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Oifk, Aeghitegtural Chapteb.
company have attained a suitable entrance to the hall ori tbat side and the hall itself has now been , under the direction of Mr . PAnson , gorgeously and tastefully decorated , the old painted windows and other available details being made to contribute to the effect . There is to be a General Architectural Congress at Oxford from the 9 th to the 12 th instant , at the society ' s rooms , in Holy well-street . Several public buildings will be visited and papers of interest read during the congress .
Reviews Of New Books.
EEVIEWS OF HEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review addressed to the Editor of the Freemasons' Magazine , 74-5 , . Great .. Queen-street , Lincolii ' s-Inn-fields . ] c < v On the Therapeutiir Action of Oxygen y with Cases proving its singular Efficacy in various ' intractable Diseases" by S . B . BiiicH , M . D . London : Balliere . — -If we could be relieved of our various pains and aches "by some less unwelcome and more natural means than large and frecjiieiit doses of medicine / - we should feel much disposed to favour tlie
substitute , and should offer very liberal thanks in case of success . Dr . Birch tell us , not indeed that he can cure us by the air we breathe , but that lie can extract one of its elements , and administer it—accompanied , it may be , with other helps—so as always to give relief , and often to perfect the most wonderful cures . Oxygen has been resorted to in former years as a therapeutic agent with sufficient success to have justified perseverance in : its ' application , hut it has of late been neglected , if not despised . But for the determination of Dr . Birch and one or two others to give this
element a fair trial , perhaps it would now be altogether neglected . We are satisfied , from the careful reading of this volume , thaft such neglect would be a failure oh the part of the medical profession , and an injustice to the public . Dr . Birch records numerous cases which show how extensively this wonderful agent may be applied with the most satisfactory results . Those cases relate to functional derangement of the stomach and liver , gout , rheumatism , and calculous affections , skin disease , cancer , scrofula , and even to pulmonary consumption . Other diseases are
included which are more suitable for notice in a journal strictly professional . Sufferers from such calamities will derive much hope from the cases which are here presented , and the remarkable cures which have been effected by the inhalation of oxygen . To those who are suffering from this Attila , this scourge of the present generation of the human race , it is encouraging to read the experience of Dr . Birch , who says : — " Hereditarily I am predisposed to consumption , and in Paris , nine years ago , my lungs were pronounced decidedly to be the seat of tubercular deposit /' The doctor says : —
" Notwithstanding every hypothesis to the contrary , my own conviction is settled / that consumption cannot sewe a victim where the chest is fully expanded , and in which the air-cells are by regular exercise kept in constant activity . Experience in town and country , a comparison of treatment under those two aspects , as likewise of differences of treatment ,-and , not the least , my own personal . experience in the management of my own lungs , have convinced me that the disease cannot exist where this ljoint is attended to . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Oifk, Aeghitegtural Chapteb.
company have attained a suitable entrance to the hall ori tbat side and the hall itself has now been , under the direction of Mr . PAnson , gorgeously and tastefully decorated , the old painted windows and other available details being made to contribute to the effect . There is to be a General Architectural Congress at Oxford from the 9 th to the 12 th instant , at the society ' s rooms , in Holy well-street . Several public buildings will be visited and papers of interest read during the congress .
Reviews Of New Books.
EEVIEWS OF HEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review addressed to the Editor of the Freemasons' Magazine , 74-5 , . Great .. Queen-street , Lincolii ' s-Inn-fields . ] c < v On the Therapeutiir Action of Oxygen y with Cases proving its singular Efficacy in various ' intractable Diseases" by S . B . BiiicH , M . D . London : Balliere . — -If we could be relieved of our various pains and aches "by some less unwelcome and more natural means than large and frecjiieiit doses of medicine / - we should feel much disposed to favour tlie
substitute , and should offer very liberal thanks in case of success . Dr . Birch tell us , not indeed that he can cure us by the air we breathe , but that lie can extract one of its elements , and administer it—accompanied , it may be , with other helps—so as always to give relief , and often to perfect the most wonderful cures . Oxygen has been resorted to in former years as a therapeutic agent with sufficient success to have justified perseverance in : its ' application , hut it has of late been neglected , if not despised . But for the determination of Dr . Birch and one or two others to give this
element a fair trial , perhaps it would now be altogether neglected . We are satisfied , from the careful reading of this volume , thaft such neglect would be a failure oh the part of the medical profession , and an injustice to the public . Dr . Birch records numerous cases which show how extensively this wonderful agent may be applied with the most satisfactory results . Those cases relate to functional derangement of the stomach and liver , gout , rheumatism , and calculous affections , skin disease , cancer , scrofula , and even to pulmonary consumption . Other diseases are
included which are more suitable for notice in a journal strictly professional . Sufferers from such calamities will derive much hope from the cases which are here presented , and the remarkable cures which have been effected by the inhalation of oxygen . To those who are suffering from this Attila , this scourge of the present generation of the human race , it is encouraging to read the experience of Dr . Birch , who says : — " Hereditarily I am predisposed to consumption , and in Paris , nine years ago , my lungs were pronounced decidedly to be the seat of tubercular deposit /' The doctor says : —
" Notwithstanding every hypothesis to the contrary , my own conviction is settled / that consumption cannot sewe a victim where the chest is fully expanded , and in which the air-cells are by regular exercise kept in constant activity . Experience in town and country , a comparison of treatment under those two aspects , as likewise of differences of treatment ,-and , not the least , my own personal . experience in the management of my own lungs , have convinced me that the disease cannot exist where this ljoint is attended to . "