Oxygen and its applications to therapeutics / by G. Monin.

  • Monin, G.
Date:
1886
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    ^'Osygen and its Applications to Therapeutics. By Dr. G. Monin, Member of the faculty of Medicine of Paris, chief Editor of the Journal of Practical Medicine, etc., etc. Hygienic and medical applications of oxygen have a great future Great scope before them, now that Messrs. Brin have found a practical means o^'^.g^g^ °^ of producing, at a low cost, and in a state of absolute purity, this o-as, which Lavoisier has with reason called the vivifying spirit, par excellence. For a long time past the physiological and therapeutic effects of Hitherto re- oxygen have been well known, but the application of this gas to f/cessh-e'cost medicine has been impracticable on account of the cost of pro- of production, duction, and the difficulties which medical men have had in pro- curing it. Oxygen inhalations have the power of developing the respiratory Effect of in- functions, and increasing the amplitude of the thorax. While they oQ'tj|e°s^pfg„ enlarge the pulmonary phenomenon of the hematose, they also act as a tonic on, and regulate the working of, the cardiac muscles, thus stimulating and quickening the circulation, the important function from which we derive heat and life. Oxygen also increases the richness of the red corpuscles of the Giving; in- blood, in which it becomes incorporated, somewhat in the same ncgg^of JjIq^j way as in the platinum sponge. Under this influence the nutritive increase of the functions are increased and excited; the appetite is also sharpened, nutritive while the unconsumed residuum in the system, such as sugar, fat, uric and urates, are entirely carried off. Oxygen can be inhaled for several hours at a time in enormous Oxygen can doses with impunity, provided that the gas be not compressed, ^a^d ^ and that it be administered at ordinary atmospheric pressure. In its great effi- pulmonary phthisis, at every stage, inhalations of oxygen render '=*<^y the most signal services. The breathing under their influence ^^^^P*''^^'^^^^- becomes easy; the strength of the invalid is increased. In his work on Pneumotherapeutics, Demarquay considers this means as one of the safest medicinal agents in the treatment of this affection. The curative action is still more manifest in bronchitis with era- Also in bron- phyzema (Read), in asthma; in spasmodic coughs, such as whoop- ^^Vjoo^n'^ ing-cough, &c. cou°gh!'^