The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-23
REMEDY OF NATURE
OXIDATION THE SCIENTIFIC CURE
ALL OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY
OXYGEN BREEDS GOOD HEALTH
Laws OF Nature Have Pointed the
Way to Rational Theory
OF Disease and the
Remedy.
sneciaI TO The Globe.

NEW AOftfA, Dec. Zl.-lh6' opening OI
the twentieth century is being signalized
by rebellion of the public nlno against
artificial methods and absurd theories
People are beginning to look to nature,
their much discarded mother, for means
of -counteraeting the evils of overclvilt-
cation.
The present trend of ideas in regard to
disease and its treatment at least among
the advanced classes, is nothing less than
revolutionary. With the momentum of
general intelligence expected to result
from higher general education there is
reason to expect a still further develop
ment of this tendency.
The latest and by all means the most
scientific method of treating complaints
of the lungs and of the blood generally
is oxidation. At the present time it is
too expensive for the average pocketbook.
being, so far as its application has de-
veloped, nliilionaires luxury.
1t IS true that a form of oxygen has
been used considerably by physicians and
in the hospitals, but usually as last
resource, to lengthen out the moments 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 improperly UNI
derstocd by best physicians. The oxygen
sold in drug stores is merely a. mechanical
composition, whereas the oxygen Which
is necessary to tone and renoVate the
system is a true chemical combination.
The greatest authority on oxygen and
it's application for hygienic purposes IN
this country is Prof. Frank Northrop, OF
IS West Thirty-fourth street, New York,
who is the author Of a work entitled
Natures Vital Forces and number
of valuable treatiseS dealing With its pro-
duction and application us therapeutic
agent. Dr. Northrop was recently elect
ed a Fellow of the British Association as
an acknowledgment of his researches into
the production and application OF oxygen
He has. in connection with his office, q
most expensive laboratory for the prep
aration of d perfected compound oxygen
which is administered by means OF IN
halation.
In. reference to the adoption of oxygen
as a remedial agent, Prof. Northrop says;
Among the many surprises that the
future will have in store for US Will De
the proper appreciation of the use of oxy-
gen. not only for curative purposes, but
for producing in the human system that
exact poise and perfection of funcuonal
activity which means perfect health.
"It will not then be considered neceS-
sary to put the germs of one poison INTO
the blood to drive out another. FOLLOWING
the leech and the lance, the peStle anu
mortar VIII nave gum, anu IiiS AA"PF.'
patient of the TWenty-f1rst Century, IL
there are any such apeople left by that
time will take his or her Inhalation OF
perfected compound oxygen to cure any
little disease which may have peen
brought about by indisereticn III diet
or from other causes.
'The faIIacy of using pure that is to
say undiluted oxygen, in the treatment
of chronic diseases is deeply rooted IN the
public mind Nearly every day am ask
ed SIS this pure oxygen you are giving
me? My doctor said L was to take pure
oxygen. Would not pure oxygen do me
more good than the perfected compound
oxygen?'
at was this initial delusion as the
purity of the oxygen used that led to
its abandonment as q remedial agent by
Beddoes. In fact, the great medical au-
thorities of Europe who took UP the
oxygen idea at first gradually renourced
it as being too dangerous an agent Tor
therapeutic use Sir Benjamin Richard
son took up the subject and turned the
search light of exact science on this
fundamental error as to pure oxygen.
In a contribution to the British assocla-
ton reports he says: "A certain amount
of dilution is required because neutral
oxygen would not combine with the car
bon of the blood unless it were diluted.
In atmospheric air, the dilution was just
enough to sustain healthy combination
at 60 degrees f. The quality of oxygen
NAV be Increased in amount to parts
of gas to of nitrogen and may be abb
sorbed Beyond this, the combining pow
er is reduced and oxygen is not absorbed.
Hence animals die in the gas, as 1t ap-
proaches the pure state; they die, not
by a narcotic process, but by q process of
negation.
THAT is to say that the nearer oxygen
approaches purity, the less is absorbed
by the blood to which ii is the all
potent life giver. Oxygen like all other
forms of nutriment must be modified or
diluted before it can be accepted by the
system Tt is the same with everything
we eat drink or take incidentally. 1t
would be quite as rational to take our
tea pure III the form of theme coffee
in the shape of caffeine and wine as
anhydrous alcohol
'"The former two would act as nerve
poisons, and alcohol would kill by alb
sorbing water from the tissues, even if
1t could be swallowed without saffeca-
ton All must be diluted with water as
the oxygen with nitrogen. This is one OF
the simple principles OF chemical COM
position
Besides being diluted to proper stan
dard oxygen must also be administered
at a proper temperature.
THE compound oxygen must be freshly
made IF on the other hand it is eX-
posed to ammonia, to living animals, IL
decaying matter or to heat of $50 degrees
it loses its activity and no longer com
bines with the blood. Oxygen once breath
ed even if 1t responds to every chem
ical test OF purity. kills animals rapidly
when they are exposed to its influence
in closed compartments. 1t has lost its
iife-giying powers, and acts as a poison
1.-THE amount OF water and foreign mat
ter in the blood. alcohol, opuln, chic
reform, etc, have also grca. Influence
Ia determining combination. It was theil
ignorance as to these varying conditions
that led the early pioneer of the oxygcr
astraS, and which account for the dog
matte disbeiief OF many of their r,oderf
SUCCESSORS.
even the substances oxygen comes inte
contact with. during compression and aft
erwards, affect it injuriously. AS Prof
Threlfeld remarks: The presence of por
Gus bodies in particular (and all bodies
are more or less SOP seams to exercise
profound influence or the chemical stat,
of gaseous systems exposed to their &C
ton
Chemists say that oxygen combine.
with everything except fuorine Takel
in connection with this fact, the impor
lance Of freshly made oxygen cannot bt
oyerestinated.
"To be absorbed and prove beneficial
therefore oxygen must be diluted to
proper and inyariable standard o.
strength, containing a certain proper
ton of freshly made oxygeu--not ozonr
and not iragnetized; a CERTAIN proportion
Of freshly made nitrogen; and, according
to q recent analysis. small amount o
argon. The two latter gases ] 'lelier,
play most important part in the nutr