, 1881-08-19

pigs or calves, were placed under Inn
tied supply of blue light, their growth
was rapid beyond all precedent.
Thus we see that undiluted actlnlsm,
or more properly electricity, is unfavor-
able to animal growth, while proper
proportion, combined with ordinary
light. develops a condition which greatly
favors it.
[ must hasten to say word about
color effects as applied to the practical
treatment of diseases.
Red light. as we have seen, is the
warming element of sunlight, and pro-
duces a rousing effect upon the blood,
and when accompanied by small
amount of yellow rays, stimulate the
nerves as well, and is useful in such dis
eases as are characterized by a slow CIR
culation and impaired sensation. Thus
a red orange color viii be indicated IN
paralysis, consumption, general eXhaus-
ton. sluggish bowels, etc, and contra
indicated when there is an excess of
heart-action, inflammation, or fever.
Gases of all these are given, but would
occupy too much space if detailed here.
Experiments with the insane have
fully confirmed the principles already
given. In a French asylum violent
and maniacal patients, when placed IN
rooms where the red light FREEDOM
mated, became worse. If removed to a
blue room they became quiet. 4
woman whose delirium had become
| greatly aggravated by a red room, be-
| ing taken to blue room, exclaimed, |,
"Oh, how soothing it ISL and soon fell
asleep.
Many cases of this kind might be
| given, but Will occupy too much time.
1t is much to be desired that physl-
clans in charge of insane people would
give them the benefit of this wonder
| full influence which is poured upon the
earth in unlimited quantities by the
great King of Day.
The means employed for the applica-
ton of colored light to given cases are
very simple. For chronic cases. patients
not confined to bed, place three or four
panes of glass of the required color, IN
a sunny window, and have the person SIT
in the mixed light much of the time.
Complaints of limited extent, as sensl-
tive spine, or rheumatic Inflammation OF
u limb, may have blue light applied di-
rectly to the skin. If Immediate relief
of pain is required, use Babbitt's five
inch lens, focusing the color upon q
| particular spot. FOR sluggish DOMels
focus yellow-orange light upon the abdo'
men. In the absence of glass, use col
ored clothing. A person who is sensi'
tive to sunlight should wear blue lining
in the hat. One of general sensitiveness
might wear blue undershirt. A cold per
son should wear yellow and red. In a case
of consumption, with sensitive
head and rapid pulse, di,
rected the patient to be placed
in the sunlight, with blue covering fol
the head and heart, while the whole
trunk was covered with red, half an
hour TO two hours at a time. daily. The
good effect was soon apparent.
Another very interesting and import
ant feature of the subject is that water OF
other substances exposed to the influence
of colored light, become charged witt
its properties and may thus be given in
ternally for conditions which call fOl
that color. Sugar of mill
thus treated becomes an i'm
portant remedy, and is the odo-mag
netic sugar, or od-sugar, advertised by
DIR. ROhland.
The foregoing are but hints. The sub
ject is too large for single paper
Enough has perhaps been said to direc
attention 10 it and the methods pointed
out with sufficient accuracy to enable
physicians TO follow them.