Dr. Ox's Experiment

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Dr. Ox's Experiment
Author	Jules Verne
Country	France
Language	French
Publication date	1872

Dr. Ox's Experiment (A Fantasy of Dr Ox).^[1] (French: Une fantaisie du docteur Ox) is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. In the unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone, Dr. Ox begins to surreptitiously pump a gas (revealed to be oxygen) through a network also connecting the gas lamps resulting in the townspeople becoming more lively and acting younger and younger. It was re-published in a Verne short-story anthology, Le Docteur Ox, in 1874.