The Cairo bulletin., 1910-02-22
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NEW DAlH MV[HI[U
Compressed Air Used to Treat
Pulmonary Troubles.
Great Success Claimed for Apparatus
That Looks Like Steam Boiler with
Portfolios - No Talking A.
lowed by Patients.

London. --"Compressed air baths"
comprise the latest medical wrinkle
in treating sufferers from pulmonary
troubles, and it has been found most
efficacious In dealing with asthma,
bronchitis and emphysema The pa
TENTS are merely locked up for few
hours at time In a Theoretically
sealed boiler and required to breathe
the compressed air, which is pumped
into this chamber. The novel treat
ment already has attained constant
usage In the Brompton Hospital for
Chest.
I'VE really cannot explain just why
this treatment has yielded such splen-
did results" explained Frederick
Wood, secretary OF the Bronpton in
Urinary, but 1t has been most valu-
able and effected numerous cures.
believe, therefore, that the best thing
can do is to accord you person
ally conducted tour to this particular
plant"
After passing along labyrinth OF
corridors light flickered up and the
machine" was In evidence. 1t resem-
bled nothing SO much as a large, old.
fashioned boiler. studded with rivets
and standing on end. On nearer In
spection too, 1t seemed to have a
nautical smack to 1t, reminding the
observer OF diving bell Of other days.
Set around In the steel plates were
portfolios covered with heavy plate
glass, while above large pipe disap-
peared through the top of the cham.
Der.
Nothing very complicated about It
is there?" remarked MIR Wood And
there isn't much 10 excite you In the
Interior he added as an attendant
swung open door, which hitherto
had appeared as an integral part OF
this boiler--diving-b affair Ger
tainly the interior of the chamber was
little table and two or three chairs,
For decoration of the steel walls
there was little but the many rows Of
riyets, which Ia default Of better
amusement might be counted hack.
ward or forward or upward or down,
ward or half dozen other ways.
One scarcely expected pictures in a
compressed air bath; but something
caught ones eye on the moment OF en-
try, That was a notice, prominent,
and curtly worded. Talking strictly
forbidden 1t said Here was matter
for conjecture Why should not
bathers in compressed air indulge in
polite conversation?
1--WE have to make that rule for
more than one reason" explained Mr.
Wood you see, the effect of the com
pressed air, apart from Its curative ae-
ton, is rather curious. 1t has, II any
thing. a rather exh!larating action, and
gives rise to that happy feeling said
to be experienced by those who climb
high mountains. Now, yet you can
quite see that, in any case, 1t might
be bad for patients, perhaps rather
weak, to start a conversation which
HlBut PoshluiJ uSNslup iHtu Hol al
gument. Imagine heated political
argument under conditions of unusual
exhilaration and you will see the need
for the No talking erule
The treatment Itself is carried on
like this Mr. Wood went on to cx-
plain. 1.-TWO or three, or. even four,
patients are sent into the bath at once;
The Theoretically closing door is shut
on them and the air pumped In by a
steam pump until the pressure reaches
40 pounds to the square inch"