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Oxygen therapy in the 20th century was developed and used by Haldane. Barach used oxygen in patients with pneumonia in the 1920s, but routine use of oxygen therapy was not persuasive to the medical community until the late 1960s. Lest modern practitioners think that all effective therapies are modern, this drawing of the use of nasal prongs to deliver oxygen dates to 1907 (64).
