Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-26
WONDERS OF OXYGEN
REVOLT OF PUBLIC MIND FROM
ARTIFICE TO NATURE.
Wonderful Properties of Oxygen
It's Proper Use Bringing Forth
Great. Results.

New York Letter; The opening OF
the Twentieth Century is being sig
nalized by a rebellion OF the public
mind against artificial methods and
absurd theories People are beginning
TO look to nature, their much discarded
mother, for a means OF counteracting
the evils of GENERALIZATION.
The present trend of ideas in regard
10 disease and It's treatment, al least
among the advanced classes, Is moth
ing less than revolutionary. with the
momentum of general intelligence eX-
pected TO result from higher general
education there Is reason TO expect d
still further development or this
tendency
The latest aud by all means the most
scientific method Of treating com
plants of the lungs and of The blood
generally IL oxidation AT the pres
ant time IT Is too expensive for the ay-
erage pocketbook. being, so far as It's
application has developed, a million
aires luxury.
II is true that form of oxygen has
been used considerably by physicians
and ~ the hospitals, but usually as a
last source to !engthen out the mo-
menls OF those doomed to death from
some fatal disease
Up to the present time oxygen has
been produceable only by an expensive
process and the article itself only inn
properly understood by the best phySi-
clans. The oxygen sold in drug stores
is merely a mechanical composition
whereas the oxygen which is neces-
to tone and renovate the system
il true chemical combination
The greatest authority on oxygen
ant~ts application for hygenic pur-
poses In this country Is Prof Frank
Northrop, of 33 West 3fth Street New
York, who is the author OF work en-
titled, Natures Vital Forces, and a
number of valuable treatises dealing
with It's production and application as
therapeutic agent Or NOrthrop
was recently elected a Fellow of the
British Association as an acknowl-
olgement Of his researches into the
production and application of oxygen.
He has, in connection with his office,
a most expensive laboratory for the
preparation of perfected compound
oxygen which is administered by
means Of inhalation.
In reference To the adoption OF oxy.
gen as remedial agent, Prof Nor
throp says, Among the many sur
priseB that the future VIII have In
store for az viii be the proper appre-
citation of the use of oxygen not only
for curative purposes. but for produc-
ing in the human system that exact
poise ard perfection Of functional ac-
tivity which means perfect health.
III viii not then be considered nee
essary to put the germs OF one poison
into the blood TO drive out another.
Following the leoch and the lance, the
pestle and mortar will have gone. Gud
the happy patient of the Tweuty-arst
century. If there are any sick people
left by that time will take his or her
inhalation of perfected compound oNy-
gen 10 cure any little disease which
may have been brought about by indis-
erection in diet or from other causes
The fallacy Of using pure that Is
Go say nndiluted oxygen, In the treat
ment of chronic diseases is deeply
rooted In the public mind Nearly
every day am asked is this pure
oxygen you are giving me2 My doc
tor said ! was to take pure oxygen.
Would not pure oxygen do me more
good than the perfected compound
oxygen
1t was this initial delusion as TO the
purity of the oxygen used that led to
its abandonment as remedial agent
10y Beddoes In fact the great med
zeal authorities OF Europe who took up
the oxygen idea at first gradually re-
uouuccd 1t as being too dangerous an
agent for therapeutic use Sir Ben
jamin Richardson took up the subject
and turned the search light of exact
science on this fundamental error rs
10 pure oxygen, In CONTINUATION TO
the British association reports he says
\ certain amount of dilution is re-
quircd because neutral oxygen would
not combine with the carbon Of the
l.oot unless IL were diluted. In atmc-
ephrric air, the dlution was just