In proof of his statements as to the value of oxygen for sustaining purposes, Dr. Leonard Erskine Hill, lecturer on physiology at the London Hospital, produced two students at the London Institution last month and set them to box. One was a novice, and the other an experienced pugilist clad in light attire. They boxed in brisk fashion until at the end of the second round, the novice was completely “blown.” He then inhaled oxygen from a bag, and, returning to the amphitheatre with a fresh supply of energy, forced the pace for the concluding round, and, in the words of his opponent, “stayed much better than in the preceding rounds." The cartoonist of the “San Francisco Chronicle" shows amusingly some of the possibilities of this new treatment.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 16, 21 April 1909, Page 14

In proof of his statements as to the value of oxygen for sustaining purposes, Dr. Leonard Erskine Hill, lecturer on physiology at the London Hospital, produced two students at the London Institution last month and set them to box. One was a novice, and the other an experienced pugilist clad in light attire. They boxed in brisk fashion until at the end of the second round, the novice was completely “blown.” He then inhaled oxygen from a bag, and, returning to the amphitheatre with a fresh supply of energy, forced the pace for the concluding round, and, in the words of his opponent, “stayed much better than in the preceding rounds." The cartoonist of the “San Francisco Chronicle" shows amusingly some of the possibilities of this new treatment.