NATURE’S POISON GAS
DOES IT SUIT YOU? The seaside air does us good because of the ozone in it. Ozone purifies our lungs. We need it to put us back into “working order.” In other words, we require an attack of poison gas to make us fit—for pure ozone is a gas of deadly poison. But it doesn’t injure us because of the fact that there is never very much of it in the air. Some persons cannot stand the sea air at all. It is too “strong” for them, and they are on the sick list during their stay at the seaside. This is because they cannot stand the ozone. Ozone is concentrated oxygen. You get a whiff of ozone after a thunderstorm owing to the electric discharges through the oxygen in the air. Sea air is richer in ozone than is country air, for the ozone is g»enerated largely by the vibration of the waves.
Seaside air has just sufficient ozone gently to irritate the lungs. This quickens the flow of the blood. Thus the poisons in the ozone are really tonics.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 8
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184NATURE’S POISON GAS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 8
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