The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-17
Remarkable RssuIls Claimed
by Dr. SlOksT Of London.
PHYSICIANS ARE INTERESTED.
They Are Somewhat Puzsd and Are Await
Ing Fuller Reports 0ygsns Powerful
Effect in Direct Application

New York. June i7-Physicians In this
visiting and house stats OF the different
hospitals. have been somewhat puzzled
by reports from London regarding the
cures effected at the Oxygen Hospital
there by DR.. George Stoker by method
OF oxygen treatment applied To sufferers
from ulcers, lupus and other malignant
diseases.
They are anxious TO see DR.. Stoker's
reports, but until they see them they
can have no definite idea concerning his
method OF treatment or what he has
accomplished by means OF It.
DR.. Stoker was chief OF the Red Cross
ambulance service in the Turko- Russian
war and Stafford House commissioner IN
the Zulu war. He subsequently became
specialist In diseases OF the throat.
nose and ears.
Fe states that while I'm South Africa he
observed that wounded Zulus, when
taken 20 the uplands, where the air was
pure and dry, recovered rapidly from
their wounds, even where no dressings
were used and there was no surgical
treatment.
METHODS OF ITS USE.
At meeting held in June, at the Oxy-
gen Hospital. In Fitzroy square, the Duke
of ArgylI dwelt upon the large percentage
OF cures which had been effected there In
the last two years, and instances were
given of the success OF the oxygen treat
ment
Patients admitted TO the hospital are,
as general rule, sufferers from ulcers
and lupus OF long standing. The treat
ment adopted by DR.. stoker is simple.
The wounded or liberated surface is
washed twice daily, and is then enclosed
a hU nf NIB
gen, pure or diluted, can be applied TO IL.
Patients are provided with caps filled
with oxygen which they wear night and
day. Others have arms and legs incased
In rubber bags or boxes which are fed
with oxygen.
DR.. stoker is OF the belief that with the
proper equipment ne can cure pulmonary
consumption. lie is treating patients
who are I'm advanced stages OF phthisis.
Or. Stoker states that the treatment Is
productive OF stirnulative and vitalizIng
effects, and that a chemical change Is
efrected In the surface OF the wound by
a process of oxydization. The oxygen
cfcatrices, he says, are like new and
healthy skin. He asserts that patients
are being permanently cured OF dieases
winch were pronounced incurable.
COMMENTS OF PHYSICIANS.
Or, George Taylor Stewart. medical |
SNPtiAltcluehl OF Bellevue hospital, /
said: I'VE have used peroxide OF hydro |
gen for many years in membraneous dis |
eases and In all surgical cases. but we do |
not coniine ourselves to IL. The peroxide |
OF hydrogen coming in contact with or |
ganic matter becomes pure oxygen.
As understand IL, however, DIR. Stoller
uses pure oxygen i'm bags. Now the effects
OF. pure oxygen are very severe. Coming
In contact with the skin or with the
flesh OF wounds from which the skin Is
absent some important chemical change
must necessarily ensue.
I'VE use oxygen for internal treatment
quite frequently I'm cases OF gas asphyxia-
tion' But. as l said before, pure oxygen /
is powerful, and too much OF Il will
burn up the tissues OF membranes"
1T is we'll known" said DR.. George w.
kunE one of the examiners I'm lunacy
In the charities department, that
wounds exposed TO pure air heal rapidIv.
can readily believe the results OF the
observations made by DIR. Stoker In
south Africa. | knew a sea captain who
had no medical knowledge whatever but
who sewed up the wounds OF several of
his sailors
He could not treat them surgically.
but the injuries OF the men, I'm the pure
sea air healed perfectly without pus. a
thing which could not have been possi-
bic In the ordinary hospital where proper
treatment had not been applied The ef-
Tects of pure oxygen on wounds how
ever, such as obtained by DR.. stoker
'annot be discussed unless the treatment
has been observed"