shortly experienced results like those of Dr. Waldmann, the disappearance of all symptoms, and entire restoration to health. The Professor reports likewise the case of a lady. Mrs. Y., aged twenty-nine, was suffering from anæmia and very nervous. She also exhibited symptoms of chronic catarrh of the lungs also inclining to tuberculosis, emaciation, cough and headache. All these disappeared under the Ozone treatment. Dr. Waldmann strongly recommends the treatment in all bodily ailments, whether acute or chronic, especially during the winter, when patients are obliged to keep their rooms, and are precluded from exercising in the open air. He asserts with great emphasis that the most aggravated nervous disorders can be subdued and natural sleep secured.

CASES WITHIN MY OWN KNOWLEDGE.

I. R. H. D., of Boston, began the use under my direction in February, 1883. He had been troubled with rheumatism all winter in his arms and shoulders, could not put on his coat without help, and was often disabled from business. In one month he exhibited a marked improvement, and two months later he was well.

II. T. B., also of Boston, had suffered from rheumatism for ten years. In November, 1882, I began his treatment and he recovered in six months.

III. W. M. B., a sufferer from rheumatism and bloodpoisoning by inoculation, began the use of Ozone water in February, and soon found his health improved, and his sufferings greatly diminished.

IV. Hon. William D. Parks, late member of the Senate of Massachusetts, had intermittent and remittent fever. He had been an invalid for ten years or more suffering from sleeplessness, emaciation and almost total indigestion. I put him on the Ozone treatment last fall, with most gratifying success. He has gained sixteen pounds in weight and regards himself as well.

V. E. A. C., a sufferer with dyspepsia and great nervous prostration, was treated by me in March and April with decided benefit.

VI. Mrs. P. had suffered fifteen years from dyspepsia and depression of spirits. For two months her diet had been only gruel, when I was consulted. I treated her with Ozone water and she has recovered her appetite and cheerfulness and with fair prospect of a thorough cure.

VII. Mrs. M. had been for many years a sufferer from ovarian cysts. On the 30th of March, 1883, she was attacked with convulsions, which resulted in the rupturing of one of these abscesses and the discharge of its contents into the tissue. Septicæmia, or blood-poisoning, was the result. Bright's disease now appeared. The right limb swelled to immense size; high fever ensued, with chills. Her hope for life appeared very frail indeed. About the 15th of April her physician began to administer Ozone water. A week later the discharge of albumen was reduced one-half, and in two weeks it entirely ceased. Three months later she was in excellent health.

VIII. Mr. J. S. D. had marked symptoms of Bright's disease of the kidneys. In two weeks after beginning the use of Ozone water the discharge of albumen had almost entirely disappeared, and a month later he was discharged cured.

IX.

Mr. J. H. D. had diabetes mellitus and recovered in six weeks from Ozone treatment.

X. Mr. S. recovered of diabetes insipidus from the same. remedy.

XI. Mrs. A. B. was a sufferer from nervous prostration; also a subject to floodings, and the stated recurrence of diphtheritic affection. She had been afflicted in this way for nine years. She was treated with Ozone water, and though still under treatment, exhibits improvement apparently permanent. XII. Mr. S. B. N. had the misfortune to contract smallpox, from which his recovery was very imperfect. He was anæmic, wasted by marasmus, and greatly debilitated. He has been treated by Ozone water with marked advantage.

MALARIA, QUININE POISONING, ETC.

XIII. Col.

became my patient in April, 1883. He had contracted intermittent fever in the army, in the sum

mer of 1863, in the Yazoo district of Mississippi where he was then on duty. The service was arduous, the severity of the heat compelling night-work with its malarial exposure. The attack was very violent and the chills very severe. He was treated with quinia in large quantities without benefit. In August he came home on sick leave, and was absent ninety days. His medical adviser now administered arsenic, with antidotes to counteract the previous drugging. On his way back to duty he was compelled to remain on the road and receive professional care. Congestive chills were added to the other attack. More quinia and arsenic were given, and he became as regular in their use as at his meals. After the close of the war he returned North in a deplorable condition. He engaged in business, but continued to suffer. His weight, formerly one hundred and forty pounds, fell to one hundred and twenty-seven; the circulation was sluggish; the feet and hands cold and moist; and sensation at the extremities was entirely suspended. The senses of hearing and sight were similarly impaired. The peculiar tintinnabulation and other symptoms of quininism were present and very conspicuous. He could neither read nor write, and lost the power to estimate distances. It was actually dangerous for him to go into the street. A greenish film came over his eye, the beginning of a cataract. Indications of ataxia appeared, and a creeping paralysis invaded the physical functions. An apopletic or epileptic seizure also took place.

