"I could not breathe ... I needed Compound Oxygen & an Inhaler" ... about 1885

Maybe her corset was too tight?
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Victorian Advertising card for Drs. Starkey & Palen's Compound Oxygen
courtesy of Jane McCrillis
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Dr. George Starkey started preparing the product in 1869.
Dr. G. E. Palen (a chemist) joined him in 1877.

-- Antique Medicines. Com

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