888 position. In chlorosis this influence is very useful. Appetite returns, vomiting ceases, and the weight of the body is increased, and the amount of urea excreted is also larger. The number of red corpuscles becomes greater, but their value is unchanged, and may even be lessened. At the end of two or three months, in spite of the improvement in the general state, the condition of the blood presents little alteration, and the beneficial results are soon lost when the treatment is

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... Neverthelsss, the inhalations of oxygen are regarded as a useful adjunct to treatment. Vomiting, from whatever cause, is influenced in a remarkable manner, being usually suspended by one or two inhalations. This result has been obtained in dyspepsia, in pregnancy, and ansæmia. In cancer of the stomach and in phthisis the vomiting was merely rendered less frequent.