1886 no large experience of advantages
Clinical notes: oxygen in therapeutics.
Charles J. Smith.
Published in The Lancet.
December 18.
Page 1172:
Difficulty & cost of production of oxygen.
Impurity when produced.
Oxygen never been in general use in England.
No large experience of its advantages.
Those who have written about subject,
exposed it to suspicion of quackery.
Lavoisier characterized oxygen as vivifying spirit par excellence.
Agent of highest value to physicians.