The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-20
OXYOONOR FAILS TO
PROVE UP TO CLAIMS
Fails Miserably in Test Upon
Patient To Cause Variation
in Pulse or Temperature.
BY FINANCE.

bJ FINANOE.
have made another endeavor 20
establish the truth about Oxydonor.
! arranged test OF the instrument
under the conditions suggested by the
manager OF the sales department, A
member OF the faculty OF the Detroit
College OF Medicine took the pulse
and temperature OF a normal patient
in the manner prescribed by the
agents and found variation extreme
ly slight and perfectly normal. 1t
is noteworthy that the results such as
were found were directly contrary to
the claims made by the Oxydonor
saleRmen
The patient showed a temperature
OF 97.S degrees when the experiment
started, little below the average nor
NAL temperature, so that there was
plenty OF opportunity for the Oxydon-
or to work. The temperature of the
water In which the Oxydonor was
placed was AZ degrees as near the
temperature of 40 degrees suggested
by the Oxydonor salesman as conven-
lent. The pulse showed between SO
and "a beats per minute at the begin
ming of the experiment.
After an hours application OF
Oxydonor. the temperature showed a
change OF something less than i've
hundredths Of one degree, which is
rather Insignificant, when compared
with the change OF more than one de-
gree reported by the Oxydonor sales
manager. This change Is what would
be expected after an hour OF quiet,
such as Is prescribed by the Oxydonor
directions. The pulse was trife
slower, too, which would be natural
in state OF rest. The count showed
GO beats per minute.
This demonstration proves con-
clusively what I.have stated over and
over again, that there is no influence,
chemi cr electrical, or
OF any other nature exerted by the
OXydonor.
There Is, of course, certain amount
OF mystery about the construction Of
the body, but there are some laws Of
nature that apply as well to the body
as to other things about US. You
would not attempt to raise the tenn
perature of 100 pounds OF pig iron
by attaching a cord to a potato and
putting the potato into water, and
yet that is exactly the same sort of a
thing that the Oxydonor statesmen
claim they can do when they tell you
that the Oxydonor will raise the tenn
perature OF the body by the use OF
their instrument. II takes force to
produce heat and that force cannot be
exerted by an inert mass at the end
of ten-foot wire.
Now a word more about the testi-
monials, the statements that people
make so freely that they have been
cured by Oxydonor or some equally
miraculous agent. that is nothing
more or less than pure fake. | said
the other day that one OF the chief
causes OF error was inaccurate dag
nosis. unscientifc statement OF the
conditions in the case. Another i'm
portant factor is the unscientific as
ISOLATION of effect with apparent
cause.
A federal Judge summing up in the
case OF the Oxydonor fake against Its
imitator, the Oxygenor, made state
ment on the value of testimonial evil
dence that is worth remembering not
only In regard TO this fake, but also
on the thousand and one other fakes
that are advertised in the not too par
.ticular newspapers. 1T would be just
as reasonable" said he for an Iowa
farmer to say that his barn was not
destroyed by the last thunderstorm
because there was a lightning rod on
Mount Pisgah as for man to say that
his restoration to health was brought
about by the use of an Oxydonor or
Oxygenor."