The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-05-10
TESTED AND NOT FOUND WANTING.

Thirty years of close observation and study
have convinced us that the science of medicine
needs some great ritGAzer adapted to the widest
range of diseases, yet thoroughly practicable.
For long time we sought it in electricity, but
for the masses that is an unframed colt-serviee-
able if it can be properly used In the nature
of the case, no drug can ever meet the require
ments. -Four gears Of experiment have led US to
believe that it is found i'll the Compound 0ryqen
of Drs. Starkey and Palen.
As we have been so severely condemned for
advertising this article so largely, we submit
the following facts to the judgement of our
readers, and also to answer the numerous let
tiers of inquiry that reach us concerning it.
We have personally tested Compound Oxygen
in forty-one cases, with the following results:
Class |. Cases recognised from The outset as IN
cHrd5ls: One uterine, three consumption, one
| diabetes, advanced stage; all greatly relieved.
Glass ii. Cases deemed as POSSIBLY durable: L.
Deranged several years, excessive nervousness +;
N och improved.-2 and g. Bronchial consump-
| ton; one nearly cured, the other greatly
/ helped, but the disease rendered fatal by an
/ accident. Bronchitis, one lung useless /;
cured.-5. Constitutional debility lifelong !;
/ improved.-6. Consumption; cured. Con-
/ frmed and increasing Authorizations; cured
4 s. Neuralgia of optic nerve, gastric irritation,
| great nervous prostration abandoned for want
! of proper instruction while at distance.
Glass III. Gases deemed probably c1trG5ls 1.
| Bronchitis and hay fever; bronchitis cured
| 2. Gastric fever and prOstretion, inability to
recuperate; eured.-3 and l. General debility
greatly bsnefted-5. Kidney disease and ner-
vous debility; life saved. IS. Persistent and
/ harassing cough: cured-7. Cough of u years
standing; cured.-S. Lung and heart disease
| lungs cured and heart much imprOyed.-9.
Obstinate cough; cured-10 COnsUmptive ten
| denotes and cough; cured.-1I. Cough and
spermatorrhea; cough cured.-12. Nervous de
| bility; cured.-13. Sciatie neuralgia, nervous
prostration life despaired Of; eured-14
| Consumptive decline; saved. "-15. Bronchial
and gastric irritation and extreme nervous
pro5tratiOn life despaired of, could only take
oxygen three seconds; cured.-I6. Nervous
debility and uterine troubles: greatly relieved
17-20. Over-w0rk; all helped Immediately
though continuing to work.-21 Uterine ditf-
culties, extreme nervousness and hallucina-
tions appetite improved Immediately. but
treatment unwisely abandoned lest it should
increase stoutneSs.-22- Ri Treatment not prop
erly used.-25. Nervous debility from over
study; helped. Debility. difficulty O1
breathing strong hereditary consumptiye ten
denotes; debility partly overcome difficulty Of
breathing cured (still under treatmentl.-27
Liver complaint. of many years, and nervou:
arrangement liver decidedly better. - .
Lung disease and dyspepsia; improved, but
frequent absence from home interferes with
the treatment.
1t should be Observed
LIST. Most of these were cases in which physi
clans and other remedies had failed.
I'd. Many of them were chronic.
Sd. In IS of the Al cases only one treatment
z months) was used, and in no case more thar
two.
4th. Many of the cases reported relieved o.
helped would undoubtedly have been cEred By
further treatment, but financial reasons pre-
vented. A number are still under treatment
9Th. This statement of results is accurate Il
our personal knowledge.
9th. These embrace al the cases under OF
own direction, instead of being culled, as Ordi
nary testimonials are, from hundreds or thou
sands of experiments
Knowing these facts, and knowing moreoye
that, according to the reports of a large Lift
. insurance Company of causes of death of 1t
members during six months of the presen
year, every fourth person died of lung diseas
land these too all selected lices), should deeE
ourselves false to the interest Of readers, az
traitors to humanity, il lCe failed to make knox
, such boon for the saferiag
Now, if the Baltimore Methodist, or The Pic
HeeF, can produce from the records of any physi
clan of any school, or from the history of an.
proprietary remedy, achievements equal t
; these, we proffer our columns for like pub
licity; still the fact win remain that they bar
ndiigned this agency of cure UithOut adequate IN
: EestigGti0s of ats merits. Prejudice and pre-
judgments are as poor helps to editorial con
sisteuey as elsewhere in life
We copy the above from The Whispers 0
Peace, published by Rev. S. II. Platt, A. NJ, a
? Southampton n Y. Mr.. Platt has been usiD
| Compound Oxygen for some four years, an
during that time has tested it in forty-on
, cases, the results of which he has voluntariE
given to the public in his paper. Mr.. Platt
well known among the Methodists, to whic
) denomination he belongs, as a truth-loving an
conscientious man. No question can therefor
/. lie against the fairness of his report. Tn
I Compound Oxygen Treatment can be obtaine
) only from Drs. Starkey & Palen, 100 Girar
; street, Philadelphia. Their treatise on Con
pound Oxygen, giving history of the diseoy
5 cry, nature and action of this remarkabl
, therapeutic agent, and containing a large reC
ord of the surprising cures which have bee
made during the last thirteen years, viii
mailed free to any one who viii write for it.