San Francisco, Cai. This will enable 
patients on the Pacific Coast to obtain it without the heavy ex- 
press charges which accrue on packages sent from the Eastern 
States. 
All orders directed to H. A. Mathews, 615 Powell Street, San Francisco, 
Cal., will be filled on the same terms on which we fill orders sent 
directly to our office in Philadelphia. 
Patients ordering from our Depository in San Francisco, 
should, at the same time, write to us, and give a statement of 
their case, in order that we may send them such advice and di- 
rection in the use of the Treatment as their special disease may 
seem to require. COMPOUND OXYOEN. 
PRISE OF OFFICE TREATMENT. 
The fee for this Treatment is 130.00 per month, payable in ad- 
vance. This calls for thirty treatments, whether in as many 
consecutive days or otherwise. 
PRISE OF SOME TREATMENT. 
The Home Treatment is sent by Express, at the cost of the 
person ordering it, on receipt of the price, which is 515.00. It 
contains two months’ supply of “ Compound Oxygen,” with 
inhaling apparatus, and full and explicit directions for use. If 
sent C. O. D., the cost,of collection will be added to the Express 
charges. 
The price of additional Supplies will be found at the bottom 
of each bill or receipt. 
ft®" We send out no trial Supplies, and no single month’s 
Supply. 
NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR ADYICE OR CONSULTATION. 
We desire it to be particularly understood, that we give our 
patients the most careful professional attention, either in office 
consultation or by Correspondence. We ask of every one who 
applies for the “ Compound Oxygen ” as full a history of his or 
her case as it is possible to give; and if we should be satisfied 
that the condition is such as to leave little or no hope in the 
new Treatment, we will honestly say so. If, on the contrary, 
from our wide experience of its action and effects, we see a rea- 
sonable hope of relief or restoration, we will encourage the 
patient to give the Oxygen a trial. In all eases, we desire to 
keep in correspondence with our patients while they are using 
the Treatment; and to get regular reports from them in order 
that we may give them the benefit of all the professional skill 
and advice in our power to offer. This is done without extra 
charge to the patient. 
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 
1529 ARCH STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 176 
COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE HOME 
TREATMENT. 
Fill the Inhaler with ordinary drinking-water to the 
“ water-line;” set it in a tincupful of water, and heat the water 
to about 130 degrees Fahrenheit, or as hot as a cook can bear 
her Anger in it; then add to the contents of the Inhaler the 
accompanying Measure full from the blue bottle, and put the 
rubber stopper in tightly. 
Now insert the shoulder end of the bent glass tubeinto the un- 
occupied oriAce in the rubber stopper, up to the shoulder. Place 
yourself in an erect posture, either sitting or standing, with the 
chest well thrown forward, the head slightly backward, and 
the chin depressed. Take the tin-cup in the hand, or rest it at 
a convenient height; put the lips around the other end of the 
bent tube, and by long, deep and steady inspirations, draw in 
at each breath all the air which the lungs can hold. Exhale 
through the nose. The lips may be kept at the tube all the 
time or not, at the option of the patient. Continue this inhala- 
tion, making a vigorous bubbling (not so continuously as to get 
much fatigued) for two minutes. Now remove the bent tube 
from the Inhaler, stop the two oriAces with corko, and put it in 
a cool place. Every otner day increase the time of inhaling one 
minute, until you shall have reached six minutes, and continue 
that length of time. 
When the time for reheating again arrives, remove the small 
corks [don’t keep them in, nor put them in until you have 
■finished heating and inhaling'], and in the same manner, re- 
heat the contents to 130 degrees. This time inhale a little longer 
than when a measureful is added. 
Thus every other time of inhaling, add a Measure full of the 
chemical; keeping contents at the “water-line,” by adding or 
abstracting water, when needed, for any cause. 
The best time for inhaling is two hours after eating, but 
“business” patients may chose their own time, even before 
breakfast. 
The contents get stronger by repeated additions. Don’t throw 
them away, unless sediment accumulates so as to be unsightly. 
The process of inhaling should be repeated twice a day; about 
twelve hours intervening (but two hours either way is allow- 
able). 
Keep the bottle (when not pouring out the contents) well 
flopped and in a cool, dark place. Then it will keep indeAnitely, INHALER. COMPOUND OXYGEN. 
177 
The white bottle contains pure water, strongly charged with 
Cbmpound Oxygen, It is a part of the Home Treatment, and 
should not be omitted. Take a teaspoonful before dinner and 
at bed-time. 
