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...Oxygen. Five years ago, Anesthetist John Henry Evans of Buffalo began to inject oxygen under the skin of swollen joints, to dull pain. He discovered that the oxygen often "has beneficial effects" on early arthritis and other inflammations of nerves, muscles, joints. Said Dr. Evans: "Within 24 hours . . . after injection . . . the local temperature drops; the redness disappears; the swelling is reduced, and the tissues become much less sensitive to pressure...
...Evans believes that chronic arthritis can often be prevented if oxygen is injected into the joints when they first begin to swell. The oxygen, he claims, has a threefold action: 1) it seems to act as a buffer between inflamed cells, separating them, opening lymph channels for drainage, and reducing pressure; 2) it probably kills certain types of bacteria; 3) it may neutralize poisons and stimulate local circulation of blood...
...ducking in cold water for mild cases. If a patient can scent it in advance, a dose of the drug gynergen will nip a migraine headache in the bud; once the throbbing begins, this medicine is useless. Gynergen often produces jitters, vomiting, circulatory disturbances in the fingers and toes. Oxygen inhalations "often work miraculously" but must be taken in a doctor's office or hospital for an hour...
Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were just flying 1,000 feet too low." No man to be stopped by a broken hip, four fractured ribs, Captain Eddie summoned his Eastern Air Linemen, commenced to do business from his hospital...
...Oxygen...