Theory is all right but in these cases practice has been added to it in something over three hundred cases treated in this manner, and in this manner only. I have had no case die. None of my cases had oxygen and none of them had strychnin or alcohol unless it was a person who had used alcohol constantly or daily and in these cases I consider that the system has become sufficiently used to it that it is practically a food and that sudden withdrawal is apt to bring on delirium. It is not necessary in those cases that indulge deeply now and then, but it is advisable in those that take a small amount regularly, just as they take food. These patients are used to a constant heart stimulant and its withdrawal is also apt to be reflected in the heart action. These are the only cases in which I have ever authorized anything in the way of a chemical stimulant of the heart during pneumonia. You will undoubtedly recall that in reading the newspaper accounts of men who are big enough and prominent enough to have bulletins in the newspapers when they are dying, that almost universally the next to the last bulletin was that oxygen is being administered. The last bulletin announces the time of death. You will also note that in case the patient lives that oxygen then is not mentioned, and a few days later the patient is all right. My observation is that the use of oxygen may attract the attention of the family, it may attract the attention of the patient, but as for any actual benefit on the patient I do not believe it is in the least helpful, and that the only treatment for pneumonia is osteopathic. I am so convinced of it that I am using only that method. As to strychnin, some say strychnin must be given. Some say it must be given at the crisis, and others say it must be given from the inception of the disease. I do not believe the majority of cases will do as well under strychnin. I know they will not do as well under strychnin as under osteopathic treatment. I will not say they will not do as well as if under no treatment. It is possible that there would be an occasion for its use at the crisis, and I have seen such cases, and I have used it while studying medicine. I used it at the crisis, and I used it in cases where I am convinced that it helped them over the crisis, but I am also convinced now that by osteopathic treatment they would have done still better and the crisis would not have been so acute. In other words what strychnin does in favorable cases, osteopathic treatment does better in all cases.