The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-03-27
OXYGEN SAVES A LIFE.
Remarkable Medical Treatment i'm n
CuSc of Pneumonia.

CnSc Of Pneumonia.
NEW YORK March 27.-LyiuB emaciat-
ed and worn with disease and stiH 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 brayest fights for life against an
attack Of double pneumonia within the
recollection OF some OF the most Promi-
ueut physicians Of that borough.
Taken in with the disease on March :,
which was Immediately diagnosed d ileu-
monia. il was found necessary - 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 $40. we're used 10 keep life
within his body. IL is said that dur ng
that twenty-fotIr hours the tube bearing
the life giving element was not away from
his mouth and nOstrils for over half an
hour. He is now cOnTalescing. and unless
complications set in he will within
month or so be able TO resume work in his
uucle's office in Manhattan.
Young Cole was horn in western Penn
syIvania. where his parents BOW 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 il was there he was taken i'll
Two OF the best trained nurses the Dor
oush could provide were at once secured.
and they and the iandlady Of the boarding
house and the physician. DR.. Wilbur f.
| Seymour, were the ones who have held the
young man just within life. TIE 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
I ty dollars a 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 ore tube was used
/ During the battle for the young man s
/ life eight-fve cylinders OF oxygen were
used. at an expense Of 1925. There were
! other things to be thought Of in this re-
markable fskt for a life. His tempera-
! degrees andfG5 degrees. Cold packs and al
/ 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
/ zeal condition reached his parents home
| both started for Brooklyn as fast as steam
| could bring them. They were too late,
/ however. 10 see him before the delirium
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. II
was only at infrequent intervals that they
| were allowed to take a furtive look al
their suffering son. TO both father and
mother il has been fearful ordeal fOl
only little over a year ago a daughter
young Coles sister died with the same
| disease