Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-01

greater intensity. In its cdtorytc eff
fects it has been determined that the
thermometer indicates higher tenn
perature as it moves from violet to
red, and is highest just outside the
red. The chemical action is most in
tense in the violet, and just beyond il.
Now will quote again from the
Journal of 1872:
ain the October issue, page AGA,
attention is called to blue light as az
organic stimulant. Gen. Pleasanton
found that 'Geraniums which had be-
come unhealthy recovered their vigor
and became more deeply colored
| when covered with blue glass; and
the branches of the same grapevine
showed a remarkable difference in
their growth of leaves according as
they were or were not covered with
blue glass, the leaves on the former
having diameter of six to eight
inches, being of deep green color
and perfectly healthy; while the un-
covered branches were only two inch
es in diameter, and of a pale, sickly
yellowish color, indicating feeble
vitality The case of lady was al
SO given, in which blue light had
proven curative.
"To show that other persons have
had their attention directed in this
way, and also to add to our store Of
facts, present the following which l
clip from one of our exchanges:
EFFECT OF CoLoRs UPON HEALTH.
"A correspondent of the Builder
states that he had occasion for several
years to examine rooms occupied by
young women for manufacturing pur-
poses, and he has observed that while
the workers in one room would be
very cheerful and healthy, the occu-
pants of similar room, who were
employed on the same kind of BUSH
ness, were all inclined to be melan-
choly, and complained Of a pain in
the forehead and eyes, and were of
ten i'll and unable to work. The only
difference he could discover in the
rooms was that the one occupied by
the healthy workers was wholly
whitewashed, and that occupied by
the melancholy workers was covered
with yellow ocher. As soon as the
difference struck him he had the yell
low ocher washed off the walls and
then whitened. At once an improve
ment took place in the health and
| spirits of the occupants
II have two cases of my own to re-
cord, showing the local influence of
slight notifications of light. The
first was an unpleasant ulcer of the
face, the result of an old syphilis. At
times the ulcer, though small, became
very irritable and the patient suffered
severely from it. Applied yel1o,o is
inglass plaster with marked advant.
age. The second is of atomic ulcer of
the leg; the patient has had a sun
bath, through blue glass, for two
weeks, and there has been a very de-
cided improvement"
| have noticed these effects of color
a number of times, and have had oc-
casion to change window shades and
wall paper as means Of favorably
influencing the sick. 1t is a little
singular how the popular mind clings
to yellow and green; in the majority
of houses the window blinds or cur
tains will be yellow or green, and the
same persons seem to have an unfor-
tunate penchant for wall paper with
a yellowish ground. or green figures
Some years since had lady patient
who suffered with anaemia, and func-
tional disease (atony) of the repro
ductive apparatus. She had the entire
list of restoratives and blood makers,
with stimulants to the re. productive
function, but without the least benefit.
In the season of house cleaning / had
the walls of her room papered with a
strongly pink paper, with rose colored
curtains, and there was so decided an
amendment that no one could mistake
the cause.
Last summer, suffering with irri-
tation of the nervous system, l had
yellow window shades put up TO my
windows, and am satisfied that [ ex-
perienced marked relief from them.
In the house live in, have white
shades to all the windows, and walls
that are painted with tint of blue
or violet. One member of my fami-
ly occupies bedroom colored pink,
and 1 have observed that it or some
thing else has exerted good infiu-
enoe on naturally irritable nervous
system another occupies a light
violet room, and grew very IN
pleasant nervousness, and impair
ment of the health recently she has
changed to the pink room, and has
been decidedly improved. On the
whole the rather dull blush or violet
walls has been an advantage to the
health of the family, though on my
person the stimulus is too much, and
| shall have them toned down.
In the September number of 1872,
| gave new theory of the cause of
Intermittent Fever, which as it aids
in illustrating this sujeoct, l will
| quotes
81 may commence by stating that
my confidence in the commonly re-
ceived theory of vegetable malaria
from decomposing vegetable matter
has heeH very much shaken, and
year by year l have been losing con.
fidence in it. That vegetable mat
ter in a state OF decomposition might
be introduced into the blood, and
that once there this fluid might De
Influenced to produce all the phen.
omena of fever, seems reasonable:
But when we find it arising in situa-
tons and under circumstances that
forbid the idea of such gaseous mat
ter, then We must look further. One
we'll established case where there
was no such malaria or blood poison,
upsets the entire theory.
"Now | have knowledge of a score
OF more OF such cases. / have known
cases in which the disease was as
pureIy one of the nervous svste.n as