1887 compound oxygen is not oxygen
Compound oxygen was not oxygen at all.
Usually very dilute "laughing gas" or N2O.
Made by heating ammonium nitrate.
Inhaled gas mixed with ferric carbonate or potassium chlorate to give it a color & help assure patients they were inhaling something tangible & useful.
Oxygen in therapeutics.
Treatise explaining apparatus, material & processes used in preparation of oxygen & other gases with which it may be combined; its administration & effects, illustrated by clinical experience of author & others.
By C.E. Ehinger, M.D..
Compilation of articles from 'Medical Current'.
Chicago: W.A. Chatterton & Co..:
Dr. Ehinter relates many case histories in great detail.
Objections to compound oxygen:
There is no such thing as compound oxygen.
Handled by persons without any knowledge of medicine.
Advertised in an unprincipled manner.
Found benefit in the following diseases.
Keep in mind this was only from brief intermittent use!:
asthma
pneumonia
bronchitis
phthsis (TB)
capillary bronchitis
dyspnea
reflex cough
indigestion
headache
croup
albuminuria
diptheria
diabetes
pulmonary emphysema
spermatorrhea
rheumatism
insomnia
gout
cholera
anemia
chlorosis
leukemia
poisoning
asphyxia
uremia
puerperal eclampsia
hydrophobia
tetanus
epilepsy
hysteria
paralysis
neuralgia
pelvic cellulitis
neurasthnia
menstrual irreglarities
fatty placenta
pyemia
vomiting of pregnancy
ulcers
septicemia