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MADAME BLAVATSKY AND THE GRIPPE
Madame Blavatsky, being asked what was the cause of the Grippe, answered that it was “an abnormal condition of the oxygen in the atmosphere,” or words to the same effect. I concluded that, in that case, artificially-produced oxygen might prove valuable as a remedy. My mother having been laid up with this disease, I searched the United States dispensary for some easy means of producing oxygen, and stumbled across “Peroxide of Hydrogen” (H2O2). I administered it internally in drachm doses well diluted with water three times a day, also spraying some through the sick room, with undeniably favourable results. I found upon advising the use of it to a friend, it had also upon him a like effect; and also find that the Philadelphia papers contain advertisements of an oxygen treatment for the Grippe. To all those who question the qui bono of Theosophy I would like to say, “Study Madame Blavatsky’s writings, and then judge.”—F.T.S.