OXYGEN IS LIFE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3227, 15 September 1879, Page 4

OXYGEN IS LIFE.

A LTIIOUGII the modern Materia Medici Cjl includes mnny valuable remedies foi humnn afflictions, it is a matter of cortainty t hat in all enses whoro tho animal vitality it failing, Phosphorus is dooidodly superior to every other remedy at prosent known. It will work offocts euch as nothing else will produce, and it possoßses the gieab advantage of not oatising, when its use is relinquished, the slightest reaction or deprossion Tho question naturally presents itself, " Why is co valuable an element so littlo regarded aud so seldom prescribotl P" The only answer which oan be given is : — That a certain difficulty has boon found in so preparing it that its action may bo kept under perfect control. Hitherto it has been used in almond and olive oils, in sulpluu'io other, in rectified alcohol, in chloroform, and in several other cubstauces j but however valuable it has boon found in ail the hitherto known methods of its preparation, certain irregular results have been experienced, which have led physicians to neglect it for gonoral purposes, and to oiuploy it only iv extreme cases, and after ovory other remedy has failed. But a chemical process has now boon discovered, by which its invaluable action on tho human system may be realised without any of those drawbacks which previous modes of administration have invariably produced, ,