Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — Nature’s Oxidizer. [ARTICLE]

Nature’s Oxidizer.

Ozone, supposed to be a very active form of oxygen. lias been thought to exert so benificial an influence that an increase in the atmosphere’s proportion —which rarely averages more than ouepart in 700,000 —has been hailed as a token of a particularly healthful climatic state. Flowering- -plants—especially the odorous kinds —and scented foliage have been pjrbnonnced of hygienic value because they generate ozone. A rather surprising announcement, therefore, is that of Dr. Daniel Draper’s supposed discovery that ozone produces pneumonia, but it seems quite probable'that the gas which so powerfully destroys organic impurities may I>e proven by further research to act as an irritant of the lungs.