On the action, use, and value of oxygen in the treatment of various diseases otherwise incurable or very intractable / by S.B. Birch.

  • Birch, S. B. (Scholes Butler)
Date:
1868
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Credit: On the action, use, and value of oxygen in the treatment of various diseases otherwise incurable or very intractable / by S.B. Birch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The writer hopes that the following pages may be of some service by drawing professional attention to a much neglected, but highly important subject in Therapeutics. If a mode of treatment, not generally adopted, prove eminently useful in the hands of any member of our Profession, he is bound to give the result of his experience for the benefit of all. Any hypothesis, which the writer may entertain, is offered with all due respect to the opinions of the scientific who may differ with him; but the facts set forth as the result of his practical application of the treatment here advised are not presented thus deferentially. They afford quite sufficient evidence that oxygen may be employed as a valuable medi- cinal agent. Experimentally convinced of this truth, to advocate it becomes a duty which requires no apology. September, 1857. *