Chapter LXIX: Part 69

“Four years ago I had an attack of _Acute Bronchitis_. It was two or three months before I got over it, _and then I had lost my voice_. I could not sing. The next winter I had two attacks, and in the spring I had chronic inflammation of the throat. I was treated for it from March till June. Then my husband took me to Brooklyn for medical treatment. I got very much better; but as soon as the weather became cold I took cold, and had to stay in the house for most of the time with an inflamed throat. When I sent for the Oxygen I had just had the worst attack from which I had ever suffered. I feared that I was going to lose my voice entirely, it hurt me so to talk. Last year, every time I had a cold it left me with a _pain in the lower part of my left lung_. This summer the doctor sounded my lung, and said all the trouble was in the larger air passage.

“The first time I inhaled the Oxygen _that pain left me in half an hour, and I have not felt it since_. For two days my lung felt real good; then the inhaling made it feel sore, and every time I coughed it seemed to come from that place where the pain had been, and what I passed had a very bad taste, but did not look bad.

“I have taken a great many different things, but never in my life took anything like the Oxygen. _I feel so strong and well, and have such a good, healthy appetite._”

ASTONISHED AT THE RESULT.

A lady writing from Louisiana, November 15, 1880, says:

“The reception of your interesting quarterly reminds me that I have been very ungrateful to you, in not reporting progress for so long. I am not yet entirely cured, but when I think of the miserable condition I was in when, on the 7th of last February, I began the Oxygen Home Treatment, _I am truly astonished at the result_. I am still thin in flesh, but I believe I am still gaining ground. My health is better than in years before, and I can eat anything I can get to eat. I have a small supply of gas yet, which I use when I feel depressed. I will order another Treatment before long, for I feel sure it will eventually effect a cure. _I cannot say how thankful I am for having been induced to send to you for the Oxygen._”

LETTER FROM AN OLD PATIENT.

We make an extract from a letter recently received from one of our patients, which shows the permanent effects of the Oxygen Treatment:

“You will, no doubt, remember me as one of your patients of more than a year ago. I am not entirely cured, nor ever expect to be, as my business is such that as long as I am able to be about I must go. I am manager of a large grain and stock farm, and my business keeps me out of doors most of the time, which is a decided benefit to me. _I have felt stronger this year than ever before, and have done ten times as much work as ever before._ I still have a part of the last Treatment, which I use once in awhile when I am not feeling good, _and it immediately revives me_. Only this morning I had a bad headache, and felt badly; _I took an inhalation of the Oxygen and felt like another man_.”

Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen _is sent free of charge_. It contains a history of the discovery, nature, and action of this new remedy, and a record of many of the remarkable results which have so far attended its use.

_Also sent free_, “_Health and Life_,” a quarterly record of cases and cures under the Compound Oxygen Treatment.

DEPOSITORY ON PACIFIC COAST.--H. E. Mathews, 606 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, will fill orders for the Compound Oxygen Treatment on Pacific Coast.

DRS. STARKEY & PALEN,

G. R. STARKEY. A.M., M.D. 1109 and 1111 Girard St.
G. E. PALEN Ph.B., M.D. (between Chestnut & Market), Phila., Pa.

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