The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-28
OXYGEN.
REMEDIAL AGENCY IN CHOLERA.
Apparatus for its Manufacture-How it
Operated in India's Past Epidem-
ics-Cyanized Patents Fur
nished With Breath.

The use of oxygen for the treatment Of
cholera having lately again attracted the
general attention, and several of the
physicians of the city been visited on the
subject, reporter of the I'D, who was
informed that DR.. Juste Touatre had in
his possession an apparatus for the man
ufacture of oxygen, which gas he used
extensively in his practice, called upon
him yesterday.
The doctor Showed the writer the little
machine, which was invented by Mr.. ;.
LimouSin, noted druggist of Paris, and
chemist of high reputation in that city.
1t consists of two hemispheros her
medically closed, and in which are
placed, in given proportions, chlorate of
potash and oXyde of magnose. Under
these hemispheres is placed lamp, the
heat OF which forms the oxygen. The
gas thus formed passes by a tube through
a decanter OF water which releases it of
all impurities, and il is then received in
g guttaDercha bag. When the gases are
inhaled from these bags il is passed
through decanter Of aromatiZed water,
which gives it n pleasant taste.
While this new and useful apparatus,
which manufactures large quantity of
oxygen in few moments, was in opera
ton, the reporter Intercepted DR.. IOua-
tire en- the use lately made Of this gas in
Marseilles in cases of cholera. In
answer to the inquiry the Doctor said:
cit was in India during the cholera cpl
demic OF 1919 and 1921 that oxygen was
administered successfully for the first
time by English physicians. In France
it was also used during the opidemics of
1872 and 1913, but 1t was then difficult to
obtain, make or administer it. To-day
we are well prepared, and in few mo-
ments all the pure oxygen needed can
be manufactured. The results obtained
by the use of oxygen in case of cholera
varied. Sometimes unexpected success
followed the treatment, aud it again
failed repeatedly. This, you know, is the
history of all new indictments. Each
medicine i'll certain given conditions
has special, determined and ellicacious
action. The art of curing consists in
the proper diagnosis.
1T Is in the commencement of the
algld periods, when those having cholera
are cyanized and breathe with difficulty.
that the oxygen can save the patient.
BY It's stimulating faculties, and as prin-
cipal factor of the blood il can revive
the blood globules and arrest incipient
asphyXia. one must not think that ii
will cure all cases of cholera and arrest
this malady in all its periods. IL is in
sufficient in the first period; in the ne
Rod Of evacuation, and when asphyXia
has commenced and the blood win
absorb neither air nor oxygen, it is also
completely useless.
"The therapeutical value of oxygen
has been during the past twenty Years
thoroughly studied, especially in
France. The superb works of Demar-
quay, Limousin, Langier, Paul Bert,
Constantin Paul, and especially Haven,
have demonstrated the remarkable eff
caey OF this gas in the treatment of a
large number of maladies. The magnif-
1cent studies of Hayem on blood and
anemla have brought TO light the real
value OF inhalation of oxygen gas. The
reconstituting virtues of this gas are sur
prising. The number of blood globules
increases considerably, recuperating ap.
petite returns, strength increases and
the action of fattening proceeds.
To-day, oxygen is daily applied in
Paris. 1t does not cure all diseases, does
not cure them in one day, and | will not
repeat, like a skeptic doctor, who, speak
ing OF certain new medicine, said
Take 1t where it cures. In a number o
aiiiictions 1t often cures, but still oftenel
relieves. One quality, however, which
cannot be denied to ii is that il is com
pletely harmless.
81 will not extend my remarks on il.
virtues. To form an idea, it is sufficient
to know the importance in nature o
oxygen, which is called vital air. 1t il
by inhaling it in the air that we live
and It is this gas which, inhaled pure
sometimes keeps us from dying befor,
our time, even from cholera. n-lNe
Orleans Times-Democrat.