[The directions on the bottle are applicable only when the Homs 
Treatment is not used.] 
Shake the blue bottle gently before taking out a measurerul. 
One day in each week omit all treatment entirely. 
REMARKS. 
The hotter the water is, the more freely is the oxygen princi- 
ple disengaged. 
The proper length of time for inhaling, in order to get the best 
results, cannot be arbitrarily determined. Some are so sensi- 
tive to its action, that two or three inspirations will produce a 
decided sensation in the head and all through the system; all 
that is taken after that sensation of exhilaration is experienced 
(as if one had just taken a glass of good wine), produces no good 
effect. Others will feel no decided sensation, should they inhale 
It for half an hour; hut the real good to he received does not de- 
pend upon the presence or absence of that sensation. When 
the stopper is fitted to the Inhaler, it need not be removed. 
Pour the liquid through one of the orifices. It is safest to follow 
directions. 
Those having time at command should try to get a nap imme. 
diately after inhaling. 
If the inhalation causes perspiration, do not expose the body 
to cool air at once. 
See pages 58-65 for further hints. 
Returning periods do not interfere with the continued use of 
this agent. 
Taken according to directions, the chemical will suffice for 
two months. 
N. B,—About one patient in one hundred is sufficiently sensi- 
tive to experience the peculiar sensation on inhaling the Homs 
Treatment, 
Please to report progress about once in three weeks, especially if 
disappointment is being felt at results. 
One Dollar will he deducted from, the full price of the 
supply, when orders are sent not requiring the Inhaler. 
Drs. ST-A-TaiEClEl'H' c2s PiVIjE3iT, 
1109 & 1111 Girard st. (bet. Chestnut & Market), Philadelphia, Pa. I3STIDEI2C. 
PAG® 
Arthur, Mr. T. S., Case of 131 
Asthma, Mrs. I. N. Gregory 96, 97 
Brain, Exhaustion of. , . 77, 95 
Bronchitis, Clergyman from Orange, M. J 108 
“ lady from Carmel, N. Y 106 
Compound Oxygen, its components and history 4 
“ “ “ curative action 8 
“ “ “ mechanical action 9 
“ “ “ chemical action Iff 
“ “ “ vital “ 13 
“ “ “ magnetic property 15 
“ “ Diseases amenable to its action 18 
“ “ permanency of its effect 39 
“ “ can one take too much? 67 
“ “ a protection from disease 122 
“ “ its growth and development as a busi- 
ness 160 
Consumption, Pulmonary, Newville patient 86 
“ “ Arkansas “ 87 
“ “ Carthage, (Miss.,) patient 88 
“ “ San Marco, (Tex.,) “ 88 
“ “ cases of. 89-91 
“ “ its mortality 20 
“ “ popular errors concerning 28 
“ “ practical lesson concerning 29 
“ “ fatal symtoms of. 30 
“ “ pathology of 32 
“ “ Incurable stage of. 33 
“ “ Compound Oxygen in 85 
“ “ cautionary suggestions in 37 
“ “ case 82 
“ “ Mrs. E. S. Batchelder 84 
“ “ AYaldo M. Claflin 85 
“ “ H. G. Jacobs 86 
Consumptives, final words to 85 
“ hallucination in 62 
“ necessity of early treatment of. 6/ 
Colorado not a place for neuralgic or consumptive patients.. 146 
Complication of diseases, very severe 153, 157 
Correspondence, Important 144 
Convalescents, a serious word to 64 
Clinical Cases, I. Chronic enteritis 70 
w “ 11, Congestion of lungs 71 180 
INDEX. 
