Treating Wounds by Oxygen Gas.
Mataura Ensign , Issue 312, 22 July 1897, Page 3
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Treating Wounds by Oxygen Gas.
♦ I Remarkable cures- are reported to i have taken place at the Oxygon Homo, ! 35, St . George's Square, London. ' | The home was started in May by a ! ' committee of ladies and gentlemen I under the presidency of the Baroness ! I Burdett-Coutts. Fifteen patients have ' since been discharged, cured of wounds ' md ulcers which had entailed an aggregate of forty years of suffering. I No drugs or surgical instruments are ' used in the home ; the affected limb is simply placed in an air chamber, a wooden box through which a current of oxygen passes. The treatment is under the direction of Dr George Stocker, who was formerly i an army surgeon. During the Zulu war, Dr Stocker's duty was to administer surgical relief to wounded Zulus. They did not accept his aid willingly. He noticed that the natives carried their wounded brothers to the hill-tops, where the wounds, being exposed to the atmosphere and washed several times a day, rapidly healed. Agreeing with the natives that this method was of more effect than the knife, be made many successful experiments, which resulted finally in the establishment of the home. A peculiar thing about the treatment is that it causes hair to grow on the parts exposed to the oxygen. A boy whose eye was treated developed long eyelashes, and a girl who had become bald at the age of eight now has a full set of flowing locks, for which the oxygen alone is held accountable. The home, which was opened on May 20, by the Princess Louise, is becoming a teaching centre, and is visited by many surgeons, foreign as well as English.