In this critical condition he consulted a distinguished specialist in nervous diseases, and placed himself under his care. He was now treated with strychnia, Belladonna and electricity. The physician gave him little encouragement. To the question how long might he expect to live, the answer was: about four months if he took the best care of himself, but it would be no matter of surprise if he only held on three months. The wreck appeared to be almost complete. Under these prospects the last winter was spent. There was faint hope for any ordinary attempt.

In April he came under my attention. Other medicines were given up and only Ozone water prescribed in the concen

trated form. He had a second fit not long afterward, which alarmed every one very much. It was not hopeful, but I had no confidence of benefit from anything else. I could but persevere, be patient and wait. Presently a change for the better appeared. He did not, however, persist in the Ozone-treatment without interruption till June; so that I did not have a fair chance. His engagements and discouraged feelings were in the way. But so much improvement was now evident, as to induce greater regularity. The appetite increased; the torpidity of function was mitigated; the numbness in the hands and feet disappeared entirely. There was also copious perspiration. By July he was able to walk without becoming tired-a thing not before possible for many years. He gained thirty pounds, attaining a greater weight than before his sickness; became able to go up and down stairs with ease, and to walk in the street with a rapid gait. He does not as yet attempt to read or write, but he is cheerful and very hopeful of good results. He had been considered as having but one chance in four to escape total blindness, and he has not lost that one.

All things considered, this may fairly be regarded as an advantage gained by Ozone treatment.

The origin of disease is to be traced to impairment of the organic nervous system, which controls and is in turn itself sustained from the circulation of the blood. Any case which impairs the circulation or covers the tone of that department of the physicial organism will be followed by functional disturbance; and eventually, if this is not corrected, organic lesion is certain to result. The great category of diseases is thus accounted for. The most prolific source is arrest of vital functions, and zymosis is perhaps the most influential factor in the case. Whether the poison is introduced from without, or is engendered within the body is of relative importance only. The urgent matter is to arrest it and render it innocuous. The various antiseptic, detergent, cathartic and other remedies have this object in view; and their value depends entirely upon their efficiency to accomplish it.

The enthusiasm with which every "new remedy" is greeted,

and the almost equal suddenness with which most "new preparations" are discarded show conclusively that the medicines in use do not adequately meet the wants of physicians. We cannot return to the atrocious mercurial and other agents of another age and method. The immense fortunes made by certain venders of proprietary medicines, protected by copyrighted label, and the great competition in that department of business, demonstrate with equal force that the people at large are conscious that medical skill and the agents employed fall more or less short of what the public have the right to expect. Impurity of the blood and impairment of nervous energy constitute the basis of the prevalent diseases, and the ordinary means have not, in their opinion, succeeded in remedying them.

Ozone, being a condensed and active form of oxygen, the great life-agent of nature, appears to be the needed auxiliary. It enables the proper medicines to do their part more effectually, and so aids the skilful physician in his zealous efforts. It neutralises the various morbid and disintegrated elements in the body, stimulates the nervous system and the emunctories to remove them, thus itself operating as a medicament of rarest virtues. It also adds vigor to the body itself. Where oxygen exists in due proportions there is health; and Ozone being a concentrated oxygen is most potent in securing that condition.

The various disease-germs, bacilli, bacteria, microzymes, or whatever they may be, die in pure air, or fluids abundantly supplied with oxygen. They thrive and multiply only in decay, in morbid conditions, or where the integrity of the structure is somehow impaired. Ozone, by changing such conditions and restoring the vital energy at the same time, proves its own superiority to chlorine and other compounds, as the destroyer of sepsis, and the great corrigent of zymosis. In innumerable cases where opium, morphia, quinia, iodine, bromides, etc., have been ineffectual to control or mitigate a complaint, Ozone water under the concentrated form has accomplished the desired result and rendered those drugs un