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Show . - p TO VIVIFY THE WORLD. r. Shrady and an Associate .Will j Expose a Valnable Ozone Secret. A method of producing ozone in illim- j itable quanties is revealed to the world j by Dr: George F. Shradyv the physician ' who figured as one of General Grant's at- ; tendants. The process is the invention, however, of Dr. Andrew H. Smith, a city practitioner; and he and Shrady, in obedience to- the ethical - rule of the profession pro-fession to impart all discoveries to the public, instead of patenting or secreting them, will disclose the matter fully at the forthcoming International Medical Con-grflss. Con-grflss. The power of ozone to vivify, invigorate invigor-ate and strengthen those who breathe it, has been subjected to ridicule by J ules Verne in his story of the wild doings of a village which had became accidentally t permeated with it; but physicians and scientists have long regarded it seriously, serious-ly, and have " expected some means of utilizing it. Ozone is a gaseous substance, sub-stance, the true nature of which is not fully understood. It gets a name from the peculiar odor, which resembles that produced when a succession of electric sparks are passed through the air. Faraday Fara-day considered ozone one of the forms of oxygen, and identical with the medical quality in electricity. Working on the problem from this premise Dr. Smith has built a machine for making ozone, and this is what he and Shrady have decided to give up to the profession. The apparatus consists of a box filled with grease-free cotton' fiber, throngh which an electric current is passed bei tween the prime conductors of a static machine. A large surface of air is thus exposed to electrical action, and a corresponding corres-ponding amount of ozone is produced. To breath this through an inhaler makes one cough -at once, and if long continued would cause bronchial inflammation; inflam-mation; but by turning the output of ozone into a room wonderful results so the doctors think may be effected in a curative and exhilatory way. |