Part 6

The rapidly-increasing number of those who have obtained relief from pain or been restored to health by Compound Oxygen, reaching now to many thousands, scattered throughout the whole country, is having a wide influence on public sentiment. There are no arguments so convincing as well-known facts. If a man or a woman who has been suffering for years from an exhausting disease, which no physician had been able to cure, tries a newly-discovered remedy and is brought back to health, the fact stands as an unanswerable argument in favor of that remedy, so far, at least, as this particular case is concerned. A resort to the same remedy in another case, regarded as incurable, and with a like result, adds a new and stronger argument in its favor. Accumulate similar results to the number of hundreds and thousands, and in the widest range of chronic and “desperate” diseases and abandoned cases, and you have a weight of evidence that is irresistible. On this weight of indisputable evidence we rest the claims of Compound Oxygen.

It is frequently urged against this treatment by persons who have not made themselves acquainted with the natural laws governing its action, that the same agent is administered for all diseases—for neuralgia or catarrh; for rheumatism or consumption; for heart disease or bronchitis; that we offer it as a universal specific. In our _Treatise on Compound Oxygen_, which will be _mailed free_ to any one who will write to us for it, we have fully explained the nature and action of this remedy, and shown that it is not specific to any disease or class of diseases; but that it acts directly upon the nervous system and vital organs, and thence universally in the whole body. It gives new force and a more vigorous action to all the life-centres, thus restoring to nature the dominant power and healthy action which had been lost. This being the case, no matter what the disease, or where located, it must be gradually ameliorated, and, if the central healthy action can be maintained, finally cured. Every intelligent and unprejudiced person will at once see that if the law of action which we claim for Compound Oxygen be the true one, its operation must be universal, and not local or specific; and that all forms of disease may be reached by this agent. And the fact that they are reached, and in so large a number of cases relieved, verifies the theory of cure and substantiates the claims which are made for this new substance as _being the most remarkable in its action of any therapeutic agent yet discovered_.

If we contrast the violence which is so often done to the delicate organisms of the human body through the administration of drugs, given to break the force of a disease, and which sometimes keep the patient lingering for months in slow convalescence, needing all the while the physician’s care, with the revitalized condition of compound oxygen patients, the advantage on the side of the latter, as compared with those treated under most of the prevailing systems, becomes strikingly apparent. Under the new treatment, which is by inhalation, there is no weakening of the tone of the stomach by drugs, and no violent assaults upon any nerve or fibre in the body, _but a gentle and subtly penetrating influence, reaching to the very centre of all the life forces, and restoring them to a healthier action_. The natural result under this treatment must be that, when a patient recovers he is in a far better condition to resist the causes which produce disease than the patient who has had the life forces weakened through drug medication.

_As a restorer of vital force_, it can be largely shown from the results obtained during the past twelve years, that _Compound Oxygen is the most efficient agent yet discovered by the medical profession. Its use by over-worked business and professional men, and by all who suffer from nervous exhaustion and low vitality, would save many hundreds of lives every year and give to thousands more the ability to work without the weariness, exhaustion and peril which now attend their labors._

Our large correspondence with patients and health-seekers, throughout this and other countries, gives evidence of the increasing confidence which is steadily growing in the public mind favorable to the Oxygen cure. The living witnesses to its remarkable efficacy, and the warm advocates of its dispensation are, as we have said, rapidly increasing. By personal influence and correspondence, those who have been relieved from distressing complaints, or cured of diseases which were steadily growing worse for years, are sending the good news of their recovery to friends and neighbors, near and remote. Many of these order the Treatment, and if helped or cured, as rarely fails to be the case, become in turn the friends and advocates of this new method of cure. So the knowledge is spreading, and the use of Compound Oxygen growing, with a rapidity of which few outside of our establishment have any comprehension.

To those who wish to inform themselves in regard to this new Treatment, we will send, _free of cost_, our “_Treatise on Compound Oxygen_,” and our pamphlet, containing over fifty “_Unsolicited Testimonials_;” also “_Health and Life_,” our Quarterly Record of Cases and Cures, under the Compound Oxygen Treatment, in which will be found, as reported by patients themselves, _and open for verification, more remarkable results in a single period of three months than all the medical journals in the United States can show in a year_!

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions silently corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to the multiplicity of authors. Arithmetic errors in the receipts have been retained as printed.

Images have been moved outside of paragraphs, resulting in page numbers that are slightly off.

Missing “t” added in “therefore” on page 106 (therefore an immediately pressing necessity).

Removed extra “s” introduced in line-break hyphenation on page 107 (no doubt that their presence).

Changed “Fragance” to “Fragrance” on page 125 (Beauty and Fragrance).

Inserted missing “n” in “governing” on inside back cover (natural laws governing its action).

Duplicate “them” removed from the inside back cover (restoring them to a healthier action).