Erwin Payr

Erwin Payr (17 February 1871 – 6 April 1946) was an Austrian-German surgeon born in Innsbruck.

Following graduation in 1894 at Innsbruck, he worked as an assistant at the first pathological anatomy institute in Vienna.

He was the first surgeon to use ozone treatments in order to control and kill bacteria, a practice he learned from Swiss therapist E.A.

In 1935 he published Über Ozonbehandlung in der Chirurgie (Ozone Treatment in Surgery).

Payr's disease is constipation due to kinking of an adhesion between the transverse and descending colon.