The evening times., 1900-03-27
OXYGEN SAVES A LIFE.
Remarkable Medical Treatment in a
Cnse of Penumonia.

| NEW YORK March 2I-Lying emaciat-
| ed and worn with disease and stll within
the shadow OF death. Leon Cole. twenty
| one years OF age. of 2S5 Clinton Street.
| Brooklyn has for three weeks made one
of the bravest fights for life against an
attack of double pneumonia within the
recollection of some of the mos; promi-
nent physicians of that borough
| Taken ill with the disease on March 4,
which was Immediately diagnosed as pneu-
| mOnia. il was found necessary to resort
| 10 oxygen almost Immediately. The
| amount needed then increased so rapidly
that on one day the contents of twenty
! two cylinders. each containing 100 gallons
| Of gas. costing S110. were used to keep life
| within his body 1t is said that during
| that twenty-four hours the tube bearing
| the life giving element was not away from
| his mouth and nOstrils for over half an
| hour. He is now convalescing. and unless
complications set in he will within
month or so be able to resume work in his
uncle's Office in Manhattan.
Young Cole was horn in western Penn
sylvania. where his parents now live. Some
months ago he came to Manhattan and
went to work as a clerk in the office of
his uncle who is a wealthy broker in Man
haitian. He had rooms in a fashionable
boarding house at Warren and Clinton
streets. and it was there he was taken ill.,
Two of the best trained nurses the bor-
ough could provide were at once secured.
and they and the landlady of the boarding
house and the physician. DR.. Wilbur Fl.
Seymour, were the ones who have held the
young man just within life. The nurses
were the Misses McGurgan and Peterson,
and for three weeks there was no cessation
in the constant vigil kept over the fever
torn body of the patient. At first but one
cylinder of oxygen was used. but on the
second day il was Increased to four, then
to eight. and so on in a rapidly increasing
ratio until frequently forty. fifty, and six
ty dollars day was spent in the precious
gas. One day the maximum of twenty-five
cubes were used, and on that day the cri-
sis was reached and passed. Science. oxy-
gen. and nursing had won. Then the
amount of gas was decreased day by day,
slowly at first, but steadily. until yester-
day only one tube was used.
During the battle for the young mans
life eight-five cylinders of oxygen were
used. at an expense of $425. There were
other things to be thought of in this re-
markable fight for a life. His tempera-
ture for days at time lowered about 104
cohol rubs were used at times, when it was
found necessary to give him as many as
five baths in two hours For his nourish-
ment four quarts of milk and three quarts
of whisky were used often each day.
When the news of the young mans crit
ical condition reached his parents home
both started for Brooklyn as fast as steam
could bring them. They were too late,
however, to see him before the delrium
of the disease began, and although they
have been occupants of the next room al
most during the entire three weeks. not
once have they been allowed to make
known their presence to the patient 1t
was only at infrequent intervals that they
were allowed to take a furtive look at
their suffering son. To both father and
mother il has been a fearful ordeal TO;
only little over year ago a daughter
young Coles sister, died with the same ]
disease.