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Is Ozone Really a “Wonder Drug”?

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Even if the reader has only browsed through the previous chapters, he ought to have received my feeling that ozone has an enormous therapeutic potential that, so far, has been either disregarded, if not obstructed by world medical authorities. Reasons for delaying the use of ozone are multiple: while quacks and inexpert ozonetherapists are at fault for poor work, other aspects such as commercial and pharmaceutical interests, prejudice, lack of knowledge and a myopic medical vision have done their best to block a substantial and rapid progress.

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