Sandahl, O.Th. 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. Nostedt and Sons, 1867, (8),60 p., 1 mounted photogr. plate and 1 double-p. lith. plate, 1 ill. in the text, orig. printed wr., 4to. Foxed throughout, wr. lacking sm. portions at corners and spine. With dedication in pen to "Herr Doctor Otto Witt" by "forfatteren" on frontwr.

Very rare work on therapeutical compressed air "baths", known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The ancient Greeks already knew the benefits of compressed air, but it was Emile Tabrie's introduction of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in 1832 that started a general interest in this therapy, still applied today. The present work includes a list of illnesses treated in the Stockholm facilities.