1881 compound oxygen quackery
Starkey & Palen both physicians.
Thriving business promoting compound oxygen.
Philadelphia salon for inhalation treatments.
Numerous case reports.
Each with a miraculous cure.
Compound oxygen was quackery.

Compound oxygen its mode of action & results
By G.R. Starkey, M.D..
Starkey & Palen.
1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
182 pages:

What is compound oxygen?
Difficult to declare.
It is more than simply a compound of oxygen & nitrogen.
Normal atmosphere proportion: 1 oxygen to 5 nitrogen.
Combination known as "mechanical mixture".
Neither element is changed by being mixed.
In Compound Oxygen proportion is altered.
Oxygen is greatly in excess.
Oxygen is magnetized.
Oxygen activity enhanced many fold.
Gives it quality known by "Ozone".
Can be proved,
applying ozone tests with our gasometer.
Crude oxygen is insoluble.
Compound oxygen is soluble.
Water will take up several times its own volume.

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