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Oxygen Therapy.*

Anesthetist, Syracuse, N. Y.

Abstract

THE EMPLOYMENT of oxygen as a therapeutic agent in any case where there is anoxemia, should almost be mandatory. The indications for employing it are so many and so varied, and the results have been so gratifying, that it appears strange it is not used oftener. Oxygen was discovered in 1774 by Priestly in England and Scheele in Sweden. It is known to have been used empirically almost from the time of its discovery for various ailments, and then discontinued. Shoemaker in his Materia Medica states that while oxygen has never been accepted in the U. S. Pharmacopeia, it is a remedy of considerable therapeutic value, and as an antidote to certain forms of poisoning is indispensable to the recovery of the patient.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999