New-York tribune., 1901-07-07

tive effects Of oxygen. Even without this cubi-
Gle Dr Stoker is doing something to prove that
his theory is tenable, for patients inhaIing di-
luted oxygen from bags for short intervals are
improving. ward with compartments where
diluted oxygen could be breathed naturally by
patients without the use of nosapiece or rubber
bag would enable the managers of this hospital
TO experiment on broad lines with curative
treatment for the deadliest of modern scourges
The erection Of cubicles with arrangements for
continuous supply of dry. superoxygenated
AR VIII be Inexpensive not more than eco be-
ins required for a most important experiment
IN The treatment of consumption
THE CLASS OF PATIENTS
The patients admitted into the hosrital are
mainly those suffering from ulcers ard lupus of
long standing. They are wretched men and
women who until they have crossed the thresh-
old IN Fitzroy Square have heard no word of
nope Now they are new creatures, with an
earnest Expectation OF deliverance from horrible
maiadies- The treatment is simple and pain
less. The wounded or liberated surface is
washed twice day and kept inclosed in a
ceptacle where oxygen. pure or diluted, can be
continuously applied to it. Some of the patients
have caps filled with oxygen " hch they
day and right. Others have arms and legs in
INDIA rubber bags or boxes which are fed with
oxygen from receptacles near the cots. Boxes
are preferred. because they are more satisfactory
for clinical observation but bags of the simplest
construction alone are required for feet
hands The apparatus is adapted to the case.
and the oxygen is turned and off by tap once
in five or six hours. Face caps fitted 10 the
skin with adhesive plaster and the oxygen is
passed in by tubes, The patients are entirely
oonciled to bags. boxes and caps, for they have
IND IN them from the outset relief from suf-
f-rinS. Some Of the Door creatures had not
len free from pain for many years until they
entered this hospital During the first half hour
e treatment there might have been little
lsaJion OF pricking pain. but this experience
vas not repeated. The patients were happy and
o2ntented IN every ward as the visitors passed
from cot 10 cot, and not Of them had
word Of complaint. 1t was marvellous. for many
{ t-em were afflicted with horrible and lcath-
some diseases. They were not only free from
pain. but also oheered by the results Of the
healing process and the hope OF ultimate con
Valescence.
DR. Stoker contends that in addition 70 the
stinU!ative and vitaizing effects Of this treat
lnent some profound chemical change is effected
n the surface Of the wound 10y process Of oHy-
dZation. He asserts thai i rule the cicatrces
formed by ordinary methods Of healing do not
last, and that whenever strain is put CT them
the patients after getting about break down
again. The oxygen cica rices. he states, are Ike
new, healthy skin. and when the patients are
once out Of hospital they are permanently cured
and IA not since the process Of mending *
physiologically perfect. Some of the conclusions
which n draws from an exhaustive study OF
oxygen treatment are these: 1t heals where every
other form Of treatment has failed it does this
rapidly: il aIlays pain; it forms healthy vascular
skin. and it is more economical than any form
If surgical treatment. The success of the syS-
TEN is Gully borne out both by the reports of the
directors and by the evidence of surgeons and
physicians in infrmaries and hospitals where
oxygen has been used. Nine cut Of ten patients
ia the Oxygen Hospital are cured although the