The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14
COLOR CURE.
The Curious Effects of the SOIar-Ray ms
Applied to Physical Tenn
PernmenIs.

Applied to Physical Tenn
| Pernments.
From the Scientific American.
In relation to DIR. Ponza's statement
of the curious effects of cOlors and the
curative power of the solar rays upon lu-
macy and other mental diseases, accounts
of which we recently published, DIR.
Newbury, of this city, in a lecture before
the Polytechnic American Institute,
states that he advanced the same ideas
several years ago:
81 stated that as early as the year 1881
| first announced my discovery, which |
have promulgated with additional facts
from time to time, that there are but
| three-not elementary colors I;
namely, pink, yellow, and blue, and those
are the elements of darkness, (black), not
elements of light. Synthetically speak
ing, the mixture of all colors makes black !;
| analytically, light. The elementary col
ors are most perfectly illustrated by car
mine, ganaboge, and Prussian blue. The
yellow and blue rays are more easily seen
| through the prism, where the elements
| of their impurities are thrown off into
their respective lines or angles ip relation
to light. The pink ray, being scarcely
visible, mingles on each side with the
darkness because it has the least affinity
with light, and is better seen in binary
compounds; as, for instance, with yell
low in the red and orange, and with blue
in the violet and purple. And in order
to be able to distinguish any colors, we
have the three elementary cOlors organ
lied in the eye, forming a membrane
call pign'entum nigrd (black pigment), be
hind which there is luminous membrane (;
both, in combination, are the recipients
of the influence of the color and light.
"The colors and rays of light also re-
late to the physical tempe-aments as
stimulants: the yellow color, or ray of
light, to the nervous temperament, which
is distinguished by a large brain and
prominent motor, sensitive and sympa-
thetic nerves; the pink color, or ray of
light, relates to the nutritive tempera-
ment characterized by large, glandular
negative and assimIlatiDg parts and SUI
perabundance of blood; and the. blue
color, or ray of light, relates to what !
denominate the locomotive temperament,
indicated by large bones and muscle,
and predominance of the gelatinOns It's
sue. The various temperaments may be
stimulated by the colors or rays to
which, as / indicated, they respectively
I6ldle. anu dTe, IU6IGIOI6, CdpdDlt VI pTO-
ducing either healthy or morbid infu-
ence upon different individuals. A person
in whom the nervous system is dominant
may have it increased or excited to pros
tration by the influence of yellow color
or ray of light. A nutritive-locomotive
system may be developed so as to coun-
terbalance the excessive nervousness by
the use of purple color, or ray of light
A weak nutritive system may be Gevel-
oped by the influence of pink color, or
ray oflight, while the same would be in
furious to any one of plethoric nature.
A weak locomotive temperament may
be strengthened by the influence of blue
color, or ray of light, while the same
would excite a strong person to work or
make him irritable. The green color, or
ray OF light, excite the nervous-locomo-
tive system the red color, or ray of
light, the nervous nutritive. So that
sick or unbalanced persons should have
the color of the walls, ceiling, carpets,
window shades, etc, of their particular
apartments properly adpated to develop
an equilibrium of their physical temper
aments, which is the only condition of
perfect health and long life required by
nature and overlooked by man. All our
public assembly rooms should be of neu-
tIal colors, with pictures Of various sub
iects to suit the different tastes, 80 as to
produce a neutral effect in the aggregate, |
in order that each individual might be |
suited according to his sympathetic and |
attraction