In 1857 none other than Werner von Siemens built the first ozone generating electrode. Siemens is one of the brightest pioneers in electrical science. He developed the pointer telegraph, built the world’s first electric elevator, and produced the tubes with which Wilhelm Conrad R ntgen first created x-rays. He is known as the founding father of electrical engineering in Germany. It didn’t take long for doctors and medical scientists to realize that ozone had many medical applications. In 1870, the German doctor Lender made the first publication describing how effective ozone is for water sterilization. Then in 1873, 70 years before antibiotics were developed German doctors discovered that ozone was a potent antimicrobial agent. And in 1881 ozone began to be used as a disinfectant. Even today, almost all of the world’s water systems use ozone to purify the water. This discovery of the antimicrobial properties of ozone revolutionized medicine and public health at that time. It was also around this time that the medical properties of ozone crossed the ocean to North America. And in 1885, the Florida Medical Association published the first textbook on medical applications of ozone written by Dr. Kenworth. Another famous American was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Many know about Kellogg as the developer of Kellogg’s corn flakes.
But what you may not know about Dr. Kellogg is that he was way ahead of his time. He was the first American doctor who started a clinic focusing on nutrition, detoxification, electromagnetic medicine, and exercise to help his patients heal. It was Dr. Kellogg who in 1895 led in the establishment of the American Medical Missionary College. That college operated until 1910 when it merged with Illinois State University. Dr. Kellogg described using ozone as an anti infectious medication in his book on diphtheria.
Shortly after Tesla started producing medical grade ozone generators two German doctors, Drs. Thauerkauf and Luth, created the Institute of Oxygen Ozone Therapy. And through this institute they began to conduct and publish the first animal studies on the medical use of ozone. Ten years later in 1911, here in the United States, Dr. Noble Eberhart, head of the Department of Physiology of Loyola Chicago University, published the “Manual of High Frequency Operation.”
In that manual he discusses using ozone to treat tuberculosis, anemia, tinnitus, whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis, hay fever, insomnia, pneumonia, diabetes, gout and syphilis. He also created the first university program teaching ozone therapy. In 1913 the first medical association of ozone therapy was formed in Germany by Dr. Eugene Blass.