PAGE 
Clinical Cases. 111. Ozoena 74 
“ “ IV. Facial paralysis and neuralgia 76 
“ “ V. Brain, exhaustion of. 77 
“ “ VI. Neuralgia and facial paralysis 78 
“ “ VII. Fatty degeneration of heart 78 
“ “ VIII. Gastric and Typhoid fever 79 
“ “ IX. Consumption 82 
“ “ X. Sperxnatorrhcea 83 
Congestion of lungs and anemia 71 
Constipation, cases of. 129 
Colds, protection from, cases of. 134 
Catarrh 91 
“ Miss F. A 98 
“ Hon. W. D. Kelley 99 
“ W. A. S., (Houston, Texas) 99 
“ Pres. W. D. Parker 100 
“ Dr. W. H. Harris 100 
Dropsy, case of. 123 
Dyspepsia, cases of. 91, 127 
Development, case of, arrested 126 
Desperate case 142-143 
Disease, arrest of. 168 
Encouragement’to the hopeless 40 
“ “ unappreciated invalids ; 40 
“ “ those who have passed climax 41 
“ “ business men and women 41 
“ “ weary convalescents 42 
Enteritis, chronic 70 
Exhaustion, nervous and general debility 125 
Fever, Gastric and Typhoid 70 
“ Hay 82, 116 
Facts and experience 164 
Hopeless, encouragement to the 41 
Home Treatment, what is it ? 45 
“ “ its history and importance 46 
“ “ its brilliant roll of cures 47 
“ “ a substitute for drugs and nostrums, 50 
“ “ question of trying it 51 
“ “ objections considered 52 
“ “ exclusiveness and secrecy of. 56 
“ “ improved quality of. 163 
Health seekers, a word to 49 
Heart, fatty degeneration of. 78 
“ disease of. 164 
Headache, cases of. 133 
Hickok, H. C 96 
Hopes realized 166 
Hay Fever, lady in Pittsfield 82, 116 
“ “ teacher in Napierville, 111 116 
“Health and Life” 171 
Insomnia..... 118 
Improvement in appetite, digestion and general health, 
cases of. 119 
Journal, our 171 nrpjsx. 
181 
Kidney affections, cases of. 132 
Laryngitis ’ " 199 
Lungs, congestion of. .......V........... 71* 103 
Liver, disease of. 106 
Medical profession, use of Compound Oxygen by 136 
Doctor in Mississippi 137 
“ r. c. strother z!!:!;:!!!!;"!!!"":;:::;:::!:;; ms 
“ in Knoxville, (Tenn.) 139 
“ R.C. Smedley 139 
P. L. Lake 140 
“ H. S. Platt 140 
“ in lowa 141 
“ j. m. k 142 
“ in Vermont 142 
“ John Turner !.!!!!!"!!!!!!!!!!!!”!!!!!! 128 
Miraculous improvement !!!!!"!!!!!!"!!! 157 
Neuralgia and face paralysis 76 91 94 
Nixon, Mr. W. P. 126 
Nervous affections, cases of. "..!!!!'.'.'.'.!!!!!..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 131 
“ depression !..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. 91 
“ depression and exhaustion lOl" 102,125*, 126 
Nomenclature, our ig6 
Oxygen, its discovery „..Z.ZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 
“ “ medical use in the crude state !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'. 4 
‘ some chemical properties of. ' ' 6 
Ozoena, chronic '74 93 
Patients, practical remarks to ' 58 
“ not to look for miracles !!!"”!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 58 
“ do not get well uniformly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 59 
“ stages in decline and cure of. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”!!!!!! 59 
“ interpretation of states of aggravation... 60 
“ important caution in convalescence 61 
shall they leave home? 62 
“ our attitude toward 169 
“ our office 170 
“ Home Treatment, a word to . 170 
Partnership, our 69 
Paralysis, facial and neura1gic....".....!!"!"". 76 73 
Permanency of cure .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!""!!!!.. ’133 
Prostate Gland, enlarged 123 
Paralysis, Mrs. J. (Hornbrook) Kelly " ..•..,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11l 
“ a prominent citizen 113 
“ a clergyman in Philton !!"!! 114 
Protection from disease, Compound Oxygen 122 
“ from colds 133 
Read, Rev. D. d.... ..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...! 95 
Report of cases and cures 179 
Russeii, s. a !!!!...!!!!!!!! !!! !! 94 
Specifications of treatment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.!! !! . ! 66 
Spermatorrhoea ............... .83 121 
Slow recovery ! 167 
Treatment, specifications concerning !! ..!!!.!!!!!!!!!!!!! 66 
Testimonial of Mrs. E. S. Batch elder !!.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 84 
“ “ Waldo M. Claflin 86 INDEX. 
PA6t« 
Testimonial of Newville patient 86 
“ “ H. G. Jacobs 86 
“ “ Consumption 87 
“ “ Carthage, (Miss.) 88 
“ “ San Marco, (Texas) 88 
“ “ Consumption cases 89-91 
“ “ Sundry cases, (Rev. C. I). L.,) 91-94 
“ “ Russell, S. A 94 
“ Mrs. I. N. Gregory 96 
“ “ Mrs. Anna Lufkins 97 
“ “ Miss F. A 98 
“ “ Hon. W. I). Kelley 99 
“ “ W. A. S., (Houston, Texas) 99 
“ “ Pres. W. D. Parker 100 
“ “ Dr. W. H. Harris. 100 
“ “ Nervous exhaustion 101 
“ “ T. S. Arthur -02, 134 
M “ Ambrose Warren 103 
“ “ Rev. T. I. Holcomb 104 
“ “ S. M. Morris 106 
“ “ Mrs. G. J. Niles 106 
“ “ Dr. R. C. Strother 138 
“ “ Dr. R. C. Smedley 139 
“ “ Dr. P. L. Lake 140 
“ “ S. H. Platt, (6 cases) 140 
“ “ doctor in lowa 141 
“ “ Dr. J. M. K 142 
“ “ doctor in Vermont 142 
“ “ Dr. John Turner 128 
“ “ 143 
“ “ Clergyman from Orange 108 
“ “ Lady from Carmel 109 
‘ “ Mrs. Kelley, nee Hornbrook 11l 
“ “ a prominent citizen 113 
“ “ Clergyman in Fulton, N. Y 114 
“ “ Lady in Pittsfield, Mass 116 
“ “ Teacher in Napierville, 111 116 
“ “ Cases of Insomnia 118 
“ “ Case of Marasmus 120 
“ “ W. F. D., Spermatorrhoea 121 
“ “ Judge 122 
“ “ B. F. P., failing vision 122 
“ “ Wm. Penn Nixon .'. 126 
“ “ School-girl, Cinnaminson 126 
“ “ Miss Demill, N. Y 127 
“ “ Case of Laryngitis 128 
“ “ Cases of Constipation 129 
“ “ “ Headache 131 
“ “ “ Kidney affections 132 
“ “ “ Colds 133 
Ustick, Mr. S., case 0f...„ 123 
Urinary affection, case of. 133 
Uteri, prolapsus 91 
Vision. faßina 122 ATTEMPTED ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND 
OXYGEN. 
All tne attempts which have been made to discover through 
analysis the substance we call Compound Oxygen have failed? 
because this substance is one of those which belong to a region 
of natural forces that lies above the grosser elements that re- 
spond to chemical tests. 
The chemical solution in which we have been able, after long 
and carefully conducted experiments, to hold this substance 
and transmit it for use can, of course, he analyzed. But the 
magnetized substance itself is above and beyond the reach of 
the chemist. Its discovery, which marks the beginning of a 
new era in the healing art, was, indeed, made in the laboratory, 
and while experiments were being conducted with the sub- 
stances well known to the chemistry from which it was evolved; 
but the subtle element itself, after it had been evolved from 
these substances, when brought into certain relations and con- 
ditions, and then held in a chemical solution, cannot be discov- 
ered by subjecting that solution to the ordinary tests of quanti- 
tative and qualitative analysis. 
In order to be assured of this, we submitted the solution in 
which Compound Oxygen is held to probably the ablest cherm 
Ist in the United States, formerly a pupil of Baron Leibig, and 
now holding the chair of Chemistry in one of our largest and 
oldest Eastern colleges. His analysis, while minutely accurate 
as to the chemical elements of the solution, failed to detect the 
subtle element which we knew to be there in full potency. 
In regard to the professed analysis of Compound Oxygen 
which has been widely circulated in the newspapers, it must bo 
noted that in no instance which we have seen has it been ATTEMPTED ANALYSIS. 
stated that the article so called was procured from Drs. Starkey 
& Palen. We know, Irom these published analyses, that either 
the solution tested by the chemist never went from our labora- 
tory, or that the analysis offered to the public was so defective 
as to discredit the ability of the Professor who made it. 
That there may be and are active substances in nature which 
cannot be detected by any of the tests now known to chemical 
science is beyond dispute. 
We claim to possess the secret by which one of these sub- 
stances, hitherto unknown, may be evolved and made emi- 
nently useful in curing diseases which have baffled the highest 
medical skill, and in proof of our claim we point to the thou- 
sands of cases already successfully treated. 
In the face of this array of indisputable facts which we offer 
in proof of the curative value of Compound Oxygen-facts open 
to verification to any who wish to have incontestable proof— 
there is neither force nor reason in the denial of potency to our 
Treatment on the simple ground of failure to find the subtle 
element it contains by means of tests which can only discover 
the well-known and for the most part cruder substances in 
nature. 
The truth is, that chemistry, yet comparatively in its infancy, 
is at fault here, and fails to discover by any of its methods this 
newsubstance which we know to exist, and in the use of which 
we are curing diseases which no physician has been able to 
reach, arresting the progress of maladies which hitherto ended 
with death, giving ease from pain and suffering and sending 
strength and vitality into the weakened nerves and relaxed 
muscles of thousands to whom life had been a burden. 
