. Electricity : its medical and surgical applications, including radiotherapy and phototherapy . Fig. 256. Machine for producing a new oxidizing and anliseptic agent for inhalation purposes. As the passage of electric sparks through the air is the most con-venient method of generating it, they may be used in combination. A ELECTRIC OZONA TION 279 convenient method of f^iving inhalations of ozone would be to ])lace thepatient in a cabinet in which a static machine was in operation, with thedischarging rods close enough together for sparks to pass. This method,however, is open to objection, as n
. Electricity : its medical and surgical applications, including radiotherapy and phototherapy . Fig. 256. Machine for producing a new oxidizing and anliseptic agent for inhalation purposes. As the passage of electric sparks through the air is the most con-venient method of generating it, they may be used in combination. A ELECTRIC OZONA TION 279 convenient method of f^iving inhalations of ozone would be to ])lace thepatient in a cabinet in which a static machine was in operation, with thedischarging rods close enough together for sparks to pass. This method,however, is open to objection, as nitrous products, due to some of theoxygen uniting with the nitrogen to form nitric acid fumes, are formedwhich are very irritating to the mucous membrane of the respiratorypassages. Larat and Gautier (quoted by Turner) found ozone sogenerated to aggravate the condition of those suffering from must also be remembered that when present in the air in a quantitygreater than milligram per liter, it may cause death from edema ofthe lungs. Ozone produced by the effluve (p. 235) of high tensio
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