OXYGEN IS LIFE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3218, 4 September 1879, Page 4

OXYGEN IS LIFE.

A LTHOUGH tho modern Materin Medica CjL includos many valuablo remedies for human afflictions, it is a matter of certainty that in all cases whero tho animal vitality it failing, Phosphorus is docidodly superior to every other remedy at present known. It will work ofibcts such as nothing else will produce, and it possesses tho great advantage of not causing, when its uso is relinquished, the slightest reaction or depression The question naturally presents itself, " Why is so valuable an element so little regarded and ao seldom prescribed ?" The only answor which can bo given is:— That a certain difficulty has been found in so preparing it that its action many be kept under perfeot control. Hithorto it has been used in almond and olivo oils, in suiphurio other, in rectified alcohol, in chloroform, and in several other substances; but howevor valuablo it has been found in all the hitherto known methods of its preparation, certain irregular results have been experienced, which have led physicians to neglect it for general purposes, and to employ it only in extreme cases, and after every other remedy has failed. But a chemical process has now boen discovered, by which its invaluable action on the human system may be realised nithout any of those drawbacks whioh previous modes of administration have invariably produced.