This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
Drs. Paul and Josias used oxygen in this malady, and, although the patients died, some relief was given to the symptoms of asphyxia. Recently Dr. Schmidt has recorded the case of a girl, aged twelve, who, when recovering from diphtheria, was bitten by a mad dog; seventeen days afterward she had difficulty of breathing and of swallowing, and oxygen-inhalation relieved her; she relapsed next day with convulsions, spasms of respiratory muscles, and unconsciousness; oxygen again relieved her, and, after some complications traceable to the diphtheria, she ultimately recovered (Medical Record, 1878).
 
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