Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-26

, a proper and invariable standard of
strength, containing certain proper
ton of freshly made oxygen--not
| ozone and not magnetized; a certain
proportion of freshly made nitrogen
and, according to recent analysis, a
small amount of argon. The two lat
ter gases | believe play a most impor-
tant part In the nutrition of the body.
Modern physioiogists have almost to-
tally neglected this important line OF
investigation. but the recent research
es OF Vile on the direct nitrogen nu-
triton OF plants have directed their
attention forCibly TO nitrogen as an
alimentary substance. 1t forms two
and a half per cent OF the human body.
1t is not all derived from the food.
Where does 1t come from?
The perfected compound oxygen is
an entirely different article to the So
called pure oxygen. Nature, herself
has pointed out, in the composition of
the atmosphere how oxygen should be
used. This atmosphere contains only
one-tifth per cent. by volume, of oxy-
gen, the bulk of the remainder being
nitrogen and other inert elements.
This is the air suitable for sound
lungs and health. | do not propose to
use the same proportion for weak
lungs and debility. Nature nowhere
provides undiluted oxygen for living
beings. They could not live in It. The
act of breathing says Lewis. involves
100000 complicated muscular and
nervous actions during a year. Add
but une-half more. for the utterly use
! less mechanical pumping in and out of
| mono absorbable pure oxygen and cal
cutate how rapidly the strength of the
/ invalid must be exhausted
The perfected compound oxygen
believe is the most potent remedy for
chronic disease known To modern sci
ence. | cannot say the same for any
other form of oxygen and have there
fore gone 10 this length to show how
dangerous il may be to use the wrong
form while it will mean renewed life
To use the correct one. 1t would have
probably saved President Mckinley s
life had it been received aud used
properly.
There are cheering signs that med
zeal men who should lead in this mat
ter. are taking renewed interest in it.
No less than four closely printed
pages quarto, in the Index Catalogue
of the Surgeon Generals Office, L. S.
army, are taken up with the names of
works on oxygen as remedy
This shows the hopeful drift of ex-
pert medical opinion. There is a near
and bright future for oxygen. the fuel
and flame of life The anticipations
of the earlier chemists. regarding what
they called vital air. 'I'air eminent
respirable, air pur'-of the distin-
guished Lavoissier. the founder OF
modern chemistry. are now more than
realized in the perfected compound
| oxygen.
In the words of well-known New
York physician, Dir. Andrew Smith:
In oxygen we have a remedy capable
of aiding us. more or less under cir
oumstances in which the usual resour-
| ces of therapeutics are inadequate
How much more than that DR.
/ Smith might have said
! Or Edward Guernsey says, the USE
/ of the perfected compound oxygen OF
/ your preparation is being appreciated
/ by the profession as an invariablt
/ therapeutic agent in large class o
troubles, the result of lack of nutri
/ ton and general debility"
ALFRED WALTERS, NJ d.