1866 oxygen condemned to disuse
Over 50 years after Priestley's discovery.
Medical use of oxygen resounding failure.
Oxygen almost completely abandoned.
Condemned to disuse by nearly all authors.
Demarquay was a French Physician.
Complete work of Demarquay consists of 861 pages.
Condensed by Wallian.
Reigning oxygen therapy expert in U.S..
Omitting unessential details & prolix repetetions.
Essay on medical pneumatology: a physiological, clinical and therapeutic investigation of the gases.
By J. N. Demarquay.
Translated & published 1889.
With notes, additions & omissions.
By Samuel S. Wallian, A.M., M.D..:
1832: oxygen administered in last stages of cholera.
Without success.
Oxygen should not longer be received in domain of current therapeutics.
Only remedies of last resort.