And chemistry is equally at fault In detecting the invisible 
malaria which vitiates the atmosphere and sends sickness and 
death throughout whole districts of country. 
It is at fault when it attempts to find the morbid element in 
small-pox or vaccine virus. 
It is at fault, and cannot give a test whereby to discover the 
peculiar taint, or nidus, in which typhoid fever, scarlatina, 
yellow fever, diphtheria, measles, or the various so-called blood- 
poisoned diseases originate. 
And it is at fault in any effort to discover in a homoeopathic 
remedy the particular substance held in potency above the 
third attenuation. ATTEMPTED ANALYSIS. 
3 
Referring to the poison in hydrophobia and snake-bite, the 
London Nature says: 
“ For it is to be observed that neither the microscope nor chemical exami- 
nation has offered us any clue to the mysterious ingredient which constitutes 
the toxsemic property of these fluids as yet.” 
And because chemistry is at fault in any or all of these in- 
stances, is that a proof that no malarial, pestilential, or in- 
fectious substances, exist ? 
That they do exist we know too well; and if in the higher 
and more interior regions of nature exist subtle forces of an 
evil and destructive character, which no methods of analysis 
known to chemistry can detect, is not the fact itself conclusive 
that good remedial forces, by which these may be counteracted 
and neutralized, must exist also? 
Every new discovery of universal application must and will 
touch the interests of individuals, and often of a whole class or 
profession. If, as we declare, the discovery of what we call Com- 
pound Oxygen has given to the world a new substance, in the 
use of which for the cure of diseases all the deleterious effects 
of drug medication and violent reactive treatments are avoided, 
and in the use of which internal obstructions are removed and 
nervous centres vitalized, so that nature can herself do the 
gentle and orderly work of healing and restoring, such a dis- 
covery cannot fail to touch and seriously affect the interests of 
a large class of empirics and specialists, from whom will nat- 
urally come assaults and misrepresentations. 
Happily for the community, and especially for that large and 
steadily increasing class of sufferers from diseases which physi- 
cians fail tocure, Compound Oxygen was left free from assault 
and misrepresentation long enough for it to give incontestable 
proofs of its remarkable power over nearly all classes of ail- 
ments by which humanity is afflicted. 
"Whether any one of the preparations submitted for analysis 
came from our laboratory or not does not touch the question 
at all. The chemical solution in which we have been able to tlx, 
for use, the Compound Oxygen can be analyzed, as we have 
said; but no test yet known to chemical science can discover 
the presence of the new agent of cure for which this solution 
has been made a vehicle. mm m vmmm 
remarkable results which have attended the admin- 
istration of “ Compound Oxygen,” the new remedy for 
chronic and so-called “incurable diseases,” are without a parallel 
in medical histoi'y. 
As dispensers of this new remedy, we have, after thirteen 
years of earnest, untiring, and costly effort to introduce it to 
those who need its vitalizing and health-restoring influences, 
succeeded in resting its claims on the basis of facts and results 
of so wide and universal a character—;facts and results on record, 
and open to the closest investigations— that no room for a question re- 
mains as to its marvelous action in restoring the diseased to health. 
The rapidly increasing number of those who have obtained 
relief from pain or been restored to health by Compound Oxy- 
gen, reaching now to many thousands, scattered throughout 
the whole country, is having a wide influence on public senti- 
ment. There are no arguments so convincing as well-known 
facts. If a man or a woman, who has been suffering for years 
from an exhausting disease which no physician had been able 
to cure, tries a newly discovered remedy and is brought back to 
health, the fact stands as an unanswerable argument in favor of 
that remedy, so far, at least, as this particular case is concerned. 
A resort to the same remedy in another case regarded as “ in- 
curable” and with a like result adds a new and stronger argu- 
ment in its favor. Accumulate similar results to the number of 
hundreds and thousands, and in the widest range of chronic 
and“ desperate ” diseases and abandoned cases, and youhave a 
weight of evidence that is irresistible. On this weight of in- 
disputable evidence we rest the claims of Compound Oxygen. 
