OZONUM.
Ozone, Nascent oxygen.
Authorities.
1,
Dewar and McKendrick’s Nature, 9, p. 104, experiments on themselves by
breathing ozonized air for eight minutes, when they were obliged to
desist; 2, Hearder, Nature, 9, 182,
effects of ozonized air; 3, Dr. J.
T. O’Connor, MSS., effects of inhaling Ozone.
EYE, NOSE AND THROAT.
► Tingling of the conjunctiva and skin of
face, [1]. ►
Sneezing, with the cough, [1]. ► Irritation of the fauces and glottis, [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND CHEST.
► The experiment was followed by violent
irritating cough and sneezing, and for five or six hours thereafter by a
sensation of rawness in the throat and air-passages, [1]. ► A
considerable amount of irritation over the respiratory tract, very
similar to that experienced when recovering from an attack of influenza,
and I found that I could often produce the same irritation by removing
the prime conductor from the cylinder of an electrical machine, and
holding my face in such a position as to breathe the copious
ramifications of electricity that were thrown off from it, [2]. ►
A suffocating feeling in the chest; a tendency to breathe slowly, [1].
BACK AND EXTREMITIES.
► Pain excessive in whole sacral region,
apparently in the articulations especially a sensation of tiredness all
through the pelvic viscera, even in the perineum, [3]. ► The
thighs and legs feel as if overworked; excessively fatigued, [3].
SKIN.
►
A tingling of the skin of the face and conjunctivæ, [1].® 2000
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