The morning call., 1891-05-31
PROPERTIES OF OZONE.
The Most Powerful MiCr00e-D Destroyer Yet Dis
covered.

There can be seen In the Office of DR.. L.
Younghusband, West Elizabeth street,
machine for giving those vino desire it the
benefit of an ozone bath. Ozone is produced
by an electric current properly manipulated.
1t is particularly plentiful after a thunder
storm, too. The Detroit Sunday News man
was in the doctors offire recently and the
doctor obligngly explained the active prin-
ciple of oxygen. He took a stahd called
an ozonizer," and placed it over
the reporters head. 1t consisted of a ped
estal and rod about feet in height. On the
top was a circular plate, with about forty
projecting needles. The latter were about
two inches in length, were situated foot
above the head and pointed downward
When the electric current was turned on IL
felt as il number OF tiny sprays OF cold
water were falling on the top of the head.
The sensation you feel at present is de-
ceptive," said the doctor. "lu reality the
apparent GOODNESS is produced by current
Of electricity proceeding from your head TO
those of the needles about II. Let us vars
the experiment" The doctor then took
shorter stand, with disk also covered with
projecting needles, and held the latter about
three inches from the reporters mouth. The
same sensation as if breathing cold spray
was experienced.
This air is concentrated oxygen gas,
which is known TO chemists as ozone. II
is the most powerful micrObe destroyer yet
discovered. There is a Sutficency Of oxygen
in crowded cities to malntain life, but there
is practically no ozone except Immediately
after thunder shower. You can find ozone
on the river, on Belle Isle, on mountain tops
and in the country. 1t is this ozone that
makes country or mountain air so bene-
fetal to the feeble or sick. You are now
charged nth electricity and your lungs are
supplied with plenty OF ozone The action
OF the electricity converts the oxygen mole
cule into the ozone moecuie, making lis
OZldlZing Influence considerably greater,
and thereby makes it greater blood puri-
fer.
You have heard of beef drying up sound
and sweet on the mountains of the Western
States under the direct rays Of the hot sun.
In this climate the ozone being neither 50
pure nor so abundant, meat exposed In this
manner would purify in few days. In
those Western mountains it is preserved by
the superabundance of ozone. | have tried
the experiment myself in this room. Taking
a piece OF rotten meat, foul and lll-Smellng,
| have exposed it 10 the action of the
ozonizer from ten to fifteen minutes. At
the eud of that time there is a complete
transformation. The nasty, purified, of
fensive meat no longer disguised the sight
or smell the blackneSS disappeared and it
was turned into red, natural-appearing
flesh. OdOrless and apparently wholesome.
L 90 not cars 10 eat Sucu meat, put am
convinced that no evil results would follow
from eating It, The action of the ozone de-
strOys disease germs in the system and its
tendency is to restore every tissue of the
body into its normal condition.
"By this machine. land all others of the
same principle, many cases OF rheumatism,
paralysis, neuralgia, fevers of all kinds,
nervous prostrat0n, consumption and
catarrh have been either cured or cOnsld-
erably ameiOrated.
Il am great admirer of DR.. Koch. but
think that the use of his lymph in Destroy
ing the bacilli OF tuberculosis is sometimes
dangerous. | think that the coming method
Of curing consumption and all other dis
eases produced by bacili will be the ozone
treatment. The beneficial influence of
ozone on diseases and especially cpl
demic diseases. is unquestoned. Dr. Ham
mond is authority for the statement that
while present at Fort Riley during two
epidemcs of cholera thunder show
ers in each case put an end to the
plague. This is simply equivalent to saying
that the unusual amount of ozone which
always accompanies thunder-storms is bene-
fetal to the human system and expels all
mIcTObe diseases"