SANDAHL, Oskar Theodor. - Des bains d'air comprimé. Court aperçu de leurs effets physiologiques et thérapeutiques précédé d'une description de l'établissement médico-pneumatique de Stockholm.Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1867. 8vo. With 1 double-page lithographed plate and 1 mounted illustration, (possibly an original photograph of a lithograph), 1 illustration in text. Publisher's original grey wrappers with illustration on front wrapper.

[8], 60 pp.Scarce first and only edition of a work on therapeutical compressed air baths, known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Written by the Swedish medical researcher Oskar Theodor Sandahl (1829-1894), who helped erect a hyperbaric chamber in Stockholm on the initiative of professor Anders Retzius. Sandahl gives a detailed description of the chambers in Stockholm and their use, a bibliography with ca. 30 titles on the subject, and discusses the effects of the inhalation and the treatment of various disorders, including emphysema and asthma. Illustrated with empirical tables and a detailed view of a hyperbaric chamber.With a presentation inscription from Jon Fattaren(?) to Doctor Otto Witt on the wrapper. Foxed, primarily in the margins and on the first two pages, but otherwise in good condition. With a few pencil notes in the text. Wrappers with some spots and a few minor tears. Scarce work on 19th-century hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Stockholm.l Waller 8448; WorldCat (5 copies); for Sandahl: Nordisk Familjebok, uggleupplagan 24, col. 634.

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