OF all the singular cures of which we have read, the compressed air cure seems to be about the strangest. Dr. O. G. Cunningham of Kansas City has designed a tubular steel structure 88ft. long and 10ft. in diameter, fitted as a sleeping coach and capable of taking 72 patients at one time. For from three to 12 hours daily air pressure of from 5 to 20 Ib. per square inch is maintained on the patient, according to his condition, and it is claimed that the immediate effect of the treatment is enormously to stimulate energy, to quieten the nerves, to increase the appetite and to induce restful sleep. The cure, it is said, is for use in certain ailments and, for all we know, it may be particularly efficacious. What those ailments are the report does not say, but the uso of compressed air to induce a person to eat better, has something delightfully humorous about it—a sort of pressing hospitality.
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