HISTORICAL NOTES
Homer wrote of ozone in his Odyssey, so we have known of it since the antiquity. In 1839, Christian Friedrich Schönbein isolated ozone for the first time
and Nikola Tesla patented the first portable ozone generator in the United States in 1896.
Following the production of more technically advanced equipment able to produce clean ozone, the first works were published on the therapeutic use of ozone on humans.
In the medical field, ozone-based therapy (ozone therapy) was used for therapeutic purposes as early as the beginning of the twentieth century; in fact, during the 15-18 war, thanks to the disinfectant power of ozone, gangrene and infections in gunshot wounds could be cured.
In other countries, such as Germany and Switzerland, oxygen/ozone therapy has been used successfully for around 50 years. In Italy, the Scientific Society for Oxygen/Ozone Therapy (SIOOT) was founded in 1983 and now has some 2,500 members. The association’s mission is to support research, development and the application of this therapy.
Ozone is often mentioned in relation to concerns surrounding the gradual thinning of the ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere, the infamous “ozone hole”. The stratosphere acts as a buffer against the ultraviolet rays of the sun, keeping the majority of these rays from reaching us here on the surface, so this gas is fundamental to life on Earth.
This gas is therefore essential to guarantee life on Earth: no of it, in fact, ultraviolet rays would not be filtered and
they would reach us in vast quantities and this would have important consequences, both on the environment and on our health and
survival.
Where can ozone be used?
Here are the fields of application: