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Title: The electro-therapeutic guide, or, A thousand questions asked and answered
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bennett, Homer Clark, 1865-1928
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Electricity in medicine Ohm's law X-rays Electricity Electricity X-Rays Electromagnetic Phenomena Electric Stimulation Therapy
Publisher: Lima (Ohio) : Literary Dept. of the National College of Electro-Therapeutics
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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potential power—about twenty thousand volts—but the volume of current used is very small, being less than two amperes. When the machine is in operation, a decided purple glow is to bfseen in the ozonisers and as the air is driven through the electrical dis-charge, the oxygen is converted into ozone. A pressure blower is connect-ed directly to a motor and after the oxygen is converted into ozone, ipasses through the crescent shaped tube, partially filled with a mixture opinus oils. Here the ozones and oils form a new chemical compouncwhich has been given the name of Oxyoline. The identity of the ozone is lost in forming this new compound bottas to its irritating properties and odor and also chemical reaction. In producing oxyoline, none of the antiseptic or blood building powers of theozone are lost. These powers are increased to a marked degree throughthe agency of the terpenes. Oxyoline contains no ozone in its free state. While free ozone is £ 230 THE KIvECTRO-THKRAPEUTIC GUIDE
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An oxyoliiie machine in operation. The mask is placed over the mouth and nose, and the patient inhales. This shows the simplicity of the treatment. THE EI.ECTRO-THERAPKUTIC GUIDE 231 powerful oxidising agent, those who have experimented with it find that itis too irritating to the respiratory organs to be practical, making it impos-sible to use sufficient of it to oxidise the blood to any great degree. The new compound gas is very agreeable to the sense of smell and theozone is so disguised as to be unrecognizable in the product, oxyoline.The pungency is so modified as to enable persons to inhale a ten timesgreater quantity of the new compound than it would be possible to take ofthe free ozone. Consequently, oxyoline has ten to one times greateroxidising powers than ozone. Oxidising the blood has greater significance in the treatment of dis-ease than the average physician is prepared to believe. In re-calling ourlessons in physiology, we are reminded that the normal temperature of the

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