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Historical 



JUNE 

 T23|24|25|26|27I28I29130 



(Out of apparatus |80|78|76I80|80|72|80|80 



Pulse I I I I II I I 



(In apparatus |64|60|60|68|68|68|75|74 



I I I I I I I I 

 Respiratory (Out of apparatus ^|24|24|20|20|20|17|18|18 

 Movements (In apparatus |12|12|13|12|13|13|12|12 



JULY 



>| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9]10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20121 



7<5170|76|76|7 



I I I I 

 18 18 18|18|16 



riTi 



)|80|80176|80|80|80 



S0|7S76]80] 



75|68|66|75|80|72|7e 



I II I I I I I I I 

 16|l4|15|14|16|16|16|14|14|16|14|14|14|14|14|14 



12|12|14ll2i|12|12|12in|10|12|ll|12.|ll|12|ll|ll|12|12|l2|lO|10 



So two things are to be noted: first, the sudden decrease of the 

 number of heart beats and of respiratory movements by the effect 

 of compressed air; the decrease in the number of the latter, even 

 in the open air, as long as the treatments were being given, where- 

 as the pulse rate did not change. 



The pulmonary capacity measured on the spirometer was in- 

 creased 550 cc. 



June 22, before the beginning of the treatments 1450 cubic cent. 



June 29, during the treatments 1600 cubic cent. 



July 8, during the treatments _ 1800 cubic cent. 



July 15, during the treatments r 1900 cubic cent. 



July 21, during the treatments F 2000 cubic cent. 



It is regrettable that Marc specified neither the degree of the 

 air compression nor the length of time his patient stayed in the 

 apparatus. 



1 Here is a list of the chief works published on the therapeutic use of compressed air. 

 I did not include those which I am quoting and analyzing in the present and the following 

 chapter. This list shows the astonishing variety of ailments in which the new treatment has been 



Pravaz, Mem. sur V emploi du bain d'air comprime dans le traitement des affections tuber- 

 culeuses, des hemorrhagic capillaircs et des surdites catarrhales. Acad, de Med. de Paris, Dec. 

 6, 1837. Cpt. R. Acad, des Sciences, Vol. VII, p. 283, 1838. 



Id., De I'influence de la respiration sur la sante et la vigueur de I'howme. Lyon, 1842. 



Id., Memoire sur V emploi de la compression au moyen de I'air condense dans les hydarth- 

 roses, et sur la possibility de reduire certaines luxations spontanees de la hanche. Lyon, 1843. 



Dubreuil, Bains d air comprime. Marseille, 1848. # . 



De la Prade, Rapport sur le memoire relatif aux bains d'air comprime, in Essai sur I emploi 

 medical de I'air comprime, par Pravaz. Lyon, 1850. 



Poyser, On the treatment of chronic and other diseases by baths of compressed air. Asso- 

 ciation Med. Journal, September 9, 1853. . . 



Devay, Du bain d'air comprime dans les affections graves des organes respiratoires. Gazette 

 hebd.. 1853. 



Schtitz, Brief liche Mittheilungen aus Nizza. Deutsche Klinik, February, 18o7._ 



Bottini, Dell' aria compressa come agente tcrapeutico. Gaza. med. italiana, Stati Sardi. 185i. 



A. Simpson, Compressed air as a therapeutic agent. Edinburgh, 1857. 



Haughton, On the use of the compressed air baths. Dublin, Hosp. Gaz.. 1S58. 



Pravaz fils, Des effets physiologiques et des applications therapeutiques de I'air comprime. 

 Lyon, 1859. , 



Gindrod, The compressed air-bath, a therapeutical agent in various affections of the respira- 

 tory organs and other diseases. London, 1860. 



Lippert (in Nizza), Ueber Paris nach Nizza, medicinishe Reiscskizze. Deutsche Klinik. 

 October, 1861. 



Trier, Om Bode i fortoettet luft. Copenhagen, 1863. 



G. Lange, Der pneumatische apparat. Vienna Med., Wochenschift, August, 1863. 



Levinstein, Beobachtungen iiber die Einivirkung der verdichtcten Luft bei Krankheiten der 

 Respirations-und Circulations-Organ e. Berl. W ochenschrift, 1864. _ . 



Freud, Der pneumatische apparat. Wirkung und Anwendung der comprimirten Luft tn 

 verschiedenen Krankheiten. Vienna, 1864. 



Fischer, Errichtung eines Luft compression Apparates zu Hannover. 1864. _ 



Josephson, Die therapeutische Auzvendung der comprimirten Luft. Deutsche Klinik, 1864. 



Levinstein. Grundzuge zur practischen Otiartie mit Berucksichtigung der neucsten thera- 

 peutischen Technik, etc. Berlin, 1865. 



Smoler, Die Anwendung der comprimirten Luft in Krankheiten der Gehororganes, Osterr. 

 Zeists. f. pract. Heilkunde. Vienna, 1865. 



Storch, Jagttagelser over Virkningen af comprimirct Luft ved behandhngen af Brysttidelser. 

 meddelte fra Rasmussens medico-pneumatiskc Austalt. Hospitals-Tidende VIII. Aarg. Copen- 

 hagen, 1865. 



