Atmospheric Electricity Ozone Health 1874

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND OZONE: THEIR RELATION TO HEALTH AND DISEASE. BY GEOEGE M. BEAED, M. D. [ESPMINTEI) PnOM THE POPULAB BOIBNCE MONTHLY, FEBBUABT, 1874.] ^-NEW YORK; 1). APPLETON AND COMPANIT, 549 & 551 BEOADWAY. 1874..ATMOSPHERIC ELECTPwICITY AKD OZOKE: THEIR RELATIO^^" TO HEALTH AJSTD DISEASE.* AMONG- the published list of questions at the civil service examination of the Board of Health of New York last summer I observed this: " What is the composition of pure air?" As I laid down the paper I asked myself this question, or, rather, I put to myself the same question in another form: "Is there among the sons of men any one who rsally knows the composition of pure air?" Still further I queried with myself what answer I should have given to the question had I been one of the applicants for a position on the Board of Health, and it seemed to me that, after stating what almost every school-girl knows about the relative proportions of oxygen and nitrogen, I should have added this codicil: " The question of the composition of pure air is one that is too complicated to admit of an answer." What I have to say this morning on atmospheric electricity and ozone will serve, so far as it goes, to enforce this view. Eiova the Subject of Atmospheric Electricity and Ozone has been investigated. — During the past quarter of a century regular daily observations of atmospheric …