And now it becomes our duty to warn the public against 
frauds and Imitations. Scarcely any higher assurance of the 
value of a useful discovery or invention can be given than thff 
4 PRA tins and imitations. 
fact that unscrupulous persons attempt to deceive the public 
by offering them an article to which they give the same name, 
and to which they attribute the same qualities. The intrinsic 
value of a thing becomes evident in the efforts to make gain 
through an imitation or counterfeit. Our new Treatment is no 
exception to the rule. No sooner was its great curative value 
demonstrated beyond the reach of cavil or contradiction than 
frauds and imitations began to appear, and worthless articles 
were offered to the public as the genuine Compound Oxygen. 
In one Instance an individual engaged in this disreputable 
business actually puts forth the claim that he was employed by 
us in a confidential position through which he was able, in a 
surreptitious manner, to discover the secret of its manufacture! 
And, with a dullness of perception equaled only by his moral 
obliquity, asks the public to credit his assertion, while at the 
same time claiming to possess the secret of making Compound 
Oxygen through a betrayal of confidence! As if the public 
would put faith in a man who declares himself to be untrust- 
worthy ! 
But there is not a word of truth in this man’s assertion. He 
was never employed in our laboratory, and if he had been there 
was no possible way in which he could discover the substance 
used by us to give to the new compound the vitalizing element 
and curative force it contains. That is a secret which we do not 
communicate to any one employed in our laboratory. 
In another case a Western physician dispensed an imitation 
of our Treatment which he called Compound Oxygen, and then 
took a number of our testimonials and reports of cases and 
published them as having been given for cures made by his 
spurious preparation. A threat to publicly expose him caused 
him to withdraw, so far as we know, our testimonials, but he 
stills offers the public his worthless article. 
And, in still another case, a dishonest imitator not only used 
our testimonials, but actually took some forty or fifty pages 
bodily from our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, and published them 
as if written by himself as an exposition of the science and 
theory on which his pretended cure was based! 
In most of the cases which have come under our observation 
the spurious substance Is offered at lower prices than we ask 
for the genuine article. FRA VDS AND IMITA TIONB. 
We have refrained up to this time from taking any notice oT 
these frauds, but in consequence of repeated communications 
and inquiries from those who have tried these imitations and 
found them worthless, we deem it only a common duty to warn 
the public against them. 
A moment’s reflection will make it clear to any one that a 
man who tries to rob another of the fair reward to which any 
new invention or discovery may entitle him is not a man whom 
the public can afford to trust. His moral sense is perverted—he 
has neither true honor nor honesty, and will cheat and deceive 
those who trust him whenever he finds it to his interest to do 
so. 
Let it be clearly understood that Compound Oxygen is only 
manufactured in Philadelphia, and at 1109 and 1111 Oirard Street, by Drs. 
Starkey & Palm. Any substance made elsewhere and called Com- 
pound Oxygen is spurious and worthless, and those who buy it simply 
throw away their money, as they will in the end discover. NATURE’S AGENT OF CURE, 
Acting in Strict Harmony with Physiological Rules. 
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For Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, Catarrh, 
Hay Fever, Headache, Debility, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, 
and all Chronic and Nervous Disorders. 
A WELL TRIED TREATMENT 
“The Compound Oxygen Treatment” which Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, No. 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, have been 
using for the last sixteen years, is a scientific adjustment 
of the elements of Oxygen and Nitrogen magnetized, and the 
compound is so condensed and made portable that it is car- 
ried by express to every portion of the country—indeed, it 
is sent all over the world. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen have the liberty to refer (in proof 
of their standing as Physicians) to the following named well- 
known persons who have tried their Treatment: 
HON. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, Member of Congress, Philadelphia. 
REV. VICTOR L. CONRAD, Editor Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia. 
REV. CHARLES W. CUSHING, D. D., Lockport, N. Y. 
HON. WILLIAM PENN NIXON, Editor Inter Ocean, Chicago, 111. 
JUDGE JOSEPH R. FLANDERS, Temple Court, New York. 
MRS. MARY A. CATOR, Widow of late Dr. Harvey Cator, Camden, N. J. 
MRS. MARY A. DOUGHTY, Jamaica, Long Island, New York. 
MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE, Melrose, Massachusetts. 
JUDGE R. S. VOORHEES, New York City. 
MR. GEORGE W, EDWARDS, Proprietor St. George’s Hotel, Phila. 
MR. FRANK SIDDALL, a well known Merchant, Philadelphia. 
MR. WILLIAM. H. WHITELY, Silk Manufacturer, Darby, Phila., Piu S' 
An. many others in every part of the United States, 
DRS. STARKEY &. PALEN, 
JTo. 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia} Pa. 
Revitalizes the Great Nerve Centres.