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On Oxygen as a Remedial Agent. By 

 Samuel S. Wallian, M. D. New York : 

 Trow's Company. Pp. 52. 



Dr. Wallian holds that oxygen stands 

 at the head of the list of natural agencies 

 for the removal of disease, and that " it is 

 quite time we should practically realize, for 

 we already theoretically admit, that this 

 omnipresent, almost omnipotent, and yet 

 commonplace element, can not be replaced, 

 scarcely supplemented ; that there is no 

 known alterative, eliminator, or disinfectant 

 comparable with it ; . . . and that the origi- 

 nal, normal, and only unobjectionable and 

 universally efficient antiseptic is pure oxy- 

 gen. ... As a therapeutic agent, oxygen is 

 not yet popular, nor yet the fashion; al- 

 though for years enterprising quacks have 

 been gathering a generous harvest, from 

 honest dupes who have sickened of cruder 

 quackery, by broadcast heralding of the 

 magic virtues of some impossible ' com- 

 pound ' of it. Is it not high time that its 

 intelligent use should be undertaken at the 

 hands of legitimate and competent physi- 

 cians, who have no secret wares to hawk 

 about the country ? " 



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